NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[Langolier]

There was no huge Marine force because only Burke gave any credence to Ripley's story.

I agree with most of what you said. But is this specifically mentioned or implied?

 

[DeadLeaves]

I tend to see it as Burke played Ripley's story down with the bosses to help secure his claim or "rights" if the Alien was indeed a possible bio weapon.

He explained that in the "bad call" scene.

 

[Underworld54]

Jester
you're like Butters with HT or Underworld54 with Star Ace Selene.
a fan in complete denial of any issues with your fanbase

I realize there's plenty of flaws on Selene, I've even pointed them out lol. You're something else.

 

[bigbisont]

I tend to see it as Burke played Ripley's story down with the bosses to help secure his claim or "rights" if the Alien was indeed a possible bio weapon.

He explained that in the "bad call" scene.

Also it is never explicitly stated, but there is an underlying suspicion Burke specifically set up a rookie lieutenant to lead a squad of expendables that he could manipulate on site. Attempting to keep control the situation himself is another perfectly plausible reason for such a small squad.

As for the behavior of the marines themselves, calling them 'lame' and being done with it isn't giving enough credit to each character. When push comes to shove, they were ALL capable. Hudson was a skilled tech that didn't waste any time hacking doors, finding PDTs, bringing up schematics AND when he actually had a rifle with ammo in it he was very skilled at killing the enemy. Even Gorman, while a bad leader, showed signs of being a 'good marine' as the instant he was no longer burdened with command he didn't hesitate to bring the fight to the enemy and even attempted a heroic act. No one got to see what the ones that died to quickly were capable of but all indications were they were they were each experienced and battle hardened just catching a tough break(s)

In short, the deck was stacked against them because if they actually were invincible badasses, it would have been a 5 min movie. The shortcomings were necessary plot devices. Nothing about them was 'lame'.

 

[a-dev]

 

[Joda]

God, I hope so. In an effort to steer things back in the initial direction, anyone's guess as to when we'll see Lambert and the Defiance Alien? Toy Fair? I've just started reading the Defiance Comic - hopefully it'll be good. Hearing that Tristian Jones did the artwork definitely intrigued me.

 

[Jester]

God, I hope so. In an effort to steer things back in the initial direction, anyone's guess as to when we'll see Lambert and the Defiance Alien? Toy Fair? I've just started reading the Defiance Comic - hopefully it'll be good. Hearing that Tristian Jones did the artwork definitely intrigued me.

I'm not a fan. Jones' art-style, design-wise, seems predicated around mashing random bits of different designs together without any particular rhyme or reason, and so we have the aforementioned xeno (basically a slightly modified Spitter head stuck on the standard Warrior body) and Marines wearing what appear to be early OIF-era K-pots and OTVs.

 

[Joda]

And yet this is what NECA chose to run with. Huh.

 

[Jester]

And yet this is what NECA chose to run with. Huh.

Yeah. Someone on staff must really have a boner for that particular xeno permutation.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

Yeah. Someone on staff must really have a boner for that particular xeno permutation.

You said boner

In all seriousness though I am quite enjoying the Defiance comic book, though I am really confused by the ending of the last issue.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

I am seriously anxious about the Alien 3 creature pack more than anything at the moment. Really curious to see what they included to make up for the status tubes being moved over to the Aliens pack. Would it be something as big or something smaller ?

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

If NECA ever did a Dropship as a big send off to the line, then I really hope they get this artwork on the side -



Weird though. I never noticed that Ferro and Spunkmeyer's names were on the top there when Bishop first flies up to get Ripley and Newt from the falling tower. And their dropship had been destroyed in the crash so their names should not be on the spare ship Bishop has to get right ?

 

[Alice]

In the military, just because you have your name on an aircraft doesn't necessarily mean you'll always fly it exclusively. More often than not, you'll be flying whatever piece of equipment is best suited to the task at hand. It's likely that the dropship initially used was better suited to transporting the APC or some similar reason.

EDIT: Just had a look, and Ferro and Spunkmeyer's names are on both dropship 01 and 02, so they must have been the only pilots in that platoon.

 

[P.]

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

that's partly truth - fanbased "arguments" make me angry, as there can be no answer to "i don't see that".
but no debate actually took place.
the marines were incompetent because Cameron couldn't include anything resembling an actual military operation to be put against unarmed animals, that's all.
either he didn't want it or didn't know how it should be done:

Cameron simply didn't try to show a military operation, and he probably didn't know what one looks like or thought his viewers don't know that, thus the A2 super lame marines.

all the rest was a discussion of the first branch of that idea, while i don't deny the possibility it could be the second, so lame the result was.

EDIT: Just had a look, and Ferro and Spunkmeyer's names are on both dropship 01 and 02, so they must have been the only pilots in that platoon.

so those two dropship were assigned to that platoon.
doesn't a battleship like Sulaco have its own dropships?

 

[Alice]

I assume the platoon in the movie was assigned to the Sulaco just to satisfy the mission at hand, and the ship itself wasn't a full-on active duty vessel. The Sulaco probably only carried equipment assigned to that platoon. Generally, a platoon has two dropships and a pilot and co-pilot for each. No idea why, as far as we saw, this particular platoon only had a single set of pilots.

 

[P.]

Generally, a platoon has two dropships and a pilot and co-pilot for each. No idea why, as far as we saw, this particular platoon only had a single set of pilots.

the color of dropship 02 looked somewhat strange, like another color or no soot marks. i always wondered if it could be just an extra dropship, normally not used, thus only one set of pilots. or the idea was it didn't actually need a co-pilot (Bishop operated it alone), but that particular unit used only one of them together and kept another.
hmmm if Bishop can operate a dropship without any help, why need pilots at all?

 

[Staps1138]

Still no update on my Cloaked Scar from the 11/4 warehouse find sale so I e mailed Neca CS and got the following response.

NECA CS - We received a lot of orders during this sale, our warehouse is still processing some of the orders, they should all be shipped out by this week.

me - Hi,

I understand that but I received a tracking number on the 9th and the package hasn’t been picked up by the PO yet – it still shows pre-shipment so I’m concerned. Shouldn’t the PO have picked up on the 10th if the label was created on the 9th? There is no other scan on the tracking number.

Thanks!

NECA CS - All the labels were created then but they weren’t necessarily shipped out.

This was after I received an e mail stating all items from my order has been shipped on 11/8! They didn't even bother to say hello or address me by my name in either e mails I received, just what is copied above. Anybody else having this problem with their 11/4 orders?

 

[Joda]

Still no update on my Cloaked Scar from the 11/4 warehouse find sale so I e mailed Neca CS and got the following response.

NECA CS - We received a lot of orders during this sale, our warehouse is still processing some of the orders, they should all be shipped out by this week.

me - Hi,

I understand that but I received a tracking number on the 9th and the package hasn’t been picked up by the PO yet – it still shows pre-shipment so I’m concerned. Shouldn’t the PO have picked up on the 10th if the label was created on the 9th? There is no other scan on the tracking number.

Thanks!

NECA CS - All the labels were created then but they weren’t necessarily shipped out.

This was after I received an e mail stating all items from my order has been shipped on 11/8! They didn't even bother to say hello or address me by my name in either e mails I received, just what is copied above. Anybody else having this problem with their 11/4 orders?

I don't think there's any 'problem' - NECA is just really slow, as I stated above. Tracking numbers are generated when they print the labels, long before they reach the Post Office. Assuming these were actually 'suddenly found' backstock and with NECA moving warehouses, there's probably a ton of things going on and not too many people around responsible for order fulfillment.

We'll be lucky to see the items before Thanksgiving. I'm already regretting ordering on this sale, but I've made my peace.

 

[FACEBOX]

Well normal procedure is to always have a backup.
So dropship 02 is simply that.
Also a reason for 2 smart gunners.

What was weird was their lack of an extraction plan.
There's always "someone" on standby in order to exfil a team in just such a circumstance. Looking back, it is a bit odd that the Sulaco was left completely unattended.

 

[Psycho]

Got this guy today will post pics later when I un-box him...