Krusty the Clown (Simpsons (Jakks Pacific)) Review

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Krusty the Clown (Simpsons (Jakks Pacific)) Review

Krusty the Clown
Simpsons (Jakks Pacific) (Jakks Pacific)Jakks Pacific's Simpsons line has been keeping a steady but surprisingly quick pace when it comes to releases. We've gotten wave 3 around the start of the year, wave four is showing up now, and more products are on the way, including a cool Funzo recreation. I already went over the first three waves of 5" figures, including the premium figures and the Walmart-exclusive Bartman, but why am I just now getting to the second 2.5" wave? Because I haven't been able to complete it.

Wave 2 had a bit of a Krusty theme, with Krusty himself, another Bart, Sideshow Bob, Itchy, and Scratchy. The cat and mouse pair has proven very hard to find, even with Five Below getting the wave in stock, but at least through them I was able to get Bob. I was going to wait until I completed the wave to review it, but with Itchy and Scratchy being a no-show, at least where I live, I figured I'd just cover the other three and wait until I find them to review them.

Bart leads the wave as the one who takes up half a casepack, and while it's a regular Bart - no specific outfit or anything - the pose is different. Rather than a relaxed stance, this one is more dynamic, with bent legs, one arm designed to grip, and the other bent at the elbow. The expression is different as well, with a focused, closed-eye look. If all that didn't tip you off as to what Bart has up his sleeve, the slingshot should. The slingshot is lifted from the aforementioned Bartman, meaning it's a little oversized, but he can hold it just fine, and better than his 5" scale counterparts at that. Bart stands 2 1/4" tall, and the colors are bold, with a very slight difference from the first Bart, and the paint on the shoes and arms is clean. The same articulation as previous small-scale figures is here, with a swivel neck, swivel/hinge shoulders, and a hinged "sit-down" joint for the waist. The sit-down joint doesn't work well for this Bart given the legs, and I feel a waist swivel would've worked better for him. Speaking of which, his stability isn't great, and he'll need some work to keep standing up.

The other star of the wave is Krusty, and having already reviewed the 5" version, I don't have too much to say about his smaller counterpart. The head sculpt is the same as the figure that came with the Krusty Burger diorama, but with a slightly nicer finish, specifically on the beard. At 3" tall up to the tip of the hair, the outfit is as good as every other figure of the clown, right down to the big clown shoes. The paint on the arms is clean, with the hands being separately sculpted (but not articulated) pieces, but the seat of the pants, which is part of his torso, is a darker color than the rest of the lower body. I get Jakks likes to model pieces in different colors of plastic to cut down on paint costs, but they could've bothered to paint the rest of the pants, or at least find a better shade for the butt to match the unpainted green.

Lastly, there's Sideshow Bob, a character I don't think anybody expected this early in the line. Bob has a unique design, with a head that looks like a palm tree, and they did the hair very well. It's sculpted out of multiple pieces glued together, and is very lumpy, like Marge and Krusty. The face looks alright, with a crooked smile befitting Bob's sophisticated but sociopathic personality, but it looks a little odd in three dimensions. Bob stands around 3 3/4" tall, and is outfitted in his prison jumpsuit. I would've picked more casual clothes for him, but the prison outfit makes sense given how many times he's been in (and busted out of) jail, and the prisoner number in his chest is very clean and readable for such a small figure. The proportions are good as well, including his huge feet (and unlike Krusty, they really are that big), and the neck and shoulders move fine, but he's unable to sit down due to the abdomen sculpt. The hands are sculpted to hold accessories, which leaves me wondering why he didn't come with a knife or other kind of weapon. I guess Jakks felt it was too violent for a kids' line, and the adults in this scale don't come with extras anyways.

It's nice to get a somewhat-themed wave for this license, especially so early on, and the character selection so far for the smaller figures has been great. Bart was a bit of a letdown, but Krusty and Bob are quite well made, and will fit quite well on the dioramas currently available. Getting ahold of the more recent 2.5" figures shouldn't be too hard I expect, but I'm gonna have to do a lot of searching if I want to get Itchy and Scratchy without paying aftermarket prices.

- 4/5/25