[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Thanks for posting that. I was wondering myself.

Also, interesting information on the history of the mask used in the movie...I had no idea that it was an existing Halloween mask already.

I went to the Wikipedia page for Scream and read about the whole Fun World situation, and it sounds like outside of one or two scenes in the movie, Wes Craven was able to use the exact Fun World mask for the remainder of the movie. That being said, why would there be any differences between the movie mask and NECA's since Craven was able to use the exact Fun World mask?

And after looking at a few screenshots from the movie on Google, I'm hard pressed to find any major differences between that and NECA's figure. But that's just me.

Since Wes Craven and Dimension Films licensed/recieved permission to use the mask itself, it meant Fun World still held the exclusive rights to the actual mask design. While early merchandise likely allowed fort he mask design to be used, chances are that was a limited time agreement. So licensing just the Scream franchise now wouldn't necessarily allow for the use of the mask itself, you'd then have to get a second license from Fun World. So Sideshow, Mezco, and NECA are all just licensing the Halloween mask and accessories as opposed to the "character" from Scream.

The main differences come in when you only license from Fun World. They likely have to avoid certain accessories (like the cellphone) as not to infringe on the Scream license. That is a guess on my part, but probably is pretty close to the reasoning, since none of the current offerings or reveals include a phone.

In this case, they included additional items that Fun World offers instead. So you're really getting an Ultimate "Fun World" Ghost Face that is really, really close to the Ghostface character from Scream.