I thought it was weird that the neutral sculpts weren't part of the standard sets. Usually it's the extreme or exceptional sculpts that are added in for exclusives. I don't like the angry Van Helsing sculpt at all, it looks a bit cartoonish, but the demon Dracula sculpt turned out pretty fine!
I found it disappointing that KP's recent releases seem to be reserving some sculpts for the exclusive sets with a substantially higher markup due to some very pricey (junk) accessories, like the jukebox or coffin I mentioned before. At one time KP was always good about dropping two sculpts with all of their releases, even a simple and affordable standard version would come with both. They just didn't hold back on sculpts and often offered the accessories as add-on packs. Now they're fiddling with that formula and driving the best set options into a more difficult price bracket.
So the funny thing is about 22 years ago I set out to make my own Hammer Van Helsing and Dracula figures. I made a Cushing Van Helsing sculpt, which turned out okay, and tried my hand at tailoring some Victorian clothes which was a disaster. I gave up and always hoped someone would come around to tackling the Hammer license, but no one did. While we had a couple of Christopher Lee Dracula figures, they were never very good and Van Helsing was like a dream no one would approach. All these years later KP finally came through and delivered. This is the set I've been waiting over two decades for!
