NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[theuzi9mm]

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.

they seem to shorten that timeframe in each consecutive movie! Pretty much now it'll be like a 5 minute facehug then on with your day!

 

[P.]

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.

wow. that's a very tiny work - sculpting and painting all of these. me envy.

 

[BugStomper]

Talking of Facehuggers this arrived today.

 

[P.]

looks bad. small Konami is more detailed (approx 1/6). even supersmall McFarlane or Neca is more detailed.

 

[kyekye]

Did Neca ever release a plan for Drake?

 

[P.]

made some amateur photos of Isolation figures.

the alien itself looks nice, though not easy to pose into something close to his game walk. plus he is painted like A1 should have been painted (which is plain black with terribly white dome for some reason).

and due to his devil legs he is GIANT next to Ripley.

who is a beautiful figure herself.

Ripley had no quality issues (if only her palms don't break off).
Alien had terrible issues with his face - his tongue was stuck to the lower jaw, after unglueing it still hands badly. the jaw itself sits not properly, and the dome goes too low, covering the lip completely, though this way he looks like the game variant. may be it was intended.

the size of figures makes flaws easy to ignore and the figures themselves look more natural, which is why i love it when figures are small - and hate when they are 1/4 and still looking like toys.

i will bend down the creature's upper half more and remove the "head shelf" to fit the game pose when i get better stands (holders actually).

because it's seen from that shot that the alien should walk more like this.

head articulation is very bad on both A1 and A2 variants i have. it actually allows them only to turn left and right. all the rest is more breaking then turning.

i also notice on my photos now that the head shelf has some red dots. closer inspection of the actual thing shows that it is paint falling off. luckily i won't use that shelf (or will cut it to resemble the movie variant), but it is a reason to be super accurate with the figures: paint doesn't hold on them, and the color underneath is random. red plastic for an alien? wtf? if it at least was black, it would be unnoticeable.

 

[theuzi9mm]

nice pics p. I swear that game traumatized me, I can hear the motion tracker beep and the dreaded vent crashing sound indicating him coming to kill me just from looking at those pics!

I have Amanda but have not been able to find the xeno from the isolation game fig series.

 

[P.]

thank you!
yep i loved the game. upgraded my computer just for it for a big price (well it had to be done, as last upgrade was more than 5 years ago) and didn't regret playing it for a second. now with these figures i might try again. usually the second playing is even better than the first.
what do you mean "unable to find the xeno"? there are plenty of on ebay, and really cheap - https://www.ebay.com/itm/311699373300

 

[theuzi9mm]

thank you!
yep i loved the game. upgraded my computer just for it for a big price (well it had to be done, as last upgrade was more than 5 years ago) and didn't regret playing it for a second. now with these figures i might try again. usually the second playing is even better than the first.
what do you mean "unable to find the xeno"? there are plenty of on ebay, and really cheap - https://www.ebay.com/itm/311699373300

was talking locally. Amanda in suit are the peg warmers locally here.

Since I just finished the game on noob mode, I need a breather before trying it on a harder setting. I've been trying to get thru the crew expendable mode but cannot lure it away with the flares in the vents.

 

[VLAGAS]

what do you mean "unable to find the xeno"? there are plenty of on ebay, and really cheap - https://www.ebay.com/itm/311699373300

That link is for a product from china and is most likely a bootleg. If you got yours from there it might explain some of your figures issues?

Although it would be no surprise if you indeed have these problems from a genuine NECA figure.

 

[BugStomper]

looks bad. small Konami is more detailed (approx 1/6). even supersmall McFarlane or Neca is more detailed.

The smaller Neca facehugger is much better and this should have been made from the same materials with a bendy wire skeleton. It is a fun piece for people to take photos with and pranks etc but I wasn't expecting any more from what they were offering. Plus alternatives in this scale dont show up for sale that often.

 

[P.]

That link is for a product from china and is most likely a bootleg. If you got yours from there it might explain some of your figures issues?

Although it would be no surprise if you indeed have these problems from a genuine NECA figure.

bootleg Neca aliens? never heard of them here yet. do they exist? because we should be warned if they do.
i had bootleg Neca TMNT, they were excellent. i didn't need them so gifted them away.
i purchased here https://www.ebay.com/itm/172266450179 , it says HK which i usually think of a quality label. may be i'm wrong.
anyway Ripley in the same package is absolutely perfect.

i only read about bad quality of UK batch here, so no i try to avoid purchasing Neca from UK. awaiting for 5 figures from 2 US sellers, will see about the quality.

 

[BugStomper]

There have been bootleg Aliens/Predator figures on ebay for some time. Some had the red Genocide Single packed figure out long before Neca announced they were doing the singles.

That seller has multiples of most the lost predators which is a big red flag. Some of those are not easy to come by and pretty pricy now.

 

[Burnside]

I would certainly drop the shotgun and that seems to be a common opinion - it's too specific to Hicks and odds are anyone who buys this already has a shotgun or even multiples of it. The shotgun should definitely be replaced by a helmet. Not sure the knife and lamp are all that important either so maybe you could replace those with a second helmet aswell.

A USCM set like this should be about the customisers and I'm not sure they need more Hick's shotguns, knives and lamps?

I had the same feeling about knives. But if you check this thread you Will see that almost Every marine had a knife and a pistol.

 

[Kenernest63a]

I had the same feeling about knives. But if you check this thread you Will see that almost Every marine had a knife and a pistol.

Vasquez and apparently Drake had knives strapped to their legs as you can see here. Neca missed that little detail.

 

[bigbisont]

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Vasquez and apparently Drake had knives strapped to their legs as you can see here. Neca missed that little detail.

NECA also missed Frost's knife, even though they sculpted the webbing bit on the belt for it. They just never glued a knife on there for some reason...


A shame how the little boot knife gets no love, despite being carried by 6 marines. So I would support multiple knives in the weapons pack, so long as they have accurate sheaths. Without sheaths they are pretty pointless.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

NECA also missed Frost's knife, even though they sculpted the webbing bit on the belt for it. They just never glued a knife on there for some reason...
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A shame how the little boot knife gets no love, despite being carried by 6 marines. So I would support multiple knives in the weapons pack, so long as they have accurate sheaths. Without sheaths they are pretty pointless.

It would be interesting if they do the CM in a new Alien film how they would be portrayed. I guess they would have full body armour kind of like the Christian Bale Batman has and also maybe a full helmet that covers all their face. They could still have the knives but they would have to be WY tech that is able to cut into xeno flesh or the hive wall webbing.

 

[Burnside]

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Vasquez and apparently Drake had knives strapped to their legs as you can see here. Neca missed that little detail.

As far as I understand they did it intentionally in order to lower the costs and reuse the same mold again and again. Sad but understandable.

NECA also missed Frost's knife, even though they sculpted the webbing bit on the belt for it. They just never glued a knife on there for some reason...
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That is beyond me. Gluing that sucker to the retooled webbing would not cost them additional $$$

 

[VLAGAS]

bootleg Neca aliens? never heard of them here yet. do they exist? because we should be warned if they do.
i had bootleg Neca TMNT, they were excellent. i didn't need them so gifted them away.
i purchased here https://www.ebay.com/itm/172266450179 , it says HK which i usually think of a quality label. may be i'm wrong.
anyway Ripley in the same package is absolutely perfect.

i only read about bad quality of UK batch here, so no i try to avoid purchasing Neca from UK. awaiting for 5 figures from 2 US sellers, will see about the quality.

Yep those are 90% likely bootlegs. You get quite a bit of Neca bootleg figures with the Aliens & Predator lines mostly coming from anyone selling in china. The person you bought from is also selling figures that have been long sold out / out of production and now rare, for standard retail prices. This is another indication that they are bootlegs. Finally if you look at this seller's feedback you will see over 100 complaints that are mostly saying they received "fake" products.

I'll give it to them though that it's quite hard to tell the difference especially on your Amanda but the Xeno definitely looks like a bootleg with the very dodgy dome.

Thing is these Fakes are getting pretty good, so it's becoming harder and harder to tell the difference. The packaging is normally one of the biggest telltale signs with the artwork colour being either faded or darker than standard. Other than that and what I've mentioned the quality is usually noticeable worse and the joints can snap / break very easily.

 

[Space Jockey]

How does one know a figure is bootleg? Aren't all the figures made in China anyway? Just didn't know if there were any differences on the packaging or figure we should look for.

Edit: ^ Looks like you answered my question