Toy Fair 2018 is well underway in New York with various manufacturers showing off their upcoming toys. Among them is NECA who have taken the wraps off many of their upcoming Alien and Predator action figures for 2018. We see what’s in store for the next series in their never-ending Aliens line of action figures.
Also joining them is Dutch and Linn from the old Aliens vs. Predator arcade game, Ultimate Elder: The Golden Angel Predator from the Dark Horse comic ‘Predator: 1718’ and another 2-pack featuring Ultimate versions of Bad Blood and Enforcer Predators. All figures announced will be released around October 2018. Read on for more details.
Aliens Series 13
Continuing from Series 10, Series 13 will be based on the old Kenner figures from the 1990’s and features Sgt. Apone with a bionic arm, grenades and rifle accessories. This is the first time we see a version of Apone but don’t expect a movie version as NECA still don’t have likeness rights of Al Matthews. Following on from last years Mantis and Gorilla Aliens, NECA will be releasing the Scorpion Alien and the Snake Alien. Each Xenomorph is over 9″ tall.
Dutch & Linn
NECA will release a 2-pack featuring Dutch Schaefer and Linn Kurosawa. Dutch and Linn were playable characters in the 1994 Aliens vs. Predator arcade game from Capcom. Dutch Schaefer comes with a blast effect for his huge mechanical arm, as well as backpack and interchangeable hands. Lt. Linn Kurosawa comes with sword and gun accessories.
Ultimate Elder: The Golden Angel
Ultimate Elder: The Golden Angel is based on the Predator from the Dark Horse comic ‘Predator: 1718’. The comic was a followup to the Elder Predator we saw in Predator 2 who gave the flintlock pistol to Detective Harrigan. Predator: 1718 tells the story how the Elder Predator came to have the pistol in the first place. The Predator figure comes with 3 different heads, alternate hands, a trophy necklace, smart disc, shoulder cannon, sword, and flintlock pistol. Golden Angel Elder stands 8.25” tall and features over 30 points of articulation. It also features Deluxe Collector-friendly packaging.
Ultimate Bad Blood vs Ultimate Enforcer 2-Pack
Finally. NECA will release another 2-pack featuring Bad Blood and Enforcer Predators. These were previously released in 2014 as part of Predator Series 12 (though Bad Blood was released as a standalone due to its complicated tooling). These figures were based on the 1993 Dark Horse comic book series Predator: Bad Blood. Not just a simple rerelease, these figures have been given ‘Ultimate’ bodies and exclusive accessories.
Ultimate Bad Blood and Ultimate Enforcer each have two interchangeable head sculpts: Bad Blood has a new masked head and Enforcer has a new unmasked head. The figures stand at 8″ tall and feature new, less stylized deco and over 25 points of articulation.
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But I'm not holding my breath...
Mattel has the license for most of DC's mass market 6" stuff - they likely got a little antsy after NECA released some figures centered around real-life people (Michael Keaton Batman, Superman vs Ali two-pack), and seeing NECA priming to release full-blown comic based stuff they probably said "Enough is enough" and got the lawyers involved.
There's some other examples of licensing things like that - all Funko POPs for "Star Wars" and "Marvel" are bobble-heads, Marvel Select is deliberately out of scale with Marvel Legends (and aren't sold in big-box retail stores, and have a limitation on the number of points of articulation they can have compared to Marvel Legends)
I'm waiting for those myself. The Bull was my first Kenner figure so it's one of those nostalgic things for me. I'd imagine they'll come eventually. They've got the Runner as a base for it.
It is still being released though. It's just it's now a convention exclusive thing.
Perhaps this created the licensing conflict ?
Why!? DC and Fox are water and oil? I really wanted that pack!
I think he also mentioned he was looking into other ways for people to get hold of them (as in ordering them from the website), so if you were wanting to pick them up it might be good to keep an eye out for news on that front.
Was this cancellation already known about. I can’t remember seeing this.
Too much Goodness on those shelves!
Love the NECA dog aliens surrounding their MacFarlane counterpart. "Oooh... Lookit him! He's one of us; but not one of us!..Ahhh!"
Any chance of one day making a custom Working Joe? NECA's one big omission.
-Windebieste.
the space jockey is an amazing, beautiful, large piece
i love it, would've preferred plastic to foam, but apparently that would've cost a ton more?
great piece, it seems overpriced, surprised i've never seen it on any kind of discount anywhere at all ever...
if you think you might enjoy it? you will
these are where they hang out when "off duty"
i love the setup, but i have no room for future figures...will require some moving around...lots
i'll save the actual aliens for last
first off...the marines
i am crazy addicted to army building and i LOVE aliens...
the marines
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only 1 custom marine in this picture, a sergeant with a eye patch and a mean attitude...
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i see 6 more custom marines in this picture, these are some of my favorite
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some of my movie figures (custom apone, gorman)
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the rest of my movie figures (havent started on ferro, but that will be the base body, some others not finished) custom crowe, dietrich, wierzbowski, drake, spunkmeyer, and ferro in progress
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smart gunners, 3 more customs
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some of my favorite marines, 10 more custom marines
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9 more custom marines (not counting dutch, bishop, or stargate figure used as a lt)
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8 more custom marines, not counting commando or stargate figure used as another lt
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5 more custom marines
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2 more custom marines
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human space suited figures, several custom prometheus figures
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misc extra figures and storage shelf
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weyland yutani corporation, android facility, vickers and a few different davids
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charles weyland thanking burke for the specimens
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more weyland yutani research
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the engineers
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and now...the aliens
the eggs
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the nursery? (accessories)
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the queens (use mcfarlane queen, about the size of a neca alien, as a praetorian)
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big chap and isolation figures
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ridged head aliens
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the red alien hive
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the dog aliens
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alien resurrection and avp aliens
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covenant and burke 2 pack aliens
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some of the 1 off aliens
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the kenner aliens
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neomorphs and white aliens
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battle damaged aliens/sentry guns
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misc extra aliens shelf
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the space jockey!!
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I agree about the scorpion alien being the closest thing to Acheron Xeno. Wildboar had a good head and grin shape.
The neca scorpion Alien looks so great then suddenly drops to total disappointing everytime I think about it. . It's got those Goddamned Alien Resurrection fingers. You know the ones that became a permanent part of the design even after the Alien wasnt supoosed to look like a fleshy dino insect piece of crap.
Fine for resurrection no complaints there. Atleast it made some kind of sense.
Weird little changes along the way have added up to major shifts in design and presence. Id go on. But whats another voice bitching about his fetish in a symphony of blind nasal woe
Mind you, I do like what NECA have been doing with their Kenner tribute series and bringing a modern interpretation to them. NECA are treating the 1990s range of figures with respect to the source material. It shows and it works. That's where NECA are making excellent inroads - even if the Kenner source material itself is more than goofy at times.
-Windebieste.
The rest of Kenner's range of ALIENS figures were too outlandish to be taken seriously, as far as I was concerned. I don't have many of those. Just the blue Vicious Attack Warrior, the Queen (with pneumatic tongue), the AvP Alien and the Mantis Alien (which I bought recently, still on card, cheap.)
Other than that, I always considered this range of Kenner figures to be kid's stupid shit. Never really fond of them. Nonetheless, today I regard them as Classic toys. I still think they're kid's stupid shit but their popularity is undeniable.
That's just my personal opinion, though. I think the 1990's Kenner ALIENS range did a lot to trivialise ALIEN as a Property. As has many of the comics and some of the shittier video games released in the last 2 decades.
-Windebieste.
I apologize for the caps, it wasn´t my intention to upset you. Seriously.
About the figures, never in my life I even saw a Kenner figure but the "homage" figures are superb; a couple of days ago I got the Gorilla Alien by Neca and it´s fabulous. Now my next target is the Mantis Alien, regarding the Dutch and Linn Kurosawa figures, gosh I twitted and posted a lot of request to Neca to make it. Never say never, you never know
While I don't appreciate the ALL CAPS RESPONSE, thank you for catching this. I've corrected this.
I am absolutely loving that Kenner wave! So stocked to me able to get updated versions of the Snake and Scorpion. Even Apone looks great - and I'm not that massive a fan of NECA's human figures!
Also loving the arcade Dutch and Linn. Love them keeping that cell shaded paint scheme. It works really well and feels really on theme.
I'm not sure I can say enough about how much I appreciate NECA just going all out with the various designs and into the EU. It's just great.
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Quote: "NECA will release a 2-pack featuring Dutch Schaefer and Linn Kurosawa. Dutch and Linn were playable characters in the 1994 Aliens vs. Predator arcade game from Konami. Dutch Schaefer comes with a blast effect for his huge mechanical arm, as well as backpack and interchangeable hands. Lt. Linn Kurosawa comes with sword and gun accessories."
FIX IT!
Yep, looks like that was indeed the loophole and that no movie version Apone figure will be coming.
However....
Where are the Ultimate 86 Alien Warrior figures?
Was looking at pictures of my these last summer.
Anyone know what the deal is?
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