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Reviews of collectible action figures inspired by comic books, TV shows and movies from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s

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Hugh Jackman IS Van Helsing!

October 25, 2011

Van Helsing by Jakks Pacific

I actually found today's action figure buried at the bottom of a toy box on a market stall some months ago, but have been waiting for the countdown to Halloween before posting him here. I was pretty pleased to find the companion figure to the Richard Roxburgh as Count Dracula we looked at last Halloween – the vampire's arch-nemesis himself Gabriel Van Helsing, as played by Hugh Jackman in Stephen Sommers' steampunk homage to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and 40s, Van Helsing. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Universal Monsters Tagged With: Universal Monsters, Van Helsing

Richard Roxburgh as Count Dracula in ‘Van Helsing’

October 4, 2010

Dracula in 'Van Helsing'

With the month of October now well under way, let's start the countdown to Halloween with the first post in a series dedicated to monsters and ghouls, with a few slayers thrown in too! Today's action figure is a fresh lucky find that I picked up only yesterday in a mixed box of random toys on a market stall in Rome. Some years need to elapse before this becomes truly vintage, of course, but it's such a fun figure that it merits its own review now! Whilst Stephen Sommers' 2004 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Universal Monsters Tagged With: Dracula, Universal Monsters, Van Helsing

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