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Thank you RonnyG! I had a lot of fun building the basement, been working on it a little here & there these past few weeks. I started on the parlor in 2013/14 I think, and had plans to do the basement & mausoleum. It all came to a halt when I heard Spectre folded and Wave 2 was cancelled, but this awesome run of Mego Monsters has reinspired me.
I'm going to revamp the parlor next, I have a copy of the blueprint and am going to try and get a little more accurate with it. The centerpiece will remain, but the louvred doors and bay window will be redone. The original blueprint has a set of doors on each side of the fireplace, I think I'm going to go that route, I'm partial to symmetry.
Funny story about the arches, I had just finished them and was waiting for my Mego Frankenstein figures to arrive, when around the same time I got my 3 pack of Toy-Venture magazines. In issue #2, on page 21, there is a photo of The Monster Squad board game by Milton Bradley, which incidentally inspired me to showcase The Big 3 accordingly within my arches.
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Really nice work, I love dioramas. I'm only a casual fan of DS, but I appreciate the detail you've included.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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Thank you PNGwynne! I love dioramas too, I think as a kid I had just as much fun (if not more) setting up scenes as I did playing with the figures themselves. Some things never change.
The parlor stand-ins are as follows:
FTC Reaper = Diablos (1968)
FTC Barbara Gordon = Josette
Original Mego Scotty = Mortal Barnabas
EMCE Frankenstein & Bride = Adam & Eve
Spectre Angelique = Herself
Spectre Jennings Werewolf = Quentin Werewolf
Sideshow Dracula Bat = Dark Shadows Puppet Vampire Bat
Flatt Dracula = Just for the heck of it...plus, they're using his coffin downstairs
The only basement stand-in, really, would be Hyde = John Yeager.
The rest, all inspirations for one story line or another, just seem like they belong there. I always thought there was an element of Phantom in the kidnapping of Maggie Evans, might just be me though.Comment
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But ssshhh...Jenny thinks it's one of her children. Two things Jenny loves:
Her children...
...and daggers...
...which someone left one on that crate. Yikes!
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Thanks sprytel! Scotty does clean up nice, doesn't he? Back in the day, Scotty was my first custom. I saw a bit of a resemblance to Jonathan Frid, and dressed him in my AHI Dracula outfit and that was my Barnabas figure in the mid 70's.
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I’ve said it a million times, but I hope Mego does a Dark Shadows line. They’re just leaving money on the table.Comment
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Thank you Liu Bei! A million more times is fine with me, whatever it takes my friend!
One carded Barnabas sold for $520.00 just last week, and the card was pretty jacked up. Two weeks prior to that, another carded one sold as a "Best Offer Accepted" which had an original asking price of $550.00. Those are two extremes, but it is not uncommon for a carded Barnabas to hit between $150 & $200 (or more), and loose ones are fetching well over $100. Even Angelique & Jennings are starting to climb up pretty high these days.Comment
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Cotswold Collectibles has a set for sale, $150-ish each.
I think Mego Corp. would do well with DS releases, at least Barnabas.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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They're good peeps, filling a niche, too.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses.Comment
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