NECA released news on another 2008 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive this week after their previous announcement that included a Gears of War figure and some Mousers from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Personally, this newest figure tops them all. It’s a Predator that is in half Stealth Mode, which gives us an excuse to have another clear figure! Go clear figures, go!
NECA recently released their list of San Diego Comic Con Exclusives for 2008 and Gears of War and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fans rejoiced. For Gears of War NECA’s figure of choice is Carmine. He’s the “innocent kid” team member that gets his head blown off, which is coincidental since he’s the only one with a helmet. Is it really a coincidence though? No probably not, I always assumed that they didn’t want to waste a character model on a standard trooper who was only going to get killed.
The other cool exclusive that they announced was a three pack of mousers for their comic book inspired Teenage Mutant Turtles line. The kit also comes with a San Diego manhole cover, which is pretty cool. For a pic of the Mousers and the opinions of someone who is actually collecting the NECA TMNT figures, check out Poe Ghostal’s blog.
Not too long ago NECA’s second wave of Gears of War figures was seen at Toy Fair. Well, in honor of the announcement that the game will be released this November I thought I’d put a couple of the pictures of the figs. I also like the game a lot so it was a good excuse as any.
This second wave will consist of super jerk General RAAM, Damon Baird, Dominic Santiago (who is the co-op character for those who want to collect the player characters). Picture courtesy of Big Bad Toy Store:
As reported by me way back in August, NECA had gotten the license to make Gears of War figures. Now after long months of waiting, we finally get to see how they turned out. Big Bad Toy Store has this image on it’s pre-order page:
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themed blog The 5th Turtle revealed an image this last week of NECA’s take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
As you can see, Leonardo differs greatly from the Playmates Turtles that no doubt many of the readers of Toy Bender grew up with. That’s because he’s based on the original comic book appearance of the Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird that made them millionaires.
Reaction to this photo on the internets message boards seems to be extremely positive, so I’m going to go on an official unpopular stance by saying that while this is cool and all, Leonardo is a little more dumpy than I thought he’d be. I thought he’d be a little more streamlined like in this photo:
I can certainly understand why Playmates had changed the look of the Turtles way back in the day to make them more kid friendly. Don’t get me wrong, I like this Leonardo and NECA’s take is dead spot on to the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s just that this is one figure that really isn’t for me. My fiancee also just asked me if he was a cake, because he has the look of fondant. I couldn’t agree more and now I’m hungry for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cake.
I’m boner inducing excited about the new Alien versus Predator film. Why you ask? Even though it is being made by two guys that have never made a real film before, there’s one thing they do know, bloody, bloody killing and I can’t be any happier. This film just might be the one that everyone wanted when the dog crap first AVP film came out.
NECA’s got some Predator figs that appropriately reflect how bad ass the Predators are:
Masked
I’m mega and ultra excited for the new Aliens vs. Predator film, Aliens Versus Predator Requiem. The first one kind of blew some meaty chunks what with two of the Predators dying within the first fifteen minutes of the film, but this one shows promise. If you want to see a trailer for Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem, try this source. I have to warn you, though. There’s a lot of blood and gore. Also keep in mind that your balls will be rocked off. Don’t have a pair to lose? Well then, you’ll grow some and then they’ll be rocked off. It’s that ball rocking.
Therefore, I’m super excited to see that NECA is making figures from the film.
While McFarlane has done some amazing work with Aliens and Predators (and combinations therein) in the past, if there is one other company that could do the sculpting work on such a line justice, it’s NECA. Here’s to hoping there’s some decent articulation.
toy, toy collecting, action figure, NECA, Aliens, Aliens vs Predator
According to Toy News International, NECA has gotten the license for making Gears of War figures. In other news? NECA just got a license to print money. NECA has been making some high quality ass figures lately, so I can’t wait to see their interpretation of the overly muscled up heroes and villains of Gears of War.
My most wanted figure? The Cole Train, baby!
toy, toy collecting, action figure, video games, XBox 360, Gears of War, NECA
Not content to let other toy companies steal the show, NECA had a ton of great figures in their cases as well. I captured images of some of the best and have them here for you.
First up is the ever popular Castlevania figures. There was of course the popular vampire Alucard and Dracula representing along with Simon Belmont:
Neca recently announced a Comic-Con exclusive Simon Belmont “figure” that’s pretty interesting:
What’s great about Simon is that he’s a semi-3D representation of his classic 8 bit persona. There’s only going to be one thousand of these three inch figures made, so if you’re a huge Castlevania nut get a connection with someone going to the convention.
Yeah, I really don’t have a lot to say about this except to point and say, “Look. Neat.”
toy, toy collecting, action figure, custom, Castlevania, exclusive, video game
The pieces are falling into place and I can now officially say that I’m going to be attending the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. You might be asking yourself what that has to do with toys. Well my friend, it looks like there will be at least a few figure reveals for Hasbro and more importantly, there is going to be a plumber’s ass-load of exclusive figures.
Pimp Daddy Destro
One of the most anticipated figures of the con is Pimp Daddy Destro. PDD has Joe fans begging anyone who is going to the convention to pick them up one. I’m going on Saturday and Sunday and with the demand I’m seeing online, I don’t think I’ll get a chance to even see one. The “limit” on the figures is five, so at least 90% of buyers will stock up on their limit. Making things even more frustrating for collectors is that there are two versions of Pimp Daddy Destro, a gold headed version along with the silver headed version pictured above.
Last week it was announced that there will be a Keith Richard’s toy made from the upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. One of the reasons why you might have not seen pirate Keith yet in any of the Pirate’s toy lines is that this figure is coming through courtesy of NECA, who has personal relationships with those in the music business. I guess that answers why they have so many figures of musicians then.
Over on NECA’s MySpace page they put up some new images of their Castlevania figure series, which is in the making. The one I particularly like is Alucard:
Alucard is the star of one of the greatest games of all time, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. If you have never played it, do so. Seek out a copy of the PS1 version or download it on the XBox Live marketplace (if it’s available, I haven’t fired up my 360 in awhile) and start playing it right now. SOTN is one of three games I can blame my first couple of years worth of bad grades in college… okay it was really laziness, but it’s just easier to blame video games.
toy, toy collecting, action figure, Castlevania, video game
No, not this “Resident Evil”.
NECA has done it again, just when you think they’ve maxed out the awesome, they squirt out some more magic juice on our faces. This time they’ve got something for you video game fans with series 2 of the Resident Evil Anniversary figures.
The figures included in this line up are: Tyrant, Crimson Head Zombie, Hunter (with V crotch!!),
Licker (with bendable, poseable tongue!), a secret chase figure, and a retailer exclusive Labcoat Zombie.
Unfortunately, they didn’t put up any new pictures of the figures. I’ll keep a look out for you in case they do. They are currently planning on releasing this wave in late August after they get approval from Capcom. Until then, start stocking up on shotgun shells and herbs!
Toys, toy collecting, action figure, Resident Evil, zombie, video game, Capcom
300 is the fuggen most ball blistering movie ever, so it’s only fitting that the Spartan king from that film got some loving. King Leonides is coming to life in toy form from the fine folks at NECA. In the tradition of NECA posting a picture on their MySpace page and me posting it here so you don’t have to get a MySpace account to look at it, check this out:
If you’re a male and you don’t like 300, then you need to get your testicles examined by a health-care professional. 300 is to kickassery what Hairspray is to fat transvestites.
King Leonidas redefines the word badass. He’s so badass that he’s badass to the max by a factor of ten times a bigfoot jumping a motorcycle over sixteen flaming school buses. NECA’s figure does a pretty good job of representing his badassedness in this 12 inch tall visage. As if he already wasn’t cool enough, NECA slapped some electronics in him so he can say four phrases from the film. Righteous.
If NECA hasn’t programed him yet, here’s my suggestions for what Leonidas should say:
1. Let’s go kill some mutant giants, yo!
2. Maybe I shouldn’t have trusted the ugly hunchback who cursed my name with the one weakness in our battle plan.
3. Today we fight for Sparta. Today we fight for nipples!
4. I’m totally killing all your dudes in slow motion.
Toy, toy collecting, 300, comic book, action figure, graphic novel, NECA
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