So, Targets have been getting even more reprints of Ultimate T2 T-800 (I think this is now the 4th time this has been offered) and the Ultimate T2 T-1000 and they keep
selling out every time I'm in the store buying other ****. The reprint Ultimate T1 Tech Noir that started showing up early this summer is selling just as well.
The fact that these are selling out when they are just easy rereleases that were already offered years ago is quite impressive, atleast to me anyway.
Just as I predicted years ago while NECA was being stubborn . . . the Connor clan also continues to be quite in demand,
Can someone explain to me again why NECA has made it seem like Terminator is so risky? Why was John Connor considered "too niche" for a decade? Why is there a reluctance to upgrade Kyle Reese? Why don't they make NEW tools of all NEWLY sculpted figures? So you can make all new tools of "Guardian T-800", "Pops", "Asian T-1000", "Carl" and "Dark Fate Sarah" from the lame movies that peg warm and sit on shelves till clearance but you're reluctant to make a Tech Comm Soldier, a new Kyle Reese, Future General John Connor, an updated Steel Mill T-800, a Pescadero Sarah and some unique T-1000 variations?
I don't get it, where is the logic here.
There's clearly a demand for all things T1 and T2 outside of us hardcore collectors. People are eating up the old figures from the older films on the secondary market AND eating up rereleased figures. Collectors are willing to shell out hundreds on John Connor and Kyle Reese. People are willing to buy the same T-800 and T-1000 over and over again. NECA has SAVED and profited so much from the original T2 T-800, T-1000 and T1 T-800 tools between all the variations, repaints, and rerereleases that have been done. From a business perspective, looks to me like they're leaving money on the table by not making Connor a mass produced retail release or upgrading Kyle Reese.
A-dev:
Thought you might be interested to know the current reprint of T-1000 is darker. It's not the blue/navy blue of the original release and is darker, matte look that is closer to the original release. The 3 bullet squibs on the chest are also much more metallic and shiny. I've seen it in person an it looks quite good.
He also doesn't have the black Beretta pistol anymore that came with the original Ultimate. For whatever reason, they went back to the pistol that was originally solicited with the figure in photos. Pretty weird, especially since they caught the error back in 2015 and blacked out/photoshopped the picture of the gun on the back of the box and corrected it.