BrandonDaCollector wrote:Well, here we are back to My Recent Acquirements topic. As you just saw I got some really cool vintage stuff for Christmas, well during that time when I ordered and got them, I shopped for My B-Day too before the Black Friday & Cyber Monday madness hit and/ or when the prices changed cause on Amazon the price ALWAYS change, sometimes for the worse and sometimes for the better and sometimes stock depletes when you least expect it. Seemed like the BF & CM wasn't as hard hitting this time around as it was years prior. I know I complain about this day & age's pathetic offerings and insane prices but I will become an outlier if it benefits Me to what I need & want. I thought I'd new what i wanted for My B-Day months ahead of time even during the Summer months but man-o-man I changed My list which i will get to in a little while. I got everything you are about to see at Amazon. So here is what I got for My very special day
Now here we go with My most prized figures of My entire B-Day lot! For years I was contemplating on getting them since 2013/2014 but I got them now
I had other stuff on My mind but these ultimately won Me over way more
The
Alien ReAction Figures! They are made by
Super7 & Funko! Some of you may already know but if you don't know the story about their origins here is a briefing about it.
Kenner had the licensed to make action figures from the classic 1979
Alien film. They had already made a giant 18" version of Big Chap but it stirred so much controversy from parents thus canceling the whole line. Decades later
Super7 got into the vault if you will and found the original sculpts and decided to make it their mission to bring the series back and they did and it became a success! They are so much like the original
Kenner SW figures not only in scale but they also have the same peg holes (the
POTF 2 stands do not fit them nor these
Alien figures sadly but that is even more of the crucial point of their origins). I basically got the whole series without many of the variants cause you know, every series no matter which one it is, is gotta have those must have variants (wow, we have been hearing so much of that word of recent times haven't we???). I got the 3 Nostromo - 3 figure box sets from 2018 of
Pack #1: Ripley & her cat Jonesy, Battle-Damaged Ash and Kane in Space Suit with Attached Ovomorph/Facehugger - Pack #2: Parker & Brett and bloody jaws extracted Xenomorph - Pack #3: Dallas & Lambert and Bloody Xenomorph with jaws action feature. Now, the
Alien Franchise is one of My most fave and cherished film franchises of all and I will explain that it time at a later date. There is one VERY crucial & imperative aspect of this series is that because these figures are technically made by
Kenner and older than I am, they fit WONDERFULLY with the old
Kenner Star Wars figures as stated previously and especially fit in greatly with the above seen
SW figures and that is one of the BIG reasons why I chose this series is because they are in scale with them...yep,
Alien and Star Wars together in the same universe
Now their prices were a bit higher than I would've liked but it wasn't too bad but man, the pack with
Dallas & Lambert were the highest and hardest ones to obtain however
All figures have 5 POA ecept the
Alien with his tail and action features. The all have great sculpting and likenesses, My faves are
Brett, Parker and Lambert and one of the selling points of this set was
Jonesy, I thought it was really clever to they thought including him, nice touch!
I also got the variant of
Kane out of the space suit with a detachable
Ovomorph/Facehugger and a regular version of the
Alien himself! Like his variants, he has a removable dome revealing his skull as it was meant to be seen as he has a lever to extract/retract his inner jaws! He is really cool!
Kane is decent as well and the
Facehugger looks pretty authentic for the scale
Again, I thought I was done with My B-Day shopping but I got the
Nightfall Alien/Xenomorph from Aliens just in time for My big day. There were 3 variants of this one but My fave the
Nightfall version! I also got the
Invisible Predator!. Now these are additionally created figures to extend the series thanks to much demand by Collectors & fans alike. I just love the sculpt and beautiful blue paint apps on the
Alien and I absolutely adore his blister card, such horrific beauty! Now the
Predator is greatly sculpted too with tremendous translucent plastic making him completely see-through. I love his card as well, such creativity!
Now My new
ReAction collection wouldn't by fulfilled if I didn't at least 1
Terminator! I got
The Terminator and Sarah Connor from T1 and also got the
T-1000 from T2! I chose these
T1 versions because they were the cheapest plus he was the first type seen and that version of
Sarah Connor is such a uncommon version in figure form. Now the
T-1000 has been done multiple times in figure form and this was the
Entertainment Earth exclusive. These were also extended upon by demand. One special note is when I ordered all of these, the
T-1000 was the very first one I got in the mail so he will always be known as My very first
Super7-Funko ReAction Figure! As a whole I have mixed emotions of the
ReAction series. Its really the quality more than anything and makes it overall bittersweet. I know they don't move very much and I totally expected that and that isn't a prob for Me whatsoever. My issues is that when you move their arms & legs up and down their sides & crotches wanna crack open and regular
Kane's neck is glued tight and one of the bloody Xeno's left arm is glued tight too. Also the
T-1000's gun is impossible to put in either of his hands. My prob is it's knowing that they are not working properly. This is one of the reasons why I can't stand today's figures, even if it was from 2014, it's still rather recent and still follows this unneeded and careless trend that these companies shove down our throats not to mention trending off of each other with such high prices. I dealt so much of this even before then with
Mattel'sWWE,
ToyBiz Marvel Legends,
NECA & McFarlane among so many others with articulation problems then and really I don't know how I put up with it all cause I got a ton of figures back in the day. Them vintage
SW figures has way better quality than these, in fact seems most of the older stuff is way better the the newer stuff, been thinkin' that for along time now in just about every caetory that on ecan possible come up with in this day and age. So really I'm not sure if I'm gonna collect these
ReAction figures any further. There are more characters to get in the
Aliens, Predator and Terminator series' plus there is a ton more from many other series's. At least I have 1 representative from
Aliens & Predator cause they complement each other so well from the great classic crossover by
Dark Horse Comics long ago and at least I got a bit of
Terminator as well. You could do it with
Kenner's awesome series but they were a bit out of scale with
Aliens, Predator, Marines & Terminator and others of the tremendous series back in the 90s but when your a huge
AvP fan like Me you want more. then again, since these guys are limited in POA it's no big deal and is really fun to display
Alien, Predator and Terminator together with others like
Star Wars! So who knows, I might get more later on down the road, we'll see.
SPECIAL BONUS!Here is My 2 big boxes of all of My Christmas & Birthday goodies that I kept looking at day after day, night after night waiting for the time to open them up. Of all the holiday's I've had, this is the first one I ever did for Myself like this and I'm probably one of the very few people that has ever done it before! Look at it before it was all opened up by Me
By the way, Aliens & T2 and POTF 2 had anniversaries last year and Predator turns 35 this year too
Well there you have it, that is what I got by, for and to Me for My Birthday