NECA - General Thread

I'm guessing they didn't show much at NYCC *because* of Horrorween.

I think we're getting quite a few more surprises this month.
 
Candyman is one I'm surprised there hasn't been an Ultimate of either. Maybe it's something to do with Tony Todd's estate, especially now that he's no longer with us, but you'd think them doing a retro figure would up the chances. But who honestly knows?
 
Candyman is one I'm surprised there hasn't been an Ultimate of either. Maybe it's something to do with Tony Todd's estate, especially now that he's no longer with us, but you'd think them doing a retro figure would up the chances. But who honestly knows?
When they did the retro Candyman, Randy was still active on Twitter. He said they would use the retro line to test the popularity of borderline characters. So if they sell well enough, they'll invest the tooling on an Ultimate version. Same thing they said with Snake Plissken, who also never made the cut.
 
When they did the retro Candyman, Randy was still active on Twitter. He said they would use the retro line to test the popularity of borderline characters. So if they sell well enough, they'll invest the tooling on an Ultimate version. Same thing they said with Snake Plissken, who also never made the cut.
And see, that kinda rubs me the wrong way. I mean, I suppose it makes sense, but I'd have to imagine that Candyman would sell at least as well as some of the other pegwarmers- Crooked Man, The Nun, Hooper from Jaws, etc. It's tricky, because I just don't care for retro style cloth figures like that, so I have no interest in the retro Candyman or Captain Blake or Herbert West, but if they made Ultimates, I'd buy every one of them. And, while not across the board, I suspect that many other collectors are the same way- that retro style is certainly an acquired taste; not everyone has nostalgia for them. So I don't think it's necessarily fair to relegate a character to a style that many collectors just don't want and then look at the sales numbers and consider them an undesirable character. In this day and age, when things are becoming more and more expensive by the second, I want something that's gonna fit in with the rest of the collection, not something that's gonna stand out for the wrong reasons. But such is how the business goes, I suppose.
 
I agree. No part of my collection is based on replicating vintage-style figures I owned as a kid. I like updated versions of them, not reproductions. And as I say all the time, I don't even like the 1:12 Collective version of clothed figure, let alone throwback versions like these. Don't own a single one.
 
I own the retros--until I don't need to.

I have John Nada, Frank, and the aliens.
I have Candyman.
I have Elvira.
I have Hatchet's Victor.

I *had* the My Bloody Valentine Miner. Then they did an Ultimate.
I *had* Matt Hooper and Quint. Then they did Ultimates.

If they did Ultimate John Nada, Candyman, Elvira, and Victor Crowley, I would no longer have the Retros--because I'd rather have something than nothing.
 
My distaste for soft goods at this scale cannot be overcome. :)
Soft goods are but and miss. Some like Mezco and the Four Horsemen are great. Hasbro and ‘retro’ style figures are not. When done well they can really add something sculpture can’t as easily replicate. When done wrong, it just looks like a big shapeless blanket suffocating the figure. I have to agree that the retros do nothing for me and I would like Ultimates of many of the characters they’ve only done in retro. Heck, I’d buy Ultimate Golden Girls but those retro outfits leave much to be desired.
 
The Golden Girls are definitely the worst of the worst when it comes to Neca's implementation of softgoods. Most of the others can be futzed to look pretty good if you've got any experience doing that with Hot Toys or anything like that, but the Golden Girls softgoods are pretty much a lost cause. I was so sure the new ones coming would have improved tailoring but it appears to be the same way.
 
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Soft goods are but and miss. Some like Mezco and the Four Horsemen are great. Hasbro and ‘retro’ style figures are not. When done well they can really add something sculpture can’t as easily replicate. When done wrong, it just looks like a big shapeless blanket suffocating the figure. I have to agree that the retros do nothing for me and I would like Ultimates of many of the characters they’ve only done in retro. Heck, I’d buy Ultimate Golden Girls but those retro outfits leave much to be desired.
See, and I specifically do not like the Mezco stuff. I don't think I've ever been impressed by a One:12 Collective figure (except the ones that don't actually have soft goods, like Iron Man), all I see are ugly seams and wrinkles everywhere. But people seem to love them. I'll never get it. Maybe it's got to do with me being more sculpt-first than other collectors, because I'll take sculpted cloth over soft goods basically every time. The materials just don't hang or move correctly at such a small scale, and I like the effort of sculpting in the wrinkles and such.
 
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I’m not big on 1:12 soft goods either. Some work, most don’t. Especially when we’re talking layers of soft goods. Thread size is almost never right, things get frumpy, and it’s usually not fun to work around. I have the Mezco Power Rangers and they’re fine, but the spandex type stuff looks better than a lot of other soft goods.
 
I've been fine with the soft goods I've gotten, but it's never been the whole figure. Usually just a cape. I don't really like the look of a lot of the ones I see though.
 
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