MPC's 60mm horror figure set, I think I have all of them, and seem to
remember reading that some of these are 'late' colours and some 'early', which
- as they all came together from serious collectors - must make mine an
intermediate sample!
The set references various tropes of
popular culture as applied to horror, gothic sensibilities or the occult and
from top left to bottom-right in either image are;
Count Dracula/Vampire
type
Dr
Frankenstein's Monster/Lurch type
Wolf-Man/Werewolf
(with bat's ears?)
Mummy/Zombie
Death/The Grim
Reaper
Living Dead/Skeleton
(with pet bat)
Psycho/Night-stalker/Ripper/Serial-killer
type (the one I don't like!)
Witch (with
drunken pet bat!)
Pretty standard MPC base marks and hole, really just here to make the post!
Now this is nice; obviously around 120mm,
and made in a sort of . . . well . . . foamed polystyrene? But not expanded,
soft packaging type stuff, it's more like the recycled mixed polymers you get
turned into beams for residential-street name-plates or park bench struts?
Anyway - it's tough and hard wearing, a bit cartoony but really a nice sculpt
of a Count Dracula type vampire about to pounce.
I just can't remember where it came from; I
think it was a purchase, but it may have come from someone, so apologies if I'm
not crediting you? And no markings of any kind, so a branding/origin still
sought for this fine chap.
He's the Charbens 4-and-1/2-inch range, they did several and a Batman & Robin
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