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NECA Sesame Street Ultimate Count Von Count Figure Review
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00:00Three. Three releases so far. Ah, ah, ah. Here's a look at the NECA toys. It's the Sesame Street Presents Count Vaughn Count's Ultimate Action Figure.
00:08Get ready to count to your heart's content with the third ultimate in the NECA Sesame Street line.
00:30The Count's first appearance on the classic children TV series in 1972 and his enthusiasm for counting anything and everything has made him a fan favorite ever since.
00:40You too will have fun counting all the articulation points on the 7-inch scale figure. 27 to be exact.
00:46The Count comes with a number of accessories including an alternate head, five interchangeable hands, a cloth cape, candelabra, phone, and the number two.
00:54If you're looking to count how many times that word shows up in his name, you'd be surprised to see too.
00:59As a kid, I always really just called him the Count.
01:02Before, though, we get a closer look at Count Vaughn Count, we're going to take the tape measure and see how tall the figure stands.
01:07And then on top of that, we're going to bring in the previously looked at Sesame Street figures, counting another two.
01:13The tape measure is going to tell us, though, that Count, looking at numbers after all, is going to be counting up to five and three quarters of an inch in height.
01:20If he measures those things in centimeters, then he's going to count all the way up to 15.
01:25Ernie makes one, Bert makes two, Count makes three.
01:27So far, three figures from the Sesame Street line and NECA, not the end of the license at all, though.
01:32Already shown at San Diego Comic-Con 2025, NECA lined up their new lineup of Sesame Street figures consisting of Harry, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Grover, and surprisingly, Mr. Johnson.
01:43Mr. Johnson? Who's Mr. Johnson?
01:44Mr. Johnson, by the way, was always the customer that Grover was a waiter to.
01:48He was always known for having the mustache, always seemed so surprised that things were running the way that they were at the restaurants.
01:53I can't believe we're actually getting a Mr. Johnson.
01:56As for Count's accessories.
01:57Don't be counting on spelling anything.
01:59In fact, so far, he's the only figure that hasn't actually come in clue with letters.
02:03When we have already looked at Ernie and Bird, they actually came respectively with A and C.
02:08If you really wanted to spell this as the ABCs, we'd be missing a B in the middle.
02:12However, though, if you're looking to spell NECA, N and E would be the things that we still need to complete the company's name.
02:18Of course, we don't really have an N and an E just yet.
02:21But, funny though enough, I guess not really all that funny, Count would have come, of course, included with a number.
02:27Can I also just draw your attention to how snooty this 2 looks?
02:30That has got to be, by far, the snootiest 2 I have ever seen.
02:35This 2 always really just has its head up high.
02:38It's like, heh, heh.
02:40That is one snooty 2.
02:42The snooty 2 is also done here all in brown.
02:45Really not really the preferred color I would have gone with if going with a snooty 2.
02:48Still, though, can we stop saying snooty 2s?
02:51Anyways, though, it does come include with a 2.
02:54And move the 2 over there.
02:55That figure does also come include for an accessory count.
02:58Again, quite a lot of things.
02:59A candelabra, for example, does come include with a count.
03:02The candelabra isn't, well, you only really see 3 candles.
03:06If you look at the back of it, though, it's completely flat.
03:08This does hold in his hands, although, to be honest, not all that well.
03:12He does technically have 2 hands for gripping things.
03:16He does also have a phone, so that's really one of the things that can also be used with these hands.
03:20But if you try to take the candelabra, for example, you really do have to force that in his hand.
03:25I would certainly, though, recommend, as I honestly didn't do this.
03:28I didn't do this at all.
03:30Heat the hand, though, in hot water first, everybody.
03:32Then you could probably pry the plastic a little bit better away.
03:34I actually did put the candelabra somewhat, somewhat successfully into the hands of the count, although it really doesn't hold all that well.
03:43The phone, however, though, holds a little bit better.
03:46The receiver is, though, separate.
03:47It actually has a separate piece.
03:50I don't think Linda really is ever going to be calling anybody on Sesame Street.
03:54By the way, though, I don't think she's gotten her beers yet.
03:57Anyways, though, the receiver can be lifted from the rest of the phone.
03:59This is rotary dial, so you can't actually dial anything.
04:02But the only one real worry I have, actually, about this is somebody in a sheet strangling the count from behind.
04:08I don't think that's really likely to happen.
04:09But also, too, that the line is very thin.
04:12And don't tug it too much, because obviously that's going to break the plastic.
04:16But the fact that we actually do have ourselves a little phone, that's cool.
04:19I'd probably be at the end of displaying the count I feel with that.
04:23What else does he have?
04:24What else do he have?
04:24He has a couple of pointing hands.
04:26Well, I shouldn't even say counting a couple of pointing hands.
04:28He actually has the hands to count to three.
04:31If I hold two and I hold three and I grab the one, even though he really only has one and two hands, one and two arms, he unfortunately, though, has three hands.
04:39So you're going to have to choose which number he's holding up at once.
04:43So again, you've got the one, you've got the two, and of course you've got three.
04:46One, two, and three.
04:48Those can, again, be swapped out by just swapping out the hands that he currently has.
04:51Now, you do have to have a little bit of time to swap the hands out if you also want to attach the cape onto the figure's body.
04:57I don't know why I'm waving my finger all around.
04:59I keep looking over that.
05:00Snooty, snooty, too.
05:02The figure does come also included with a cape.
05:05Now, the cape was actually something that's on the back tray.
05:08I'm sure you would have already seen this unless you were opening up your figures with your eyes closed.
05:12Open up your eyes.
05:13See what you're doing.
05:14Make sure, of course, you don't cut yourself.
05:16You're going to probably be having to count out how many little piggies end up getting cut if you don't actually open up the packaging with your eyes open.
05:22But what you'll see, though, inside, underneath the tray, is a cape.
05:26And the cape actually has a plastic for the collar, but then a fabric for the bottom.
05:31What's nice, though, is that they also added a wire.
05:34So the wire runs not along necessarily the bottom.
05:38Well, I guess there is technically also.
05:39Is it very thin wire?
05:40Maybe it is a thin.
05:41I can feel it.
05:42It's a thin wire.
05:42I can feel better the wire that's on the top.
05:45But there seems to be a wire all the way around the edge.
05:48That's a very busy-looking print.
05:51I actually feel like I had, not my house growing up, but I feel like I went to a house where somebody had this as drapes.
05:57It wasn't a shiny material like this, but it had a very similar pattern.
06:01What exactly is really going on with the pattern?
06:03I know there's a, is it Paisley?
06:04No.
06:05There's a specific term given to a pattern like this.
06:08Somebody who's old, I'm sure, can let me know down below in the comments section.
06:11Anyways, though, the cape actually attaches onto the back of the count's body in the same way, really, that the Bela Lugosi Dracula worked.
06:17Although I find that it's a little easier on this one.
06:19If you tilt the count's collar up, you can actually see there's a little lip right there.
06:24See how this sticks out a little bit more?
06:27So what you essentially do is there's a, there's a clip right there on the back of the count's cape.
06:31Ooh, that's a lot of...
06:33And basically all you're going to do is take the clip and fit it on the back of the count's collar.
06:38Just like that.
06:41Now, you really don't necessarily have to have the cape attached to his sleeves.
06:44And you can leave it really the way it is.
06:46And then just sort of, I guess you could kind of pose it down a little bit.
06:50The problem with it, though, is that even though it does attach somewhat securely, if you start to move the cape around, it's going to come off the collar.
06:56There's a lot of C's again.
06:59There we go.
07:00To really, though, secure it and make sure it's not going to be going anywhere.
07:03What it does also have is it has these little plastic loops.
07:06I don't really know the longevity of these loops, whether this plastic would be strong enough.
07:11One thing, though, is that you're going to have to take the hands off.
07:13Don't try to force it up the sleeves.
07:16For sure, though, you're definitely going to be breaking that.
07:18You can count on breaking those plastic loops.
07:21What you'll do, though, instead is take the arms off or take the hands off, just like that.
07:26And then sort of, I find, to take the peg, loop it around the loop, and then plug it back into the hole.
07:34Now, that holds well, not to the point where it's going to go anywhere.
07:38My only one real concern, though, is twisting the hand if that's going to start to wear away that plastic.
07:44So I would imagine, though, this is probably one of those things that once you have the count displayed with the cape, leave it the way it is.
07:50You probably may not feel you want to move everything around on it just because, again, like, I don't know, that loop may break.
07:56We're going to do the exact same thing on the other side.
07:58Then I'm sure we're going to take this off because I find going through the possibility of the figure, it's going to be next to impossible if we've got these loops in the way.
08:06Yeah, still the clip, unfortunately, on the cape color just doesn't hold well enough in place.
08:11You might even find it's easier just to attach the hands first, then go back to the cape and just move it up here.
08:19I want to make sure I get that all the way on there.
08:21And just, there we go, plug it in place.
08:24So now the cape's got a collar and the count's got his cape.
08:28It's nice. I mean, I really like the look of the cape.
08:30I don't really recall, to be honest with you, that this was the pattern that the count had for the interior of his cape.
08:36I mean, obviously, to be fair, though, it's been a while since I've seen the Sesame Street series.
08:39But Sesame Street, for me, at least, a couple of years ago, when my daughter was still young, I tried to introduce her to Sesame Street.
08:47She really wasn't keen with it.
08:49She really preferred Paw Patrol, and she certainly liked Barney the Dinosaur and things like that.
08:54She also really liked the Wiggles.
08:55Sesame Street was a no-go, and honestly, though, even going back and watching Sesame Street a few years back,
09:00it just really didn't have the charm that the classic Sesame Street had.
09:03Now, one thing that's cool about the count, though, is he does also have a swappable head sculpt.
09:09In the way that he is right now, getting him out of his plastic prison, ah, ah, ah.
09:12The figure does also have a neutral expression, but he does also have this one, where it actually looks like he's counting.
09:18Where he's saying, ah, ah, ah, ah.
09:20I do like the way that they've done the open mouth like this.
09:22His little chin beard down below is painted really well, as well, for his eyebrows.
09:26He does have the monocle.
09:28Now, so putting and changing the heads, you want to make sure, really, that you're not putting pressure against both the eyebrows and the monocle,
09:34just that both of them could, either one of them, really either, or both for that matter, could actually break if you're putting too much pressure against it.
09:41If you did want to change out the head sculpt, though, and I'm actually going to remove the cape,
09:45just because I know, getting to the articulation on the figure, the cape is one thing I really don't want to be in the way.
09:51So we're going to just remove the hands, just pop those off from the sleeves,
09:55take the loops off, take the clip off, take the cape away, and move it over there.
10:01Let's go back and put the hands back in place.
10:02Now, I guess, really, if we want to, let's find some hands to count with.
10:07So we're going to count with number one.
10:09That starts generally when you want to count to ten, or even count to five.
10:12Some of us may struggle getting all the way to ten.
10:15If you find that counting to five is easier for you, then you'll obviously need one, and you'll need two.
10:22Changing out the head, though, by the way.
10:23All you're going to want to do is hold on to the torso, kind of wiggle the head, and pop it off the post.
10:28That's not the hard part.
10:30The hard part is now putting on the new head sculpt, because you don't want to put pressure to the chin.
10:34You don't want to put pressure, certainly, on the monocle, and you don't want to put pressure against the eyebrows.
10:38With that all in mind, with all the cautionary tales aside, kind of twist the head until eventually it gets on the post.
10:44Again, I'm resisting the urge.
10:47I've, unlike, though, unlike the earlier with the candelabra, I didn't actually heat that hand.
10:52I did actually heat, though, the peg joint, or the hole that was attaching the head to the peg.
10:57I did already do that, but with all the time that I've been talking about snooty twos and how you can count to two, actually, the plastic has cooled.
11:05So, once the head is now in place, again, you have either the option of having just the smiling count, or just, I guess, the regular expression face for the count.
11:13And then you also have this one.
11:14I think, really, though, I'd probably go displaying the figure with this.
11:18As you can certainly see, though, it does look very much like the count.
11:20Big, pointy nose.
11:22Again, very white teeth.
11:23Even though the count, I don't really know.
11:25What exactly is the count eating?
11:26Has they ever really established that?
11:28I feel like that would be something that Sesame Street would make them note of doing.
11:31Sesame Street wouldn't want to promote the idea that count is actually enjoying blood.
11:35I think he probably enjoys, like, vegetables.
11:37Something similar to Cookie Monster, because, of course, Cookie Monster can't be promoted eating cookies.
11:42Anyways, for the rest, though, of his outfit, the count does have his jacket.
11:46Now, you can actually see he's got himself, like, a, what would you call that?
11:50Like, just a little strap behind that?
11:51I guess that is really part of his vest.
11:54The actual shirt.
11:56Oh, there goes the head.
11:58Let's just put the head back in place.
12:00The head is one thing, again, I'm going to really have to heat back up before we get to the turntable.
12:05I don't really want the head to pop off.
12:07And what I really don't want is I don't want the head.
12:10You know what?
12:11I think we've got it.
12:12No, no.
12:13We're going to go back to the defaulted head.
12:15Just because I know that that was the easier one to get onto the ball joint.
12:18And the last thing, again, I want to do.
12:20Ah, there we go.
12:22Last thing I really want to do is have heads rolling.
12:25As for, like I said, the rest of the outfit, the black jacket looks good.
12:29It's a little more on the softer plastic.
12:31Whereas the lower legs are all hard plastic.
12:33I think they've done a well enough job of matching the two colors.
12:37Of course, it does also have the spats down below here.
12:39I really feel, though, that the spats should be white.
12:42Not that really you would see a lot of that with a count.
12:44Half the time, he'd usually be like walking behind something.
12:46Because obviously, the puppeteer's arm would be underneath here.
12:50But the spats look good.
12:51I mean, again, like everything about the count looks really good.
12:53The widow's peak there on the top does really much look like Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
12:58If Bela Lugosi obviously was a Muppet.
13:01Now for the figure's articulation.
13:03I can't keep looking at that too.
13:05For the head's articulation.
13:06It's going to be on a ball joint.
13:07I think I've got a secure enough fit now attached onto the ball joint.
13:10Yeah, the head moves down and up.
13:12You can rock it back and forth.
13:13And technically, yeah, you can rotate the count all the way around.
13:17For his shoulders, they do the same.
13:19They rotate all the way around.
13:21You can bring the arms up.
13:22But you can't quite pull off 90 degrees.
13:25It's a little less than that.
13:26What would that really be?
13:28What would you count that up to be?
13:29About 75, 80 degrees?
13:31The figure does also have a bicep swivel.
13:33Or I should really say a forearm swivel.
13:35And there's a single hinge in the elbow.
13:37Hands rotate all the way around.
13:38Whether you want to use the counting hands or not.
13:40The upper torso is going to be on a ball joint.
13:42It's a little kind of harder to get to that just because the jacket's in the way.
13:45Legs do splits.
13:46That's about as far of a split as you can actually pull off.
13:50Sure enough, yeah, the legs go forward and back.
13:51A little bit of a swivel there at the top of the thigh.
13:54Single hinge knee.
13:55Lower leg rotation.
13:56Ankle pivot up and down.
13:57And an ankle rocker there as well.
14:00In case you are curious, one and two.
14:01You can count them off.
14:02The figure does also have peggles on the undersides of his feet.
14:06All in all, though, missing a cape.
14:08The cape will have to come back when we get to the rotisserie.
14:11Yeah, all in all, though, I really like the look of the count.
14:13I hate to almost even say this.
14:16I think certainly of the first three, the first three that we've gotten from NECA Toys,
14:21I feel like Count Von Count might be actually my favorite.
14:24Of course, says the biased guy behind the camera.
14:26I know, really, I'm a big fan of Universal Monsters and Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
14:30I mean, just, yes, because of the biasness behind that,
14:33I might actually feel that I think Count is the better looking figure.
14:36It's got pretty cool accessories.
14:38Of course, it does have the fabric cape.
14:39The fabric cape is one concern still I have.
14:42I was trying to look at this and think,
14:44what else would I have really done to attach the cape onto his sleeves?
14:47I thought initially, what if they maybe had used pegs?
14:50But then if you used pegs with plastic,
14:52how would really those have attached, first of all, to the cape?
14:55And then if you were plugging it onto the sides of his wrists,
14:58I mean, any bit of movement from the figure's arms
15:00would likely snap or remove the pegs.
15:02These probably by far would be the easiest ways
15:04to attach these securely onto the forearms,
15:07just though the twisting and the turning,
15:08even though this is a soft enough plastic,
15:10I just only really worry that these are eventually going to break.
15:13Once I eventually get to count the way I've gotten displayed,
15:16with maybe the candelabra or even the phone,
15:18just give somebody a call and count to three.
15:21You know, again, he's got some pretty cool accessories.
15:22He is, though, again, the only figure so far from Sesame Street
15:26where we haven't actually gotten ourselves letters.
15:28Where Bert and Ernie have at least made some valid attempts
15:31to try to spell off NECA,
15:33count just says, well, he already knows,
15:36everybody knows around the count.
15:37Count's not worrying really much about letters.
15:40He's more worried about numbers.
15:41We don't necessarily have a number one to start our counting.
15:45We start instead with a snooty two.
15:47Nice looking figure, though.
15:48Of the three figures, again, we've gotten from NECA Toys,
15:51Count Von Count still by far is my favorite.
15:53Whether that will change, though,
15:55when we get the future releases that NECA has already announced
15:57at San Diego Comic-Con, time will only tell.
16:00In the meantime, you'll have to count down the time
16:02until eventually those figure releases come out.
16:05I don't really know who the Count's calling right now,
16:07but I hope, though, he's not calling somebody back in Transylvania
16:10who's going to be paying the long-distance fees for this.
16:13The thing about the Count, though, holding his phone
16:15is that you really do want to have him holding the other end of the phone
16:17so the phone ain't just dangling there.
16:19One thing that goes with that, though,
16:21is the difficulty of him properly holding it.
16:23He does have, technically, a flat hand,
16:26but with the thumb being in the way of it,
16:28he just barely balances the phone on the ends of his fingers.
16:32Now, the figure does also have the candelabra.
16:34I mean, just because, again, he's holding the phone with both his hands,
16:36it's not like the Count has three hands,
16:38even though he has three separate hands to count up to three.
16:41The candelabra, though, might just be something I'll display on the side.
16:44But funny, though, again, I keep pointing out the fact
16:47that this two looks a little sketchy to me.
16:51I do actually like the idea that being that he is Count Vaughn Count,
16:54yeah, he's not going to be counting letters.
16:56How do you count letters?
16:57I guess you could count that there's two letters
16:59that we've gotten so far from Sesame Street characters
17:01being with Bert and being with Ernie.
17:04Count, instead, chooses to have two.
17:06Is the two a reference for the fact that we've already gotten two other characters
17:09and those two characters came with two letters?
17:12I think I'm looking way too deep in this.
17:13Right now, I'm just kind of wondering to myself,
17:15who exactly is Count calling?
17:17If you guys are interested, though, to get Count for your collection,
17:20he's available right now either in stores or online.
17:23Not having any luck with the first, I chose with the second.
17:26I end up ordering this one.
17:27I don't know really exactly which site I actually ordered it from.
17:30Sure enough, they had it.
17:31Obviously, they would have had to have had it
17:33in order for me to do the review of him.
17:36But what do you guys think of the Count?
17:37Let me know down below in the comments section.
17:39Now that we have three figures in, one, two, and three,
17:42which of those three would you say is the best one we've gotten from NECA so far?
17:46Now, already again announced, we've seen images.
17:49If you weren't lucky enough to go to San Diego Comic-Con,
17:51I was not the fortunate one to check out SDCC.
17:55But at least I was smart enough to see online that we are getting ourselves a Harry,
17:59a Harry the Monster.
18:00We're getting a Grover, Oscar the Grouch, a Big Bird, and Mr. Johnson.
18:04It was really weird to see Mr. Johnson being one that was included,
18:08unless he's going to be a two-pack with Grover.
18:10That would be kind of interesting to make it like a waiter Grover.
18:13And then, I mean, I can't imagine that they're probably going to be packing
18:15and including a tabletop and chairs.
18:18But maybe they might just do a Grover and Mr. Johnson two-pack.
18:21Who in their right mind is going to be buying Mr. Johnson on their own?
18:24You can't see it.
18:25The guy behind the camera with his hand held up high
18:28is definitely going to be buying mustache Mr. Johnson.
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