An open letter to Kyle Windrix or anyone at NECA

[Johnny Utah]

Hi Kyle! I started a topic on the mm.net board about SOTA Toys and John Carpenter's The Thing. It got a lot of replies and a few people are wondering just what is the status with NECA and the Cult Classics line? Is it dead? I have no idea if this will reach you but I said I'd try. There are a lot of figures still out there waiting to be made, and I myself miss the times when you and Randy would post there. ps when can we get some news about the New Line Horror items now that they are back at NECA?

The topic on it is here.
https://www.moviemaniacs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19560

another ps...the times when you would post there asking what poses we'd like to see Michael Myers in rocked!!!

 

[Kuzeh]

Do they visit this forum?... I don't think so...

 

[Master Wayne]

I saw their new series of Hall of Fame CC figures at TRU a couple days ago. Paint apps were the worst they've ever been. Too bad.

 

[Deckard]

Yea the paint quality has been dropping steadily. I'm really worried it will ruin the Bioshock line.

 

[plasmid303]

I didn't think their RE5 line was bad, paint-wise.

 

[abake]

Do they visit this forum?... I don't think so...

Kyle drops by at the Aliens forums every now and then.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Can a mod please move this to the Aliens and Robots section so?

 

[Shai]

Thats the problem with low end collectibles.They are Doom to disapear eventually.They arnt really toys and they are not high quality collectibles.So kids cant really play with them and the experience collector dont buy them.

They are cute for when you are at the very beginning of your collecting hobby (or when you are a poor college student), but the average collectors upgrade eventually to high end.Wich make those figures crap caca in the end.

Neca = Doomed.

 

[icruise]

Even if people do move on eventually to higher-end stuff (which I don't think is necessarily a given), there will always be new people coming along to replace them. Just because you (and I) don't like them doesn't make them "doomed." These serve as a kind of "gateway drug" for a lot of people. There's got to be something available between children's toys and $200 1/6 scale figures or $500 statues, or many people will never make the jump to the more expensive stuff.

 

[teabelly83]

im prob 1 in a small crowd i guess then that like the cult classics figs, and own afair few of em, altho after seeing yet another set of hall of fame rereleased on necas site, i was abit angry. i get fed up of the same fig getting released by companys jst in diff packaging. change the fig or add something diff at least.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I love NECA's stuff they make some good choices in licences.

 

[prefused]

Even if people do move on eventually to higher-end stuff (which I don't think is necessarily a given), there will always be new people coming along to replace them. Just because you (and I) don't like them doesn't make them "doomed." These serve as a kind of "gateway drug" for a lot of people. There's got to be something available between children's toys and $200 1/6 scale figures or $500 statues, or many people will never make the jump to the more expensive stuff.

i'm partial to "high end" 1:6 figures, but i buy a little of everything else besides.
i get the smaller hasbro/neca/mcfarlane/etc figures for dioramas and and the occasional statue/kit if i think it looks cool.
although, the total lack of posability and customization severely limits my taste for high end statues. i get bored with them.

 

[Johnny Utah]

There's something about 7 inc or even 12 inch horror figures...it's the detail that you see with glossy paint for blood or gore, or really small sculpt details that you find...I am hoping for great things from NECA next year with the New Line horror licence back in the house.

 

[a-dev]

I moved up to Hot Toys movie masterpiece figures and thought I'd never go back to 7" figures...then NECA came out with their T2 line and they are my favourite purchases of the year. So much so that I've got multiples (4 Final battle, 4 Cyberdyne showdown, 3 Pescadero Escape, 1 man or machine) on the way in addition to what I already have (2 of each and 2 of each endoskeleton)

It can really depend on the licenses but I see no reason to think that smaller lower end figures are doomed.

I haven't seen Tankman posting in a couple of months now, either he doesn't have the time or hes simply not allowed answer a lot of the questions we would ask and therefore stays away. Me I'd love to know if the T-800 figures have been successful enough to warrant similarly structured waves of T-1000 figures, if any, and what the chances of Sarah and John connor are. I'd buy the hell out of them to go with my multitudes of Arnies. I'd also like to get in my recommendation that the T-1000 figures have interchangeable torsos in addition to heads and arms.

 

[plasmid303]

Sometimes the smaller, cheaper figures (from NECA, McF, Playarts, etc etc) can capture certain aspects of a character better than their higher-end 1/6 counterparts. For example, I picked up Neca's RE5 Chris Redfield because I was disappointed by the proportions on HT's much more expensive figure.

I don't think the smaller stuff is going anywhere anytime soon. McF had a big success with their little Halo 3 action figures.

As for the topic at hand, I think NECA isn't consistent with quality across their licenses. I think their Resident Evil stuff is great, as is their Street Fighter 4 figures and Ninja Turtles.

 

[Raymond F.]

IMO until maybe 2 years ago the 'low end' NECA type lines were a hell of a lot better than the 1/6 stuff and the statue stuff. Before Hot Toys, Sideshow the prime 1/6 company was very weak in comparison to theNECA and Mcfarlane toys of the world. They really suffered in producing realistic figures and likenesses which companies like NECA delivered very well.

 

[Shai]

IMO until maybe 2 years ago the 'low end' NECA type lines were a hell of a lot better than the 1/6 stuff and the statue stuff. Before Hot Toys, Sideshow the prime 1/6 company was very weak in comparison to theNECA and Mcfarlane toys of the world. They really suffered in producing realistic figures and likenesses which companies like NECA delivered very well.

sick

 

[LChinoz]

I heart NECA