Toy Bender

Edward Cullen is back and this time he brought his girlfriend whom he creepily obsesses over. That’s right, fans of the book series and the movie Twilight can get their hands on a two pack from NECA featuring everyone’s favorite ugly vampire Edward and his dopey girlfriend Bella.

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Gears of War 2 was one of my favorite games of last year, until Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 took over my life. Still, I can burn away hours on Horde mode, the multiplayer extravaganza that has you and your friends mowing down wave after wave of enemies, very easily since it’s so friggen fun. This upcoming two character set from NECA captures the brutal fun found in chainsawing your enemies to death, something that happens quite often in the game:

Oh that’s some sweet sauce. These figures are part of series three which also include a new Marcus Fenix, a COG soldier, a Theron Palace Guard, a Grappler, and a Cyclops.

Personally, I still need to get Cole before my life is complete. Oh sweet Cole, you complete me.

Thanks to Kotaku

When animals come into contact with radioactive material, the results usually aren’t so good. That’s why it takes kind of a leap of logic to accept that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wouldn’t look like hideous freaks. This statue (or action figure with old school McFarlane articulation) is an attempt to show how disgusting a Mutant Ninja Turtle might look like:

Yeah, that’s pretty friggen gross and certainly a far cry from the super cute versions of the turtles found in the original cartoons and action figures by Playmates.

By the way, is anyone here a big Ninja Turtle fan? I know that a lot of people are hot for the NECA figures, but are any of you buying the regular line of figures? I thought about buying Shedder’s daughter after seeing TMNT, then I didn’t. Yeah I know, great story.

Thanks to: Slashfilm

I recently ran across a posting on Capcom’s blog showing off a prototype action figure from the upcoming Bionic Commando game. Even though he’s the “new” version of the character and not the classic commando (notice the dreadlocks), he’s a pretty kick ass figure. I love the detailing on his super robot arm, that of course allows him to swing around like Spider-Man.

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Sigh, another day where I miss Comic Con. Bah humbug. Well, there’s still tons to cover. I figure that I can go over a few of the cool items that I’ve seen on the interwebs. I plan on doing more detailed posts on particular toys I really like if I can get some pictures of them later. If you noticed anything of note so far, drop me a line in the comments.

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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!

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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:

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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:

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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

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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.

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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!

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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:

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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.”

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