Hello realmers, continuing with my Disney figure series and continuing Ariel's story from my previous figure, I present another villain to the line up, Ursula the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid.

Ursula is a name no superstitious sea dog will say aloud, so feared is the Witch of the Sea. With her dark sea magic and her ability to grow to enormous kraken like proportions and claim passing ships as her own, the superstitious seek to appease her greedy and tempestuous nature with offerings of gold, jewels and shrimp, of which she is partial, cast over board for safe passage on the seas.
Her watery abode is at the bottom of an abyssal ravine in the skeletal remains of an ancient leviathan, surrounded by a garden of shipwrecks and the bones of drowned mariners. Only the brave or the very foolish seek her advice, for the sea witch is cunning and devious and the bargains she strikes are always rigged in her favour and she is not averse to bending the rules to get what she wants, and what Ursula really wants is to be ruler over the ocean and everything it.

One dark night, when the sky was as black as ink, Ursula rose from the depths into a secluded cove by a vast dense forest. She had been summoned by a frail looking old pedlar woman who standing on a wooden jetty holding the conch shell that had summoned her. Angry at being summoned like some dog fish and by an old hag, Ursula lashed out with her tentacles. But with a quick gesture of her hand, a bolt of green light sparked from the old woman’s fingers and struck the sea witch’s tentacles with a sizzling crack, leaving blistering marks. Gnashing her teeth in pain, Ursula retracted her tentacles and glared at the pedlar woman. “Do not mistake this frail appearance for weakness Sea Witch, for I am Grimhilde, former apprentice to the Powerful Sorcerer Yensid and once Queen of these lands and unless you wish to be turned into calamari you should listen to what I have to say for I have a deal to make with you.” Ursula conceded and listened to the Hag’s proposal.
“My mirror has shown me that four tides ago, you rose from your abode and claimed a ship as your own and dragged it to the depths …”
“As is my right as Witch of the Sea!” Ursula cut in. Grimhilde twitched her hand in warning and Ursula fell silent and Grimhilde continued “that ship had something of mine on it, a chest. I had sent my pirate servant to claim it for me, which he successfully did, however the key that opens said chest was lost to me during your attack.”
Ursula was growing impatient, “why not smash the chest open and be done with it?” Grimhilde explained that the chest is protected by magic and can only be opened by the key which has the counter spell on it. She went onto say that her mirror had shown that the key was claimed by a little mermaid who witnessed the attack and saved the Prince who was wearing the key on a chain round his neck. “And that is why I now find myself of need of your assistance for I am now in a fortunate position to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. The mermaid will be paying you a visit in three tides time. She is a curious soul and wishes to visit the world above and believes you can help her, and so you shall, but of course payment is required.”
Grimhilde told Ursula the specific payments required to which she replied “But what do I get out of this? Why should I help you? I have no wish to help love sick mermaids let alone a fallen Queen.”
“Did I fail to mention that this little mermaid is King Triton’s youngest daughter?” At this revelation Ursula’s interest was hooked, “The Sea King would do anything to get his precious daughter back, even surrender that which your heart desires…”
“The Trident!” Ursula said triumphantly “with it I shall finally be able to rule the sea and all its spoils shall bow to my power!”
“However, if you fail to bring me what I have asked, you shall be summoned again Sea Witch and no amount of bargaining shall save your tentacles. Do we have a deal?” Grimhilde asked.
“Oh I shall help that poor unfortunate soul and then her father’s trident shall belong to me! Yes, we have a bargain.” And with a cackling laugh Ursula sunk back beneath the waves.

Three tides later, just as The Hag had said, the mermaid entered Ursula’s domain asking for Ursula’s help.
“My dear, sweet child of course I shall help you, that’s what I do and your Prince is quiet the catch isn’t he? The potion I brew will turn you into a human for six tides, that’s three days…in those three day’s you must get the prince to fall in love with you or else you shall turn back into a mermaid, and you shall belong to me. Do we have a deal?” The little mermaid agreed to Ursula’s deal and the Sea Witch continued “there is one matter we must discuss, the subject of payment.”
“But I don’t have…”
“That trinket round your neck? Yes hand it over, this shall do as one part of the payment…”
“I have nothing else to give…”
“Two legs, two payments, what I want from you is…your voice. I hear it is quite enchanting.”
The little mermaid sadly agreed to the Sea Witch’s bargain and sung her voice into Ursula’s shell necklace where it glowed bright and golden. Sea Witch then brewed a potion to transform the mermaid’s tail into a lovely pair of human legs. Clasping it in her hands the mermaid swam up and up to shore of the Prince’s Kingdom to drink the potion.

Ursula returned to the secluded cove and found The Hag, Grimhilde, waiting for her. “Everything went swimmingly. Soon King Triton’s daughter will be mine, and then I’ll make him writhe and I shall have the Trident!”
“Yes yes yes, but did you bring your side of the bargain?”
Ursula, smiling wickedly, handed over the key and the shell necklace containing the voice of the mermaid to Grimhilde, who took them in her old, wrinkled hands with a gloating look in her eyes.
“At last, I have everything required to undo my spell and once again become the fairest and most powerful in the land!!”

Recipe:
Body: Fat unknown WWE male figure, made the nose smaller
Hair, breasts, belly: Apoxie sculpt.
Shell necklace: Real sea shell with gold cord. Filled with glow in the dark paint so it glows from inside (not pictured as hard to take a clear pic of it)
Tentacles: Accoutrements rubber finger tentacles