NECA Godzilla 2014 Toys Revealed
 

NECA revealed their new Godzilla 2014 figure today

Not too bad looking. Still going to pass in favor of the MonsterArts though.

More accurately, there are two NECA Godzilla figures revealed today: http://news.toyark.com/2014/03/17/fi...es-neca-121426

The painted one is the smaller of the two, the one you'll see for $18 that will be around 7" tall and 12" long, and the larger is an unpainted resin version of the 12" tall, 24" long figure for $49.99.

Can't and won't make an opinion on either figure until someone is actually using the final product in pics. The Pacific Rim line has sadly taught me too well about keeping expectations in check.

Via Twitter, it was also mentioned that the delayed Godzilla 1985 figure would be seen sometime before SDCC but with no clear timeframe of when.

It looks like the best toy of the new Godzilla we've seen, but it doesn't feel like a collector's item to me.

And seeing all the Pacific Rim flak doesn't give me hopes that it'll stay together well enough to be a toy even...

So I see accurate analyisis of the Pacific Rim line has fallen to the wayside in favour of hyperbole?

Sweet job, internet. You guys are awesome.

The PR figures generally hold together fine. Only one figure has chronic breaking problems. Others have the odd quality issue, but it's not rampant.

The problem is, the first two waves of PR sucked utter shit simply because they were terrible toys by deisgn.

And so might the Godzilla figures. At least that's as much as I was inferring.

Does Playskool know they were ripped off?

I'll wait until the MA comes out, and even then, it will depend on if I like the movie or not.

Thing is, PR sucked because of, essentially, Wal-Mart.

See Pacific Rim, being new and untested, was originally gonna be excusive to Wal-Mart. So teh figures were made cheaper. But Wally world backed out at the last minute, so hasty redesigns and up-scaling were needed. Thus, the drop in quality.

No way those circumstances could apply to Godzilla.

Oh yeah, because this TOTALLY looks playskool. Playskool AWLAYS has high-quality sculpts and that level of articulation.

Jesus, this forum. What compells it to such lows, I will never understand.

Someone should edit the news story, the figures are not 12 and 24 inches tall. Those are measurements from head to tail.

I know this story, I've been in TFW's Pacific Rim thread, I know how that went and how Series 3 is mostly better.

I also know of NECA from their Left 4 Dead, Borderlands, Half-Life, Aliens and Predator toylines and many of the poor decisions of the Pacific Rim line can be found spread within nearly all of them. NECA's Boomer is easily the best NECA toy I've owned and the joints have virtually no limitations that matter, but it's worse from there. Using one of Gordon Freeman's hip joints made it significantly more loose than the other leg moved in an identical way, and nearly the same thing happened on the replacement before I decided to never move the leg further. The "super articulated" newer Predator body is chock-full of limits in joint range and a near-perpetual issue of getting the body netting painted correctly, on top of one-off issues like an ankle joint being too recessed in the leg which made one leg a good half-inch shorter than the other. There's Claptrap's wheel, which likes to recess into his body in the yellow version and renders the static arm meant to hold him on the display base useless. And then there were the Aliens, which were generally considered NECA's best offering in articulation, but with so many cases of legs snapping apart between multiple copies and even from collectors experienced enough to know to unfreeze stuck joints. Even for as fantastic as Cherno Alpha, Trespasser and BD Knifehead look, Tango seems like a S1/2 Jaeger - and I guess if I really wanted to get nitpicky I'd cite the poor elbow range of those kaiju.

Pacific Rim's toyline is the poster child for how bad a NECA toyline can be, but it's not the only time issues come up, and it's entirely possible that when a company is purporting to sell a 7" tall, 12" long highly articulated kaiju for $18 that there are shortcuts we don't know about yet. Remaining skeptical is not the same thing as damning the product. I know better than to expect a line where I can put Godzilla in the Iron Man pose, but I'd be just as wary of another "Knifehead" that might as well be a vinyl.

I guess when there's been exactly one hyperbolic statement in this thread, it's enough to demonize an entire forum.

Feh. Yet when I brought this up when the PR line was new, people told me to shut my dumb face because "NECA is all about high-quality and excellent figures!'

Was I one of those people? Because otherwise... not much I can tell you, sorry. NECA has a lot of fans, the kind of people that enjoy their toys a particular way, who most definitely won't feel the same way about their toys as I do. Hell, many of those guys leave them MISB and hang them on the walls like McFarlane collectors 20 years ago.

And mind you, I still follow NECA, in both the Twitter sense and in paying attention to their releases, because they are great about covering certain licenses and putting a lot of detail into figures, but I certainly don't love all they do, dropped their Predator line after about four figures, and will be giving another shot to selling the PacRim figures I have on eBay soon enough. Really, there's not much to be done about certain criticisms when NECA is known for putting the sculpt so higher in priority than the articulation.

Pretty sure not.

Ahahahaha.....

I never really thought about that, but it makes sense. Explains why I bought that Blue-Eyes yesterday. I rarely buy statue figures, but I couldn't not buy my favorite monster.

when it comes to neca.. you're right, i'd rather have a better looking sculpt than a super articulated figure. because, for me, at the end of the day i'd rather have a figure in a mundane pose that looks exactly like the character that it's supposed to be rather than a figure in a super dynamic pose where compromises to achieve that pose were made which make the figure less accurate to the source material. it's like hot toys figures.. no, you're not going to get incredibly flexible poses.. but you're paying a premium to get incredible sculpt work, tailoring, and quality.

i think a good example would be diamond select amazing spider-man and hasbro's legends amazing spider-man.. hasbro's can achieve more poses, but diamond selects is a better quality figure and looks better.

certain characters and body types aren't going to afford you the articulation you'd want.. take godzilla or the kaiju, they've got thick, large, heavy bodies.. you're not going to get super articulation with them.. elbows aren't going to bend all the way and they're certainly not going to achieve any spider-man type poses.. nor should they though. if you watch the movies, these creatures are rarely/never in dynamic positions. they're big bruiting beasts that lumber along. i don't expect the figures to be any different.

and after watching pixel dans interview with the neca guy, he knows that the first waves weren't very good, that's why they've come up with a new and improved mold for gypsy danger coming out in the future, and it's also why the kaiju since wave one, have gotten larger.

i don't see any problems with neca figures that almost every other company has with their own. so i'm not sure how neca can be singled out on this.

anyways.. it's a shame that the new godzilla loses so much detail because of the color palette. i wish they'd (the people who came up with this godzilla, not neca) gave the thing a bit more in the way of colored detailing. i'm hoping when larger godzilla gets colored he'll retain more of the detail since the larger scale makes it more pronounced. either way, i'm excited for the large one.. the face on the new godzilla just looks mean and nasty, i love it.. it helps make up (a little) for the feet being so odd.

I think I've seen more than enough monster shows and movies to know that these creatures don't move the same way Spider-Man would, but it doesn't mean the toys have to always 100% be slavish to that detail either. I like having the option to do the impossible, fun and silly things as I do replicating scenes from the movies. Different toylines all have their degrees of favoring either articulation or sculpture over the other, with nerd Hummels like the Mezco Walter White on one end of the spectrum and modular toys like Stikfas on the other that embrace a simplified aesthetic and put everything else into freedom of movement.

It also works in favor of a franchise like Godzilla, where figures of all kinds have existed for decades, that a couple lines out there take a few extra chances with articulation. We've had little to no movement since the days of Bullmark and Aurora model kits in the '60s and 70s, so there's room for making some changes now. Not all franchises have that luxury.

Yeah, I would expect someone from NECA would know when their figures particularly suck and when they're improving. I don't think I understand the point you're getting at here. The Walmart fiasco compounded issues and is common knowledge now (of course... not before Series 1 came out).

NECA is being discussed in a NECA toy thread, not singled out. There is most certainly a discussion to be had about MonsterArts or Revoltech kaiju in a similar manner. All three have room for improvement and have grown from experiences.

I never understand why people take me seriously, I was being funny. And that is in no way a "high quality mold".

He has such teeny tiny feet. The rest of him looks cool.

Cool

I will most likely pass on the 24" figure but I think I'll pick up the smaller one. Sadly no matter what figures come out I don't think they will be able to capture the pure majesty that is the King of Monsters.

I don't really like the look of the 12" one, but the 24" one looks pretty great to me. And at what I estimate to be around 12" with some loose calculations (though I'm pretty sure they may have already said that...), he's pretty big. Not to mention he'd be about half the price of a Monsterarts and almost twice the size. And unless Monsterarts does him to scale with the rest of the line, this one might actually be a better fit. For comparison, and assuming the 150m estimate is about correct, he's as big as Ghidorah's largest incarnation and is taller than Destoroyah's final form.

Hopefully he shows up at TRU. Hobby shops will probably ask for double the price, at least the ones near me.

The 12 inch one is only six inches tall. It's 12 inches long. This is why the news post needs to be updated.

Both figures are HALF the height they are said to be. This was mentioned way back, but nobody seems to care.

No you weren't.

It absolutley is. The level of detail is sweet, and it's got plenty of articulation points.

I'll ask you for your opinion on funny when you remove the stick out of your bum good sir. And it doesn't look like I'll be asking for your opinion on figures any time soon either.