NECA: Alien Movie Franchise Figures

[Johnny Utah]

For me, no poster is complete without the proper Aliens logo.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

With a reissue of the Queen coming (again) might be that they are gearing up for an egg sack dio announcement...

Would be perfect timing, and would be that "whoa!" announcement for the fans.

Actually that would be a perfect time to reveal something like that. Something to make getting another Queen desirable but also something that a lot of collectors have been asking and speculating about all over twitter and facebook for a while now.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

Weird that Randy uses the term ' unlikely ' rather than flat out saying no now when it comes to the APC being made. Sure it would still be expensive, but this is the first tweet I have read from him where it is coming off as he's maybe warming up to the idea.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/823684080487333888?p=v

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

Also, have finally seen the Kenner wave in stock here in Melbourne at Minotaur along with a restock of the Vaz wave. I have to say that the Queen Facehugger looks simply amazing with the dark blood reds and blacks. Much more detailed and colourful that I thought it would going off the pics, and the Mantis Alien is simply stunning with the green translucent parts jumping out.

 

[Burnside]

Actually that would be a perfect time to reveal something like that. Something to make getting another Queen desirable but also something that a lot of collectors have been asking and speculating about all over twitter and facebook for a while now.

Oh, come on! It's gonna be another foam statue.
I still need 7 more characters from the Aliens. That would be around 200USD in necas money. Plus dio/accessories money.

The rest of my aliens-related saving are equally split between Kids logic and Hiya toys

 

[Jester]

Well, there are good reasons why compression suits should be bulky and have armor, and a big helmet, protection from fast traveling debris and shock absorption, thermal protection, among other things, that's just well thought out sci-fi design

The design specs might be good, but the execution leaves much to be desired.

even the great Arthur C Clarke has described big bulky colored armored compression suits in 3001, that is a millennium from now

That's quite a step backwards from the streamlined protective suits of the previous millennium.

See this?

This is Dave Bowman, Astronaut.

And here on the other hand we have Giraud's design:

it's not a matter of technology's capabilities or obsolescence, it's just good sense of a convenient size/shape some things should have...

I have to disagree. There's no reason a well-equipped military force should be using the same spacesuits as civilian space-truckers of half a century earlier.

...and pastel colors help with identification in poor visibility environments

Not really. The colours are so desaturated/faded, and the characters so often in shadow, that the chromatic differentiations don't make much of an impact onscreen.

Prometheus suits though, now those are bad and poorly thought out, and not only that, anachronistic too.

As I pointed out previously, they're basically direct rip of the Cosmonaut suits from the old 1960s movie Planet of Storms from
Russia:

Actually, now that I think of it, the Prometheus spacesuits bear much more than a passing resemblance to those from the 1961 Russian film Planeta Bur, oddly enough...

Sure Moebius adds unnecessary superficial elements, he's French, but the core design is well thought out for a man-made suit, look at the blackbird pilot suit.

In other words, the only problem with the suit is that Mœbius designed it.

It definitely will be. NECA would never pay to tool up another EVA suit body just to make it a half inch shorter. Happens all the time with them...why put in the effort to do something right when they can do it cheap?

They should have at least made enough extra body-parts, if not an entire body, to make a shorter version of the suit, given that John Hurt and Veronica Cartwright are 5'9"/5'6" respectively, while Tom Skerrit and Sigourney Weaver are 6' and 5'11". That would have been a little more fudgeable, scale-wise.

 

[JokersWarPig]

Weird that Randy uses the term ' unlikely ' rather than flat out saying no now when it comes to the APC being made. Sure it would still be expensive, but this is the first tweet I have read from him where it is coming off as he's maybe warming up to the idea.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/823684080487333888?p=v

If NECA did do an APC for their Aliens line I honestly think I would eventually end up getting after weeks of trying to rationalize/talking myself out of it.

The kid in me would love a drop ship, but there's no way that would ever go on sale commercially.

 

[JokersWarPig]

So if I had the £ then this is a possibility? Arms could be swapped at the elbow etc?
I'm a novice here!

I've actually done the Windrix/Frost parts swipe for my Apone. I can post a picture of what I did after I get off work. It's an easy swap, if you have Windrix already I may be able to find an extra pair of Frost lower arms in my parts bin.

 

[bigbisont]

I've actually done the Windrix/Frost parts swipe for my Apone. I can post a picture of what I did after I get off work. It's an easy swap, if you have Windrix already I may be able to find an extra pair of Frost lower arms in my parts bin.

Technically speaking, if hard core accuracy (and i mean hard core) is your goal, you will need a screaming Hicks thrown in there too. Hicks' webbing is more accurate to Apone being that Apone had the same knife as Hicks but on his RIGHT strap (under the pistol holster). Hicks also has less grafitti that needs to be removed from the Armor than either Hudson or Frost (Apone had zero grafitti). Finally, Apone's helmet did not have a cover, so Frost's helmet is OUT. You need the screaming Hicks helmet (or SDCC newt) which did not have the cover.

So an ideal recipe would be...
-Windrix: sleeves, shoulder 'bells' from armor (which don't include grafitti nor damage)
-Hicks: Webbing (with lighter and grenades cut off, then switch left strap to right side and right to left), body Armor, Helmet
-Frost: Body/hands, the 3 'belt tools', VP70 holster
-doner head


Then if you want to get psycho accuracy, you can cut off the helmet band from Hicks helmet and touch up the Camo with paint. Apone didn't have a helmet band.

Here is mine (not that I am claiming it is perfect). I did this one before the Frost figure came out, so my VP holster is a bit sloppy being that I sculpted it myself instead of having a good doner. I need to revamp it...

 

[JokersWarPig]

I actually didn't know that about Apone's knife. I might have to go back and add that now. I've been debating taking the helmet band of the Hicks helmet that my Apone has, but I'm not sure how to tackle that without ruining the helmet. Did you use a dremel or a hobby knife to remove yours?

 

[bigbisont]

I actually didn't know that about Apone's knife. I might have to go back and add that now. I've been debating taking the helmet band of the Hicks helmet that my Apone has, but I'm not sure how to tackle that without ruining the helmet. Did you use a dremel or a hobby knife to remove yours?

Well, as I think you can see, mine is a bit sloppy. I Took the bulk of it out with a knife, then tried to blend the hard edges away with a dremel with some fine grit abrasives. He needs a refurb overall, so I may try to clean it all up a bit better soon.

 

[Jester]

So an ideal recipe would be...
-Windrix: sleeves, shoulder 'bells' from armor (which don't include grafitti nor damage)
-Hicks: Webbing (with lighter and grenades cut off, then switch left strap to right side and right to left), body Armor, Helmet
-Frost: Body/hands, the 3 'belt tools', VP70 holster
-doner head

Windrix's left pauldron actually is damaged, since it's the same as Hudson's and thus has the acid-pitting from the "eat this!" scene sculpted into it, though it's not really noticeable behind the lamp-pack (he's also got a cartoon of his face on the back of his right pauldron, so Hicks's would be a better choice if one wants to avoid sanding/painting over that part).

Annoyingly, from a customising perspective, all of the Marines released thus far have some amount of sculpted detail on their left pauldrons (Hicks, bullet-hole; Hudson-Windrix, acid-pitting; Frost, the "Nuke 'em!" sticker) making it difficult to use those parts to create other Marines without a lot of cutting, sanding, painting and green stuff.

 

[bigbisont]

Windrix's left pauldron actually is damaged, since it's the same as Hudson's and thus has the acid-pitting from the "eat this!" scene sculpted into it, though it's not really noticeable behind the lamp-pack (he's also got a cartoon of his face on the back of his right pauldron, so Hicks's would be a better choice if one wants to avoid sanding/painting over that part).

Annoyingly, from a customising perspective, all of the Marines released thus far have some amount of sculpted detail on their left pauldrons (Hicks, bullet-hole; Hudson-Windrix, acid-pitting; Frost, the "Nuke 'em!" sticker) making it difficult to use those parts to create other Marines without a lot of cutting, sanding, painting and green stuff.

ah yeah. Forgot about that. I really gotta get back into these projects.

 

[RockyRambo]

Has anyone in the UK managed to get the ADIOS decal for their Vasquez Smart Gun from NECA yet. As they say they don't replace items for anyone outside the US but as this is a fault of their own they should make an exception. Being a NECA collector in the UK is a frustrating hobby as they have infamously bad quality control but zero customer service in the UK plus everything cost more to buy here. And not everything can be exchanged in store as either its too far away to get to or its gone over the 4 week period most shops give you to return meaning you have to get those figures open as soon as possible to make sure there's no legs dropping off. The Vasquez sticker should be for everyone though as Diamond Select sent me replacement Proton Stream clips that they forgot to supply with Ray and Winston all the way from the US.

 

[theknight'swatch]

I finally applied the Adios decal on Vasquez's smartgun and love the look of it!

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[Staps1138]

I finally applied the Adios decal on Vasquez's smartgun and love the look of it!

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very nice! I still haven't put mine on yet. Was it easy? Some of my weyland yutani commando decals gave me a few problems.

 

[theknight'swatch]

I've never even attempted putting a decal like this on (I've got no skills) and I had no problem. I was very impressed with how many Neca sent and how quickly they came

 

[Staps1138]

I've never even attempted putting a decal like this on (I've got no skills) and I had no problem. I was very impressed with how many Neca sent and how quickly they came

Cool, I asked for 3 for all of my Vasquez's and they send my a bunch too.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

Technically speaking, if hard core accuracy (and i mean hard core) is your goal, you will need a screaming Hicks thrown in there too. Hicks' webbing is more accurate to Apone being that Apone had the same knife as Hicks but on his RIGHT strap (under the pistol holster). Hicks also has less grafitti that needs to be removed from the Armor than either Hudson or Frost (Apone had zero grafitti). Finally, Apone's helmet did not have a cover, so Frost's helmet is OUT. You need the screaming Hicks helmet (or SDCC newt) which did not have the cover.

So an ideal recipe would be...
-Windrix: sleeves, shoulder 'bells' from armor (which don't include grafitti nor damage)
-Hicks: Webbing (with lighter and grenades cut off, then switch left strap to right side and right to left), body Armor, Helmet
-Frost: Body/hands, the 3 'belt tools', VP70 holster
-doner head


Then if you want to get psycho accuracy, you can cut off the helmet band from Hicks helmet and touch up the Camo with paint. Apone didn't have a helmet band.

Here is mine (not that I am claiming it is perfect). I did this one before the Frost figure came out, so my VP holster is a bit sloppy being that I sculpted it myself instead of having a good doner. I need to revamp it...

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Damn I love your Dietrich custom mate Honestly thought it was a NECA reveal for a while there

 

[Drone]

I still haven't put mine on yet. Was it easy? Some of my weyland yutani commando decals gave me a few problems.

I've never even attempted putting a decal like this on and I had no problem.

I've never attempted decals like this either and, for fear of messing up, I still haven't decorated my WY Commandos. So, question for you guys or anyone who has applied these water slide decals: what's the proper procedure for putting these things on (and achieving agreeable results)?

There are no reviews about the 7" scale Space Jockey?

I picked mine up last week. I'll snap some photos this weekend and see if I can find time to write a good review for you all next week. Initial reaction is that I'm glad to own something like this even if the cost was perhaps a bit more than what it should have been. Being made out of foam, there are some inevitable (mmmm... minor? yeah, sure, I'll say minor) flaws in the quality of the finish, but I anticipated such flaws so I'm not too bummed by them. Assuming the piece holds up and doesn't degrade over time, this may be the best option we ever get for a Space Jockey 'in scale' with our Nostromo figures. More details soon...