Dracula 1:1 SSE Buste Pictures

Mine arrived last week, number 23 of 35.
Beautifully detailed bust, the base, the costume, the sculpt ...


Some pictures:


With flash:




Without flash:




Here you can see the fine detail:




Another detailshot:




In the shadows:




The Eye of Dracula:




Close-up of the base:




The Seal of Dracula:

Together with Ardeth Bey:




Together with Sauron:




Together with Dracula Premium Format and DVD:




Scale 1/4 vs 1/1:




Flash and without flash:













Detail of the costume:




Slightly adjusted picture:

You take some incredible pics there Vince! Love what you collect too. I want to get into the old Universal Monsters line. I almost purchased the black and white Dracula PF. Think I could still get him at retail?

That is a piece of absolute beauty. Congrats.

Nice pics Vince. When I watch movies in the dark and look at my Dracula, man he looks so real from some angles!

Nice Pics!

Nice piece.

I still prefer the colored version though.

I'm still left wondering why they didn't include his medallion with this piece?

pixletwin said:

I'm still left wondering why they didn't include his medallion with this piece?

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I agree, they should have included it.

Gruson said:

Nice piece.

I still prefer the colored version though.

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I don't know for this one.
Usually I prefer the coloured versions.

I hesitated for this one, but cancelled the colour one, so I haven't seen it in person.

But this one seems like a guy in a tuxedo, the SSE version makes it seem more like an old monster, a dead guy ...

Those are fantastic pictures Vince. Without flash looks perfect.

I think it'd be neat to have the SSE dracula, but have his eyes the
piercing blue of the colored version, along with the red Dracula text.

Wish you had the SSE Ardeth Bey to go with him. That'd look awesome.

JS

Vince said:

I don't know for this one.
Usually I prefer the coloured versions.

I hesitated for this one, but cancelled the colour one, so I haven't seen it in person.

But this one seems like a guy in a tuxedo, the SSE version makes it seem more like an old monster, a dead guy ...

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Ya, now that you mention it, I see what you mean. The SSE is growing on me.

Gruson said:

Ya, now that you mention it, I see what you mean. The SSE is growing on me.

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For me at first it was also the colour version, but SSE fits perfect for this one ...

For Ardeth I love the coloured look, just as for the Mummy & Sarcophagus
Gives it that Egyptian look ...

For Frankenstein bust, I'm hesitatig, I have the colour one on order, but was thinking of cancelling it and buy the SSE one.

But, since I have Karloff in colour for Ardeth, I think I'll think Frankenstein also in colour ... hard decisions ...

I go with color all the way on these. But I am just really disappointed with the Dracula sculpt now that I have had plenty of time to look at it. His expression is just so...expressionless.

I only collect SSE's and prefer them in prety much every instance.
...on this one it seems his skin tone is a little dark?
still a beautiful piece though

well, that has to be coincidence, I was just checking the same pictures on google and was also thinking he is too gray, he should be a lot paler ...

I even made a little 'paint' vehicle




the odds ...

Congrats Vince, great pics I hope i will get the SSE busts myself, I won't miss out on Frankenstein when SS puts it up for pre-order.

hey has everyone who ordered this in the US got it yet? i have a confirmed order and got an email like weeks ago but haven't heard anything else since.

Mookeylama said:

hey has everyone who ordered this in the US got it yet? i have a confirmed order and got an email like weeks ago but haven't heard anything else since.

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Call now! These shipped weeks ago!



...and as for the color vs. SSE question... simple, get both!

to me, the SSE's look great, but it reminds me that these are characters in movies. To see them in color just makes them more "real" to me... Like if Frank walked in to my house one day, he wouldn't be in grayscale... Anyway, that's what passes for reason to my mind...