MONDO - THE THING

[Asta]

The baby blue colour is close very close. DID A80167 A2 jacket looks good too, name tab may be stitched but could be hidden. Not caved yet but slipping as I type.

Looks like it's glued on, so may not take much to remove:

 

[Remembermyname]

I like Neca's McCready figures, they have not missed any details, the jacket fly covering zipper and eyelets of boots for example. The sculpt and resemblance for the scale and price point is very good too. Great scale for diorama modelling. The accessories are many and well crafted. The 3 versions of MacReady alone make an impressive display. The SDCC 2022 Poster Figure well done too is fetching crazy money.

 

[Remembermyname]

Looks like it's glued on, so may not take much to remove:

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I have shown my interest with Modellers Loft UK DID Distributor reliable good service too. If I cave I shall want the jacket and possibly a pair of hands one of which looks like it could hold the Petri dish. The rest of the set shall be up for grabs. DID figures are so very well made.

 

[Asta]

I have shown my interest with Modellers Loft UK DID Distributor reliable good service too. If I cave I shall want the jacket and possibly a pair of hands one of which looks like it could hold the Petri dish. The rest of the set shall be up for grabs. DID figures are so very we made.

DID are dangerously addictive!

 

[Remembermyname]

I reckon so my friend the quality and detail is exceptional. The Palm Hero series at 1.12 scale is very good too.

 

[Remembermyname]

DID are dangerously addictive!

So is The Thing.....This thread has I reckon improved order numbers for Mondo.

 

[Ramman81]

Defo think we will get a 3rd party company do this, especially with this new MacReady sculpt floating about. Thats what Im thinking shall I hold off and wait for an unofficial fig with potentially more accessories, hoodie, blood samples, MacReady hat, better jacket. Or do I get this official release?
I would love to know how the Mondo sculpt will look once it goes it to production paint. If we get a dud paint app the sculpt may look really bad.

I asked MONDO if the final product paint will match the prototype and they said "yes"......Confident! But, I think they all say that don't they?

 

[karamazov80]

I asked MONDO if the final product paint will match the prototype and they said "yes"......Confident! But, I think they all say that don't they?

Very few high end companies can do that, so for Mondo to show off a prototype with a hand-painted sculpt and suggest the prototype will match is questionable. But, we will see!

 

[Ramman81]

Very few high end companies can do that, so for Mondo to show off a prototype with a hand-painted sculpt and suggest the prototype will match is questionable. But, we will see!

That's what worries me...This is almost a $300 figure....I expect it to match 100%.

 

[karamazov80]

That's what worries me...This is almost a $300 figure....I expect it to match 100%.

Someone else showed an example of their previous 1/6 scale "real human" type figure, and it wasn't great. Looked like something you would expect from Hasbro or Mattel, if that. To avoid disappointment, better to set your expectations low here in my opinion. Great that a figure of this character in this scale is being done at all, but I really question the prices of their stuff.

 

[PizzaCake]

I asked MONDO if the final product paint will match the prototype and they said "yes"......Confident! But, I think they all say that don't they?

Yeah, while they kinda have to say that, my *hope* is that they know there is a fair amount of credibility riding on this figure. It is a renewed attempt at realistic, clothed characters with future releases like Nada already announced and shown as coming down the pipeline, so they’re clearly trying to branch out to a broader 1/6 audience. If they screw up the one element that most agree is the saving grace of the release…at this price point, a lot of customers who won’t be fooled again.

Doesn’t feel great being the Guinea pig, though.

 

[Remembermyname]

Yeah, while they kinda have to say that, my *hope* is that they know there is a fair amount of credibility riding on this figure. It is a renewed attempt at realistic, clothed characters with future releases like Nada already announced and shown as coming down the pipeline, so they’re clearly trying to branch out to a broader 1/6 audience. If they screw up the one element that most agree is the saving grace of the release…at this price point, a lot of customers who won’t be fooled again.

Doesn’t feel great being the Guinea pig, though.

Fluffy & Cuddles Guinea Pigs and both boys. I know, the names were not of my choosing, but heck I do not think they know. I would have named them Gnasher and Gismo. Just to put things in perspective they have cost £5000.00 and counting. They may be the first and last Guinea Pigs on this forum.

 

[Mike86]

I’ve noticed how on their posts for this figure Mondo is saying “inspired by”. Is that their out for some aspects not being fully accurate? Kind of similar to Sideshow where they put out figures that are artistic interpretations of characters.

 

[HMC117]

Ordered mine. I could watch The Thing every week for the rest of my life and never get bored with it, what a ******* masterpiece.

 

[jye4ever]

Mondo definitely not worth the asking price, he looks off.

 

[jaztermareal]

Honestly, with free shipping to my country it is £214 for the exclusive, quite a bit cheaper than ordering an HT from Sideshow. And compared to a lot of HT figures it has a lot of accessories and 2 heads. Even if not the same quality level of HT it will still be above the quality of most of the older Sideshow figures from 10 years ago. I am expecting something like Threezero circa 2017 quality. Not bad for the price. Folk have just had their expectations raised so high as of late. Folk also need to remember that these won't see the production numbers of most HT figures so per unit price will naturally be higher just due to being produced in lower numbers than most mass appeal figures.

 

[Remembermyname]

The Thing is you could pay more just for a painted sculpt. I reckon many shall cave and order to be in the mix to get their mitts on this figure. I believe Mondo are shipping with DHL so import fees can be expected.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

Ordered mine. I could watch The Thing every week for the rest of my life and never get bored with it, what a ******* masterpiece.

An observation I've made in my last viewing is that the "survivors" by the end are all not formally educated, or basic practical trends would assess that as likely.

Nauls - Cook
Childs - Mechanic
Garry - Previous outpost leader/manager
MacReady - pilot

Did "The Thing" want to assimilate scientists first so that the remaining human survivors would have less knowledge to work with to better defend themselves? Also would "assimilation" include taking some of the knowledge/learning/memory of the infected? Did "The Thing" get all those decades of training, experience and education from Blair when he was absorbed/infected? That would be a powerful way to learn how to adapt, survive and hunt down your enemies.

To be fair, a research outpost will have the majority of personnel be science/STEM/technicals, etc. Also Palmer was a mechanic and he was infected too. Then Bennings might have just been a target of opportunity.

Also wouldn't you want to infect Nauls first and foremost? If he can infect the food, then he can naturally and seamlessly infect everyone quickly.

The film forces you to ask a lot of questions. You have to give Carpenter credit. He mixed in enough within the film to leave doubt around every corner. Not so much that it all becomes impossible, but just enough to hook the viewer.

 

[MeatHookGekko]

 

[jaztermareal]

An observation I've made in my last viewing is that the "survivors" by the end are all not formally educated, or basic practical trends would assess that as likely.

Nauls - Cook
Childs - Mechanic
Garry - Previous outpost leader/manager
MacReady - pilot

Did "The Thing" want to assimilate scientists first so that the remaining human survivors would have less knowledge to work with to better defend themselves? Also would "assimilation" include taking some of the knowledge/learning/memory of the infected? Did "The Thing" get all those decades of training, experience and education from Blair when he was absorbed/infected? That would be a powerful way to learn how to adapt, survive and hunt down your enemies.

To be fair, a research outpost will have the majority of personnel be science/STEM/technicals, etc. Also Palmer was a mechanic and he was infected too. Then Bennings might have just been a target of opportunity.

Also wouldn't you want to infect Nauls first and foremost? If he can infect the food, then he can naturally and seamlessly infect everyone quickly.

The film forces you to ask a lot of questions. You have to give Carpenter credit. He mixed in enough within the film to leave doubt around every corner. Not so much that it all becomes impossible, but just enough to hook the viewer.

Honestly I think not. the movie shows it is a single cell organism and in its home environment it may not be high in the food chain, hence its need to imitate other cells. it is just that in large colonies it has a sort of hive mind which has limited intelligence. the infected if merely infected by a small amount (such as by a bite or whatever) are transformed slowly cell by cell and so are unaware they are infected until they "thing out". Those that are violently infected quickly may remember being attacked and so know they are infected. The instinct of the alien cell drives their behavior like how Cordyceps or Toxoplasma Gondii drive the behavior of hosts. The intelligence and knowledge of the infected are a by-product and their brains with all neural connections need to be intact for the colony to use language etc. That is why in the 2011 prequel the colony needed to reform a prior being (the alien pilot) to access its brain and body to try to pilot the ship. the knowledge of how to pilot it was in that brain. the pilots mind when reformed may not have realised thousands of years had passed and was trying to get its ship up and running again. Depending on how it was originally infected it may not have even been aware it was a thing and that its desire to return home/leave Antarctica was being driven by the thing cells.

Basically, colonies of the thing cells have a limited simple animal like intelligence (as evidenced by their behavior when in monster form) but when hiding as other beings a by-product of perfect imitation of everything down to neural connections is that the creatures behave normally, and intelligent sentient beings have knowledge that helps the colony survive when its instinct drives them. it is smart enough to know which brain needs to be reformed to achieve its goal so it must retain not only a genetic memory of previous forms and DNA profiles but also some collective memory of the actions those prior forms took (such as being a pilot steering a ship as it crashed (pilot was likely one of the last infected hence why the ship crashed so the Thing wouldn't know how to take off based on its own memory, only the portion of the journey toward the end when it had infected the pilot and the ship crashed, to know how to repair and start the ship it needed to reform the pilot so that it would do so to escape)