NECA Van Helsing from Horror of Dracula

[Earth 2 Chris]

Can't wait for this figure, and it's now up for pre-order! The NECA Lee Dracula is perfect, and this Van Helsing is right up there. This was a younger Cushing, so it's harder to capture his distinctive features, but I think they nailed it, especially with the calm portraits. The final fight, desperate and determined look is good, but looks just a little cartoony. But I will still probably display him that way, because the finale of that film is just perfection.



One gripe. That's not Cushing's Van Helsing on the box! That's John Van Eyssen as Jonathan Harker! The box is beautiful, but I hope they change this before the figure ships!

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[Jorge Galvan]

Chris, that figure is SWEET!! I LOVE HAMMER.

[Dan2Dan]

I just bought the Christopher Lee 'Horror of Dracula' figure.

The sculpt is so great. I plan, with a caveat, to buy two of the new NECA Van Helsing figures: one as Van Helsing and one as Dr. Frankenstein. But I will definitely play 'the long game' and take the risk of waiting to buy them at a considerable discount to the $35 retail price, or not at all.

Why?

I'll offer the following thoughts: (1) I was drawn into buying 'action figures' as a middle-aged man during the COVID lockdowns when, it's my memory anyway, 6"-7" figures were about $15 at mass retail, including GI Joe Classified, Star Wars Black Series, Marvel Legends, He-Man Multiverse, and DC Multiverse - and at that price point at that time I felt like those figures were, for me, a very cost-effective dopamine hit of nostalgia, (2) despite never having been a 'monster/horror' guy, I ultimately bought many/most/nearly all of the NECA Universal Monsters at discount prices, to display at Halloween, (3) as an Anglophile American who lived and worked in London for a time 25 years ago, I was thrilled to see an extensive, modern line of Hammer Horror figures made by Mego, and I ultimately bought them all (and multiples of some); I now display them at Halloween every year, (4) while I personally find the NECA figures to be extremely well sculpted, I don't really regard those that I've purchased as 'action' figures, but more as vividly sculpted figures with limited articulation intended for static, adult collector display, (5) I've discovered 'the hard way' that my personal Buyer's Remorse price point for a 6" or 7" figure (or even an 8" modern Mego) is $25, unless I am completely enamored. And even then, when I recently paid $37 for a McFarlane DC Digital figure that I did really love, now when I look at it on a shelf, I only see 'too expensive' and my emotion is ambivalence bordering on remorse.