NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[Staps1138]

Saw the theatrical cut of Aliens again recently and boy did I miss all the SE scenes. After years of watching the SE the theatrical's pacing seemed so rushed.

I love the extended cut like so many, there was so much it added to the movie - especially with the scenes of the colony before the infestation, Newt's family, Ripley's back story with her daughter and even something simple like Hicks and Ripley exchanging first names. I will watch the theatrical release but its hard to because it is rushed like you said because of those scenes being removed.

 

[a-dev]

I couldn't believe how much wasn't in the theatrical cut. Even a tiny scene where Ripley pauses in the rain outside the entrance to the colony building and Hicks asks her if she's alright.

I think the film really needs it all, everything - the daughter stuff, the pre-attack colony stuff, the added Ripley and Hicks moments, and the sentry guns.

 

[VLAGAS]

Since we are now getting the Hicks and Hudson two-pack with the additional two-pack variant heads, and since the new Accessory pack won't come with helmets I'm probably going to rip the helmets off my og H&H two pack figures.

Can anyone who's done it advise best way of doing this?

Hair dryer? anything I need to be careful or aware of?

I've accidently melted the Marine armour trying to get that off before....

 

[a-dev]

That'll be relevant to me aswell as I want to do a helmet swap between the heads for each figure.

 

[Staps1138]

Since we are now getting the Hicks and Hudson two-pack with the additional two-pack variant heads, and since the new Accessory pack won't come with helmets I'm probably going to rip the helmets off my og H&H two pack figures.

Can anyone who's done it advise best way of doing this?

Hair dryer? anything I need to be careful or aware of?

I've accidently melted the Marine armour trying to get that off before....

I have removed several helmets off H & H and I found the best way is boiling water and carefully removing the helmet, there a peg that goes into the head. After removing the helmet put it in the freezer so it retakes its normal shape then you'll need to carefully grind out the tab and some of the inner helmet with a dremmel until the helmet fits just right. It's not difficult, the main thing is being patient and not rushing it.

 

[Jester]

Really love how the Sentry Gun is looking, but it looks huge....I'm thinking it should be about 2/3 the size NECA has shown, maybe even smaller.

Maybe it's a two-up...

I couldn't believe how much wasn't in the theatrical cut. Even a tiny scene where Ripley pauses in the rain outside the entrance to the colony building and Hicks asks her if she's alright.

I think the film really needs it all, everything - the daughter stuff, the pre-attack colony stuff, the added Ripley and Hicks moments, and the sentry guns.

Indeed. Some people claim the special edition "throws off the pacing" but I don't see that at all.

Since we are now getting the Hicks and Hudson two-pack with the additional two-pack variant heads, and since the new Accessory pack won't come with helmets

Don't give up hope on that. Get on Twitter and tell 'me what you want.

 

[VLAGAS]

I have removed several helmets off H & H and I found the best way is boiling water and carefully removing the helmet, there a peg that goes into the head. After removing the helmet put it in the freezer so it retakes its normal shape then you'll need to carefully grind out the tab and some of the inner helmet with a dremmel until the helmet fits just right. It's not difficult, the main thing is being patient and not rushing it.

Thanks, I'll try this.

Should I take off the Head from the body and then dunk it in the water or should I try and just put the upper head and helmet in the water / not the whole head?

 

[a-dev]

Indeed. Some people claim the special edition "throws off the pacing" but I don't see that at all.

I forgot that the theatrical had literally none of the colony scenes prior to the marines arriving there.

You hear about the colony's existence for the first time from the board director guy and then it seems to skip right to the part where Burke shows up at Ripley's door with Gorman telling her that contact has been lost. My reactions was ''WTF! Slow down!''. Without having seen the colony and any of its occupants, without seeing Newt with her family, you really don't get enough of a sense of what was lost and how indiscriminate the Aliens are.

As I said, to me, the theatrical feels rushed and loses valuable Oomph.

 

[Staps1138]

Thanks, I'll try this.

Should I take off the Head from the body and then dunk it in the water or should I try and just put the upper head and helmet in the water / not the whole head?

I would remove the head from the body and submerge the entire head in water, just be careful regarding the mic, it will get really flimsy and it's also really easy when you dremmel out the helmet to hit the mic and damage or cut it off.

 

[Vector]

I forgot that the theatrical had literally none of the colony scenes prior to the marines arriving there.

You hear about the colony's existence for the first time from the board director guy and then it seems to skip right to the part where Burke shows up at Ripley's door with Gorman telling her that contact has been lost. My reactions was ''WTF! Slow down!''. Without having seen the colony and any of its occupants, without seeing Newt with her family, you really don't get enough of a sense of what was lost and how indiscriminate the Aliens are.

As I said, to me, the theatrical feels rushed and loses valuable Oomph.

I think the purpose in cutting all the scenes of the colony prior to the rescue operation in the theatical cut was to build more suspense and mystery as to what Ripley and the marines would encounter. We first see the colony complex in the theatrical cut when the dropship penetrates the mist with the startled sound effect and foreboding music starts. Thats when you know the stuff is about to hit the fan.

I do like the added content and context in the SE as well however.

 

[theuzi9mm]

I couldn't believe how much wasn't in the theatrical cut. Even a tiny scene where Ripley pauses in the rain outside the entrance to the colony building and Hicks asks her if she's alright.

I think the film really needs it all, everything - the daughter stuff, the pre-attack colony stuff, the added Ripley and Hicks moments, and the sentry guns.

yet despite all that was reintegrated into the film, they STILL nix nor have ever officially reintegrated Ripley running into a cocooned Burke when she's rescuing Newt. Now that there does throw that sequences 'pacing', the same way Ripley running into a cocooned Dallas in the first movie.

 

[a-dev]

yet despite all that was reintegrated into the film, they STILL nix nor have ever officially reintegrated Ripley running into a cocooned Burke when she's rescuing Newt. Now that there does throw that sequences 'pacing', the same way Ripley running into a cocooned Dallas in the first movie.

Doesn't she give him a grenade to blow himself up with? What if he decided to use it right there taking her with him?

 

[Staps1138]

yes, Ripley does give Burke a grenade. I always thought it would have been cool for Ripley to pass Apone or Dietrich's dead body in the hive as she was looking for Newt.

 

[Vector]

 

[holtrax]

Doesn't she give him a grenade to blow himself up with? What if he decided to use it right there taking her with him?

Given burkes nature in the film i actually wouldn't put that beyond him, also i thought burke was actually killed by the alien when he met his demise...

 

[theuzi9mm]

I guess they never did anything more 'post production' with that clip as every time I've seen it, it's always grainy and seemed to have been shot with a hand held looking at a TV...

 

[taylerdurdem]

I'm very tempted to get that Isolation Alien, but it would just open the NECA floodgates. Have to resist.

I'm currently in the process of resculpting the mouth area of my Dog Alien. The teeth on mine, aside from not being accurate to the movie in the least, were crooked, and had a nasty mold line on them, so while I have him stripped down and primed I'm fixing the problem before he gets a new coat of paint. I feel the canine is slightly too large as it is.

I have a same idea.. please ,more shots

 

[bigbisont]

Given burkes nature in the film i actually wouldn't put that beyond him, also i thought burke was actually killed by the alien when he met his demise...

From a character standpoint, I don't think the grenade she gives him was ever a threat to her. Willfully blowing Ripley up out of spite doesn't' fit his character to me at all. Every 'bad call' he made was an impersonal business decision from afar with his motivation being strictly money. Numbers on a screen and a phone call, tipping a specimen over and running to hide, and outright running away trying to lock his captors in a dangerous room are all cowardly impersonal acts where he doesn't need to do the actual dirty work. He is a man who doesn't value the lives of others, but I don't think he is capable of actually committing a violent act 'face to face'. The sniveling and begging for help is about right.

Overall I've read it was removed because strictly because it didn't fit the timeline. He would have still had the hugger on and there was no way he'd have been awake yet, let alone felt it moving. Personally I have never missed it. Seemed a bit cheesy too.

 

[holtrax]

From a character standpoint, I don't think the grenade she gives him was ever a threat to her. Willfully blowing Ripley up out of spite doesn't' fit his character to me at all. Every 'bad call' he made was an impersonal business decision from afar with his motivation being strictly money. Numbers on a screen and a phone call, tipping a specimen over and running to hide, and outright running away trying to lock his captors in a dangerous room are all cowardly impersonal acts where he doesn't need to do the actual dirty work. He is a man who doesn't value the lives of others, but isn't capable of actually committing a violent act himself. Could he commit an act of vengeance/spite in a 'face to face' with Ripley? I don't think he could. The sniveling and begging for help is about right.

Overall I've read it was removed because strictly because it didn't fit the timeline. He would have still had the hugger on and there was no way he'd have been awake yet, let alone felt it moving. Personally I have never missed it. Seemed a bit cheesy too.

True that and i have reasons why i think burke would do it and why he wouldn't. Why i think burke may do it is any opportunity he got he basically put himself ahead of others without thinking of the consequences. I mean he was seriously deluded enough to think that he would get away with locking ripley alone in the medlab with the facehugger, then when he got the chance he locked ripley and the marines in the room with the aliens via the electronic door. The reason i think he wouldn't do it is because hes basically a coward at heart when it comes down it it. All his actions are done out of cowardice and self preservation rather then spite.

 

[Space Jockey]

I think the main reason they cut the scene with Burke is because the timing from Facehugger getting him to when it falls off was way shorter than that depicted in Alien.