Dracula wearing his spare head. The devil is in the detail…
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[gallery] I finally did it & yanked Dracula’s head off. No pictures of the operation, it was traumatic & performed in a thunderstorm. That head would not yield. In the end I held poor Drac under the hottest water I could stand & pulled as hard as I could & POP! (Think of the moment the tooth comes out in Alice Cooper’s Unfinished Sweet for the effect. There really should have been triumphal chords). Turns out Dracula’s a talented musician now he has full use of his limbs. Though he’s lost that buff body he started out with. If you have a CAM vampire body going spare, this is well worth doing & not terribly difficult. Remember - if this klutz can do it, anybody can.
A bit out of my usual line, but I couldn’t resist. This action figure was licensed by Hammer films in 2004 - Christopher Lee in Dracula, Prince of Darkness . The paint on the nose is slightly chipped, I blurred that digitally. Otherwise the doll was intact & boxed with all accessories. Without that flaw, I doubt if I could have afforded it.
[gallery] Obviously I had to have the Dracula doll, but the play set was originally £45. Which I would have paid! Until I clocked that the dolls were the dreaded fixed-arm ones that Mattel is so convinced are the way forward. So I waited for a substantial, less than half price deal. Which was always going to happen quite soon because nobody likes these dolls . Dracula rocked up yesterday & I had him unboxed & posing for the camera straight away. It’s not good. He’s jointed at neck, shoulder & hip, basic as it gets, plus a token knee joint. The neck joint is nice, he can tilt his head expressively. But that’s it. The other joints are so limited that all the poor soul can do is stand rigid, feet together, arms by sides. No poseability at all. He can sit, just, but his trousers pop open at the back - Mattel has never understood that you have to have some leeway in the clothes if the doll is to move properly. I’ve posted two pictures, one where I’ve tried to shoot round his l...