The Mechanical Skeleton was an artificial monster created by Madame Tarsa.
Description[]
The Mechanical Skeleton was an artificial guardian, one of the more fearsome toys created by Madame Tarsa to ensure people she banished into the Toymaker's Labyrinth stayed there. Powered by a spring with a wind-up key, the Skeleton would appear as a bundle of bones when at rest, only “unfolding” itself in a humanoid form when wound up. It could capture its opponents, swallowing them to trap them inside its very literal “ribcage”. During their 2019 adventure in the Labyrinth, Pessimist-242 and Larrikin-1029 defeated the Skeleton, thanks to Pessimist ripping out its master-gear and leaving it motionless.
Behind the scenes[]
The Mechanical Skeleton appears as a secondary antagonist in the 2019 short story The Toymaker's Labyrinth.