Wow! Aren’t barbarians and gladiators more their thing? Totally unexpected but a welcome one. Anyone stepping into the Universal Monsters again for 1:6 is amazing news! And the coffin looks great!
KP moved away from the gladiators and Romans a while back, and since teaming up with Infinite Studio look to be concentrating more on movie icons.
The Italian icon, Bud Spencer, was their first. Their Peter Sellers Clouseau is just releasing now. John Wayne from
True Grit is upcoming.
The key to the line so far is that it's the actors' likenesses that are licensed, not the films themselves or the character's they're dressed as.
Lugosi is the first one that has the character and film title displayed, but the rights to the name 'Dracula' are probably different due to the age of it and the Bram Stoker origins (by way of Vlad Dracul).
This could only become a 'Universal Monsters' line if KP/IS managed to get the likeness rights of Boris Karloff or Lon Chaney Jr., etc.
I expect KP/IS' releases to be more random.