Welcome back, a 2006er! I definitely recognize your avatar and sig. Nice display there.
I only bought Kane and Ash from this wave, got them off a UK seller on ebay. They got here fast and box condition was pretty good. I was braced for the worst with how fragile this packaging style is.
Ash is great. Surprised he's entirely new, doesn't look like they reused anything from previous figures. I know what you mean about the face paint, even the neck - definitely a matte finish whereas Parker and Brett had sheen to them. I'm not too fussed about that.
Yeah the tray with the dissected facehugger would have been a great accessory and we don't have that - maybe they used up all their budget already. Oh well.
My criticisms of what we do have - as so frustratingly often, one leg longer than the other so he stands with a lean. I dunno wtf is up with NECA and this issue.
He also has no swivel waist (BttF II Marty didn't either) - strange. Another budgetary thing? Well, it's not really a big deal.
Overall I'm delighted to have this guy and thanks to NECA for making him.
Kane - I'm surprised how pleased I am to have a spacesuit Kane with a likeness looking out through that visor. The spacesuits were already great figures and now this lends a greater sense of completion to that set. I still have my old Kane collapsed on the floor with the facehugger head.
The NECA Alien line is terrific if a little flawed. Awesome to now have the entire Nostromo crew in some form - albeit now with an increased need and demand that they all be made in their regular Nostromo jumpsuits. How far off might Dallas, Kane and Lambert be and will they all come out at once? With so many ''Big Chaps'' released in this 40th anniversary collection how will they fulfil the creature quota if/when they put out those remaining human figures? Just rereleases? Or might we finally get that piranha head from NECA. Who knows.
As for the flaw I mentioned - well, it's the scaling inconsistency. It started with the Alien itself - NECA have historically made Aliens too tall and Predators too short. The spacesuit figures also had an issue where, due to budget, they just reused the same sculpt for Lambert as with Kane and Dallas when really she ought to have been smaller. Then a third scaling issue arose with the Parker and Brett wave (first noticed by P.) where suddenly the human figures have gotten larger. Parker in particular is way too big, oversized in general by about 10% I previously estimated. So it's not like you can cut out parts of him to shrink him because then he'll be out of proportion with himself. He's not inhumanly large but he is inaccurately large. The figure should just barely be taller than Ripley but he absolutely towers over her. We are no doubt stuck with this and unfortunately NECA would probably not acknowledge the problem let alone fix it on future releases.
I hate to criticize them too much though because no other collectibles company has ever done what they have done and produced the range of characters from these movies that we now have. I am eternally grateful to them for that.
