Dracula

Despite having a friendlier than normal look for a vampire, I like the Dracula Motion-ette. It might be one of my favorite Dracula items in my collection so far (next to my 42″ lawn ornament of course!). In fact, I like it much better than the more popular 24″ Dracula/Vampire motionettes that were released by Telco and other copycat companies. The costume is simple but elegant and does not restrict movement of the arms, which can be posed by bending the interior wire armature.

The hands seem a bit over-sized and each finger has black, pointy fingernails. The head sculpt is nice and there is a subtle touch of red on the otherwise purple lips. Perhaps his slight grin is a result of contentment after feeding.

Dracula actually measures about a half inch short of 17″, making him the shortest of the smaller series of Motion-ettes. But it’s a minor difference. Speaking of minor differences, I think the color of the skin is slightly different, more blue-ish, from the first release to the next. But I only have this series two specimen and haven’t seen a series one up close. Either way, they are nearly identical and I can’t say one looks better than the other.

As with all the 17″ Motion-ettes, Dracula has a small compartment in the base that takes two C-size batteries and he features movement, light and sound.