Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Mattel)

Basic Series

Mattel

56096

2001

6.00

Accessories: "Garlic" necklace

Lord Voldemort is part of a second and unique edition of the Wizard Collection, which was released with the second Harry Potter film, The Chamber of Secrets. Only Lord Voldemort and Griphook are part of this edition. There are some interesting things to note about this figure.

It is one of two Lord Voldemort figures, one with garlic necklace, one without. Both versions feature heads that spin to reveal the face of Professor Quirrell, whose body served as a host for the parasitic Lord Voldemort. But that is where the similarities end.

The most striking difference between the two variants is the color scheme. Garlic has a light green face, non-garlic, a dark green. Garlic has a brown turban, non-garlic a purple. Garlic has a light brown robe that reveals only the Winston part of a brown tie, garlic a dark brown robe that opens halfway down the torso to reveal a vest and a brown tie with green stripes. Garlic's left hand points outward while the right hand is half closed with the palm facind downward, and non-garlic's right hand points upward while the left is half-closed and palm facing into the body. Garlic does not come with a Magic medallion trick, non-garlic does. Lastly, the photo on garlic's bubble pack is of Professor Quirrell, even though the package says "Lord Voldemort"!

Clearly, Mattel rethought the figure and its packaging with the addition of the garlic necklace, in some ways more closely resembling the character from the movie, in other ways moving farther from it.