NECA goes...Mego?!

[Dannyc]

BBTS have already added tariff fees into their price and there's always the chance the price could be a little lower when they actually have it in stock. I've had that happen with some preorders this past year.

[wise guy]

This caused me to check the NECA store again just now, and you're totally correct: now most of the figures are not sold out and are listed at $37.99 each. And the layout of the storefront is now altered very slightly, but distinctly. Not at all sure what happened....

I have payed more on some McFarlane Figures . If these are turn out pretty good than I 'm getting a Batman and Entertainment Earth has Sinestro. BBTS has let me know about a possible lower price with the Tariff thing

[Sabin]

is Sinestro up for Pre-order yet? i don’t see him listed

[CrimsonGhost]

Picked up the 89 Batman and have the other two Batmen (Batmans?) on preorder. The 66 Batman looks pretty good to me!

[wise guy]

Yesterday EE had pics of Sinestro with the other DC and today no pic . What up ? It's possible that was a Mcfarlane Sinestro that got mixed in with pics
Theres SDCC stuff getting shown . Somebody keeps ripping open Neca Batman 89 figures because I found 2 today at 2 seperate Walmarts

[Dannyc]

I was watching one of the Neca SDCC walkthroughs and saw that they have more live action DC figures planned. So going off past quarter scale and 7 inch releases...potentially Bale, Ledger, Cavill and Burt Ward. They also mentioned more comic ones as well...considering that they already went through all their Djordje Djokovic headsculpts, I wonder if they're going to get him to sculpt more comic style heads...hopefully ones that stylistically go better with the rest of the figures.

[wise guy]

I switched my order to Neca store the price was $37.99 ea and they did'nt have a tariff warning but payed for it now. Neca should do 8" cloth retros of the Phantom and Flash Gordon if they still have rights from 7" Defenders of the Earth line

[wise guy]

this sold out in the first 30 minutesof the first day at SDCC 2026
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this Neca 8 " cloth retro sold for $279.00 on Ebay

[TrekStar]

Neca has some pretty amazing detailed characters, I myself haven’t collected any of Neca figures, but some of there stuff is eye catching for sure.

[wise guy]

Target had a 7" Ming the Merciless from Neca today so if they have the rights than they need a 8" cloth retro of this

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The greatest 8" cloth retro non mego ever made in my opinion . I still have 3 of him and he is reason that I got into non vintage cloth retro collecting in 2008

[Dannyc]

I'll just put this out there since I believe Neca still has the D&D license: reuse 7 inch Warduke and Strongheart for mego-style figures.

[TheNewGiJoeWithKungFuGrip]

this sold out in the first 30 minutesof the first day at SDCC 2026
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this Neca 8 " cloth retro sold for $279.00 on Ebay

That's a Mezco figure my dude.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Target had a 7" Ming the Merciless from Neca today so if they have the rights than they need a 8" cloth retro of this

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The greatest 8" cloth retro non mego ever made in my opinion . I still have 3 of him and he is reason that I got into non vintage cloth retro collecting in 2008

I did the art and designed the packaging for that. Always happy to see it come up.

[wise guy]

That's a Mezco figure my dude.

I saw it on a Toy collectors preview they said it was Neca and my excitement took over thanks for correction

[markp67]

I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but I don't like the looks of most of these. NECA is just reusing sculpts from previous releases and enlarging them. The comic Superman, Batman and Green Lanterns were created for 7" two packs with the heroes vs. Aliens and Predators. The sculpting on those all plastic figures were hyper-stylized and overly muscular, kind of like modern Total Justice figures. The big jutting jaws don't seem to jibe with the smooth cloth Mego aesthetic. Adam West and Christopher Reeve are reuses from the 7" and 18" figures NECA initially released nearly a decade ago. The West cowl is way too loose around his neck, and the Reeve sculpt looks very bland and outdated compared to a more modern offerings.

I should be really excited for these, but there's just something off about each of them that makes me pause. Maybe the final figures will work better.

Agreed. I think they're ugly. But then again, I'm not their target customer. There's nothing special about the 8" format to me, it's the charm of Mego figures that makes it special. To me, the NECA figures are just slightly enlarged action figures that have the standard angry/grim facial expressions (well, except for the Adam West Batman, I guess). Given a choice between these and new DC stuff from Mego, I'd pick Mego 100% of the time. I have zero interest in these.