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] First pic - my broken Draculaura, who I used for a spare parts donor & then put in a bath with bubble-wrap bubbles to hide the horror. Second pic - as she is now, with CAM body. To get the head off, I just held the neck under the hot tap & pulled gently. I did not break the peg, as you see. Those how-tos on YouTube did not lie. Even a klutz like me can get the head off a Monster High doll! And a standard head will fit a Create A Monster body. This is just the dummy run, of course. Plucking up my courage to attempt the rebodying of Dracula.