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Originally Posted by snake5289

Damn that's awesome. I don't get why they would have a problem with that.

It may have had to do with sales of the SOTN figures. I don't know how well those sold overall to say. Though the aftermarket on them is through the roof. And they could have had some other concerns about reactions to the color scheme because of other issues of customer confusion from the appearance. Not sure what the reactions to the Succubus figure itself was either.

Like how the Breaking Bad and blood spatter Dexter created an uproar not too long ago. NECA may have narrowly missed those complaints or may have had their own from the Succubus, granted a vampire series tends to get a little more leeway as they are more heavily popular fiction as opposed to the heavily reality nature of meth labs and a blood drenched serial killer. Kind of like how horror movie figures tend to get a pass because they are direct horror genre icons.

At least they did manage to get the non-8-bit version of Simon out to market in that SOTN assortment. They also may have been thinking it was supposed to be closer to the Pixel Simon Mini-figure. *shrug* No clue.

Though after seeing those and this, now I kind of want a Dracula X/SOTN 4'' series of Alucard, Maria, and Richter.

Maybe we'll get lucky if the movie gets off the ground again. I could see them doing a moderate throwback period action movie with some RE style action visuals while Konami themselves kind of go an Underworld almost post-apocalyptic future type 3rd person action metroidvania style sandbox city/world game. Movie of the past, while they do a heavily cinematic game similar to a mix of the new Tomb Raiders, Uncharted, and GTA 5, about the future or not so distant future to keep prequels/sequels open depending on reception. Not sure. I recently sat through the Black Butler live action movie, so I've kind of got that style mixed with Underworld's in my head for what I think a 3D modern day/future based 3D Castlevania could do. Something new but also deeply rooted in the soul of what made Castlevania games fun with exploration and the action dynamics with also some random cinematic visuals like even the 3D Ninja Gaidens did. This new gen's upgrades should have the processing power to do it in open world environments instead of forcing linear gameplay. At least if the new Zelda is any indication as well as Metal Gear Rising.

Which speaking of! That's another I want a 4'' line of. Raiden in 4'' would be epic to have, as well as Grey Fox.