This is my new show piece.I honestly thinkk this is the new top “pest a pic has ever turned out”. Vincent Price, on the set of Witchmaster General (1969). being haunted by his portrayal of Egghead in Batman ‘66.
It’s got everything I’ve been learning of late. Colored lighting Gradient transparency masks. Smoke. Shadows. Perspective matching. It’s all there. The only thing missing, honestly, is a bigt of “film texture” matching on the fig itself.
And yes,I finally got the NECA Ultimate Vincent Price, which might have snuck into my Top 15 of 2024 had I gotten it during any of the three months I was supposed to, instead of ordering it from Best Buy, cancelling my pre-order, and getting it after I had picked and while I was posting my Top 15.
Some figures are just… special. I’m not even a huge Vincent Price fan other than a sort of general cultural impact between Scooby Doo and Edward Scissorhands. But this figure and the stuff that comes with it just screams “PLAY WITH ME!” It has three shirt fronts. Three heads. Bonus hands. Vincent Price’s album. Vincent Price’s cookbook. A candle. A cat. A raven. An extra forearm with holes to perch the raven on. Three tiny cigarettes. I’m probably forgetting something.
You can just tell that no corners had to be cut. That whoever worked on this at NECA had a love and a vision and got to do EVERYTHING they dreamed of. It’s as close to perfect as something like this can get.
It’s a NECA, so this isn’t Super Articulated Action Vincent Price. He’s gonna be standing or sitting most of the time. But that’s OK. Vincent Price didn’t know kung fu.
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