Neca 1/4 Scale Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit Collectibles

[superdoug]

Is he out yet? I still haven't seen him for sale anywhere.

 

[hardyakka_mate]

Looks good, but why didn't they smooth his face out? It's as if he suffered a bad case of acne!

 

[The Rider]

I dont know what, but sopmething is off on his face. The proto looks mor like Martin Freeman.

And what make Neca with the skin/plastic ?
That looks so rough and faulty.


The eyes looks amazing. I dont know which technique Neca use, but it looks a little bit like the eyes of Hot Toys, Enterbay an Blitzway figures.

He would look much better with the new transparent plastic.The transparent plastik is the right way, but to glossy for not sweat figures.

 

[superdoug]

I agree but I think I remember NECA stating somewhere that they only use the new skin plastic if the figure has a lot of skin.

From my little experience with NECA there can be a big difference in the paint quality so hopefully these will show up at retail stores.

 

[The Rider]

But that make no sense. Then they have this new plastic, the must use it. Only the head is important enough.

and on bilbo are some skon parts, head,neck, hands and the feet.

I think this new plastic are the future, and when they make this better the figures looks more realistic.

 

[superdoug]

I agree but I remember someone posting that as their response when they were asked why the alien marines didn't use the new plastic and Dutch did.

 

[The Rider]

I hope they change her mind.

Im waiting for a nice 19" Terminator line^^


But im pretty worry.

Look the differences in the pictures between the first life pic from Bilbo and the rest ?

Not that the futher pictures are a repaint(skin, eyebrows, eyelashes, pupils).

 

[Topgear]

Neca has bilbo on sale on their ebay site $40+ shipping.

However it only ships to the Americas which is kinda ****ty for me.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1-4-Scale-...2755?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item3a814408e3

 

[The Rider]

Do you postet the pics, there are a repaint ?

 

[cstojano]

I saw this in hand at Toy Anxiety in Phoenix today. They had one on the shelf for 49 dollars. It looked decent. The face does not look nearly as pasty as the image above would imply but there is a texture to it. The box looked good and tight to the figure which felt quite heavy.

 

[superdoug]

Well I have one arriving tmorrow. I will try to get some pictures up of him with Gollum. If he is as good in person as Gollum is than I hope this line finds traction and grows.

 

[The Rider]

Hm I hope that the pictures are no repaint and Neca have a new eye painting technique.


When its a repaint, I hate the guy they make the fotos. That was deception.

 

[The Rider]

I saw this in hand at Toy Anxiety in Phoenix today. They had one on the shelf for 49 dollars. It looked decent. The face does not look nearly as pasty as the image above would imply but there is a texture to it. The box looked good and tight to the figure which felt quite heavy.

What you mean with pasty ?

Have the figure the nice realistic glossy eye texture that we seen on the fotos here ?

 

[Topgear]

optibotimus have a lengthy review up

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL5Ziw1LMTM[/ame]

 

[superdoug]

Looks good! Mine arrives today too!

 

[Doctor_B]

Just got Bilbo in the mail today. It is an extremely well made figure and definitely worth the $49 it cost via https://myworld.ebay.com/thenecastore on Ebay. The likeness of Martin Freeman is quite good (miles better than their earlier attempt with his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy figure) and the hair is especially impressive. The outfit looks great and they did a nice job weathering his clothing.

With regard to the video review, I thought he got too caught up in feeling that the belt needed to be pulled until it fastened. I made no attempt to pull the belt until the hole lined up with the peg, and the belt stays in place just fine and looks like it is properly fastened anyway. I agree with his concern that if you pull too hard you may rip the rubber belt.

My only minor complaint is that the skin tone on the face could be a shade darker. How the figure is lit will impact this issue--in too bright a light he will definitely look washed out.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Their Arthur Dent figure had a brilliant likeness.

 

[Doctor_B]

I just really couldn't see Martin Freeman in the sculpt. Maybe it was the choice of the open mouth. It was not a bad sculpt at all, it just didn't make me think of him immediately like the Bilbo Baggins sculpt. But it is always in the eye-of-the-beholder.

Their Arthur Dent figure had a brilliant likeness.

 

[superdoug]

Okay so mine arrived. Overall I really like it. The weakest part though is the painting of the headsculpt. The texture of the clothes, the painting of the weathering and grimme, the sculpting of the hobbit feet are all fantastic. He's sturdy and seems to be in perfect scale with Gollum.

The biggest gripes I have with it are the paint color for the headsculpt is not the same they used for the hands and feet. They really should have used the same color base for all the skin and then painted on the grimme on the hands and feet over it. The two tones are pretty distracting. Plus their appears to be two tones of color for his face. It kind of looks like he has a five o'clock shadow.

Overall again well worth it in my opinion. Hopefully they do a hobbit 4 pack for the Lord of the Rings since it's probably the best chance for Sam, Merry and Pippin to be made. NECA already has the base body and there would be some sharing of the outfit pieces so it might be cost effective, hopefully. I would be in for a $150-$200 4 pack.

Now a 1/8 scale villian like an Uruk, Witch King or Sauron would be awesome too!

 

[The Rider]

I dont see it on the video, have he the same texture(especially the glossy eyes) at the early livepics here ?

My big qeuestion is, was this a repaint.