It’s been known for some time that NECA would be producing action figures for Alien: Covenant (and also The Predator if you weren’t aware!) Those figures have been kept tightly under-wraps, though.
In addition to releasing their Kenner Private Vasquez figure, NECA and 20th Century Fox are celebrating Alien Day by unveiling a part of their upcoming Alien: Covenant line!
NECA will also be producing a Neomorph figure (currently being called New Creature in NECA’s releases) but they wont be releasing any images or information on that figure until Alien: Covenant’s US release.
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Update #1 – Another posed picture of the Alien: Covenant Xenomorph figure was released via NECA’s Twitter account.
I might get him, and I'll definitely grab the xeno and the creature pack.
I want the different eggs for my hive, something I always liked about the original PROM script was the different face huggers, between these eggs and the kenner line I'll have plenty of variety
Neomorph awesomeness...awaits!
I'll be looking forward to the news when I get out of bed.
-Windebieste.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/865252619501133824
-Windebieste.
Terminator Salvation had some similar stuff happen with its merchandise - the Moto-Terminator motorcycles got redesigned partway through production so the toy version that got released ended up not looking like the on-screen version.
NECA also had it sprung on them late in the day as well that the release date had moved.
Seems like it's based on the practical stand-in suit on set. Not representing the final design it seems.
Yep. Got it. https://twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/864240133511446529
I wonder what the other xeno is that NECA has made? Is it the same one, but only damaged?
I agree here..out of my 2 Aliens, 17 Predators and 23 marines I've only had 3 Aliens with QC issues. Those 3 are two of my first brown warriors and Grid from the AVP line. They all had issues with their legs not staying together.
One average my experience with NECA is nothing but good/positive, but I have seen their QC issues (paint wise) with their new Hicks/Hudson two pack. To me it does seem like they dropped the ball there, luckily the two packs I had bought had none of these paint issues.
I went through three Ultimate City Hunter's that were broken. I bought one Young Blood that had a split wrist. I bought an Elder Predator that has a leg issue. I have DC, Marvel, and Star Wars figures and I've never ran into the amount of issues that I have had with NECA. I want to keep collecting NECA figures, especially the Alien and Predator lines. They look great, but they have some serious QA issues that need to be dealt with.
"Due to the fragile nature of NECA Collectibles we cannot accept returns on opened product. We inspect each figure before sending it out, but figures can be damaged in transit. Please make sure to inspect your figure for damages BEFORE opening it."
A company wouldn't have that disclaimer unless they were previously getting too many returns to deal with.
Calling NECA out for widely reported quality control and breakage issues doesn't automatically make someone a hater. Most people who are criticizing the issues ultimately just want NECA to have solid products, which shouldn't be too much to ask of any company.
Considering the price point and range of figures NECA make, They're pretty solid. For what amounts to glorified toys, they make good stuff overall.
(Although my Stompy figure has rickets now due to the heat of last Summer bending his legs - but I bet that's probably solved with a nice hot bath and a quick shove into the freezer for 15 minutes.)
-Windebieste.
This is mainly people jumping on the hate bandwagon.
I'm wondering if they put more effort into the neomorph than they did with the regular xeno? I don't hate the other figure, but it's got problems.
https://www.woozymoo.com/collections/neca
I keep my figures in the box so I haven't experienced any figures falling apart. I wouldn't doubt it though.
https://i0.wp.com/mcnamarawrites.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Ages5andUp.jpg
Not only does 'ALIEN' have a long history of delivering toys based on R-rated movies deemed suitable for children of your nephew's age group; but the first film actually started this trend all the way back in 1979.
-Windebieste.
-Windebieste.
That's why I never take my NECA stuff out of the boxes
The figures look great. The accessories are always interesting and add to the figure. I'm really careful with them for fear of them breaking.
I would take sturdiness over detail any day if I was planning on taking them out of the box.
I've also read on here that the NECA creature figures seem to break more often than the human ones. Have you experienced that?
:/
This is way too common.
I've bought three City Hunter Predator's that were all broken. The first one's arm wouldn't stay on. The second one's computer lid was broken. The same with the third with an added bonus of a broken staff and they didn't remove enough of the plastic on the disk.
Their quality control really does leave something to be desired.
Nice, I'll have to check them out. I must confess I have several NECA figures from the Alien series but I haven't taken any out of the box yet. Now I probably won't be doing that lol.
http://news.toyark.com/2016/02/12/kotobukiya-big-chap-alien-artfx-statue-191953
Kotobukiya has the best sculpts of the alien creature, ever.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.toyark.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F4%2F2016%2F02%2FKoto-Big-Chap-Alien-Statue-001.jpg&hash=dd8d34ee87817fa4c58a7038812746fcb3592e4d
NECA makes cheap toys that more often than not break as soon as you take them out of the box. Their quality control is horrible.
And every once in a while they put out really poorly sculpted toys like the Covenant Xeno (and their Shin-Godzilla figure lol).
I dont think it's been said..
but the Covenant Xeno that NECA is putting out is clearly
based on an early design of the creature,
It's the one they seem to have used for the animatronic. (There's a pic of the animatronic out there.)
Ridley seems to have changed his mind about the design of the creature's shoulders
and seems to have gone with a fully cgi creation.
NECA is saying that their toy is "screen accurate".
Not anymore.
I wonder why they're releasing the new Alien but they haven't released the Neomorph pics even though its presence has been all over the trailers and there's even a full body still of it crouching over Rosenthal...