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Title: Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on January 05, 2020, 07:21:33 PM
Unfortunatey, I didn't receive an alert to this until today and it ended yesterday. The only reason I'm posting about it is to ask: "What the hell is up with that cape?!

Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure Nice Condition (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mego-Custom-Dark-Shadows-034-Barnabas-Collins-034-8-034-Action-Figure-Nice-Condition-/254471212149?nma=true&si=ING6891P77SVUGA5GgUepSr0pkc%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
Title: Re: Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure
Post by: KMR on January 05, 2020, 11:00:38 PM
He's the latest superhero, VampireMan! He can fly without having to turn into a bat!
Title: Re: Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure
Post by: Uncle Roger on January 06, 2020, 12:00:30 AM
By the time he finished buttoning it, the show would be over.
Title: Re: Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure
Post by: The Doctor and K9 on January 06, 2020, 02:05:49 AM
I think it's a piece from a Count Orlock figure from Nosferatu. He's also known in some of the English prints and in the remake as Dracula.
Title: Re: Mego Custom Dark Shadows "Barnabas Collins" 8" Action Figure
Post by: Brandon Collins on January 08, 2020, 09:48:37 PM
There is a similar line, perhaps even the same manufacturer, that I've seen in retail stores like Target. The focus seems to be on classic television shows, and the action figures/dolls released are very much in a style of a 60s era toy, packaging included. I've seen them for various shows including Star Trek, The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, and others. When I first noticed them in the store, I wondered if Dark Shadows might get the same treatment given its immense popularity during its original run, and subsequent resurgence many times over the last five decades. It would be interesting to see Dark Shadows "toys" in stores.