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REVIEW: NECA’S BATMAN/ALIENS & GREEN LANTERN/PREDATOR TWO-PACKS
This week, we’re looking at the NYCC 2019 exclusive two-packs from NECA, that included a Batman figure with a Joker Alien, and a Green Lantern with a Yellow Lantern Predator!
TOYFARCE REVIEWS:
NECA’S BATMAN/ALIENS & GREEN LANTERN/PREDATOR TWO-PACKS!
It’s Wednesday, you know what that means… ToyFarce reviews!
This week, we’re looking at the NYCC 2019 exclusive two-packs from NECA, that included a Batman figure with a Joker Alien, and a Green Lantern with a Yellow Lantern Predator! I had been on the lookout for those sets since they were announced. They were inevitably all scalped on eBay and people wanted over $200 for each set for a while, until one day, they started to randomly pop up at Walmart stores during 2020. This led to the prices going a bit down, and after waiting for a while, I found someone in a Facebook group that would sell them at a reasonable price (I still overpaid, but they were only $15-20 more than retail, which was $59,99).
The packaging are some of the most sober ones i’ve seen. A simple black box with logos on the front. No text, no pictures, nothing else.
When NECA made DC Comics figures… and did it really well!
First off, the Batman and Aliens set. I knew I wanted that set since I first saw that Batman figure. It’s a hell of a nice Batman figure! At the time, DC Collectibles/Direct and Mattel were the only ones in town doing DC figures, so seeing that NECA version was a nice surprise. Then, there is that Joker-looking Xenomorph, which is better than having a basic, normal Xenomorph! I’ll take a variation of the normal Xenomorph any day!
Basic packaging is basic.
The cape on that Batman figure has a great feel to it. DC Collectibles ended up doing a similar one on the Batman vs TMNT figures.
That Caped Crusader is JACKED! #proteinshake
Ssssssmile!
The face-off
You have bad breath.
You wanna hear a ‘knock knock’ joke?
BE GONE!
HISSSSSS!
The Green Lantern/Predator set ended up being the most interesting one, in the sense that it not only gave us a great Hal Jordan figure, but also a Yellow Lantern Predator, which would be terrifying, when you think about it. The Yellow Lantern corps’ emotion being fear, the Predator would be a great asset for them.
Both figures come with various accessories, green and yellow constructs from their rings.
In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night… No Evil shall escape my sight… Let those who worship Evil’s might… Beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!
In Blackest Day, in Brightest Night… Beware your fears made into light…
Let those who try to stop what’s right… Burn like his power, Sinestro’s might!
One of the accessories, John Stewart’s head, gives you an extra figure for the set!
Respect social distancing!
ROAAAAAAAAAR!
Nice ring!
That doesn’t look very efficient…
Green vs Yellow… fight!
EN GARDE!
I would lie if I said I wanted those sets for the Alien and Predator figures over the DC Comics ones, but in the end, both figures in each set ended up being great. NECA still did an awesome job with those DC figures. I’d love them to revisit that down the line. There is also an ‘Armored Batman’ and Predator, and a Superman with a normal Xenomorph two-packs, which I might get someday, but those were really my priority, considering Batman and Green Lantern are my favorite characters.
Comparison with the DC Essentials Batman, and the McFarlane Toys Batman (Detective Comics 1000) which all came out within a year.
What? You don’t like this makeover? I spared no expense!
DC Essentials Hal Jordan and NECA Hal Jordan
With that ring, you make anything appear in solid light. It doesn’t have to be your own weapons, you can do anything! An elephant, a balloon, whatever you want!
More news at 11:00… In Brightest day, in Blackest night…
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ALIEN DAY REVIEW: NECA’S ALIEN ULTIMATE “BIG CHAP” + SDCC EXCLUSIVE GLOW-IN-THE-DARK VERSION
Today is April, 26th, which means it’s Alien Day!
ALIEN DAY REVIEW:
NECA’S ALIEN ULTIMATE “BIG CHAP” + SDCC EXCLUSIVE GLOW-IN-THE-DARK VERSION!
Today is April, 26th, which means it’s Alien Day. Alien Day is celebrated by fans worldwide every year on April, 26th (4/26), which refers to LV-426, one of the three moons orbiting Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system, the same moon on which the UNSCC Nostromo landed in 2122 (or 1979, for us). Every year, a ton of new merch is announced for Alien Day: new action figures, books, t-shirts,... for all fans of Xenomorphs (or Weyland-Yutani) around the world.
And for that occasion, I picked the NECA Alien Ultimate “Big Chap” and its SDCC Glow-in-the-dark counterpart from my (depression) pile and finally opened them. Here are the pics!
(That nearly went weird…)
More news at 11:00… GAME OVER, MAN, GAME OVER!
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SUPER7: “GO BIG *AND* GO HOME!” - MORE HUGE PLAYSETS TO COME?!
One thing is for sure, collectors will need to make a lot of space for all the upcoming huge toys!
BREAKING NEWS:
SUPER7: “GO BIG *AND* GO HOME!” - MORE HUGE PLAYSETS TO COME?!
Last year, Super7 became the number 1 reason why couples are arguing after releasing the HUGE Masters of the Universe Snake Mountain playset, a huge playset that is in scale with their MOTU Classics line. Hundreds of collectors are still in the doghouse with their significant other after bringing home that enormous beast of a playset.
Then, last week, it was the turn of the Thundercats franchise to get their own huge playset, with their vehicle, the ThunderTank, which makes the Thundercats Ultimate figures look like they are 3”3/4 scale next to it.
ToyFarce got the intel (probably a disgruntled employee, again) that for Super7, “This is only the beginning!”. They are now testing the waters, and after seeing that Snake Mountain was VERY popular, and that the early ReActions (pun absolutely intended) to the ThunderTank are that, albeit a bit on the expensive side, most Thundercats fan will definitely get it, the sky is now the limit for Super7, who has a lot of awesome franchises to play with, and their enormous playsets! Can you imagine all the vehicles for the Ultimates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line, for example?
Here is some speculation of what may or may not come!
ALIEN’S USCSS NOSTROMO PLAYSET:
A Nostromo playset, scaled for the ReAction figures line would probably barely fit in our collection rooms, but that does not seem to have stopped Super7 before, and a lot of people would still buy it! Bring it on!
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION USS ENTERPRISE NCC 1701-D
Even bigger, imagine a spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-D that would scale with the freshly announced Star Trek: The Next Generation ReAction figures! We are at least getting for sure a bridge and/or transporter room playsets! Can’t wait!
DISNEY’S THE HAUNTED MANSION (THE ACTUAL MANSION!!)
Can you imagine, a replica of the mansion, with all the best parts of the ride included in it? The stretching elevator? Check. The doom buggies? CHECK. The ballroom with dancing ghosts? CHECK! (This is just wishful thinking, but damn, I want that, now…). I’d actually go for the Disney Land Paris version of the Haunted Mansion (or Phantom Manor), which, to me, looks creepier!
Also, Super7 just announced that they landed the classic Godzilla license for toys… Can you already see a Godzilla scaled to the ReAction figures? That thing would take all the space in your living room… and you couldn’t be happier about it!
One thing is for sure, collectors will need to make a lot of space for all the upcoming huge toys! Between the Super7 playsets and HasLab’s Unicron, the Sentinel and the Razor Crest, we are all collectively going to need bigger homes.
More news at 11:00… GO BIG!
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EVEN MORE IMPROVEMENTS COMING FROM NECA?!
After the disaster that was the online pre-order and availability of the TMNT Casey Jones and Undercover Raphael, and the presumed bots and scalpers getting all the TMNT Metalhead and Casey Jones/Foot Soldiers two-pack, collectors and fans worldwide took to social media to ask NECA to do something.
BREAKING NEWS:
EVEN MORE IMPROVEMENTS COMING FROM NECA?!
COVID-19 - AS LOCKDOWN ENDS, GROUPS OF 10 FIGURES ALLOWED TO BE DISPLAYED ON SAME SHELF
In case you missed it, there's been a global pandemic hitting earth over the last few months.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
COVID-19 - AS LOCKDOWN ENDS, GROUPS OF 10 FIGURES ALLOWED TO BE DISPLAYED ON SAME SHELF
YOUNG ARTIST LANDS DREAM JOB AS LEAD TOY DESIGNER FOR NECA!
What started as a joke to make his fellow action figure collectors laugh ended up changing a person's life entirely.
FEATURED STORY:
YOUNG ARTIST LANDS DREAM JOB AS LEAD TOY DESIGNER FOR NECA!
What started as a joke to make his fellow action figure collectors laugh ended up changing a person's life entirely. This is the story of Daniel Pepall, who started making mash-ups of popular action figures just for fun, until one day, the American toy maker NECA flew an helicopter to his house with suicases full of money, and offered him his dream job.
ToyFarce News managed to get an exclusive interview with the next big thing in the world of toys and collectibles.
ToyFarce News:
Hi Daniel, and thank you so much for allowing us to chat with you. We understand you're pretty busy now. By the way, congratulations on the awesome job at NECA! You must be pretty excited!
Daniel:
Well, yeah! Some guy called Randy turned up at my door with a face mask on and said that he owned NECA. I thought he was going to file a legal case against me, as it's not often a helicopter pulls up outside your house, and he looked pretty angry, but that was just because I tried to shake his hand and he was practicing social distancing... He said he was a huge fan of my Work, he asked me if I would tidy up the design of the boxes of the new 'Turtles in time' line, as everyone thinks they suck. Then, he said he liked my fresh hip hop happening toy ideas and offered me a job with a pretty large wad of cash up front (I plan on spending it on neca Figures anyway, as I get a 5% staff discount on them now). So that was cool!
TFN:
Let's rewind a little if that is okay with you: How did you get started on those 'figure mash-ups'? Where did your inspiration come from?
Daniel:
NECA keep remoulding, rebranding and repainting old lines, so I thought it would be funny to come up with mash-up designs mocking the NECA way... though Randy said he only did that to make extra cash in order to buy up more franchises, and also because he and his team have become pretty one dimensional when it comes to ideas... His words, not mine!
TFN:
Now that you are taking over, what are your plans for NECA action figures in the future? Are there some wacky, fun ideas on the horizon, or should we expect them to still only rely on old Kenner designs? They haven't made the Flying Alien Queen or the Aliens Space Marine ATAX with Alien Disguise Gear yet...
Daniel:
I have been told that we have to continue with the Kenner line. However, he didn't say which Kenner line, and Star Wars was obviously the best line kenner ever did, so I think we will be doing a bit of Star Wars/Alien mash-up, and also a Predator/Star Wars mash-up line... We're also going to be releasing some figures from the classic movie 'Hook', starring Robin Williams...
TFN:
We would love to see a Dustin Hoffman 'Captain Hook' figure from NECA!!
Daniel:
Also, the 'Golden Girls' line was so successful that there is going to be a 'chick-flick' line, so you can expect figures from 'Pretty Woman', 'The Bodyguard', 'Coyote Ugly', 'Dangerous Minds', 'When Harry met Sally' and 'Bridget Jones', to name a few. Randy said he loves those films and feels those lines will sell well. Although, with me in there, I hope to be able to release some cool stuff that nobody has thought of going after the rights on, but I will keep those quiet for the time being...
TFN:
Final question, as we wouldn't want to take too much of your valuable time: Which one of your mash-ups was your favorite?
Daniel:
I think I would like to own the Teenage Mutant Ninja Gremlins figure, personally... I just love the Ninja Turtles and Gremlins!
TFN:
We personnally loved the Gremlien! Such a concept! "In space, no one can hear you scream GIZMO, CACA!". Brilliant!
ToyFarce News would like to thank Daniel for this interview and can't wait to see what figures will be announced next! You can find more of Daniel's work on the Facebook group: "neca N.e.c.a fan and social group".
More news at 11:00...
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ALIEN DAY - NECA "RAINBOW WARRIOR ALIENS 6-PACK" REVEAL DERAILED DUE TO MISSING TRUCK ?!
First of all, ToyFarce News want to wish everyone a (slightly delayed) happy Alien Day!
BREAKING NEWS:
ALIEN DAY - NECA "RAINBOW WARRIOR ALIENS 6-PACK" REVEAL DERAILED DUE TO MISSING TRUCK ?!
First of all, ToyFarce News want to wish everyone a (slightly delayed) happy Alien Day!
Alien Day is celebrated by fans worldwide every year on April, 26th (4/26), which refers to LV-426, one of the three moons orbiting Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system, the same moon on which the UNSCC Nostromo landed in 2122 (or 1979, for us). Every year, a ton of new merch is announced for Alien Day: new action figures, books, t-shirts,... for all fans of Xenomorphs (or Weyland-Yutani) around the world.
This year , though, it didn't go as planned for American toy manufacturer NECA, who was planning to reveal their brand new 'Rainbow Warrior Aliens 6-pack'. The truck, that was supposed to bring the prototypes to the reveal event that was going to be streamed online, allegedly disappeared after being redirected when it received a mysterious distress call, from an unknown location. It is standard protocol for NECA (and Weyland-Yutani) to respond to distress calls. The truck was later located in a dark cave underground, but the driver could not be found at time of writing.
The action figure prototypes had also vanished, but large amounts of goo were present on the driver seat and the back of the truck, while a large, life size, wide-open, (empty) Alien egg was found near the truck... The egg was not part of the list of deliveries, and NECA representatives seemed puzzled about the presence of said egg. However, they have stated that they want the driver to be found, and want to insure the return of the driver, for analysis. All other considerations are secondary at this time. We will keep you updated if we hear more.
The figures should be available on NECA's website under 'Special Pre-Order 937' very soon.
In the meantime, we hope you had a great Alien Day, rewatched the classic movies, dusted your Xenomorph figures, gave an offering to the Xenomorph Queen, and stayed home, like a facehugger inside its egg. The facehuggers are professionals when it comes to isolation and can teach us a thing or two about staying in during quarantine...
More news at 11:00...
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