While the technology of the day didn’t allow for the mass produced, affordable models themselves to look much like the actual actors (sometimes exacerbated by the paint jobs; in this case I think the eyes were made a bit too big), the box art showed that the images of the actors themselves were licenced. This is clearly meant to be Lon Chaney Jr, for instance. I think the first actor’s family that challenged Universal Studios “owning” the image of the actor was Bela Lugosi’s family–Bela Jr was actually a lawyer, which might have been a factor. So I do vaguely remember that the box art of the Aurora kits eventually got changed to present a more generic Dracula.
