Bela Lugosi Head?

[tothebat-tricycle!]

Alright, Now that I finally got back to customs and have been able to finally finish a few, I have decided to re-do the mad monsters line of mego toys. At first I settled on Bela Lugosi to be dracula because he was Dracula around the time that all the other classic monsters made their film debutes (frankenstien, wolf man) But I love all the hammer dracula films with Christopher Lee and than remembered that almost all those classic monsters were re-invented in the Hammer Horror line (Frankenstien, the Mummy). But in the end I really wanted a Bela Lugosi dracula. I'm not a terrible sculpture, but I'm not at a level where I can make Bela Lugosi's head not look like Jar-Jar Binks. Does anyone have a Bela Lugosi head? If not I'm going to have to go with Christopher Lee.

[thunderbolt]

There was the Flatt Drac a few years ago. Also the Sideshow 8 inch figures heads work well on Mego. Ohh, and now thanks to the thread title I have a Bauhaus song stuck in my head.

[Bizarro Amy]

There have also been some cool 8" model kits of Bela and other monsters. They could be modded to fit Mego heads.

[phil]

If someone decides to sell a Bela Lugosi head I'd be interested in getting at
least one.

[mishu2nite]

I did this a while back, it is a modified Flatt head.

[AcroRay]

I've had the same dilemma. I've got a Doc Mego body with a beautiful CTVT Grandpa Munster costume and a snappy new pair of shiny black shoes - all waiting for a decent vampire head.

[mego73]

This is my Dracula. the head is sculpted by a guy named Thomas Kuntz, the head I actually got from Matt Jaycox (the mold he has is no longer usable though). I built up the back of the head and gave his formally closed mouth fangs (no self respecting 1970's Dracula toy would not show fangs just because Bela never showed his).

I think the head was originally from a garage model kit and I bet there are other heads of this type floating around. (this image is large)

http://reboxyourmego.com/iamdracula.jpg

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

Bela Lugosi's dead. The bats have left the bell tower. The victims have been bled.

Has anyone tried to shrink a "little big heads"? I plan to use some for famous covers size, I know T-bolt used a couple for big scale. Maybe a little shrinky-dink in some acetone.

I want to use the FC Nightcrawler head: pointy ears/fangs.

Anybody carry the flatt drac head?

[SUP-Ronin]

I have a Flatt Style Bela head, safely removed from the Flatt style Bela Body (not a resin cast). It could easily be cast and modified with a neck plug for mego bodies or reused as is, but I don't cast myself. I'll offer it up for use if someone wants to cast it and gimme one. They can keep the original or whatever. I don't have any real plans for it.