NECA - Vincent Price Ultimate Figure

[Mike86]

Pretty cool release. I like that he has the different tie options as well as a few head sculpts.

 

[Buttmunch]

Great looking figure! First figure in a while that really seems to fit the ‘Ultimate’ name. All of those options are fantastic. Going to be tempt to pick up 3.

 

[Damien]

and he comes with his own cookbook

 

[GhostBeard]

This was the first instant buy release announcement for me for the sculpt alone, then you add all those accessory options and WOW! I've reached out to a local small business I use for these kinds of releases and he said some items NECA has been selling strictly on their site and then they may open it up to retailers (e.g. Hammer Dracula and Frankenstein in the Chair.) Any news if this is NECA site only?

EDIT: From the FB posting; "Look for pre-orders from your favorite NECA retailers this week!"

I'll let the guy know.

 

[K1LLJOY]

It's up now for preorder at places like BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth.

 

[D'oh!]

Ordered! Think I'll display mine with the ascot. Not sure which head, though. Looks great across the board.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

One of these heads on a London After Midnight body, add a hat and dagger, and you have Diary of a Madman (1963).

 

[GhostBeard]

 

[abake]

What an awesome figure.
NECA is showing the love for the classics.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

I found NECA's Pale Man chair at a local collectibles store. Vinney's plastic behind will fit in nicely this Halloween.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

Where is Vinney, Neca.........

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

There's only 15 days left of October NECA. Just tell Pete Buttigeig to go unload the things himself.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

Why is everything in the toy and collectibles world so tardy? Why, I ask you, why? I would like to have this before I am 82, as was poor Vinney when he left us. It's killing me.

 

[Buttmunch]

That is a good question. As far as I know the factories exclusively make toys so it’s not like they’re having to get sidetracked to make something more important like heart monitors or defibrillators. Might just be the luck of the draw of how many revisions a product needs before it’s ready to go? Or if other companies pay more to skip to the front of the line? Bigger companies like Hasbro could bump NECA since quantity makes the factory more than the surely smaller runs NECA makes? But when everyone struggles with the same issue of tardiness it’s hard to explain it away with that logic.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

That is a good question. As far as I know the factories exclusively make toys so it’s not like they’re having to get sidetracked to make something more important like heart monitors or defibrillators. Might just be the luck of the draw of how many revisions a product needs before it’s ready to go? Or if other companies pay more to skip to the front of the line? Bigger companies like Hasbro could bump NECA since quantity makes the factory more than the surely smaller runs NECA makes? But when everyone struggles with the same issue of tardiness it’s hard to explain it away with that logic.

If this is true, I hate Hasbro,lol. Just kidding. I am getting impatient for Vinney though.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

So, in hand shots have began trickling. Is it me, or did they give him brown eyes, and mismatch the paint work on the old age head (IE hair and facial hair/eyebrows dont match)? Vinney had blue eyes.

 

[Buttmunch]

Hopefully those are just typical first in-hand awful pics that cause panic before the better ones come out. But yeah, the old head does seem to have mismatched facial hair to head hair, unlike the prototype.

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

I should have mine by Friday (or so I am told). Indy place. We shall see. If they did his eyes in brown, its the most glaring error since Star Ace did it on their Bela Lugosi White Zombie figure. They messed his eyes up to. Supposed to be blue, made them brown.

 

[D'oh!]

As I recall, way back when colorizing movies was all the rage, they gave Frank Sinatra brown eyes in one of his classics.

Yeah, "Ol' Blue Eyes" now has brown eyes. Sheesh!

 

[Dr. Anton Phibes]

OK, with regards to Vinney, those pics are unflattering. Paint apps are not mismatched on elderly head, and eyes are bluish gray. They got it right.