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.
Awesome! Though I'm bummed that that's getting released before the arcade aliens. Still, lots of new alien and pred figures since December, I'm liking this pace.
http://necaonline.com/events/2019-02/
February 19th! Cannot wait!
colouration is more realistic and
less expensive, as it was £30 by
itself, alongside a larger version
no one asked for. As for the Queen,
I consider that Queen "Chestburster"
less of a Chestburster and more so
- akin to the Adolescent Neomorph.
I really love how spider-like it is, it's
really evocative of the way it moves
as JC wished the Queen to in Aliens.
The Bambi Burster's what I adore and
ultimately what I'm getting the set for,
I won't turn my nose up at Spike- but I
would have preferred something else.
If they did some kind of diorama of the Ripley clones I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I'm digging it ... could be the first NECA figurines I'd buy since a while.
The only reservation is lack of visible articulation?
I never thought of that when I first saw this. Awesome idea. That's a story in of itself.
How cool would it be if they did a Resurrection accessory set consisting of the seven failed Ripley clones? That awesome scene would make such a great display.
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Riiiiight, I forgot about this bull. Still she had no additional arms.
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If you count Chet...
Then there are the Praetorians too.
The Queen looks a little too...
"sculpted" a little McFarlane-y.
Doesn't make it realistic,
but does give it a certain
nostalgic appeal to me.
Randy stated today that there is a fourth "surprise" piece in this pack he will reveal next week.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff291%2Fsabres21768%2FEB59F2AF-024F-4BCA-A06A-56A353845B68.jpeg&hash=4cea1b9ef069b58403ad81086329f87be033f639
Its got the best neck articulation of necas aliens and i cant pass that up
https://i.imgur.com/x41mBdt.jpg
Well that's good to know. Any reason why BBTS gets their stuff that much later than everyone else?
The Predator figures are coming out on Monday.
No release date for the 3 Alien figures or the human 2 pack yet...I expect them within the next 2 months.
BBTS will get them about 4-6 weeks after their actual release.
Just FYI.
It's not uncommon for NECA to kinda fall behind projected release date for things. Be patient is all I can say. BBTS is great though, they're pretty quick as soon as they receive product to get it out to you if you preordered it.
I expect they will make more figures for the game, sooner or later. They are gonna be making more of the AVP 2010 preds because most of them just need a new head. Neca always uses every new sculpt to the fullest.
I'm guessing they're gonna try and release Dark, Rookie and 6 in the same year. 2020 would be my earliest guess, though 2021 maybe more probable.
Hopefully one day, NECA will do the honors.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364527/
I remember reading a reply from NECA on twitter asking about a flying queen and they said it was definitely something they wanted to do. So here's hoping!
What's weird is they did a multi-player character skin for a predator (serpant hunter) but not the actual main character of the game. And only that one character from the game. I would like to see them make more of the characters. Such as Dark, Rookie, and the Specimen 6 I mentioned. I mean if they are remaking old kenner preds at Neca I'm sure they can do these.
They seem to be very interested in releasing the lesser known characters.
-Windebieste.