Topic: CV figures out!?

[Belm0nt]

In Reply To #90

Your brother is right. I don't know what they did to Alucard, but his head is too big, and the hair looks ridiculous. I have two sets of figures and both the Alucards look the same.

Don't get me wrong, I love the figures, I just wish that Alucard looked more like his 2-up photos. IMO Simon is THE reason to buy these figures, he looks fantastic, and has awesome articulation.

[le052383]

I guess the factory NECA was commissioning didn't properly rescaled Alucard's head.  It happens from time to time with a lot of toy companies.  I mean, Mattel had a problem with scaling for their DC figures; Doomsday for instance, is actually shorter than Lex Luthor (in Kryptonite armor.)

[Wolfman Jake]

My figures finally arrived.  I'm overall pleased with them, although there is a bit of paint slop here and there on some figures.  The factory accidentally inserted a Simon card into Alucard's box, though.  Looks like NECA's quality control is slipping a bit.

[Thomas Belmont]

Ever since I first saw pics of the figures, Alucard always seemed "off" to me. His legs look weird.

[Belm0nt]

In Reply To #95

Hey Wolfman, how did your Alucard turn out? Does the hair look a little "detached" from the scalp at all?
Also did you notice any paint rubs on the inside of the packages?

Neca may have rushed to get these figures out. I am curious to see if the second production run fairs any better than the first (paint aps, packaging, assembly, etc..).

Hopefully you got the "closed mouth" version of Dracula, because the other one looks a little silly. As I said before though, Simon is the BEST figure in the line by far IMO. (Just wish his leather whip was a little more flexible...)

[infinitysend]

In Reply To #97

of course they were rushed out.  Or, they were cheaply made.  Either way, we definitely know not that much care was put into them.  Certainly not as much as, say, a Todd Mcfarlane figure.  This is especially evident in the Succubus, who

1.) Has a "cover-up" top that was glued on at the last minute because you can't show nipples on a figurine and sell it w/out being related to porn in some way in this country.

2.) If you look at the back cover artwork, it obviously shows the Succubus without her top.  If you look close enough, you can even see a tiny little bit of the nipple is exposed.  Otherwise, it has been censored by the rose artwork that was also obviously just snatched from Ayami Kojima's beautiful piece.

3.) Magenta?  Come on... MAGENTA?

Alucard and Dracula mess-ups nonwithstanding, I think the more intelligent fans of this forum know pretty darn well how much "quality" was put into these figures. 

But, we're still going to buy them anyway b/c they're all we got!

[Belm0nt]

In Reply To #98

Yeah, they are definitely all we've got. You would think that after 20+ years of Castlevania games, something would be made in figure form, even if it was just Japanese gashapon. I always thought that was weird....

Anyway, I don't know if anyone has seen the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust figure by Epoch, but I was hoping that's how the Alucard figure would've turned out. D is one awesome figure, worthy of anyone's collection....

[DragonSlayr81]

The VHD Epoch figure is awesome. I have it and I'm glad I do. I don't know what Japan hasn't jumped at pumping out CV figs before. I mean, in the overall figure market overthere, EVERYTHING and it's mother has a figure line.

[Alexc2808]

In Reply To #98
Using McFarlane figures as an example of quality is rather laughable.  I'd rather have decent figures then preety good statues.

[le052383]

In Reply To #98
Using McFarlane figures as an example of quality is rather laughable.

[le052383]

On the bright side, Alucard and Dracula are sculpted by the Four Horsemen, who were the initial sculpters for Mcfarlane toys.

The 4h mostly sculpt Mattel stuff like the DC and He-man line, with a lesser extent of NECA stuff.  Because Hasbro now has the Marvel license, I am not sure if they still do Marvel Legend figures.

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #97

I think that piece of Alcuard's hair sculpt that looks "detached" is actually meant to be so for articularion purposes.

[Danial]

Neca, The Four Horsemen, and McFarlane have been having quality control problems lately, specifically with a certain manufacturer in China.  Hopefully this has been fixed since none of them do business with that manufacturer anymore.  This might also be why the figures were delayed to mass retail, but who knows.

Sadly, I'm still waiting on mine.

Even with the few problems mentioned, I would still rather have Neca making an articulated good figure than a McFarlane statue with breaking problems.

[DragonSlayr81]

In Reply To #103

Oh god, how I've been dying for a GOOD company to sculpt figures for Marvel Comic characters. The only type of figures that do them any justice are the resins statues. Toy Biz, Hasbro, they've all came up short. I remember seeing the first sculpt of the Marvel Legends White Queen set, with the fireplace. Then the figure came out and she looked like CV Resurrection's Sonia, with a horsejaw and everything. I think they also painted her eyes cross-eyed.

[le052383]

In Reply To #103

Oh god, how I've been dying for a GOOD company to sculpt figures for Marvel Comic characters. The only type of figures that do them any justice are the resins statues. Toy Biz, Hasbro, they've all came up short. I remember seeing the first sculpt of the Marvel Legends White Queen set, with the fireplace. Then the figure came out and she looked like CV Resurrection's Sonia, with a horsejaw and everything. I think they also painted her eyes cross-eyed.

If I read your post correctly, you are saying that you seen press release images of Emma Frost with the fireplace, but when the figure came out, it looked nothing like that since she has a horsejaw and such?  Just asking since if so, you are thinking of two different Emma frost figures instead of one; one was released under the Marvel Select line, the other under the Hasbro Marvel Legends line.  Just that the MS Emma Frost w/ the fireplace doesn't seem to have a horse jaw, though the ML version does.


Marvel Select.  This one comes with the Fireplace and the image above is the actual final figure rather than the prototype.


Hasbro Marvel Legends version.  this one seems to be the one you are talking about in regards of having a horsejaw and being cross-eyed. Again, this is the final figure as oppose to being press images or prototype

Unfortunately, the MS version is too tall to be place in a collection of Marvel Legends figures (MS figs are 7-10 inches, while the non BAF ML figs are 5 1/2-8)