First picture of Moebius Models Deluxe Dracula and victim styrene kit

[Universal Steve]

Looks good to me. I knew it would not be a Helen Chandler figure because then Universal would get involved and then we would get another generic vampire head and not Lugosi.

[Count_Zirock]

The victim is generic enough to be just about anyone. Give her red hair and it could be Kate Nelligan from 1979's "Dracula." She could be easily customized into just about any female victim, from Helen Chandler to Veronica Carlson to Sadie Frost.

[gracebuster]

With all due respect to my fellow monster lovers, the hair is falling in a clear homage to the historical depiction of hair as featured in the Aurora Kong. Did we ask, "Why does she not look like Fay Wray?" Of course not. It probably also represents  the fact that the molding process would be far easier without the detail of a period correct hairdo.

This is a kit of the Stage play, by the way. Not the movie.

lastly, This is what hair looks like when it's down. From any period. Eve to Mrs. Roebuck,  kind of the same through time memorial.

Anyway, you have to remember that these things are not imagined and created out of thin air. The process from idea to product is long and hard and expensive. Countless opinions need to be weighed and acknowledged and implemented.

I am not aware of the specifics of this kit but rest assured someone at UNIVERSAL LICENSING would have had ongoing  input on every aspect of this kit including hair and shoes.

Forgive me if I seem touchy on this. You guys have to know that all of these manufacturers work so hard to please everyone, rights owners, manufacturing specifications and FANS.

The constant criticism from those people toy makers are trying to please the most just seems like an unnecessary din. You have got to know EVERYONE is trying their best, all of the time. From the company head to the sculptors.

Tony Randall once commented in regards to critics who say a movie is bad. "No one set's out to make a bad movie!" Surely the same is true of toys.

My union card says that I am an artist, although I rarely view myself through that prism, so maybe I am overly sensitive to the guys who create these things when it comes to the ongoing criticism.

Every toy was inaccurate to some extent back in our youth. Aurora Wolfman model didn't look like Lon Chaney Jr. Azrak Dracula didn't wear socks but Lugosi always did. The Don Post Metaluna Mutant mask was a third the size of the original! Obviously we can think of these things all day long. Yet none of these inaccuracies have in anyway altered our love for toys or  the fondness with which we remember them. Then I ask, "Why now is all of that so important?"

I know for a fact that manufacturing ANY toy is 100 times harder now then it was then. The government intervention and legal requirements alone would hamper lesser people. Yet Moebius and Sideshow and Mezco  and so many other great companies keep trying to create product that I would think would make us all happy nostalgically but rarely does.

Just struck me as excessive on this beautiful Sunday morning. Thank you all for letting me vent.

[Mord]

I don't care if the hair is period accurate or not, it just doesn't look right to me. My opinion is the only only one that matters when it comes to MY purchases. I'll stick to the single figure kit.

[Anton Phibes]

I am not gonna buy one. I dont have any more room for something unless it floors me, and its senseless to leave kits languishing in boxes throughout eternity. Someone else can buy mine.

[Count_Zirock]

This is a kit of the Stage play, by the way. Not the movie.

I am not aware of the specifics of this kit but rest assured someone at UNIVERSAL LICENSING would have had ongoing input on every aspect of this kit including hair and shoes.

It's licensed through the Lugosi Estate. Universal has no say whatsoever on this kit.

I don't imagine Bela Jr really did much research regarding the victim, but mainly concerned himself with how his father looked. Plus, he wouldn't have the likeness rights to any of Bela's co-stars from any of the stage productions. I imagine just a generic "victim," as non-descript as possible, was all Moebius could do.

[RedKing]

I like it-definitely will be getting one.