Well, not me. More marines are all I really want.
Indeed. Maybe they didn't move as fast as the xenos, but I doubt abake and TWayne represent any kind of majority in wanting to absolutely scrape the bottom of the movie barrel before producing any more.
I also wonder if there aren't extenuating circumstances. Were any potential buyers turned away by the lack of helmets for the initial Hicks and Hudson, or Hudson's extreme facial expression, or the screaming faces on the next two? What about Windrix? A nice gesture and a nice figure, but also one that hung around on the pegs forever. I bought two, but would have purchased many more if they'd come with helmets.
Alas, it's a numbers game and I accept that.
They paid weaver already, so they will milk every Ripley they can. Just like they milked every Dutch (and other Schwarzenegger character like Matrix), every "Ash" variant when they paid Campbell, and squeezed multiple figures from Biehn, Paxton, and Henriksen. (All of which are likely to get more figure variants still).
I don't think Weaver is likely to have the legs (if you'll pardon the pun) that Schwarzenegger does as a toy. More tooling + less action-oriented (after the initial three releases) + female figures historically sell poorly compared to their male counterparts. Skinhead Ripley sounds like a good bet for peg-warming right next to the Boy of Silence.
NECA will never pay anyone for their face unless they know they can get 3+ figures out of them.
Not necessarily. Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flannery, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, Iggy Pop...
(Vaz is two figures easy, so hopes are still high she is close enough to make the cut!)
Well, so is Drake, for that matter.
OK well now that depresses me. Does that mean the whole line will just end when people have a big enough Xenomorph army and stop buying those? How long can they really keep pumping out Aliens? And when the aliens stop so do all the humans presumably.
We'll see, I suppose. I'm personally hoping that their statements regarding not producing more Marines, movie or otherwise, turn out to be as truthful as their claims that they weren't going to make Ripley in the first place.
Pretty much all of an alien 3 would do it for me. Everybody hated that movie, but I think they rate this way:
Alien is the best for its horror
Alien 2 for its action an suspense
Alien 3 for everything the first two had
So in fact they are all "the best alien movie"
Alien 3 fans never seem to appreciate why people hate that movie.
