NECA - General Thread

[TheGillMan]

See I feel completely opposite. I picked up the clean version and haven't had any problems at all. I DID have to heat up the knees, but after that, he's been moving just fine. I've swapped the hands a number of times now too...mostly because I don't know how I want to leave him displayed. He just comes with a ton of shit. But yeah, no worries moving him around. He's really fun to stick into random parts of the collection.

Nice! I'm glad to hear that these aren't issues every figure is having, and more of a rarity. I have heard horror stories of people having the right leg snap off when people go to pose him for the first time, but it seems most of those are from people who didn't know much about NECA figures, and tried to force the joint without applying heat. I just know from experience, not just with NECA, to heat any figure when it seems a joint is stuck.

After having him for a few days, I'm having fewer issues with him. I guess most of the excess paint has already flaked off (and there is only one hand where it is REALLY noticeable that paint is now missing), and after heating him up his joints aren't giving me any issues. I love the fact that the parts are completely compatible between the two versions. Since most of the paint issues I was having were with the hands, I plugged in some of the bloody ones, and I'm having fun with that. I mean, even when he is mostly clean in the films, his hands are usually dirty or bloody, so it doesn't really detract from the overall look. I put most of the "clean" accessories into his bag to fill that out, and am using the bloodied weapons with both figures, which totally works for me. Right now, my clean version is on my work desk with Bio-Exorcist Beetlejuice and HII Michael Myers. I have the "laughing" faceplate on him, and it looks like Beetlejuice just told him the crudest joke he's ever heard. Myers looks incredibly confused by it all.

I feel you on trying to figure out how you want to display him the majority of the time. He has SO many weapons, and looks great brandishing all of them! Right now my bloody one is at home, torturing a wrasslin' figure I picked up at Ross with his flail. Both of these are incredibly fun to have, and I can't wait for the Little Pale Girl set and the Santa Art to be released.