Mutt Williams

Mutt Williams

Hasbro Indiana Jones 12 inch figure

I have an Indiana Jones collection in our guest bedroom.  Every once in a while, I will add a new piece to it.  Sometimes, this piece is found in the wild, but flea markets and thrift store finds for Indy gear are pretty rare outside of surplus VHS copies of The Last Crusade.  I usually hit Ebay for low-bid, random items or ones that fill gaps in a line.  I have several 12 inch Indy dolls...er...figures that are a bit on the high end from Sideshow Toys. (But nowhere near as high as ludicrous Hot Toys company)  Mutt here is on the lower end...mass-produced by Hasbro for the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a goofy action feature.

Knife-throwing, sword-slashing swashbuckling just like in the movie!  Er...sort of?  I mean, Mutt did some sword fighting while straddling two Jeeps and getting hit in the junk repeatedly by random jungle weeds.  Kids are gonna love recreating that one!  

His sword, belt, and sheath are nice accessories, but that "switchblade"...looks to be the size of a banana.  I assume this is as small as they could go without becoming a choking hazard.  You can really get him to launch that thing!

Hasbro cheaped out on us by not including the black leather jacket he wears through most of the movie.  I wish it had at least come with a tiny, plastic Mutt-haired monkey, but that probably wouldn't go well with the "throwing" feature.

While the sculpt isn't terrible, it looks a little more like a Christian Bale/Shia LaBeouf hybrid than it should.  He's got some decent "GI Joe" articulation that is only hindered by his throwing arm and huge button/level sticking out of his back and through his clothes.  Again, not terrible, but enough to keep me from buying it in 2008 for $20.  Well, let's be honest...that might have more to do with the universal dislike of this character than the toy itself.  I picked this one up for $10 shipped from an Amazon seller.

It's kinda sad seeing Mutt floating around out there like this, considering Shia went bat-shit insane shortly after with great career moves like getting arrested for jacking around in Walgreens, plagiarizing other people's movie scripts, and making weird motivational videos for Youtube.  It will be interesting to see if Mutt is even mentioned in the upcoming Indiana Jones 5.  Pass the torch...and snuff that flame.  

Mutt Williams is not quite Jar Jar Binks, but he shares a great deal of the same hate for being a part of one of George Lucas' brainfarts.  It's more than time to stop throwing them under the bus.  Embrace "the Beef," okee-day? Besides, Natalie Portman has always deserved it more anyway.