NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[BetterThanKenobi83]

For me they were imperative so I'm biased. But y'know, helmeted marines and battle-damaged Aliens, surely cool in any display. The Hudson sculpt is nailed, perfectly matches his shooting frenzy before he dies. Hicks looks like Hicks, just the paint coulda been better but with NECA when could it not.....

Cool.I'm going to try and track down the Hudson two pack at least.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

NECA just tweeted no full Vasquez reveal today. Maybe some teasers later...

That's better than nothing. Maybe I can go to sleep now as I gotta get up for work soon lol Already nearly 2 AM here.

 

[Jester]

True! It is indeed a masterpiece!

 

[Vector]

Cool.I'm going to try and track down the Hudson two pack at least.

The two packs are available on NECA's eBay store.

 

[a-dev]

I know a couple of guys here are going to be ****ing seething if the helmet is an exclusive and I can understand it. For whatever reason there has been some determination that marine helmets be difficult to get. Even back when McFarlane made Hicks, the helmeted version was an exclusive.

 

[S. Griffin]

Sounds like the whole figure is exclusive. The "Mostly" seems to refer to the fact that NECA sells their exclusives in limited quantities to non-con goers as well. They pretty much just said so on twitter.

 

[Staps1138]

I know a couple of guys here are going to be ****ing seething if the helmet is an exclusive and I can understand it. For whatever reason there has been some determination that marine helmets be difficult to get. Even back when McFarlane made Hicks, the helmeted version was an exclusive.

Well, like others I'm sure the helmet will be the exclusive but it could be the picture and I'd be fine with that( I know it won't be), I want some extra helmets Neca!

 

[Vector]

Sounds like the whole figure is exclusive. The "Mostly" seems to refer to the fact that NECA sells their exclusives in limited quantities to non-con goers as well. They pretty much just said so on twitter.

The figures mostly come out at SDCC... mostly.

 

[Reinhardt]

They are going to make pulse rifles and motion trackers an accessory pack. LOL

 

[jye4ever]

I know a couple of guys here are going to be ****ing seething if the helmet is an exclusive and I can understand it. For whatever reason there has been some determination that marine helmets be difficult to get. Even back when McFarlane made Hicks, the helmeted version was an exclusive.

The forbidden fruit.

 

[DiFabio]

Those were great sculpts though. 'Ugly'? Whah? I wouldn't trade those heads for neutral ones. I'd like neutral ones aswell but neutral expressions don't look great in action scenes.

I didn't see Biehn or Paxton likenesses in either of those figure sets. The regular ones are much better. Regular Hicks actually looks like Biehn instead of a generic screaming soldier and regular Hudson looks like the shot straight out of the "game over" scene. Bad factory paint withstanding.


The only thing these two have going for them are glued down helmets, which bug me. The faces were awful. I'd never trade those in for the neutral faces. The way they did it remind me of those really bad "action" sculpts companies did in the early 2000s with LOTR and Star Wars.

 

[a-dev]

Difabio can be wrong sometimes...huh...

 

[DioramaMaker]

Guys. You're jumping to conclusions on the helmet.

She's popular enough that she might be the only SDCC figure to get a retail release like last year. Hence the mostly part. She's popular enough for a limited release, not so much for a wide release.

While it's certainly not completely comparable, NECA's last "little girl" figure was Rue from the Hunger Games, who was exclusive to TRU. And while all the HG stuff generally made it to clearance, she was packed to the brim at TRU, orange stickers galore. People took the main characters first, the casual collector audience ignored Rue, even if, from my understanding, she's a beloved character or something.

Let's keep going.

Maybe she's in a two-pack for SDCC with a jacketed Ripley and the single carded one is the normal release. Or vice versa.

You people have to realize NECA is a business. This isn't a reused sculpt. This isn't a reusable sculpt. The helmet alone, admittedly, is not enticing enough as an exclusive (but maybe that's just me, seeing as everyone is getting their panties in a wad). They will not isolate this figure in its entirety to SDCC; they couldn't capitalize on the tooling costs that way. I also don't think they would advertise the helmet if that was the exclusive piece.

Remember thermal Dutch? Yeah that was a SDCC exclusive. The demand was so great for it that it was released as a standard figure. Have you noticed the elusiveness of the answers about SDCC? She could get the switcheroo and be a normal release after NECA gauges response.

When it's all said and done, she still is just a figure of a little kid; while the rest of us want her in the collection, remember that the average consumer will take an Alien or Ripley over Newt any day of the week. I can hear it now: "my TRU won't stock any new figures because the pegs are clogged with Newt, they need to clearance her out". Same thing happened with Kane and Dallas.

Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that my concepts are hot air, they're as fair game as the helmet being exclusive.

 

[jye4ever]

Difabio can be wrong sometimes...huh...

But i'm with DiFabio on this one....

 

[DiFabio]

I just defriended a-dev and placed him on ignore. What a tasteless ****er.

 

[Reinhardt]

DioramaMaker - stop being rationale and making sense. Don't you know this board is all about emotionally reacting and criticizing?

 

[KoBE]

I'm going to wait until the official announcement of where we can get Newt before bringing the pitch forks and torches. Maybe its only a certain accessory thats going to be the SDCC only exclusive, hence the mostly reference ?

"Mostly" as in the majority at SDCC and a few will be sold online during the show like they do every year.

 

[S. Griffin]

"Mostly" as in the majority at SDCC and a few will be sold online during the show like they do every year.

That's what they've been saying on Twitter.

 

[jye4ever]

I just defriended a-dev and placed him on ignore. What a tasteless ****er.

khev feels the same way about a-dev with T2.

 

[a-dev]

But i'm with DiFabio on this one....

I just defriended a-dev and placed him on ignore. What a tasteless ****er.

I feel that NECA's mass production paint blinds you. The sculpts are fine. Hrmph.