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00:00I don't know about you, but I think the only moving points of this figure I'm the most concerned about are his fangs.
00:04Here's your spooky spot on the Super 7 Reaction Universal Monsters, Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
00:30Count Dracula is a centuries-old vampire who resides in a decaying castle in Transylvania.
00:38With his aristocratic demeanor and hypnotic gaze, Dracula lures unsuspecting victims to sustain his immortality by drinking their blood.
00:46His journey to London brings terror as he seeks new prey, but he has to face the brave efforts of Professor Van Helsing and his allies.
00:53I really hope the creatures of the night don't have large hands, because this figure is quite small.
00:57Before that, we get a closer look at the Reaction Universal Monsters, Bela Lugosi, as Count Dracula.
01:05We're going to take the tape measure. Not to go with delaying here.
01:07We'll take the tape measure and delay no further. We're going to go right to the very top of his head.
01:11As to be expected, the figure's going to stand about three and three quarters of an inch in height,
01:15working out to be a figure that's a little over nine centimeters tall.
01:18In the hopes of throwing his efforts with a common clothes hanger, here's what the figure looks like with the Fright Rags Halloween Laurie Strode.
01:23Laurie Strode, though, only had five points of articulation.
01:26Dracula does actually have a whole lot more.
01:28He's actually closer when it comes to posability, as what you would expect with the original O-Ring G.I. Joes.
01:34This is not, by the way, an O-Ring G.I. Joe.
01:36This is the 25th anniversary Cobra Viper, but it's the closest thing I have.
01:40I'm looking at my calendar now, and another day that you haven't sucked my soul, soul-seeking candle.
01:45Let's bring in, though, the packaging that comes in clear with Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
01:47You know, it is really, though, a shame that we have to get around to reviewing these things,
01:50because I really would have loved to keep Bela Lugosi contained inside of his plastic prison.
01:55First of all, for the safety of the person behind the camera, that he's less likely to chomp down on the side of my neck.
02:00But just that the packaging looks just so good.
02:02I would love to have kept the packaging with the figure still sealed inside.
02:07We have a nice image, though, of Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
02:09This is from the Universal Monsters.
02:11There was actually a set of three you could buy for $60 that would then have the Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
02:17It's strange, really, that Frankenstein's monster doesn't make the rounds for the first wave.
02:20I'm sure, though, he will be making an appearance in a future wave.
02:23But yeah, $20 a piece for each of the figures, or, again, you can buy the entire set of six.
02:26I figured, though, it would probably be making the most sense to having a look at these individually.
02:30On the back of the packaging, what I really love is that this looks like a cutout,
02:34something you would find to see inside, maybe like a horror magazine or a comic book,
02:38where you have horror and thrill show, horror action figures, Creature from the Black Lagoon,
02:43Lon Chaney as the Wolfman, Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
02:45Collect them all from the Reaction Monsters.
02:48What's kind of cool, too, is that you can actually, if you have scissors and a careful eye,
02:51you can cut this completely out and have yourself file cards.
02:54The sat, though, read-up of Dracula was the same thing I read at the beginning of this review.
02:58His Dracula, he is Dracula.
02:59His real name is Count Dracula.
03:01It'd be funny, though, if his real name was like Jim.
03:03Jim Dracula.
03:04Hey, nice to meet you.
03:05Jim Dracula.
03:06Mind if I just chomp down on your neck?
03:07And his birthplace is Transylvania.
03:10There's some additional read-ups down below here, some of which I wouldn't be able to read to you guys.
03:14But again, nice-looking card.
03:16It's just a shame that I had to open this up.
03:18The figure does come in with an accessory.
03:19Where's the accessory?
03:20This is the accessory right here.
03:21He comes with his little candelabra.
03:24The candelabra does look cool.
03:25Oh, I guess I probably, for the safety reasons,
03:28probably shouldn't have put my finger on top of the candle or burned my own skin.
03:31Unfortunately, though, he doesn't have the easiest means to hold the candelabra.
03:35Because this is essentially like a G.I. Joe Dracula,
03:39he basically will only have like C-clamped hands.
03:43So in order for him to properly hold the candelabra,
03:46you either have to kind of wedge it in between his fingers,
03:47and it looks awkward like this,
03:49or you can take it and fit it on his thumb.
03:53Which, I got to tell you, is not the easiest thing to do.
03:55But when you do do it,
03:56it doesn't so much, though, look like he's holding the candle.
03:59It looks like he's doing a levitation act.
04:01But I guess he does have at least the means to hold it.
04:04He does also have himself a cape.
04:06Now, the problem I really have with the cape is not necessarily the material.
04:09The material does sort of evoke kind of things you'd expect to see
04:12with vintage 70s and 80s toy lines.
04:14Kind of more like that harder material.
04:16It is at least, though, colored on the inside in red,
04:18and it's black on the outside.
04:20It's very square.
04:21It doesn't have a whole lot of give to it.
04:23I don't really think it needs to have it either.
04:25The one issue, really, though, I have, though, with it,
04:27is the way it's attached around his neck.
04:29With such a very thin strand of elastic.
04:32This would be something, though,
04:33I mean, just returning the figure alone,
04:35I feel like there's friction already against that strap.
04:39Too much turning, I would think,
04:40would probably start to wear away the elastic.
04:42Even if you just leave it to, you know, just father time.
04:45I would imagine, though, that after a while,
04:47that would start to degrade,
04:48and the elastic will strap,
04:50will break, the strap will snap.
04:52Other than that, though, I mean,
04:53I really like the look, though, of Dracula.
04:55I mean, like, again,
04:55I would imagine you could probably try to take the cape off.
04:58Just, I wouldn't really recommend it myself.
05:00It's really tight around his neck,
05:02and you have to get it around his ears.
05:03There's, it's just more hassle,
05:04and I know you're going to only be left behind
05:06with a broken cape,
05:07and I don't want that to happen.
05:08Face sculpt, though, looks really good.
05:10I mean, for this being a smaller
05:12three and three-quarter inch scale figure,
05:14I think they landed quite the good likeness
05:15to Bela Lugosi.
05:17Now, because this is more based
05:18kind of on a G.I. Joe level of articulation,
05:20there's surprising levels of it.
05:22We're going to kind of talk more about that in a moment.
05:24He does have, of course, his outfit.
05:25He's got his little medallion there
05:28on the front, though, of his tuxedo.
05:30The tuxedo is more of a shinier black plastic.
05:32I kind of wish it was more of a matte black myself
05:35rather than the shinier plastic.
05:36I really think, like, the only thing
05:38that should have really been shiny on him
05:39was his shiny shoes.
05:40Dracula likes to keep those shoes polished, after all.
05:43But I think, like, the rest of the plastic
05:44probably could have afforded doing
05:45more of a matte black.
05:48But other than that,
05:48I think it looks really good.
05:49Like, the paint's really good on this.
05:50It does, of course, break up a little bit.
05:52He's got a sculpting of his undershirt
05:54or undervest
05:55just that goes below the waist.
05:57So the moment you start to kind of
05:57turn his waist around,
05:59it does lose a little bit of that
06:00and it breaks up the sculpt.
06:01But again, like, he's got some nice
06:03sculpted-in buttons there.
06:04They even really took the time
06:05to sculpt in a ring
06:06and his little shirt cuffs,
06:09little, what do you call it?
06:11Cufflinks.
06:11Cufflinks.
06:12He's also got those as well.
06:14One thing, unfortunately, though,
06:15is being that more he's based
06:16on a G.I. Joe build,
06:17he's got these visible screw holes,
06:20the parts that at least
06:21allow the elbows to bend.
06:22I mean, if that's the one thing
06:23that you have to take away
06:24from a negative standpoint,
06:26I'm fine that it's there.
06:27At least it gives him the option
06:29to do what he's doing right now.
06:30This is by no means
06:31a figure that has
06:32five points of articulation.
06:33I mean, like, Dracula
06:34has quite a lot to cover.
06:36And in fact, like all the
06:37universal monsters
06:38that we will be looking at,
06:39both the Wolfman
06:39and the creature
06:40from the Black Lagoon,
06:41still Frankie.
06:42Where, in fact, is Frankie?
06:44But all those figures
06:45are going to have
06:45the same levels of possibility.
06:47The figure does also, by the way,
06:48even though really
06:49he doesn't come in clear
06:50with a display stand.
06:51Something, though,
06:51that I also feel like
06:52for a $20 figure,
06:53a display stand.
06:54Just a little bit
06:55of square rectangular plastic.
06:57Rectangular or square.
06:58And just even if they put
06:59universal monsters on the top,
07:00something, though,
07:01that you could attach
07:01the figure onto.
07:02Now, if you have, like,
07:03a regular G.I. Joe stand,
07:05I'm sure you probably
07:05could use it for that.
07:07Any figure, though,
07:07does it use, like, for example,
07:09I just got, like, myself
07:10a McFarlane display stand.
07:11Will that work?
07:13Let's provide, of course,
07:14I can line everything up here.
07:16It works.
07:17It doesn't work all that well.
07:18I mean, the peg seems
07:19a little bit longer
07:20than the depth of this hole.
07:22Stop that.
07:23For the figure's articulation
07:24for Bill Lugosi,
07:25the head is going to be
07:25on a regular swivel,
07:27so there's not really much
07:27that you can do there.
07:29Still, though,
07:29I don't know.
07:30As I'm kind of moving
07:31things around,
07:32I feel like I'm rubbing
07:33against the elastic.
07:34I think father time,
07:35though, is going to beat me
07:36to it before this strap
07:37breaks for any bit
07:38of head swivelage.
07:39Speaking of swivelage,
07:40though, that the top
07:42of the torso
07:42does actually have an O-ring.
07:43If you're familiar,
07:44though, with G.I. Joe's,
07:45what essentially it is,
07:46is there's an O-ring
07:47that if you unscrewed
07:48the back,
07:48and technically you could
07:49unscrew the back of Dracula,
07:51you would take then
07:52the front half
07:52and the back half
07:53apart from one another,
07:54and an O-ring,
07:55if it was like a G.I. Joe,
07:56would wrap around
07:57a back peg.
07:58So I always really like
08:00to disassemble my G.I. Joe's
08:01and put them together
08:01in strange new ways.
08:03You would just take
08:04like the O-ring,
08:04and the O-ring would
08:05fit around the back.
08:06Then you kind of have
08:06to hold the figure back
08:07like this,
08:08and then put the top
08:08of the torso on top.
08:10But the O-ring
08:10is basically just
08:11a rubbery loop,
08:12and it goes from
08:14the inside screw
08:15that holds the legs together
08:16and it wraps around
08:17the inside torso peg.
08:19Because of that,
08:19the figure can actually
08:20do a whole lot more
08:20than you'd really expect him.
08:22You can swivel him
08:22back and forth,
08:23you can move him
08:23up and down,
08:24rock him back and forth
08:24here as well.
08:25The arms do rotate
08:26all the way around.
08:28Dracula can pull,
08:29in fact,
08:29even higher than a T-pose.
08:30This guy can do
08:31some serious jumping jacks.
08:33The figure does also
08:34have a swivel in his bicep,
08:36a single hinge
08:36in his elbow,
08:37but no hand swivelage.
08:39No, don't expect
08:39to get that.
08:40The figure does also
08:41have a splits
08:42on his legs,
08:43again,
08:43you've got yourself
08:43basically like a
08:44T-bracket bar
08:45that's metal.
08:46So it plugs on
08:47on one side
08:47and it plugs
08:48on then the other
08:49and then the O-ring
08:49basically loops on
08:50like a coat hanger.
08:51Oh, something very similar
08:52to Laurie Strode's
08:53coat hanger.
08:54Stop that.
08:55The figure's legs
08:56move forward,
08:57they move back
08:58fairly well too.
09:00No real swivel there
09:01at the top of the thigh,
09:02single hinge though
09:02only for the knee.
09:04But for what little,
09:05you know,
09:05again,
09:05like the figure's
09:06small in size,
09:07but if you really like
09:08collecting G.I. Joes,
09:09just imagine now
09:10introducing the idea
09:11of universal monsters
09:12bothering and dealing
09:14with not only
09:15the G.I. Joes,
09:15but maybe also
09:16pestering Cobra Commander.
09:17I like the look of him.
09:18I mean,
09:18again,
09:19he's a good small size.
09:20All of,
09:21again,
09:21like the universal monsters
09:22reaction figures
09:22are going to be
09:23of the three and three
09:24quarter inch scale.
09:25You can,
09:25again,
09:25either buy them
09:26individually for $20.
09:27You know,
09:28I'm glad that they sold
09:29them also individually,
09:30not expecting,
09:31not making a collector
09:32commit to the idea
09:33that they have to pay
09:33$60 up front
09:34to get three figures.
09:35Keep in mind,
09:36too,
09:36as a Canadian collector,
09:38it was $60
09:38and then there was
09:39all the other fun stuff
09:40that went along with it.
09:41So the conversion,
09:42the shipping,
09:42the brokerage fees
09:43and all that,
09:43I probably paid more
09:44close to about $80
09:45to $100
09:46to get at least
09:47a set of three.
09:48But I did want to look
09:48at though Dracula first
09:49and then of course
09:50in the upcoming
09:51spookier reviews
09:52we're also going to be
09:53looking at both
09:53the Wolfman
09:54and the Creature
09:54from the Black Lagoon.
09:56All in all,
09:56though,
09:56a good-looking figure,
09:57he doesn't really
09:58do the greatest of jobs
09:59though of holding
10:00the candelabra.
10:01The candelabra
10:02kind of feels like
10:03it's an accessory
10:03that's meant
10:04for another figure,
10:05a figure that would
10:06have had a closer
10:07kind of C-clamp hand
10:08because again,
10:09like with this,
10:10you really have to
10:11kind of,
10:11either can put it
10:12in awkwardly,
10:13I guess you could
10:13maybe put it underneath.
10:15Would that really work?
10:16I guess it's not,
10:17I guess it's not terrible.
10:18Yeah,
10:18oh,
10:19it's a good-looking figure.
10:20I worry though
10:20about the longevity
10:21of the cape.
10:22It's just such
10:23a thin strand,
10:24tiny,
10:24tiny little thin strand
10:26of an elastic.
10:27That,
10:27I'm sure though,
10:28will break over time
10:28but for the time being,
10:30I'm going to appreciate
10:30this figure on display.
10:32Truth be told though,
10:33I might see myself
10:33maybe getting
10:34a second set of these.
10:35Not that I really want
10:36to spend the unnecessary money
10:37but I think the figures
10:38are one of the things
10:39that really benefit
10:40this line the most.
10:41It's not only that you get
10:41super poseable Draculas
10:43but you get a pretty cool
10:44little coffin,
10:45a plastic coffin
10:46to keep them contained inside.
10:48Now that Super 7
10:49has released
10:49the Bloodsucker
10:50in full color,
10:51I would think though
10:52that down the road
10:52they probably have plans
10:53to do a black and white
10:54treatment of these as well
10:55because considering
10:56though Bela Lugosi's
10:57Dracula looks the best
10:57in black and white,
10:59that would also
10:59probably be true as well
11:00when we also look
11:01at the long-chainy wolfman
11:02and the creature
11:03from the Black Lagoon
11:03that all the three figures
11:04have probably slated
11:05down the road,
11:06down the dark path
11:07towards the castle,
11:08black and white
11:09variants of them.
11:11The disappointing thing
11:12about these is not
11:12that the figures
11:13don't look cool
11:13because they do
11:14but that unfortunately though
11:16I had to open up
11:16the packaging
11:17to show you
11:17how good they look
11:18out of packaging.
11:20I would have really
11:20liked a way
11:21that they could have
11:22maybe made the packaging
11:23like more collector-friendly
11:24where you could have
11:24opened them up
11:25in some way
11:26but I know really
11:27the marketing of these
11:27is that the reaction figures
11:28are supposed to look
11:29like old vintage toys.
11:31Things that you would
11:32find in the 70s,
11:33things that you would
11:33find in the 80s
11:34and all the figures
11:35back then,
11:35once you removed them
11:36from their plastic prisons,
11:37their containment units,
11:38there'd be no real way
11:39to put them back in.
11:41Dracula for the accessory
11:42count only has one.
11:43Well, I guess he technically
11:44does have two.
11:45He has a candelabra,
11:46doesn't fit really
11:46the easiest in his hands
11:47and then he does
11:48also have a cape.
11:49The cape,
11:49kind of from a material
11:50standpoint,
11:51looks like something
11:51you'd expect
11:52from a vintage toy.
11:53It does also have
11:54a very brittle look.
11:55I don't want to say brittle
11:56but it does have
11:57the potential
11:58to be a brittle,
11:59very thin strap
12:00of elastic
12:00to keep the cape on him.
12:02Yes, they probably
12:02could have found
12:03maybe a way
12:03to attach it
12:04onto the back
12:04of his body
12:05but then they would
12:05have had to also
12:06probably put
12:07like a plastic peg
12:08on the inside
12:08of his cape.
12:09If they had done
12:10it that way though,
12:11it could then have
12:11plugged into a hole
12:12that's on the back
12:13of his body
12:13that normally would
12:14have been reserved
12:14for G.I. Joes
12:15and storing backpacks
12:16when they're on missions.
12:18If you're on a mission
12:19to get your hands
12:19on Bela Lugosi's Dracula
12:21from the brand new
12:21Universal Monsters
12:22Reaction line,
12:23good news,
12:24he's available right now.
12:25You can go over
12:25to Super 7's site.
12:27He's either again
12:28selling for $20
12:28on her own
12:29or again,
12:30if you want to get
12:30the entire set of three,
12:32expect it to drop back
12:33about $60.
12:34$60 for a US collector
12:36a whole lot more
12:37if you're a Canadian collector.
12:40I spend a whole lot more.
12:41A lot more than maybe
12:41what I need to spend
12:42but I'm glad
12:43to finally have these
12:43in hand.
12:45If you guys did enjoy
12:46this video,
12:46you can do it as well
12:47and throw it a like.
12:47You guys want to stick around
12:48for more so?
12:49Woo!
12:49I hope so.
12:50There's certainly going to be
12:51more spookerific reviews
12:52coming your way
12:52for the rest of Spottober.
12:54So I hope you guys
12:55are going to be coming back
12:55for those.
12:56As always, guys,
12:57thanks for watching.
12:57See you guys next time.
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