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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Am I crazy or did NECA do a line of Castlevania toys some years back, including a Simon that looked like a normal person? I don't remember if it was NECA, but they did do a line with Alucard/Dracula/Succubus and I think Trevor or Simon.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Should I keep an eye out? I'm in Walgreens sometimes looking for other stuff. That would be cool.
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Cloks posted:gently caress no. Elf on a Shelf is creepy enough, now they're just blindly expanding it for profit. That's really gross. It's a totally different company doing that. So maybe just riding coat tails. Although they had a nice little story on Shark Tank.
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:Am I crazy or did NECA do a line of Castlevania toys some years back, including a Simon that looked like a normal person?
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Feb 15, 2016 13:06
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Karnith posted:They did, and this Simon looks like it's just the old Simon with a bad repaint. It's supposed to be Simon as as digital character, from the game. They've got Contra figs coming out that are the same. I love NECA's twitter. When they're not posting pics of new products, a lot of it's them ripping on other companies' quality, while simultaneously telling people to contact their customer service because yet another one of their figures broke coming out of the package.
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NECA is basically turning into FUNKO where they just make every single thing. It's not even collecting anymore. I can't explain it but its some weird feeling knowing there is like, for example, Ninja Turtles from NECA, Funko, 3" Vinyl toys, SH Figurearts, etc etc etc. Every company is blatantly whoring themselves out and rabid nerds eat the poo poo up.
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Feb 15, 2016 17:42
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Vintersorg posted:NECA is basically turning into FUNKO where they just make every single thing. It's not even collecting anymore. I can't explain it but its some weird feeling knowing there is like, for example, Ninja Turtles from NECA, Funko, 3" Vinyl toys, SH Figurearts, etc etc etc. It is pretty crazy how many different companies have the same licenses these days but it's a good thing for choosy collectors. For example between Mattel, DCC, NECA, hot toys, Mafex, Mezco, and whoever else, you've got a Batman v Superman line for every scale, budget, and taste.
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Feb 15, 2016 18:01
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Vintersorg posted:NECA is basically turning into FUNKO where they just make every single thing. It's not even collecting anymore. I can't explain it but its some weird feeling knowing there is like, for example, Ninja Turtles from NECA, Funko, 3" Vinyl toys, SH Figurearts, etc etc etc. I buy NECA stuff, but I sure as hell don't buy everything they make. If them making Hone Alone or Weird Al figures (who is the target audience of those, really?) means I get some sweet Kenner Predator remakes, then NECA can do whatever they want for all I care. I'll buy what I want and ignore the rest. Randy can be a bit of a tool on Twitter though.
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I am just bummed NECA can't finish the TF2 line they were doing. Scout, Medic, and Sniper are left out in the cold due. 
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Feb 15, 2016 18:18
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Did they say why they couldn't finish it?
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Travis343 posted:It is pretty crazy how many different companies have the same licenses these days but it's a good thing for choosy collectors. For example between Mattel, DCC, NECA, hot toys, Mafex, Mezco, and whoever else, you've got a Batman v Superman line for every scale, budget, and taste. I'm mostly a Hot Toys collector myself, though I do have a few statues of characters I like, but I will buy Green Arrow and Black Canary in like any and every scale because they're my favorites.
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Feb 15, 2016 18:30
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Grem posted:It's a totally different company doing that. So maybe just riding coat tails. Although they had a nice little story on Shark Tank. The one on Shark Tank was called Mensch on a Bench.
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Feb 15, 2016 18:39
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Xenomrph posted:Did they say why they couldn't finish it? Valve shut them out because they said the quality wasn't to their standards. NECA has them all sculpted and ready too.
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http://page.macmillan.com/mcpg/dwarfinthedrawer
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Man, I'm kinda sad. Hot Toys announced the Cap and Bucky pre orders, and Bucky comes WITH A GUN!!!!!! and nothing else besides alternate hands, all for 220$. Cap's 5$ more, has all the hands and his shield, 2 diff head sculpts (one with interchangeable face parts) and a minor spoiler accessory, and is only 5$ more. The literal only reason to get this new Bucky is if you don't like the eye makeup on the older figure. gently caress, give him a handgun, when you release Tony Stark with Pimpglove you can have an extra headsculpt of him all  and getting his heart broken.
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Feb 16, 2016 02:42
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His jacket is a bit different too I think. Bucky should have been a $199 release.
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Feb 16, 2016 03:25
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Aphrodite posted:His jacket is a bit different too I think. New jacket, pants, head sculpt, shiny arm, gun. The first release is much better. Get that one, and then buy the new head off ebay.
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He also comes with a silly amount of accessories. The mine thrower, an assault rifle, his little SMG, 2 pistols, knives, and some ammo for his grenade launcher. The cool part is that except for the mine thrower and rifle, all the other stuff attaches to holsters and stuff so he looks like a walking armory. The only one I have that came with more is Hawkeye, and that's because he comes with like a dozen arrows and gimmick arrowheads.
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Feb 16, 2016 03:41
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Since when did Sideshow throw NRDs on stuff that's at the $200 price point? Used to be anything over $250 but both Bucky and Cap have NRDs now. Weird.
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The Rage posted:Since when did Sideshow throw NRDs on stuff that's at the $200 price point? Used to be anything over $250 but both Bucky and Cap have NRDs now. Weird. At least 9 months
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therealjon_ posted:Valve shut them out because they said the quality wasn't to their standards. NECA has them all sculpted and ready too. Maybe they were expecting SH Figuarts? $20 for NECA's figures was a no brainer for me. $40+ would be a harder sell.
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They were ready to go and about to be released, and that's not the Valve of today.
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Cheesus posted:I'm curious as to what Valve's standards are with action figures, because as a huge TF2 fan and a somewhat unforgiving eye for toys, I thought NECA's figures hit the price point and quality perfectly.
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Cheesus posted:I'm curious as to what Valve's standards are with action figures, because as a huge TF2 fan and a somewhat unforgiving eye for toys, I thought NECA's figures hit the price point and quality perfectly. I agree, NECA has their problems but they really push what you get for a $20 figure. I had talked to Randy about it at Toy Fair a few years back and he said licensing with Valve is tough because they take a boardroom consensus on everything so it takes forever to get approvals. They made an Axe figure from DOTA2 and Valve had them resculpt the thing three times because their committee couldn't figure out how exactly they wanted it to look. Finally NECA just said screw it we aren't going to do DOTA2. I guess they thought too many final products of the second TF2 series had sloppy paint and said they weren't going to approve anything else after they released S3 in red. Maybe the disasters that were P-Body and Atlus played a part in it as well. Basically NECA went and kind of "gently caress you" pursued the Blizzard license. Though, I think they learned quite a bit from the Valve thing and their Blizzard stuff is a pretty huge improvement.
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I don't play Heroes of the Storm, but I really like NECA's Nova figure a lot; I've been waiting for a Nova figure since, like, 2008.  I'm really hoping NECA does Raynor and Kerrigan figures for their HotS line, just because I'm a Starcraft fan.
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Raynor is scheduled to be out by June with Sylvanas. Diablo will be deluxe. http://www.preternia.com/2016/02/toy-fair-2016-neca-heroes-of-the-storm/
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That just makes me sad that there's no Space Marine action figures
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boom boom boom posted:That just makes me sad that there's no Space Marine action figures
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Xenomrph posted:You mean like Starcraft marines? There have been several, I still have one from when the game was new. No, not the Starcraft knock-offs, actual Space Marines 
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Christ I'd almost pay ridiculous GW markup prices for actual articulated Marvel Legends scale WH40k action figures. gently caress it, I'd even settle for GI Joe 3.75" scale
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Xenomrph posted:Christ I'd almost pay ridiculous GW markup prices for actual articulated Marvel Legends scale WH40k action figures. Space Marines would be so easy. Just make a few alternate pieces to represent the different Marks of armor, and then reuse those molds to infinity 
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dont give NECA any ideas
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Speaking of which is GI Joe pretty much dead in the water right now? I know they still have a some of the collector club stuff for this year but are they waiting to see if another movie/show happens? A bunch of the stuff after the 25th anniversary were pretty baller. I still have the Destro from Resolute on my desk on at work.
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Xenomrph posted:Christ I'd almost pay ridiculous GW markup prices for actual articulated Marvel Legends scale WH40k action figures. If you got our hands on a good 3D model then used Shapeways to print the pieces, it wouldn't be that hard to do. Iv been getting into custom figures a lot lately and was thinking about doing a 40k Orc with the main parts being 3D printed and the base figure being a random marvel legends for the joints.
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Xenomrph posted:I'm sending a tweet to them right this second. Predicted response "no license sorry"
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Canopus250 posted:Speaking of which is GI Joe pretty much dead in the water right now? I know they still have a some of the collector club stuff for this year but are they waiting to see if another movie/show happens? A bunch of the stuff after the 25th anniversary were pretty baller. I still have the Destro from Resolute on my desk on at work. I have done very little research on this subject but AFAIK you've nailed it, except I haven't heard anything about biding their time. Just "nope." GI Joe has basically run its course, though. Anything that they should do with it now has been done before (very different types of figures, introducing sci-fi elements, making a good profitable movie), usually to no great success.
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Did they ever do a release of figures from that storyline where they had red crystals in a glass globe for some reason? I forget what they were for, some world ending machine more than likely, but I remember thinking that crystal setup was pretty badass.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Did they ever do a release of figures from that storyline where they had red crystals in a glass globe for some reason? Is that the one where they're building a giant gun with a crystal on the end? They need heavy water and those red crystals, and something else. And when Snake Eyes gets the crystals he gets radiation poisoning and finds his wolf and an old hermit in some snowy woods, I think. E: Ha! http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/M.A.S.S. 10 Beers fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Feb 17, 2016 |
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Yea, I think that was it. I'm working on memories of watching it on tv as a kid, so the plot points are completely unknown to me, either forgotten by time or just not paying attention when I was watching. I just have this mental image of this glass bell jar on a bitchin' COBRA base with these big red crystal spires in there. They looked pretty awesome.
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