Official NECA Terminator Thread

[MaulFan]

Re: Official NECA The Terminator Thread

Oops, I thought it was the clean Tech Noir with a second head, still say the spare heads are the clean, eyebrowless head and a clean, endo eye exposed head.

 

[a-dev]

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Hmm. I think it looks like Tech Noir has only one head, surgery has 2 (probably the bloodied closed eye and the exposed endo eye) while biker has the sunglasses head as default and perhaps the fully BD one as the alternate....

I just can't see why, unless they intend to make Reese in a later series, they'd leave out the BD biker.

If the bikers spare head is indeed the BD one then they'll have compromised a bit - no tears in the clothes or bullet hits, blood anywhere on the body etc.

 

[DiFabio]

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I would guess probably an exposd Endo eye head and the glasses head, and then eventually we'll see a BD biker figure.

Maybe that is the battle damaged head and either the sunglasses come off the regular one (they look bigger and weird in that banner shot) or they just aren't including one with a missing eye yet.

 

[DiFabio]

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[MaulFan]

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Maybe that is the battle damaged head and either the sunglasses come off the regular one (they look bigger and weird in that banner shot) or they just aren't including one with a missing eye yet.

I don't see removable shades on a 7 inch figure. The 2 up probably is the exposed eye sculpt with glasses added like the 12" Pescadero, but the production 7" will have sculpted shades like the Pescadero. I'll be curious how that works out, I think the size and way the T2 shades go on works ok sculpted, not sure how the Gargoyles will translate.

 

[a-dev]

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The ideal scenario, if we're talking just these 3 figures and no more, would have been:

Tech Noir: boyband haircut head/ singed hair, burnt off eyebrows, eyes intact head

Surgery: bloodied closed eye head/ exposed endo eye head

Police shootout: gargoyles head/ BD head

 

[MaulFan]

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Just noticed, on the shelf below the Terminator stuff, I see two figures that look like they could be Scarface, the black and white suits, I'd love for NECA to do Scarface, the other Scarface figure line looked nothing like Pacino, too cartoony, NECA'd do it right.

 

[a-dev]

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I don't see removable shades on a 7 inch figure. The 2 up probably is the exposed eye sculpt with glasses added like the 12" Pescadero, but the production 7" will have sculpted shades like the Pescadero. I'll be curious how that works out, I think the size and way the T2 shades go on works ok sculpted, not sure how the Gargoyles will translate.

Aren't the Gargoyles wrap-around type sunglasses? If so I expect it should work better. The T2 glasses had angles that had to be filled in with extra plastic - I'm used to it now but when first shown I thought it looked awful.

 

[DiFabio]

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I don't see removable shades on a 7 inch figure. The 2 up probably is the exposed eye sculpt with glasses added like the 12" Pescadero, but the production 7" will have sculpted shades like the Pescadero. I'll be curious how that works out, I think the size and way the T2 shades go on works ok sculpted, not sure how the Gargoyles will translate.

Just wishful thinking. I know the Mcfarlane 7" figure had removable sunglasses and after the complaints about the flesh paint on he sculpted sunglasses, they changed it up.

Doubtful, but just speculating.

 

[MaulFan]

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Aren't the Gargoyles wrap-around type sunglasses? If so I expect it should work better. The T2 glasses had angles that had to be filled in with extra plastic - I'm used to it now but when first shown I thought it looked awful.

The do, but at the front of his face they're bigger and seem like more of a gap between the lenses and his face, that's the area I'm concerned with, the T2 shades almost fill in the eye sockets perfectly so they worked out that way on the figure.

They're cheap 7 inch figures so no matter what, it'll be fine, just thinking it won't look so good.

 

[DinoLast]

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Were was that photo taken? I would give them 1 out of 10 for that shoddy display.

 

[DiFabio]

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Just noticed, on the shelf below the Terminator stuff, I see two figures that look like they could be Scarface, the black and white suits, I'd love for NECA to do Scarface, the other Scarface figure line looked nothing like Pacino, too cartoony, NECA'd do it right.

Yeah, those are 7" Scarface figures. They're the 18" versions shrunk down. I think they're coming out this May.

Were was that photo taken? I would give them 1 out of 10 for that shoddy display.

What's wrong with it? It's Toy Fair.

 

[a-dev]

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I thought it all looks a bit messy alright. I just want to see the figures though.

 

[Sabres21768]

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Were was that photo taken? I would give them 1 out of 10 for that shoddy display.

I'm sure they're VERY concerned with your display rating for them.

 

[MaulFan]

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Looks the same as their display every year.

Toy Fair isn't a fan convention, it's a press and industry event, that's why they take works in progress and everything, it's to share with the world the things they've got planned for the coming year, from finished and soon to come out items to items in development. Look at the Elder, we saw that a year ago and it still hasn't shipped.

The display isn't geared towards wowing anyone, it's about putting the products up to be seen. Having done these sorts of events at a previous job, often those dislay booths are owned and taken to every show so I'm sure NECA just has it's typical booth it takes everywhere and doesn't worry about stepping it up or anything, they don't need to, we'll be wowed enough by their products.

 

[DinoLast]

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What's wrong with it? It's Toy Fair.

Total lack of presentation. I have seen better displays in a charity shop.
A company should always show off their product in the best possible way, especially at a Toy Fair were they can attract new distributors.

 

[DiFabio]

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Hasbro hasn't. NECA hasn't. Mattel probably won't. It's the same every year. It's simply for the toys and designs only. It's distributors to decide if they want to pick up the lines or not.

The displays were much more elaborate in the early 90s, now every Toy Fair for the last couple of years have been bland with plain shelving walls and the marketing logos. They just put them up on shelves and glue them to bases and let the product speak for itself.

I just want to see pics of the actual figures. I don't care how they set them up.

 

[DinoLast]

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Hasbro's looks miles better
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[MaulFan]

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Well, again, speaking from own experiences with shows like this, there is a high price to going ot these things, not that NECA or Hasbro are hurting for money, but with the changing world, it's not that important to make a big show of these industry conventions. It's almost better to have a very simplistic display and let the products speak for themselves and then word of mouth will spread. At a show like this, too fancy of a display would likely give people the impression you dont' feel confident enough in your product and need to dress it up to look good.

Think of how wowed we all were with the Terminators and Predators at Toy Fair over the last few years, the products looked so good, we were won over.

If it were Comic Con, it'd be something else, at a show like that, you need flash to catch attention because there's so much there.

 

[a-dev]

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Why has there been a closeup of the P2 figure but not the Terminator ones yet. Major predator favouritism. I love the P2 figure and its a definite buy but CAMANNNNnnnn