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Kojjiro the Angry
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Mr. Bomberman
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DarkMaze
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WHAT IS A MAN? A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS!!
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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Not bad.
I'm kinda underwhelmed by Dracula though.
They've gone with so many different looks for him over the years, and that one is just meh. Actually, I guess my only real complete is his awkward beard/moustache combo. They make him look less menacing, and the moustache looks weird above his open mouth.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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The succubus is in the line too and comes with the axe and a flea man (oh, and I'm fairly certain her top comes off to match the game art and her sprite.) Perhaps you'd prefer Castlevania X Dracula Syd, with his purple skin and eurotrash tux?
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Syd Lexia
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Well, strictly speaking, since they went with Simon Belmont for S1, they should have used a Dracula design from a game that Belmont was actually in. And since they redesigned Belmont to be some red-haired goth homo in Castlevania Chronicles, it needs to be from an early game.
Unfortunately, Dracula didn't really look particularly cool in the NES Castlevanias, or even in Super Castlevania IV. In the original MSX game, Vampire Killer, the count's flesh had rotted off, leaving him as little more than a caped skeleton... and then he possessed a portrait. Skeleton Dracula might be cool to see eventually, but it's not a good S1 figure. My vote would have been for one of the Dracula forms from the 1993 Sharp X68000 remake of Castlevania:
 
The Dracula they used most closely resembles the Drac from Circle of the Moon, which is gay. Any other recent Drac would have been better: SOTN, Castlevania 64, Legacy of Darkness (in which the old Gilles de Rais model from C64 is Dracula), or Curse of Darkness.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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Actually, the bearded look is my favorite one. It doesn't look good with the open vampire mouth, though.
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
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Those are looking really sweet... May its paint be unpoisonous - cause Dracula sucks. Geti- Ah, forget it.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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It is sort of weird that they went with Simon instead of Rictor, since the rest of the line is SOTN. I do like SOTN Dracula though, that game's designs were cool for a split second before every video game protagonist was an effeminate goth in a jacket with way too many buttons. And knowing the toy industry, we'll probably either get an alternate, non-snarling head packed in with Dracula or it will be an exclusive or variant. These are also prototypes just revealed at San Diego Comic Con a couple weeks ago, things can and probably will change.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
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I hope we get a different head, or something. The snarl just doesn't do it for me.
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DarkMaze
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| Char Aznable wrote: |
| I hope we get a different head, or something. |
Hey, you're just lucky to get any head at all.  
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
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But the snarl at the end is awkward, especially when my semen falls out of her mouth.
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
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Ooooooh, MOGHARR WANT! The funny thing is, I was just looking at Castlevania stuff on eBay since the forums were down for awhile. One of the things I saw were the clay models of these. It's pretty cool that they're almost out.
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Syd Lexia
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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I didn't say I didn't believe you, I said the figure is based on the artwork from the booklet, not the sprite.
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Bouya
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Joined: Aug 15 2007
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I don't like the open mouth on Dracula so much, but at least they didn't use the Simon's Quest "dracula."
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Syd Lexia
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| -bjork- wrote: |
| I don't like the open mouth on Dracula so much, but at least they didn't use the Simon's Quest "dracula." |
The 8' skeleton wrapped in a death shroud?
Yeah, that would have been lame.
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
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There'll probably be some vendor-exclusive Richter that reuses the Simon mold, maybe with different hair or something? Maybe retool the Succubus for a Maria figure as well, and do it as a 2-pack.
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