The upcoming six inch-scaled Monster Drive figures from Contemporary Monkey Fiction received a little bit of a preview on the latest Joe Fest final month within the type of translucent variants of their Dracula and Forgotten King figures. I’ve been patiently awaiting this line and endurance has by no means been my sturdy go well with, so I jumped on the probability to order these guys from Huge Unhealthy Toy Retailer after the con to get my first in hand take a look at the development of those upcoming figures. Let’s check out the Blood Prince Dracula and Omen of Doom Forgotten King!
For a man who works on determine packaging, I’m pretty tired of retaining it, so I recognize this low-fi saggy method to the determine. Simpler to tear into and get on the determine itself. I’m wondering if this technique saves the corporate a major sum of money on the manufacturing facet…
Each figures got here with an excellent quantity of stuff together with stands, further fingers, blast results, and weapons. Dracula will get a further portrait together with two units of grip fingers, clawed fingers, a stand, and a sword. The Forgotten King (going to abbreviate this as TFK) has a workers, two vitality results, 4 units of fingers (fist, grip, chop, and open), and a stand. The fundamental grip fingers appear to be the identical sculpting on each figures, however it’s cool to me that the open fingers are completely different as Drac’s are clawed.
Stands don’t normally do a lot for me, however I dig these two, particularly the pool of blood for Dracula since he appears to be like like he’s product of blood and it type of offers me the vibe that he’s rising from a pool of blood from a sacrifice to resurrect him. The common stand is neat as a result of it may possibly double as a tombstone when positioned on its facet and encompasses a good inlay of the Monster Drive brand.
Dracula’s Sword and TFK’s workers each match securely within the grip fingers and have cool designs with sharp sculpting element. I just like the dragon theme on Dracula’s sword because it harkens again to him being within the historic Order of the Dragon. TFK’s workers has an ornate cranium motif on the highest with a blade on the backside. These items will be simply popped off or changed, so it is perhaps neat to swap these translucent glow elements onto the common determine when it arrives.
The additional fingers pop on and off simply, however keep on securely. Dracula has clawed grip fingers along with the usual grip fingers that appear extra designed for set off weapons, however can maintain the sword and may type of appear to be he’s beckoning along with his fingers. The chop and fist fingers make me suppose TFK is perhaps a bit extra hand handy combating oriented than I used to be pondering initially.
The vitality results can pop onto TFK’s wrists in the event you pop his fingers off. It’s very paying homage to loads of Marvel Legends vitality results. I additionally balanced it on the workers for a enjoyable impact.
Dracula’s portraits provide the requisite duality of the character shifting between suave sophisticate and feral beast.
The 2 figures share loads of elements, it appears to be like like the vast majority of the physique is identical with completely different torso overlays making the fits really feel a bit extra distinctive for every character. I just like the completely different texture they’ve utilized to the pants and the our bodies really feel like a pleasant center floor between 100% lifelike human proportions and the superhuman really feel of Marvel Legends. It’s proper in that G.I. Joe Categorized wheelhouse. The heads additionally do loads of work to distinguish the 2 with a really cool Egyptian themed vibe helmet for the Forgotten King and a not typically seen Bearded Dracula portrait. The overlays are one piece, so whereas it appears to be like like Dracula has a jacket over a vest with a cravat, that’s all one piece of skinny plastic and extremely versatile plastic.
The overlay could be very skinny so it permits for lots of leg and waist motion, it does render that mid-torso articulation level moot, nevertheless the waist ball joint does get a really good quantity of tilt, in order that they don’t really feel all that stiff to me. The skinny overlay additionally combines properly with the butterfly joints to permit for two-handed sword wielding, which I actually didn’t anticipate. It’s a sadly uncommon factor in tremendous articulated figures recently. The joint high quality is fairly stable proper out of the field, I didn’t really feel like I wanted to warmth them as much as get shifting. I feel the hips and the ankles may stand to be only a micron tighter, however they held poses fantastic. To be truthful, it’s hotter than hell in CA proper now. I did find yourself loosening up the glue on Dracula’s vest once I heated him up and popped him aside to get a better take a look at the joints, so you might wish to preserve that in thoughts if you’re a customizer.
The articulation is as follows:
- Swivel/hinge shoulders, wrists, hips, and ankles
- Ball and socket head, decrease neck, mid-torso, and waist
- Double hinged knees and elbows
- Hinged pectoral butterfly joints and neck
- Swivel biceps, thighs, drop-down hips, and boots
Paint on these two is minimal since they’re largely translucent with some popped in eye particulars, however the Forgotten King does have some good brilliant blue glow-in-the-dark coloration to him. The blue works for me as a power-up and the crimson makes me consider Deacon Frost because the blood god within the first Blade film, however I additionally simply get pleasure from translucent figures basically. It was additionally good to see how these guys scale with Legends and Categorized as they appear like they are going to slot in nice with plenty of 6 inch-ish scale strains.
General I get pleasure from these figures fairly a bit they usually have elevated my pleasure for the common figures which might be delivery quickly. Monster Drive combines two of my present obsessions, G.I. Joe Categorized and Common Monsters, so I didn’t suppose I could possibly be extra hyped for it, however these did the trick. These explicit variants are at the moment offered out on BBTS, however they do have the common figures for order and the primary wave is about to ship quickly.
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