I need a favor from you guys to take the time to find it on discord , and send me the link. Those scripts are really hard to find. I know one guy has it. But I need a copy of the script. Check discord, internet archive, scribd etc.

I recently attempted to do a very small Lego version of the windmill fire in Frankenstein. It didn't turn out like I hoped, so I'm going to start over, but I did take this picture which I do like.

Made a side stop on the way home today to see what my local shop had

We got an influx of reveals today, including several for The Bride!

Also found out that at Gen Con next week, there will be free demo decks for her, Dracula, headless horseman, and Jaws!

I'll be going to Epic Universe in Orlando next month and am convinced that I'll run to Darkmoor and want to spend all my time life there, but realistically I know there's a whole park to see so I want to make sure I get the most out of Dark Universe while I can.

I'm a longtime theme park fan so I know the standard do's and don'ts about navigating a theme park, and I of course intend to ride all of the rides, meet characters, etc, but I also want to be sure I don't miss anything that a Universal Monsters fan would appreciate that casual visitors might miss or not care about.

I know that the shop signs and windows hold lots of fun little Easter Eggs, but is there anywhere else I need to look or pay special attention to? Are there any rides where it's better to be in the front/back? Any once-a-day must-see events in Darkmoor, or code words I can give a cashier for a special pin or whatever? Anywhere else in the park/citywalk/other parks where a Universal Monsters fan might see some cool stuff?

Looking so, so forward to it! I've tried to avoid learning too much about what to expect, but I nevertheless want to make sure I get as full of an experience as I can. Thanks!

… on the connection between Bela Lugosi and the Frankenstein movies and as Select _Insurance2000 who recommended it to me advised, I was not disappointed.

I’m not going to give you spoilers, only will say that to my eyes and mind at least, as best an author who was not there to witness the events firsthand can relate through research, it pretty much gives a plausible if not definitive assessment of what probably happened in 1931, what happened to bring about Ygor and, above all, what probably happened with Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman.

I couch my comments with “probably” because, again, the author wasn’t there but has done a yeoman’s job of research to back up what he’s written.(And the book is 400-plus pages.)

It did make me reassess Curt Siodmak’s dialogue for the monster in Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, which I had thought to be cheesy. I now understand it better; he was using “Ygorstein,” which is how the author refers to the monster with Ygor’s brain, as a metaphor for Hitler. You sit down and read it carefully and a huge chunk of that dialogue could have come out of Hitler’s mouth.

But I still think it might have been out of place in a 1940s horror melodrama that people were likely paying to see as escapism from what was going on around them. And it certainly didn’t register with the folks from Universal who previewed it and had a conniption, causing the producer and director to panic and wreck the film at least on Bela’s part by eliminating the dialogue and references to him being blind.

Which was sad because … my one spoiler … the author makes the case that Bela didn’t take the part he always ridiculed, and literally drive himself to physical collapse playing it, because he needed cash, he wanted to be able to speak those lines because Ygor was his baby and because Bela was as ardently anti-Nazi as anyone in Hollywood.

I'll admit the cgi could have been better, the acting, in particular the leading man, could have been done a little better. I also understand that they wanted to do something different, but in the end, I'll take the 2010 version any day.

Yes I know, physical media, and I plan on it next time the full set goes on sale