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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Feb 3, 2022 12:48:19 GMT -5
Is there a reason that Resident Evil has had so few articulated toy lines, compared to its popularity?
There was the Toybiz line in the late nineties, and the NECA semi-statues a decade later, but that’s about it. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about Japanese import premium figures, but it seems like even among those, there’s only been the very occasional Resi figure.
It’s strange to me because of how popular not only the series itself has been, but also how hugely popular zombies in general have been at times in the last 25 years.
I get that the level of gore probably keeps them out of the toy aisles, but I’m surprised there’s not more collector-level stuff.
Tangential question: What are some of the best zombie action figures? Anything between (and including) 3.75-7” size.
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Post by cordless2016 on Feb 9, 2022 0:07:59 GMT -5
I’m honestly shocked NECA never took another stab at the RE line after RE5 (where they put out a pretty great RE5 Chris that still holds up today). Even McFarlane seems like a company that would knock RE out of the park.
I assume it’s some combo of video-game lines traditionally not selling well at retail stores, RE’s more mature content (even for mature video games), and possibly Capcom being more conservative with signing the rights out for merchandising. Just speculation but I think the first two points are most likely (SOTA’a Street Fighter line from 15 years ago is a great example of video games figures that hold up today but the line just didn’t sell well at retail and died fairly quickly). Looking at import companies like Storm Collectibles, Figuarts, and Mafex, they seem to mainly focus on fighting-games like MK, Street Fighter, and Tekken. Hot Toys puts out occasional RE figures in the 12” line that look great, but I don’t believe they did any figures for RE7 or RE8 unfortunately.
If a new 6-7” RE line did pop up though, I’d be immediately in. As for the best zombie figures in 3.75”-7” scale, unfortunately there’s not really any to pick from. Your best best currently is probably the McFarlane Walking Dead line. Articulation isn’t great but sculpt and paint work is solid.
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Post by LA Times on Feb 17, 2022 21:00:38 GMT -5
Best 4" Zombie figure: GI Joe Zombie Viper 2011 Best 7" Zombie figures: WWE Zombies Series 1-3
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