Ultimate Prometheus NECA thread

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MemberOvomorphSeptember 13, 2012

Ok, there are about 5 different threads about the NECA figures and it's kinda hard to decide where to put what info. So, now we have a thread to put any and all NECA Prometheus figure info, pics, etc. I wanted to start this because I just got the most detailed info I've seen on the release dates, characters that will be in each series and what accessories each figure will include. Here's the low down... [b][i]SERIES 1 (September 2012 Release) - Engineer in Pressure Suit - Engineer in Chair Suit TOYS"R"US EXCLUSIVE 2-PACK (November 2012) - Battle Damaged Engineer - Trilobite SERIES 2 (November 2012) - Android David (Space Suit w/ Helmet) - Infected Charlie Holloway (Space Suit w/ Helmet) EXCLUSIVE TBD (2013) - Deacon Creature Pack (to include the "proto-alien", Hammerpedes, and a bonus severed Engineer head with removable helmet) SERIES 3 (2013) - Elizabeth Shaw (with Decapitated David head) - Meredith Vickers - Infected Fifiled [/i][/b] NECA still hasn't said exactly when they will ship but they do update their twitter with shipping info so if I'm the first to hear they've been shipped I'll post it here. If anyone else hears about them shipping please let us know. Here are some pics of what we have to look forward to. I know a lot of them have been posted but figured they're needed here if this is going to be the "ultimate" thread. [img]http://geek-news.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/geek/2012/08/Chair_Suit_pkg.jpg[/img] [img]http://geek-news.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/geek/2012/08/Pressure_Suit_pkg.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus2.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus3.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus4.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus5.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus6.jpg[/img] [img] http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus7.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/Untitled-1.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus10.jpg[/img] [img]http://thefwoosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DSC_4491.jpg[/img] [img]http://thefwoosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DSC_4495.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus14.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus15.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus16.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus17.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus18.jpg[/img] [img] http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus23.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus24.jpg[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus25.jpg[/img] [img]http://i46.tinypic.com/2ryovit.jpg[/img] [img]http://i45.tinypic.com/kbc2g9.jpg[/img] [img]http://i46.tinypic.com/zmo2dd.jpg[/img] [img]http://i50.tinypic.com/1si3gl.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.twimg.com/AzFvjm-CMAAauGu.jpg:large[/img] [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheusdavid.jpg[/img] [img] http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/prometheus2pack.jpg[/img]

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October 06, 2012

Arg, I may have to check out Toys R Us, then... they've kinda pissed me off, though. Why the delay? And did Ridley really give the okay on the figures?

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October 06, 2012

yeah...i dont think toys r us knows what the hell is going on as far as what they sell, what they might be selling in the future, and when they might be selling it ("how do you spell promepheus for the 7th time?"). Dealing with TRU seems to be a complete crap shoot. However, the last time i was there, they did have a large selection of prometheus figures and their price is the best ive seen ($16 bucks per). According to NECA, they sent their finished engineers to Ridley in London and he gave them the green light etc.

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October 06, 2012

thats all i need... more toys. going to run out of places to put them all >_<

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October 06, 2012

Me too, I've completely ran out of shelf space for all my things. Looks like something is gonna get booted to the ground or double stacked to make space for the engineer. I don't think I'm gonna be getting any other Prometheus figures anyway, besides the Chair Suit Engineer, and maybe the Deacon. Too much money to get all of them.

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October 06, 2012

looks like a trip to home depot to get more shelves is in order! i hope to get all of them eventually, but yeah too much money to blow all at once for now.

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October 06, 2012

these two series 1 engineers are literally my first 2 collectible figures (aside from the original star wars toys way back when). Im going to use the fact that, before now, i havent spent any money on superfluous toys to justify going for all (or almost all) of the NECA prometheus figures. Looking forward to building a cool diorama to display them all. Wow. i think i have been bitten by the bug. Thankfully i think its prometheus specific. Havent felt the need to branch out to other series' (yet). ha! what a nerd!

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October 07, 2012

@joeyjoe Yeah, I'm not a huge collector either. Just certain things. I've collected some Matrix figures, Riddick, and now Prometheus. So, mainly just cool sci-fi stuff that I have a particular interest in. Don't worry, you shouldn't start collecting everything in sight, haha. And dammit, the paint job on this one is MUCH darker than mine.. :/ wtf.. [img]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f291/sabres21768/other15/necaprometheus2.jpg[/img]

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October 07, 2012

Yeah, I've been a collector for years, it all started when I saw Star Wars Episode I as a kid. My biggest interest is the Star Wars and ALIENS Universe. Got some SW figures, SW Sideshows, and a bunch of the Halo campaign figures. But the biggest collection I have is my books. I love to read so its only natural that I would read SW. As of right now, I own EVERY SW adult novel ever published, and have read about half of them. Just finishing up The Hunger Games Trilogy, and loved those too. Now I can't wait till the Aliens Colonial Marines and Alien figures from NECA are released, I'm gonna get each one of those.

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October 07, 2012

yup...Star Wars episodes 4,5,6, were a huge part of my childhood. I was completely into the old kenner star wars toys. Those old kenner star wars figures/vehicles were incredible (keep in mind this was the 70s and 80s...well, the 80s for me). they were the absolute best sculpts of the day! Its amazing watching my son play with his star wars toys...reminds me of how much fun i had.

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October 15, 2012

Well, mine finally showed up after a stupid-long delay. Here's some crappy pics... [img]http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q507/Engineering211/005.jpg[/img] [img]http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q507/Engineering211/002.jpg[/img] [img]http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q507/Engineering211/001.jpg[/img] As everyone knows the Pressure Suit is waaaaay too bright. I'm going to fix that with a paint wash while I contemplate on if I should try and fix his eyes as well. Another problem with the Pressure Suit version is the length of the abdomen and what ever they were doing with his genital region. The abdomen is just way too long. Not sure what happened with the middle quarter of his body. The articulation is completely worthless as well. All in all the Pressure suit is very dissapointing especially since I was most looking forward to him. The Chair Suit on the other hand is freaking awesome. I'll post pics after I'm done painting the Pressure Suit figure.

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October 19, 2012

Here's the 2 custom paint jobs I've done on the Pressure Suit Engineer figures. Before shot... [IMG]http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q507/Engineering211/custengineer001.jpg[/IMG] After shot of both that I've done... [IMG]http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q507/Engineering211/custengineer012.jpg[/IMG] The one on the right was my first attempt. I did a wash with 4 different colors. I used Golden brand acrylic paint. The colors were carbon black, iridescent pearl, pithalo blue and sap green hue. I used rubbing alcohol to dilute the paint. I do feel both are a bit too dark especially in the pics. The one on the right looks really, really good in person. It's not as green as the other and it has more of the iridescent pearl which makes the thing pop like crazy. The single best thing I did though was painting the eyes black. When I did that it actually made the head sculpt look so much more like Ian Whyte as the engineer that it's insane. So, if you have one, take some black acrylic and a toothpick and carefully paint the eyes all black. Trust me, you wont regret it. I suck at taking pics and my camera is very crappy but I'll try to get some pics that do them justice. Either way I feel they improve upon the original figure quite a bit.

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October 19, 2012

Whoops. Photobucket is pissing me off. I'll post more pics later.

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October 19, 2012

@engineering: although i quite like the NECA pressure suit engineer, the custom wash you gave yours looks great (from what i can tell). thanks for sharing! I wish i knew how to embed pics, id post pics of my engineer collection. Ill just go ahead and provide a link below. Copy and paste into your browser. check out the sorta-kinda custom chair suit engineer!! let me know what you think! here are a couple of my NECA engineers + Alien (giger): http://www.flickr.com/photos/46547019@N07/8148418472/

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October 23, 2012

@Joey...Haha, those are yours? I actually saw when toynewsi.com first posted that custom. I have to get one more chair suit engineer so I can do one. The head is waiting though lol. Here's the tni pics... [img]http://i47.tinypic.com/24eulhx.jpg[/img] Oh, btw, the 1/6th scale Hot Toys figures are slated to hit this fall. Get ready for jaws to hit the f$%&ing floor!

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October 24, 2012

yup. those are mine. Did the url work for ya? sounds like you were able to view the pic? Post more pics when you get done with the custom pressure suit engineers! Thanks for the info regarding the Hot Toys figures. Are they doing multiple engineers? edit: i didnt realize that my thunder had been stolen by toynewsi. haha. The pics they posted are pretty cool though. I like the way i positioned the engineers helmet (in the arms like a pilot holding his flight helmet. i think it looks badass ha!).

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October 24, 2012

here is the URL to the new image posted by NECA. it shows, among other figures, the completed version of infected fifield. He looks great. someone who knows how to link/embed etc. can do something with this: https://twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/261152456711487488/photo/1/large edit: UPDATE! david, holloway, and the deacon have an approximate street date of january 2013. Fifield, shaw, and vickers will be coming sometime in the spring of 2013. Engineer/trilobite TRU exclusive 2 pack will hit sometime next month.

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October 26, 2012

additional update: Neca has posted new pictures of the engineer/trilobite TRU exclusive 2 pack. The 2 pack will officially hit toys r us mid to late november. Looks like they knocked this one out of the park (imo). here is a link to NECAs official announcement plus some fantastic pics!: http://necaonline.com/37386/blog/tru-exclusives/coming-soon-prometheus-battle-damaged-engineer-vs-trilobite-2-pack-is-toys-r-us-exclusive/

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October 26, 2012

@engineering: looks like you might be a bit more pleased with the engineer in the TRU 2 pack. he seems a good bit darker than the engineer from series 1. damn...this thread is dead...*continues talking to himself* lol.

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October 26, 2012

I WILL own at least 2 of these Cuddles vs Engineer 2-packs. :D [img]http://necaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/prometheus-trilobite-engineer-2pk-2.jpg[/img] [img]http://necaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/prometheus-trilobite-engineer-2pk-1.jpg[/img]

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October 26, 2012

agreed. thanks for embedding the pics. obviously im retarded and dont know how to do anything but post the URL.