NECA ANNOUNCES MORE UNIVERSAL MONSTERS FIGURES, BUT FROM THE WRONG UNIVERSE…
BREAKING NEWS:
NECA ANNOUNCES MORE UNIVERSAL MONSTERS FIGURES, BUT FROM THE WRONG UNIVERSE…
It’s October, and NECA has been doing their Monster Madness, with “31 Nights of Fright”, revealing something new everyday for the whole month of october. When we’re lucky, it’s a new figure revealed, but when we’re not, they’ll just reveal the packaging of something announced months ago (Still a reveal! STILL COUNTS!). Between packaging reveals, brand new figures have been announced, such as a beautiful Elvira figure, more Gargoyles, a Gremlins accessory pack (Accessory packs, SO HOT RIGHT NOW!) and a new Ash figure from the original Evil Dead movie.
Before that, NECA had been killing it with the announcements of Universal Studio Monsters figures from the classic films. The Frankenstein monster figure, colored and black/white versions,have been out for a while, with the Wolfman and the Mummy to follow soon. More teases have been made, and we cannot wait to see a classic Dracula, Swamp Thing,… and all the others to be revealed.
UNFORTUNATELY… on their latest reveal, NECA announced that they will continue making those Universal Monsters figure that everyone likes, but from their modern adaptation… the now-defunct Dark Universe!
Remember when we were excited about that? Good times. It was a thursday.
Indeed, the Dark Universe was supposed to be the modern adaptation of all the classic Universal Monster movies. “The Mummy” movie came out, and… that’s pretty much all it did. It came out. No one went to see it. “The Invisible Man”, with Elizabeth Moss was pretty good actually, and supposedly part of that ‘multiverse’. Depending on who you ask, “Dracula Untold” is either part of that Dark Universe or not. It’s a mess… and it inevitably failed.
Pictured below: The Dark Universe promo photo, where Russel Crowe would play Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Javier Bardem as the Frankenstein monster, Tom Cruise as Sgt.Morton in “The Mummy”, Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man, and Sofia Boutella as the Mummy.
Witness the beginning (and the end) of the Dark Universe - “We’re all very excited for nothing to happen” - them, probably
ToyFarce wishes that it was just a mistake and that a better reveal will be available today. I mean, at this point, even a packaging reveal would cheer us, right?
More news at 11:00… RIP Dark Universe
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