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NECAs Facebook said they would be shipping in the next week or two. Looking forward to these becoming available.

Charlie

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Even thought the "game over" Hudson face was captured so amazingly, I have to say the "You want some of this?!" face is going to be the one I am most pleased with on the ol' shelf.

I hate the concept of tweaking minor things to sell the same figure twice, but I'll be buying both versions. At least one of each of both versions in fact. I hate being a sucker, but Neca knows which buttons to push and they got me!

I hear ya bigbisont. Neca is going to be cutting into my prop budget!!

Charlie

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"There is a clause in the contract which specifically states any systematized transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated. On penalty of total forfeiture of shares. No money."

Looks like we're getting apone too.

Unfortunately a fellow on SSF has been in touch with Randy on Twitter and Randy was quite clear that they are not interested in paying for Al Mathews's likeness. "Wouldnt work" he said. It could be that he is playing it cool in hopes of a bigger surprise...but I fear the worst.

This was after Neca said Goldstein wouldnt allow her likeness, then Jeannette responded that Neca has never even contacted her. It appears to me Neca is writing off the 'non-stars' without making an effort, citing the cost of of the license on top of likeness. Very unfortunate and frustrating.

So to recap, in case anyone needed a summery of the last few pages and current gossip!:

Series 1 (shipping some time between next week and July 1st [conflicting reports])
-Hicks (no helmet)
-Hudson (Game over face, no helmet)
-Alien Warrior (Brown)

2 packs (shipping in "summer" 1 month apart from each other)
-Red Warrior vs. Black warrior (from "Genocide")
-Hicks (with helmet, screaming face) vs. exploding Warrior 1
-Hudson (with helmet, screaming face) vs Exploding Warrior 2

Series 2 single figures
-Alien Warrior (Blue, repaint)
-"big chap"/Original Geiger Alien (w/new articulation over their last one)
-"Flame thrower Marine" (Hopes are that it is Apone. If Randy was serious that it wont be him, Frost is possible. But knowing how things go, there is a very good chance it will be a generic "army builder", which was hinted at on Twitter some time ago...)

EDIT: Final series 2 details are being released at SDCC including the official word on the new Marine.


Announced, but no ETA
-Alien Queen (officially a 'go', but already backing off their original "By Christmas" prediction. Now saying "early 2014 is possible)
-Alien Eggs and Facehuggers. (finished, but no decision about how to distribute them).

If i have bad intel, please anyone on the pulse of the scene go ahead and correct me!

Oh man id prefer frost over apone i think.

Dietrich?

Please let it be Dietrich!

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There is a distinct possibility that the screen cap on the picture is just reference of the back armor and lamp, not necessarily for Apone. Dietrich would be cool (and I know Retro would love that lol) but a generic marine is probably more likely.

Charlie

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It's obviously 'Boot-Camp Gorman'...


I'm loving the idea of a generic soldier to customise, a mini-me would be very welcome!

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"Flame Thrower Marine"


Weirzbowski?


Kevin

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That would be too awesome. Oh screw it I want them all!

All of the above sound good to me! Bigbisont has proven that (with some effort) the entire squad can be recreated.

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so chance of vasquez ?

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Unless someone has heard a rumour I haven't, no. None of th sculpts or prototypes I've seen had a smart gun or smart gunner armor. Everything was the standard body armor.

Having said that, I would totally buy two if they made a Vasquez.

Charlie

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I don't think I'm going on too big of a limb when I say "sales will probably decide". I would hope that if the figures sell, they will keep making them.

If they sell as well as their predator line, we will get a LOT. Hell, the predator figures literally ran out of stuff to make. They made every background Pred and even two Predator figures from a freaking FAN FILM! Then after years of saying 'no predator humans' they finally made Dutch because sales and demand it.

If it goes like Neca's gremlins or even their Prometheus line...we will have to just enjoy series 1 & 2! Poor sales of those 2 lines resulted in previously announced figures being indefinitely postponed or outright killed.

Are the two "exploding" aliens going to be different from one another?

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Look at the pic here showing both designs:

viewtopic.php?p=190159#p190159

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Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

Actually, yeah. One brown, the other blue. One exploding head, the other exploding body/sternum. So...eh, about as "different" as they can get.

no helmets?

Ahhh, I hadn't seen that photo before.

JP05 (hi Steve!), yes, there will be helmeted versions.

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More Twitter gossip! (as originally viewed from the SSF forum)






So with a plan to go until series 4 and a recent trend of 3 figures per series, there should be at least 6 more figures.

Speculation is Bishop is a lock. The alien 3 'dogburster/ox alien' is likely.
4 slots left! Your imaginations can officially beginning running REAL wild!

Does the line include the other films or purely Aliens?

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I think the inclusion of the Geiger Alien re-sculpt in series 2 kind of opened the door to all of them. But I really am just guessing.