The upcoming six inch-scaled Monster Power figures from Recent Monkey Fiction obtained a little bit of a preview on the current 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 persistence has by no means been my sturdy go well with, so I jumped on the probability to order these guys from Large Dangerous 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 protecting it, so I recognize this low-fi saggy strategy to the determine. Simpler to tear into and get on the determine itself. I ponder if this technique saves the corporate a big sum of money on the manufacturing aspect…
Each figures got here with an excellent quantity of stuff together with stands, further palms, blast results, and weapons. Dracula will get a further portrait together with two units of grip palms, clawed palms, a stand, and a sword. The Forgotten King (going to abbreviate this as TFK) has a workers, two power results, 4 units of palms (fist, grip, chop, and open), and a stand. The fundamental grip palms appear like the identical sculpting on each figures, however it’s cool to me that the open palms 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 like he’s manufactured from blood and it sort of provides 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 will possibly double as a tombstone when positioned on its aspect and includes a good inlay of the Monster Power brand.
Dracula’s Sword and TFK’s workers each match securely within the grip palms 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 may be simply popped off or changed, so it could be neat to swap these translucent glow components onto the common determine when it arrives.
The additional palms pop on and off simply, however keep on securely. Dracula has clawed grip palms along with the usual grip palms that appear extra designed for set off weapons, however can maintain the sword and might sort of appear like he’s beckoning along with his fingers. The chop and fist palms make me suppose TFK could be a bit extra hand at hand combating oriented than I used to be considering initially.
The power results can pop onto TFK’s wrists should you pop his palms off. It’s very paying homage to a number of Marvel Legends power 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 a number of components, it appears like the vast majority of the physique is similar 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% reasonable human proportions and the superhuman really feel of Marvel Legends. It’s proper in that G.I. Joe Categorised wheelhouse. The heads additionally do a number 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 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, nonetheless the waist ball joint does get a really good quantity of tilt, so that they don’t really feel all that stiff to me. The skinny overlay additionally combines nicely with the butterfly joints to permit for two-handed sword wielding, which I truthfully didn’t anticipate. It’s a sadly uncommon factor in tremendous articulated figures recently. The joint high quality is fairly strong proper out of the field, I didn’t really feel like I wanted to warmth them as much as get shifting. I believe the hips and the ankles may stand to be only a micron tighter, however they held poses wonderful. To be honest, 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 could wish to hold 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 shiny blue glow-in-the-dark colour to him. The blue works for me as a power-up and the pink makes me consider Deacon Frost because the blood god within the first Blade film, however I additionally simply get pleasure from translucent figures normally. It was additionally good to see how these guys scale with Legends and Categorised as they appear like they’ll slot in nice with various 6 inch-ish scale traces.
General I get pleasure from these figures fairly a bit and so they have elevated my pleasure for the common figures which can be transport quickly. Monster Power combines two of my present obsessions, G.I. Joe Categorised 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 bought out on BBTS, however they do have the common figures for order and the primary wave is about to ship quickly.
