Re: NECA T-1000
I suppose we shouldn't really be wishing time away just so we can finally have our figures - it goes by too fast as it is. T2 is almost 20. I'm 2 and a bit years away from 30. 10 years on from that and I'm 40 and if those years go by as swiftly as the last 10 did.....thats really quite alarming. Anyway bit of a depressing tangent there
Yeah you're right about how cool it is to be getting the 'human' Terminator figures now. The endo has been done over and over but hopefully will be again by HT with improvements. Previously all we had were hybrid representations - BD versions where it couldn't just be a 'clean' T-1000 because that would be 'boring' and wouldn't sell to the kids. From the Kenner figures up to McFarlane's efforts there was no sense of satisfaction from any T2 line.
I loved McFarlanes figures but they didn't even bother to get Arnie's likeness let alone go near non-bd versions which was something all too painfully obvious whenever I looked at my collection. And vica versa if NECA had made a clean T-800 but no BD version I would have been annoyed by that too.
Then we had Sideshows figures which, to be honest, I find it increasingly hard to look at. Although these were non-bd human representations they came from an era in 1/6th where they still felt like 'dolls'. Some people on Spawn.com justify themselves not buying Hot Toys figures by saying ''I'm not interested in dolls'' - I think those people are simply wrong to label HT figures that. But sideshows ones, bless them, deserve it. They really do look like dolls due to the illfitted clothes, primitive overly skinny bodies and flat paintjobs. Time is not going to be good to these. Hot Toys will trounce them in 1/6th and at the smaller scale NECAs figures are possibly as good as it can get. Both of those are kings at what they do whereas poor sideshows efforts will have little more than nostalgiac value for some people.
NECA happily went and made almost every variation possible of the T-800, and out of those figures enabled me to make every other minor variation such as the post-SWAT shootout version which is essentially the Cyberdyne figure with the torso and head from the Final battle figure. I'm proud of that one, I added more blood to his face yesterday as I noticed his face was more bloodied from the fresh wounds in that scene. I only wish I had the teargas launcher for it.
Now of course we're getting at last a non-bd T-1000 for the 7" scale - its the most important one they could have made other than a non-bd Steel mill T-1000. I'm still hoping that will come later.
