Official NECA Terminator Thread

[a-dev]

Reported all of you to Chris Hansen for having unhealthy urges for a toy of a 10-year-old boy. You should be campaigning for waitress Sarah instead.

a-dev can share a cell with jye and his pug posters.

He could be mine. Oh yes. He could be mine.

 

[Staps1138]

It blows my mind how Randy can have the pulse on collector's wants so well at times and then be so blind or just hard headed at other times. Kids dont sell well so no JC but zombie boy who is an unknown to me and others gets made? A young John is a must and we buy tons of terminator rehashes so why not reward us with a figure we've been begging for. John would have been far less work than this zombie boy with his bomb dio to make and i'm sure they'd find a way to re release or re hash him a few times as opposed to what is certain to be a one and down figure nobody was asking for.

 

[a-dev]

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

 

[snoop101]

*yawn*

I'll admit I was excited for the 1/4 T-800 when it was first announced. Now I really don't give a damn after how lame sdcc was. No new Terminator figures or Terminator announcements, no John Connor, and the aliens "game changer" was a complete joke. Very disappointed with NECA.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

I feel really bad for the fans who want the John Connor for the Terminator line. It just does not make sense for Randy to not go ahead and do it. Heck, they gave us Aliens fans Newt as both an SDCC and retail variant so him saying they cannot do fan demanded side characters seems total bull.

 

[BetterThanKenobi83]

I think he'll go great with these two. CAN'T WAIT!
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Damn I did not see those. Are they gonna be fully articulated or just statues ?

 

[henzINNIT]

It's frustrating to be in a position where you're hoping Neca will milk this line some more. The company have turned re-paints and re-use into an art form when it comes to Alien and Predator. Similar things could be done here, the only thing holding Neca back is Neca themselves. They won't even mine later sequels when T3 in particular would open up a bunch of new Arnie figures.

I'd probably even buy a couple of Kenner style Terminator figures too.

 

[Plastic Bateman]

Robocop VS terminator is one of my all time favorite comic series so I am actually pretty jazzed about these figures. It's a very dark read.

The greatest movie tie-in comic ever produced. I don't buy much NECA stuff but I guess I'm duty-bound to at least buy future war Robocop when he's released.

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And what the hell is this kid?

The ghost from The Devil's Backbone, part of NECA's forthcoming Guillermo Del Toro line. In some respects he's just an accessory, the main draw is the replica unexploded bomb he comes packaged with.

 

[jye4ever]

I can't imagine any cinematic milestone collection being without a kid with a bomb from Devil's Backbone.

 

[a-dev]

Sarcasm noted.

I'll be more direct. Never heard of the film, never saw it. I refuse to believe more people want that than want John Connor from Terminator 2 Judgment Day.

 

[Plastic Bateman]

Sarcasm noted.

I'll be more direct. Never heard of the film, never saw it. I refuse to believe more people want that than want John Connor from Terminator 2 Judgment Day.

You'd be surprised, Del Toro's movies have a huge following. Plus I think in his own mind Randy might be able to justify this as being "different" because it's a ghost child.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you that his reasoning for not doing certain figures is usually absurd pretzel logic...

 

[jye4ever]

Someone should inform Randy that Del Toro's career is almost finished.

If his water movie bombs no studio will ever go near him.

 

[DiFabio]

The NECA booth sucked. Nothing new other than those two weird Guillermo del Toro figures and a big ass Deadpool that they kept "hidden" every day with this black plastic film.

The Terminator section was awful with all those hybrid Robocop and Terminator things. I just don't get it. The big boy Arnold is alright, but again, it's just a blown up figure of what we've already seen before.






Really disappointed, but not at all surprised. I was going to ask Randy about what the endo arm tease from a while back was all about, but he was either being interviewed by some youtube dude or not at the booth. They had the smallest booth at the con and really did seem like this small, independent toy company. The ghetto ass "CASH ONLY" written with sharpie on a torn cardboard piece made me lol.

 

[jye4ever]

That's NJ for you lol

 

[Vector]

Leading up to SDCC this year, I was hopeful and thinking about where I could incorporate a John Connor figure into my Terminator dioramas. Now, I am just going to design them with no further thought to this figure and simply stick him in the Sarah desert scene if and when he ever happens. Which, unfortunately, is looking less and less likely.

The next best time that John could possibly be revealed would be to coincide with the theater release of Terminator 2 3D which is on August 25th. But, I am not optimistic...

 

[a-dev]

I'll still get the 1:4 scaler, I'll somehow even look forward to it even though it's just a bigger version of something we already have like DiFabio said. The cinemachines I'm not sure about now. The inaccuracy as pointed out in this thread has soured me on those. I would have hoped NECA had done their homework on them but evidently not and it feels like another symptom of Terminator being a lesser priority for NECA.

 

[NosferatuBill36]

I'll still get the 1:4 scaler, I'll somehow even look forward to it even though it's just a bigger version of something we already have like DiFabio said. The cinemachines I'm not sure about now. The inaccuracy as pointed out in this thread has soured me on those. I would have hoped NECA had done their homework on them but evidently not and it feels like another symptom of Terminator being a lesser priority for NECA.

Agreed on all points, but I'm a sucker.

I'm going to throw my money at all of it in hopes that Randy notices and produces more stuff with the license.

 

[TooNiche]

I'm still debating the cinemachines.

They're not hugely impressive to start with, due to the paint. And then with the worst accuracy I've personally witnessed from NECA on the tank..

If I buy the tank, it'll be to fix it. But at £44 ($57) or £35 ($45, as a set with the flyer) it's a lot for a fixer.

Honestly, I'm still amazed that this is going ahead like this. For a company that prides itself on accuracy. And until now, justifiedly so.

It's not like the Alien Covenant situation, where they were messed up by revised character designs. What is the excuse? I can only imagine these all got built already and it would cost too much to deassemble/reassemble them all. But how could this even pass the prototype phase? It's been a disaster from the start.


As for the 1/4 scale Arnie, it's okay, but I'd prefer a new 1/4 endoskeleton.

 

[snoop101]

Terminator is at the bottom of Necas list, so it's a very low priority for them. As to why they wouldn't at least try and make them accurate, who knows.