FINAL FANTASY IV
MARION PROJECT #656 CREATED: SEPTEMBER 2020 The Marion was a puppet master who could magically control wooden dolls, sending them to attack anyone who dared defy him. Cecil Harvey and his friends would encounter the Marion in both th Tower of Zot as well as the Tower of Bab-il. Calling forth either a Puppet or an EvilDoll, the Marion would simply summon another to replace it if it were destroyed. With a seemingly endless supply of wooden dolls at his command, the Marion proved to be a worthy foe who refused to stay his hand. (The name Marion was likely short for Marioneteer, as in one who operates the strings of marionettes. In the Game Boy Advance remake of Final Fantasy IV, the Marion was renamed Puppeteer.) To build an action figure of the Marion, I started with the Dr. Teeth action figure from the Muppets toy line by Palisades. He already had the correctly-shaped body, but I did have to modify the coat, shorten his legs, sculpt some new pointy shoes, and change the position of his arms. I also replaced the head with one from a Ninja Turtles toy named Scumbug, attaching it to the front of the chest. The bird (a modified Tiberius from The Secret Life of Pets) has pieces of paper clips embedded inside his feet so he can stick to the hidden neodynium magnet inside the Marion's back. |
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