NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[Burnside]

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

Quality wise you can tell the difference. Trust me on this.
I have a bootleg Series 1 Alien and I would not recommend anyone getting that. At the time Neca was not a QC powerhouse, but those Chinese bootlegs are worse in every possible way. They smell, they've got wonky legs and loose joints.

 

[P.]

judging by this picture... the albino alien's tongue can be bent?

i had no idea. will definitely use it somehow. like this maybe.

p.s. just checked - yes it seems to have wire inside.
oh and i wish i bought those glowing eggs and hugger set instead of a regular, they are so beautifully white.

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.

somebody should really make some guide to differ them
i used one to choose real Playmates TMNT, but it was easy, just by looking at colors. many thanks to the one that made that guide.
so what, it looks like i have to get another Isolation Alien? damn, but i won't have any use for the first one.
well i'm waiting for a walmart Alien from USA now, will see if it differs in quality.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

judging by this picture... the albino alien's tongue can be bent?

i had no idea. will definitely use it somehow. like this maybe.

p.s. just checked - yes it seems to have wire inside.
oh and i wish i bought those glowing eggs and hugger set instead of a regular, they are so beautifully white.


somebody should really make some guide to differ them
i used one to choose real Playmates TMNT, but it was easy, just by looking at colors. many thanks to the one that made that guide.
so what, it looks like i have to get another Isolation Alien? damn, but i won't have any use for the first one.
well i'm waiting for a walmart Alien from USA now, will see if it differs in quality.

You know, looking at that pic there and then you think back to when Ripley and Newt are in the Queen's chamber and Ripley starts firing off the flamethrower and grenades, its amazing that they were able to get out there and not been totally swarmed by masses of facehuggers. If they had the tech to make it so back then it would of looks so creepily cool, masses of them coming after them as they make their escape.

 

[P.]

You know, looking at that pic there and then you think back to when Ripley and Newt are in the Queen's chamber and Ripley starts firing off the flamethrower and grenades, its amazing that they were able to get out there and not been totally swarmed by masses of facehuggers. If they had the tech to make it so back then it would of looks so creepily cool, masses of them coming after them as they make their escape.

hmmm i always thought that the queen stopped everybody from attacking to avoid being attacked herself.
and then one of the eggs began opening, but Ripley saw it and began demolition.
it always looked to me that way - the queen made it look like they can leave but then tried to make an ambush. i thought it was clear and intended. wasn't it?

 

[Kenernest63a]

I thought it was clear the eggs only opened when a potential host was in close proximity. Other wise the facehuger could potentially be wasted when it doesn't succeed in capturing its prey. The eggs open, but don't close again. There's no going home.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

hmmm i always thought that the queen stopped everybody from attacking to avoid being attacked herself.
and then one of the eggs began opening, but Ripley saw it and began demolition.
it always looked to me that way - the queen made it look like they can leave but then tried to make an ambush. i thought it was clear and intended. wasn't it?

Oh I agree that is how the Queen played it, just thinking that once Ripley started fighting that all bets were off and the Queen would of just let the eggs hatch en mass and just chase after Ripley and Newt along with the drones.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

I thought it was clear the eggs only opened when a potential host was in close proximity. Other wise the facehuger could potentially be wasted when it doesn't succeed in capturing its prey. The eggs open, but don't close again. There's no going home.

Also true. Guess I just want a cool scene in a movie with a sea of facehuggers coming after the heroes

 

[DeadLeaves]

The queen pulled the Warriors back to protect the eggs from getting flamed, but she tried catching Ripley out with a single sneaky hugger.

Nice try *****:

 

[P.]

Oh I agree that is how the Queen played it, just thinking that once Ripley started fighting that all bets were off and the Queen would of just let the eggs hatch en mass and just chase after Ripley and Newt along with the drones.

now i get what you meant from the beginning. if budget and effects were modern, we'd get a completely different scene with a multiple hugger attack after Ripley began burning eggs.

I thought it was clear the eggs only opened when a potential host was in close proximity. Other wise the facehuger could potentially be wasted when it doesn't succeed in capturing its prey. The eggs open, but don't close again. There's no going home.

though there is no direct proof of it (A1 is not an example, because Kane walked close to many eggs, but either they were dormant and had to be awakened with direct bothering or they just didn't percept him as a victim in his fully sealed suit until he - again - started directly bothering one), it explains the scene good enough to ignore the fact that Ripley stood close to many eggs (closer than Newt was hanging to one a little earlier) or that the eggs should be able to count, measure distance and interact with each other, voting who will attack (5 eggs close to each other and 3 victims, for example).

on the other hand, if Cameron's huggers can run and jump and survive for a long time, they are meant to be explorers and hunters in his variant of universe. in that case there is nothing bad in free facehuggers, and vice versa - it's useful.
and takes away the question about two eggs arguing about the distance to the same target and quarreling "hey, i'm 2 years old and didn't attack for a long time, let me impregnate somebody already you noob".
it would be a choosing donkey problem but backwards.

Also true. Guess I just want a cool scene in a movie with a sea of facehuggers coming after the heroes

it was done two times later - A4 and AVP1. but i think you wouldn't say you loved how it was done
though in A4 it was game-like enough not to look bad.

 

[Jester]

Also true. Guess I just want a cool scene in a movie with a sea of facehuggers coming after the heroes

I'm not fond of that idea. For me, it's too much a product of the gratuitous excesses of the Dark Horse comics with their never-ending alien hordes.

now i get what you meant from the beginning. if budget and effects were modern, we'd get a completely different scene with a multiple hugger attack after Ripley began burning eggs.

though there is no direct proof of it (A1 is not an example, because Kane walked close to many eggs, but either they were dormant and had to be awakened with direct bothering or they just didn't percept him as a victim in his fully sealed suit until he - again - started directly bothering one), it explains the scene good enough to ignore the fact that Ripley stood close to many eggs (closer than Newt was hanging to one a little earlier) or that the eggs should be able to count, measure distance and interact with each other, voting who will attack (5 eggs close to each other and 3 victims, for example).

Then again, there's no suggestion that Russ and Anne Jorden encountered more than a single facehugger, and they certainly weren't wearing sealed suits.

on the other hand, if Cameron's huggers can run and jump and survive for a long time, they are meant to be explorers and hunters in his variant of universe. in that case there is nothing bad in free facehuggers, and vice versa - it's useful.
and takes away the question about two eggs arguing about the distance to the same target and quarreling "hey, i'm 2 years old and didn't attack for a long time, let me impregnate somebody already you noob".

I don't think that that's the case. It would take away the need for eggs in the first place if it were so.

it was done two times later - A4 and AVP1.

In both instances, though, the xenos in question aren't really "natural," having been lab-created from a combination of human and xeno DNA (explicitly in Resurrection and, given their near-identical appearance, implicitly in AvP) so any unusual behaviour could be chalked up to genetic manipulation.

 

[P.]

Then again, there's no suggestion that Russ and Anne Jorden encountered more than a single facehugger, and they certainly weren't wearing sealed suits.

well they couldn't encounter a single egg for sure. i think the case was the same that it was with Kane - directly disturbing one of dormant eggs by one person down there, another person staying up.

I don't think that that's the case. It would take away the need for eggs in the first place if it were so.

yep! you're right. then jumping and running facehuggers are a bad idea.

but:
a) both things still don't change anything - there is no way eggs can measure distance good enough not to open simultaneously, so accidental openings can happen => facehuggers and eggs aren't super precious.
b) i have my own theory about A2 universe eggs: used eggs found there were empty (at least the one inspected by one of the soldiers). eggs are too giant and are filled with substance when a hugger is inside. a normal earth egg is full of nutritions for a growing creature. a chestburster needs food once he hatches, and a host's corpse might be not tasty enough...

In both instances, though, the xenos in question aren't really "natural," having been lab-created from a combination of human and xeno DNA (explicitly in Resurrection and, given their near-identical appearance, implicitly in AvP) so any unusual behaviour could be chalked up to genetic manipulation.

true, but it wasn't an example proving anything, it was an example of how it was done in movie and didn't look interesting (a missed visual opportunity) in case of AVP.

 

[joossa]

The Kenner Aliens line is on TRU for preorder. Available right before Christmas.

The Riley/Newt 2-pack is listed, but shows that it's out of stock.

 

[P.]

so...
can you people show how you pose Vasquez?
a wonderful figure, a masterpiece of sculpt and paint at that scale. but those boots articulation doesn't allow anything decent. or does it?...

 

[VLAGAS]

now in stock in uk:

aliens series 9!!!
Alien gitd eggs
aliens 1/4 scale concept xeno
avp 2 pack
genocide 2 pack
avp gitd warrior xeno

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

I think that Drake and maybe Dietrich will be the last big named marines we may get out of the line. They had bigger parts that the other side marines and also were notable to die in the hive at the start of the film. And had enough lines and scenes to make them semi important enough. I mean, it would be cool if we get Ferro or her co pilot as well, but granted they are not as big as said first two.

After that, I guess the only others from Aliens in particular would be Apone or Burke. Burke funnily enough may be made after all, Paul has been in touch with NECA and Randy I believe and also wished everyone a happy LV 426 day on twitter. A one off Burke figure as a store or even Alien Day exclusive would be a near idea.

 

[theuzi9mm]

well they couldn't encounter a single egg for sure. i think the case was the same that it was with Kane - directly disturbing one of dormant eggs by one person down there, another person staying up.

yep! you're right. then jumping and running facehuggers are a bad idea.

but:
a) both things still don't change anything - there is no way eggs can measure distance good enough not to open simultaneously, so accidental openings can happen => facehuggers and eggs aren't super precious.
b) i have my own theory about A2 universe eggs: used eggs found there were empty (at least the one inspected by one of the soldiers). eggs are too giant and are filled with substance when a hugger is inside. a normal earth egg is full of nutritions for a growing creature. a chestburster needs food once he hatches, and a host's corpse might be not tasty enough...

true, but it wasn't an example proving anything, it was an example of how it was done in movie and didn't look interesting (a missed visual opportunity) in case of AVP.

That's interesting, but also consider that sometimes the chestburster may not emerge anywhere near the egg whence the facehugger came from. And the chestburster didn't need any 'nutrient's to reach full size once hatched...Afterwards, yeah for sure probably would need some. Granted in A2 colonists were cocooned in the nest so eggs were nearby, which is probably more than likely the natural state of things for all things xeno.

 

[P.]

And the chestburster didn't need any 'nutrient's to reach full size once hatched....

totally not true!
1) A1 raided food storages by the script, but stupid scott thought that AAAAAAAAAAAAAA from alien victims is a better waste of screen time. well he's dumb so **** him.
2) Cameron made an alien lair with skeletons mounted to walls, meaning somebody ate all meat from them.

 

[Bullsquid]

well they couldn't encounter a single egg for sure. i think the case was the same that it was with Kane - directly disturbing one of dormant eggs by one person down there, another person staying up.

yep! you're right. then jumping and running facehuggers are a bad idea.

I've always thought that facehuggers need some agility and limited survivability in order to fulfill their role in the xenomorph life cycle. For example, if a potential host flees from an egg the instant it starts to open, the facehugger should be able to pursue and grab the would-be host. The only question in my mind is how long a facehugger could survive out of the egg like this (a day? a week? a month?). Whatever that lifespan is, it must be shorter than remaining dormant in the egg, which seems to be more for long term storage (probably millennia, in the case of the derelict on LV-426).

 

[theuzi9mm]

totally not true!
1) A1 raided food storages by the script, but stupid scott thought that AAAAAAAAAAAAAA from alien victims is a better waste of screen time. well he's dumb so **** him.
2) Cameron made an alien lair with skeletons mounted to walls, meaning somebody ate all meat from them.

well I never read raw treatment, just going on what was presented on screen.

 

[Vector]

so...
can you people show how you pose Vasquez?
a wonderful figure, a masterpiece of sculpt and paint at that scale. but those boots articulation doesn't allow anything decent. or does it?...

I have her in what is probably the "default" pose.