NOSFERATU

 I never buy the same figure twice with the only exception of the same character having multiple version of itself, different outfit or amour, basically a new sculpt. When they are color variants i think about it...the color variant must be really special for me to get it but i deffinety neve buy a figure twice just because it have different accesorys. That was a rule i respected until now...

Also, collecting monsters from the black and white era is always tricky because, most of the time, they release them in color or black and white versions or even glow in the dark, but i usually go for the color version and only got the black and white version when i have no other choice. Is not like i dont like black and white, that grey scale color palette is really beautifull and suit the characters soo well, but i dont have enough space for a grey scale display.

I been tempting by the NECA Universl Monsters for a long time but in the end, i got the black and white Nosferatu because of a mix of "color variation" and "different accesorys" soo i could not resist. In scale with pretty much evertything NECA does, this Orlock can stand on his own perfectly and is articulated on the neck, chest, waist, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knees and ankles in a pretty usualy NECA way. The jacket is made if dot plastic but it restrict not only the chest and waist movement but also the legs a little bit but this is not a character that needs extreme freedom of movement. Count Orlock looks better in more stale poses.

I really review this figure time ago....maybe two year ago? I dont remember, but is basically the same sculpt. The wrinkles on the jacket are really really natural on the sleves as well as in the back, the pants have a nice soft texture and the long spidery limbs along side the hunchback match the character on screen perfectly as well as the face structure, long eyebrows and big eyes, this is one of the best sculpts based on Max Schreck rat like vampire.

The color here is the main atraction, or more likely the lack of color. The shoes and inside shirt are deep black while the pants are gunmetal black with a dark wash that works pretty good with the texture and the jacket have a lighter tone of grey, almost a little but bluish and the combination is pretty good for the eye.

The hands and face shine along side the deep grey outfit since Count Orlock skin is completelly white with soft grey airbrush on his checks, around his eyes and fingernails to give them volume and focus. The contrast is really good and he looks very ghostly. The eyes shine and the color aplication is really perfect as well as in the lips and little sections with hair.

Talking about accesorys, he comes with four pair of hands: one pair relaxed, one pair in closed fist, one pair with his claws out and a a pair of rigth hands to hold items. The sculpt and color is perfect and they are easy to swap tough its pretty odd to see some of the hands are designed to hold into items he dosnt have but i guess its a mather of mix with the colored version. My favorite hands are the claw ones for sure.

He also comes with three heads: one have a serious and pretty grave face expression while another have his eyes wide open and smiling in a pretty mischevious and evil way and finally, theres the ehad with his fangs out and eyes that with a blanck impresion. They are pretty easy to swap and each one of them have a perfect sculpt and grey scale painting. For me the best is the fangs out one, its the most disturbing.

Now here is where things got interesting, he dosnt comes with his letter or ink well and feather, no castle keys or tubeteika hat. Instead he comes with his black cloack, whip and Orlok´s outside hat. The whip is made of soft plastic soo it always flows pretty natural no matter how you puse him holding and while the sculpt of the base and end parts is good, the piece is completelly black.

The hat is also made with very soft plastic and fit into his head perfectly. I have no idea how is named this hat in specifit but it have the shape of a witch hat with a pointy end, tough given how he wears the tubeteika, this hat overall shape must be totally different to how he uses it. The balck of the hat is the same as his pants and it have a darker shiny ribbon in the base and a grey feather in top. The feather looks extremelly "Burtonesque", pretty classic design for a german expresionistic movie.

The cloack top part is made of woft plastic and is completelly black with a realistic sculpt of small wrinkles her and there while the rest of the cloack is made with real fabric. The black fabric is thick and black and it opens up in the front. It have a wire all around its perimeter, from the neck section the the bottom section and around it soo it can be posed flowing into the wind or can be folded in any way tough the material is quiet heavy.

Theres two holes at the side for Orlock´s hands to comes out and this holes are also wired. This cloack along side the feather hat and the whip can be seen on the scene where Hutter travels to the castle and Orlock arrives with his carriage to take him. The scene is really brief but i never seen a figure recreate this outfit before and thats the reason why i got this figure. The overall look with the cloack and hat is really ethereal and ghotsly, he looks like a phantom, specially with the way his white eyes contrast.

Sadly this is opening the door for me to buy more black and white variants and i dont want to but slowlly i am getting full of Nosferatu figures pretty fast and thats not a complaing, this is one of the version of the vampire most remembered and not even the mustache version can match this design.

NOSFERATU

 

One of the things i remember about the pandemic times was my hype with the Thundercats thanks to the Super 7 Ultimate action figures series, a dream come true after soo many years. Sadly, after an incredible first series (actually made by Hasbro), series 2 was a HUGE dissapointing for me and i decided to let it go and stop collecting Thundercats. Over the years i been looking at Super 7 and i been surprised to see how many complains exists for soo long thanks to the bad quality of theyr figures, the high price and some really shady actions from them - like only show computer renders of the figures unti the actual figures comes out (looking totally different).

I was pretty close to fall in theyr trap with the Silverhawks too, another of my childhood dreams, but i avoided that bullet long enough to see them re-release the figures all in silver chrome months after the first release and after they insisted they didnt had the technology to produce chrome figures. Yes they are extremelly sneaky to secure pre-orders even if they have to lie about it and i have other tells i been learning from them but i finally got another of theyr figures, i coud not resist.

Its pretty evident the remake of Nosferatu is near as wella s the 100th anniversary of the origina with soo many toys coming out this year about this character: Funkos, Mezco, NECA, Caustic Plastic and of course, Super 7 also did his version that comes in a super slick and beautifull box, perfectly fitting for a "Ultimate" figure.

This Count Orlok is in scale with standar action figures soo he fits with anything NECA or McFarlane or Storm Collectibles and can stand on his own perfectly as long as his legs are in straight position. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and ankles and to my susprise, all articulations works really really good (ulike the Thundercat´s). The neck is limited of course by his jacket but the rest have a very huge range of movement, even the legs.

Tough his jacket is made of fost plastic and let the legs move around there is a limit and eventually turns the legs to  a straigth position but i guess that is an inevitable restrain of the character design. While the biceps rotate pretty nicelly i am not sure i like the look of the articulation tough i am very happy with how hidden are the knes articulation and how they follow his pants shape.

The sculpt is really good; the shape of his jaw, the long nose and ears, the wrinkles around his eyes and forehead, the iconic details of this monster traslate here veryy nicelly. His body shape is correct and his jacket have a rugged texture that makes it feel like rubber while his pants have a more soft and plain texture and his shoes are pretty shiny.

For some reason tough, Super 7 decided to release him in black and white. I am not against it tough since all the figures i have of Count Orlok are colored, soo this is a nice variation for the display collection soo theres not much color here since each piece is cast on the main color....or main black, since everything is back here.

His jacket have ligther black, the pants are cast in darker black and the shoes are much more darker black while the hands and head are cast in grey plastic. The ligth grey of the skin enhance the soft trasnparency of the material soo it shynes a little bit soo the color is mostly kept for face details.

The very white eyes and fangs stand out with the the grey wrinkles around them as well as the dark eye brows. There is also a grey wash all around soo the skin dosnt looks perfectly clean and have a natural look (as natural as this monster can be) tough the hands are clean grey and have black knukles. Why the black knuckles? I dont know tough they really made his white finger nails stand out a lot.

On the accesorys side he is pretty ligth tough. He have 4 pairs of hands: closed fist, holding hands, open hands and claw shaped hands. They can be swaped pretty easy tough the finger nails are pretty soft and they were bend inside the blister but is not something that can be fixed.

Special mention to the claw hands I LOVE THEM!!! The fingers have this bony sculpt that makes them looks like spider legs and also the points of the claws are black soo they have a very poisonous look. This inuman hands are a big part of the character look and gives him a huge expression bost.

Then theres two extra heads that are also very easy to changue despite the jacket collar. One of the heads is called "hypnotic head" in the Super 7 site but i literally cant see any difference with the bae normal head. The sculpt is exactly the same except the color is darker and actually the paint is much more slopy and the eyebrows and eyes are badly painted.

The second extra head tough is very different since he have a more pacific and focused look on his eyes and his mouth is closed, hidding his fangs. Also he have his turkish hat on, his iconic tubeteika nicelly sculpted and with a soft black color and shiny texture. This look of him is essential.

He also comes with an item that has been on all Count Orlok figure soo far: the keys of his castle. This time around instead of a chaine they allmcome together with a metalic rings tough the keys all looks the same and are painted in silver. They fit perfectly on any of the holding hands and the long finger nails keep them in place.

Lastly he have a rat. Only a single rat and it kinda looks more like a pet rat than a pest. The rat sculpt is very cute and basic tough and the paint follows the same route, with his body only having a single black color and his tail, feet and ears in soft greay with no wash or any details to make it looks more natural. It kind of looks cartony at certain degree but i guess it fits the figure, i just wish they added more rats.

Overall this is not a bad figure at all, while the accesorys are pretty basic and the paint could be better, the scult is really good and the articulations works wonderfully. Problem here is NECA´s version is much better and also half the price of this and that proofs wath i always suspected: most of the price of the Super 7 figure is mostly for the pretty box they come in.

Later this year they will release a colored version of this same Nosferatu tough i dont trust Super 7 coloring skills and i got the feeling it will looks cheaper that this version but i am happy with this black and white look.

NOSFERATU

 Woah, its been a while since last entry, rigth? Time sure flys and i will try to update more often (not like someone is reading this at all tough...) since thanks to NECA, this last years has been a dream for us fans of horror movies and action figures as well with lines like The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, Elvira, The Munsters or the Universal Monsters, NECA is also doing figures of some horror characters from the silent era as well, aside of the Universal Monsters, characters from London at Midnigth and Nosferatu a Symphony of Horror.

Is no secret i love Nosferatu a Symphony of Horror, it was one of the most disturbing films i see in my childhood and with the remake a few months away, many companys has been doing figures of this particular version of Dracula. A few mobths ago i got the Mezco version - remake of theyr first figure - that stands as one of the best figures i ever seen and pretty soon Super 7 will release theyr own version as well, and of course, the NECA version from this particular entry.

This guy is actually tall, just as tall as Goliath of the Frankenstein Monster from NECA, and thats quiet a surprise for me given the shape of his back. He is actually taller than Lugosi´s Dracula as well but fits with most action figures scale. He can stand on his own pretty good tough in my particular case, this figure have some weak ankles articulations and he likes to fall sometimes. Maybe his thin legs and tall size dosnt helpt his stability either but most of the time he stand just fine.

He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, legs, knees and ankles, ball joints like always with really good range of mobility. His coat is made with soft plastic, soo his head can turn and tilt with total freedom and his shoulders also have a big range of movement, tough his legs are very limited. I guess is inevitable with a coat but this is not a character with a lot of deep stances, specially from the waist down.

NECA has always been having a focus of great sculpt, specially on the horror genre, even if 20 years ago the paint of they figures was kinda of, the sculpt was always upstaidng, and with the last Universal Monsters line they show how faithfull to the actors they can be and this is not exception, this is 100% Max Schreck as seen on the silver screen.

The looong face, square jaw, the eagle nose and even the shape of the skull matches perfectly the actors face features mixed with a pretty natural texture and sculpting of realistic hair on the hair on top of his bat ears and thick eyebrows. At first i found the expression kind of boring but watching the movie again, is actually perfect, with the little fangs poking out of his mouth and the perplexed eyes with the empty expression is very faithfull looking for the scenes were the creature is roaming the city of nigth (or the ship as well).

The sculpt of the coat is very nice as well, with a very plastic texture to make it looks like leather and a nice and very natural looking set of wrinkles around his waist and around his arms to show how fit it is. The buttons at the front and the back are sculpted and under the coat it seems he is using a ruffled black shirt. 

His pants are very simple and natural looking as well as his shoes, but the hands are amazing, with the long fingers and knotty and veiny surface as well as the long fingernail, they are pretty menacing looking even in relaxed stand. 

The pants have a mutted black color with different tones of grey to make them look old and realistic while the shoes are simply black, the coat is sculpted on brownish plastic with some darker and ligthr tones to give it shape and volume, but theres nothign extraordinary looking here compared to the skin. 

Since this is a black and white movie, i dont think theres ever been a proof of the actual colors of the costumes or make ups, soo companys usually tend to add the colors they want, really, Sideshow gives Nosferatu a deep crimson coat with flesh color skin, while Mezco wen to dress hi totally in black at first and later in browns with a yellow skin, NECA decided to paint this vampire in a pretty ligth lilac, almost white.

Aside of the lilac theres darker purples around his checks and eyes to enhance his cadaveric face features. Actually the coloring looks too much like a silent movie make up, since they ahd to paint the shadows directly on the actors face soo the primitive cameras from back then could catsh the detaisl of theyr acting. This also gives Count Orlock a pretty ghostly appearance, almost like an ethereal being in contrast with his mute dark outfit.

The hair have different paints of black to make it looks realistic but really, the red eyes are a really good touch since they contrast way too much with the skin color as well as the outfit and makes his eyes looks very bulgy. More than a vampire, this monster looks like a ghost or a living corpse, perfect for the original concept of Dracula.

He comes with a lot of extras (unlike the last of the Universal Monsters): a rigth hand to hold the bottle thingy, a rigth hand to hold the quill, a rigth hand to hold the castle keys and a left hand to actually hold a key like he is about to open a door. Its weird they added a hand for each accesory but they all work really good but not as good as the open claws hands!!! Hands with HUGE spidery fingernails that looks really spectacular, the attack mode of Nosferatu.

There is also two extra heads. Its kinda tricky exchange them thanks to the neck section of the coat, but theyr work really good. One have a pretty icy and serious look, that ironically, looks more human. This is based on his look at the begining of the movie, when Count Orlock is on his castle. This aprticular head have the ears close to his skull soo the hat can fit.

The other head have a more playfull look, with a silly smile that show his fangs and his eyes looking at the rigth. He dosnt looks happy tough, he looks more devilish than cute. Both heads have a perfect paint that matches the paint of the base head.

Like i already mentioned, he comes with his turkish hat: a tubeteika. Its made of pretty softish plastic and have different tones of dark browns mixed with black to make it looks dirty and old. This can be pnly used with the serious head with the closed mouth since the pinty ears of the other heads keep the tubeteika away of his skull.

He also have the castle keys, like all other figures of the characters. The tubeteika and the keys are pretty much the esence of the very first time we seen the character on screen, soo they are the most important items. The chain of the keys is real metal and the keys actualy have different size and shapes tough they feel much more delicate than the Mezco version and fit them on his hand is really tricky thanks to his hard plastic fingernails.

His other accesorys are an ink well and a quill to recreate the scene when he is writting on the documents of the property he bought. The ink well have a very nice art deco design, with a copper texture and paint and actual ink on the top, looks very steam punk and the quill fits perfectly on the small hole on it and also on Count Orlock´s fingers. The grey and white of the quill have a nice contrast with the cooper colors of the ink well.

Then he have the letter he gets from Renfield. A real piece of paper with yellow color and actual prints on it, it shows a lot fo weird symbols and iconography only Orlok and Renfield knows how to read and some urabn leyends says this are real symbols of ocultism used in Germany 100 years ago. This piece of paper is really relicate and easy to lose tough!!!

And for last he have a black....thingy of unknown origina that at first i tough it was an enema but it seems is a bottle? A wine bottle maybe? I dont remember this item on the movie and it have a pretty futuristc and elegant design tough it have no texture, just black and shiny plastic here and i cant see how to use it.

Overall this figure is really really beautifull and different to the rest of the other figures of the character, with unique accesorys and a really interesting paint op. Is it better than the Sideshow version? Maybe...its deffinetly more natural looking, but is it better than the Mezco version? I dont know....

Quality wise, the Mezco ONE:12 version is better on everything, but its an stylized redesign, while this one is much much much faithfull to the on screen character soo i can really chose wich one is better since they have a totally different perspective.

The Super 7 version will be out soon but...idont know if i need it, not after this one since i am pretty sure Super 7 will not be able to do a better job than NECA but in the end, the Nosferatu licence is totally free soo i am pretty sure we will see more figures of him over and over again, specially with the remake next christmas. 

NOSFERATU

It was at the begining of the century that Mezco was born and soo far it has build a pretty interesting legacy for collectors, specially with theyr Living Dead Dolls series and ONE: 12 Collective series. Is weird but i dont have many of theyr figures since they seem to be pretty infatuated with DC and Marvel and theyr ONE:12 Collective figures are not my cup of tea: small scale action figures with real cloth outfits that look way to thick for them.

To conmemorate theyr 20 anniversary, Mezco remake theyr very first figure that launched theyr brand: Nosferatu from the series Silent Screamers. When i saw this figure for the first time i tough it was way to good to be real and way to distant as well, and i was rigth.....i searched it for a long time since ti was sold out in hours and the only way to get it was 2 or 3 times its price. Against all odds and without expecting it at all, i was able to finally get him!!

I rarelly post pictures of boxes in here but this time around, the box is as special and important as the figure since its a metalic lunch box with a pretty cool comic book style artwork of Count Orlock on it and in the sides. The lunch box looks vibrant and is extremelly sturdy and collector friendly since the figure can be stored back inside pretty easy: mark of a high end premium product for sure, specially with the "20 years" golden mark on top.

One element i dislike a lot from the ONE:12 Collective series its the tiny scale. I ton know why i always tough they were Figma/Figuarts size but in fact this figure is the same size as the NECA or even Storm figures soo it matches in scale with most action figures on the market. He can stand on his own nicelly but given the slim shape of his feet is safer to use the base included.

He is articulated on the neck, chest, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knees and ankles, all ball joints and double articulation on the elbows and knees soo his limbs have much more freedom to bend. A note included on the lunch box was that while the body have total feedom of movement, the outfit have limits soo every movement must be done with extra care.

While most of the articulations have total freedom of movement, the shoulders are very limited and only can move up to certain degree thanks to the jacket. Also his pants are made of elastic soo his legs have a good range of movement but abuse the elastic could be not a very good idea. Of course this guy is not meant to be displayed in a Spiderman like pose, Count Orlock is a monster of subtle movements soo the limit on the articulations is not that important.

The sculpt is really really really amazing....the blocky bodyshape with the hunchback and the slim and spidery limbs fits perfectly to the characters, despite not being screen accurate. This figure is based on the figure that Mezco did 20 years ago soo is basically a redesign of Nosferatu, Mezco´s own version of the vampire.

His face features has been exagerated and all traces of hair removed, no hair behind his ears and no eye brows, wich gives him a less human look. The intrincate wrinkles covering each part of his face are softly sculpted, in a pretty realistic look, with veins protunding on his bald skull and all that saggy skin around his mouth, this gives him deffinetly a look of a pretty ancient and old evil.

The long nose, tiny fangs peeking out of his wrinkled and old lips and cmpletelly black eye balls gives him a much more animal look, he looks even more like a rat now. Like a completelly bald and dead rat actually. His arms have the same old texture full of veins and his hands are soo amazing....not only the veins looks natural, but his loooong fingers and claws make his hand slook like spiders. Also they are made of soft plastic soo the delicate claws dont have any risk to be broken.

His shoes are slim and looks way to medieval....actually they kind of remidns me the shoes of a goblin for some reason and are painted on a pretty simple brown with very little of black just to accentuate the leather texture. 

His arms and head are also painte don a very pale white with pretty simple and delicate paint aplication to give him enough realism without any excess: dark brown around the eyes to deepen his already black sight, a little bit of soft pink at the tip of his vampire ears, a little bit around his lips, some grey/blue on the veins and black for the claws with some yellow on the tip, this is deffinetly the look i expect from a vampiric corpse.

This is all the sculpt and paint visile since the rest of the body is covered by the outfit. His pants are dark grey elastic pants that dosnt block any of the articulation but is better to nto force them since the elastic can be all lose on no time. This pants along side the very medieval shoes makes him looks kind of like a dark version of Peter Pan (while in the movie he is using pants from a suit with more conventional shoes).

He is using a purple shirt with his brown jacket on top. I am surprised this much clothes dosnt block his articulations specially at this scale but the fabric is soo incrediblly thin and delicate. The jacket have a leatherish texture and the tailoring, specially on the collar, is really stellar and beautifull. Unlike the movie version, this Count Orlok have the end parts of his sleeves ripped and torn as well as the end of the jacket around his hips. Theres some dirt as well that makes it looks like a jacket as old as the corpse thats using it. The small buttons at the front are all plastic and they seem to be thigthly glued and dont seem to come off.

The accesorys are as impresive as the figure itself. Aside of the relaxed hands he comes with an extra pair of hands shaped like a claw, ready to attack. This hands looks even more spidery than the normal relaxed hands and the quality of the sculpt and paint matched the base hands. He also comes with a rigth hand sculpted to hold accesorys and a left hand pointing out or ready to grav something. Again the quality is really amazing and every single of this extra hands is really helpfull for the display since they have a lot of personality with each small gesture.

He also comes with two extra heads. One seems to be reading or concentrating in something in front of him, with his eyes hald closed and his fangs hidden inside his mouth. The sculpt and paint are perfect but its a little bit to notice the differences with the basic face sculpt.

The other head have him in a screaming expression, Nosferatu in attack mode. The subtle change of expression on his eyes is pretty delicate but easy to see and the pointy piranha fangs coming out from his mouth in a yellow tone are really frithing. Change the heads is extremelly easy since only a small push on the chin makes them pop out and they stay in place perfectly despite the clothing.

He also have his trukish hat, a tubeteika. An specially decadent and exotic looking tubeteika, the wrinkles of it flows in  apretty natural way and while the hat is completelly black it have some different soft grey tones to give it depth and detail. It fits perfectly on any of his heads.

Theres also the castle keys, keept together with a metalic golden ring as seen on the movie. They fit perfectly between his spidery fingers and every single key have a completelly different size and configuration mixing siver and golden keys. A pretty nice attention to detail.

They also included a lamp tough this lamp is never seen on the movie, this is perhaps the most colorfull item on this figure. The design and sculpt is evidently very oriental, complete in golden color  with a centery section in stain glass with yellows and orange tiles. I am not sure if theres a pattern in the stain glass tough, it looks pretty random but the handle is articulated.

The other accesory is The Plague: a group of six rats to run around Count Orlok feet. Whule the paint is very simple (just brown with pink tails), each one of them have a completelly original sculpt, some of them are completlely flat, some others sre standing, the tails flow is totally different and one of them is turning around while another is standing in two feet. Its pretty difficult to see the difference given the small size but not a single one is the same.

The best accesory tough is his coffin. A coffin big enough for Count Orlok to lie inside. The sculpt is really good and the paint gives it a pretty realistic wooden texture. This is not Dracula´s coffin with intrincate decorations and red velvet inside, this is an extremelly old coffin read to fall apart. The lid just goes on top pretty losely and theres a brokken section that reveals half of Count Orlok face while he sleeps.

The best part perhaps is how is not empty: Theres a lot of cementery dirt inside as well as 14 rats crawiling around inside and triying to come out. When they release this kind of items they usually forget to sculpt or paint anything inside but this is the very first time i see a coffin like this and the paint and texture is specially nice on the dirt, very realistic looking and i am afraid my photos dont make it justice.

The base is circular and black, extremelly simple, and it have the tittle Nosferatu in red with 1922 in white as well as the Silent Screamers logo. Very simple but usefull since it have a small peg that fits on Count Orloks hole on his fit and keep him standing perfectly. This method is pretty basic but this is one of the very few times i see it working properlly.

The peg can be removed and exchanged for an articulated translucent arm with a clamp to hold him but i dont see this necesary since Nosferatu is not airborn and the peg works good enough to keep him standing. They also included a plastic bag to hold all his accesorys but since they can be stored much better on the lunch box i see no use for this bag.

Laslt theres a comic book. I dont know if other ONE:12 figures comes with books but this one is totally unrelated to Nosferatu. With the title Doomed Tales -The Origins of Aticus Doom this chronicles the origin and powers of Aticus Doom, necromagus prime and original character of Mezco with a figure that came out last year.

The art is nice as well as the colroing and the paper ad print impression are very high quality (unlike the Furay Planet). The narrative, the way characters talks and design, everything is a call back to the pulp fiction from the 1920s, with very direct unions to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Myths and it works wonderfull to spark interest on a very exotic looking character that is more like a dream project of a Lovecraft fan.

The only figure i have from ONE:12 Collective aside of this one is the Frankenstein Monster and i was really dissapointed by it. Not only Mezco never worked on any of the other Universal Monsters, but the Monster was soo.....boring. There wasnt anything bad about him but anything good either and i hated the tailoring of his outfit, soo the line never sparked any interest on my at all.

But this Nosferatu is quiet the oposite, not only is easy to recognise him but its different enough to make him interesting ad the sculpt, paint and tailoring and materials are miles above that sad Frankenstein Monster. Accesorys and presentation, everything in this figure is top notch and my only concern is that the materials of the outfit resists the march of time.

NECA will release his version of Ultimate Nosferatu soon but i somehow doubt they get close to the impresive and feral eerines of this version.