DRACULA

 Last year there was a resurrection of the dead: for no aparent reason we had an influx of new merchadise of the Universal Monsters, something that didnt happend since 2010 (and this characters are not the only ones resurrected from the dead). Many companys started producing action figures of the Monters and one of them was Jada, a company that until now only created car models, never before an action figure.

Jada´s Frankenstein Monster was OK but i was really blown away by the Bride and the Gillman super high quality. The only one missing was Dracula, who didnt pick my interest at all but given the incrediblly low price this figures have (cheap as a brand new Funko Pop) i ended completing the collection with Dracula.

He is on a really good scale with the others, shorter than the Monster and the Ceature but taller than the Bride, tough he is still taller than your acerage Figma figures but not by much, this is a small scale collection. He can stand on his own perfectly and is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knes and ankles. He is entirelly made with hard plastic but given the simplicity of his design, he can total freedom of movement except on the shoulders, the shoulders are pretty difficult to move for some reason but this is the same with the other 3.

Like i said, the plastic he is cast on is pretty rigid and feels cheap, tough the sculpt is good, with nice proportions and his entire suit lacks any kind of texture, the culpt on his chest and face are the most intrincate. He is in a weird limbo tough...just like with the Monster, he have Bela Lugosi face features but looks more like a guy dressed as Lugosi but not real Lugosi. Is hard to nail the reason but of course i dont see the Lugosi Inc logo on the box, soo is obvious Jada didnt sign any contract with the Lugosi familly.

The paint is OK too, his skin is almost grey and his lips purple, looks nice for a living dead and his eyes are blue, tough the skin color is invading his hair and is not the only area the paint is sloppy since the red ribon on his chest is also stained with the whte of his shirt. His vest is perfect tough, specially with the buttons and thats it, pretty much the rest is solid black with ho shade or anything to give him any volume.

Now the cape, i am never a fan of real clothe costumes in such a small scale figures for this reason. The cape is made on a pretty nice and soft material, pretty thin, like the Bride dress tough is not accurate in color since they give it a red interior and Lugosi´s cape was grey, but is also made of 3 pieces with a thic embroid where the pirces join, givin the cape and off shape, it cannot rest on Dracula,s shoulders at all wich is pretty anoying.

The cape is put in place with a cuple of pins on Dracula´s back and while this is really cheap, since everything is black, the pins are almost invisible and they actually work good to keep the cape in place, tough there is a big black spring at the front, around his neck and looks really really cheap and tacky.

His acceosyrs are an extra pair of hands in claw shape, for attack mode, tough one detail (or lack of it) is that they dosnt have fingernails. The hands exchange is pretty easy and works good and there is also an extra head with a fierce expression and fangs out and they really overdid things here (not a surprise considering how easy si to overdo things in such a small scale). This extra head dosnt looks at all like Lugosi and it shares the sloopy paint job tough the fangs are the worst part. Yes, his mouth is pretty detailed even you can see his tongue, but the fangs are soo thick they looks like plastic fangs from a halloween party.

There is also a candelabra made with extremelly soft plastic that fits perfectly on his hand and have a cute dragon sculpted on it. The paint is really perfect here tough with gold and rubber tones and a nice white applyed to the candle. 

And lastlly there is also a vamprie bat with a nice sculpt and a total lack of paint. This little fellow have his feet shaped like rings soo he can stand on Dracula´s finger. Its really silly looking but i gues sis better than having the little guy liying in the ground.

Overall, from the four figures wave this Dracula is the weakest. Part of the reason is Dracula´s design of course since he is not specially exciting looking, but the poor materials and lazy paint also ruin a descent sculpt. Tough in the end he still looks good surrounded by the other Monsters and is a nice apeticer unti NECA release theyr Ultimate version.