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Yep...and just like that, the Sideshow 8" monsters are now obsolete.
As much as I liked the Sideshow sculpts, they were terrible toys. Barely poseable statues with poorly designed articulation that was basically worthless. And the last series was even worse. The legs didn't even move on those.
And NECA will be producing Hammer action figures as well? I'm swooning over here...Comment
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Yep...and just like that, the Sideshow 8" monsters are now obsolete.
As much as I liked the Sideshow sculpts, they were terrible toys. Barely poseable statues with poorly designed articulation that was basically worthless. And the last series was even worse. The legs didn't even move on those.
And NECA will be producing Hammer action figures as well? I'm swooning over here...Comment
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Wow! That would be incredible Chris. I know they're doing the masks, buttons, and so forth at the moment (some of which are brilliant at their price point). But I would LOVE to see them take a stab at the 12 inch cloth figures. I know they're entering that arena with the Michael Myers figures from each film. I'm actually collecting those at the moment because I love the poster art on the boxes and the relatively faithful sculpts to those individual movies. Not Hot Toys by any stretch but quite good for the price point. This is fun news. Thanks for the heads up Chris. But to have Mego doing the eight inch retro cloth and Neca doing the six inch scale is by itself a dream come true. Time to assess the collection and see what needs to move out. These will be keepers.Comment
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kinda seems to cancel out the 12" action figure announcement or unless they're gonna do both (?)Comment
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Can't argue that the sculpting isn't perfect, but everything I have seen so far here and on UMA points to Sideshow like hard statues and not clothed action figures.
But it's fantastic to see monster stuff taking center stage in multiple formats by multiple toys companies.
Can't help but think this may largely be due to Mego and other companies watching the success Mego is enjoying with it's monster figure line.LOOK
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Nah, the powers that be at NECA mentioned in interviews several years ago their plan to release UM after Diamonds "Select" line had sold through, and ToTS stated they had the 12 inch articulated license a couple of years ago. If anything its Super7 succeeding with 3.75 5PoA at $18 per and being willing to do ultimates has likely pushed NECA into being sure not to give up ground. Mego came to UM late, but have been able to qucikly get them to market (please, no comments about issues with distro), if anything it's NECA's short sightedness at not recognizing Mego as a contender that left the retro-cloth line on the table. All IMO, of course.Comment
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Would seem to me that this current plethora of UM merch is due to Universal lowering it's licensing cost especially with more than several companies jumping on the bandwagon to manufacture toys and such.Comment
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More has been revealed, looks great. But I'd like to see a color version, or this B&W version, in color photos. Which I'm not sure we've actually seen. Figure is B&W but the photos also look to have been tinted to B&W.
I dig the multiple heads!
Can't really give Mego credit for reviving UM, DST just did an incredible line of them a couple years ago. Far more vast and expansive than Mego.Comment
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NECA just teased the Mummy too. Very exciting times for UM collectors. Just hope they can get Lugosi's likeness for Drac.Comment
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