Likeness rights can be a royal pain for companies looking to produce a complete line based on a licensed property. Sometimes the actor refuses to sign their rights over, or the rights can be prohibitively expensive. So, what’s the best way to get around an actors likeness rights? How about completely obscuring his face so there is no actor likeness required? That’s the brilliantly inventive way NECA is handling their Alien 35th Anniversary Kane Figure. The 7″ figures comes complete in his Nostromo space suit and includes a shattered, removable, helmet and a permanently affixed Facehugger. Kane will be fully articulated and will come in special Alien 35th Anniversary packaging.
Aliens Series 3, which also includes Bishop and the Alien 3 “Dog” Xenomorph, should be hitting stores soon. Check out a bunch of new photos of NECA’s Alien 35th Anniversary Kane with Facehugger Figure.
Alien 35th Anniversary Kane with Facehugger Figure by NECA



It's too bad they ruined such an incredible sculpt with a figure that pretty much needs to be lying down. Had he come with a regular helmet and head I would be all over this.
No normal head no sale.
Pity they didn't provide an adjustable sliding chrome visor, the kind that slides up and down into the back of the helmet.
I have wondered why no attempt has been made to produce good figures of plain, pristine classic science fiction spacesuits. I'd love to have the orange and yellow suits worn by Bowman and Poole in 2001, not to mention the silver suits seen in the moon scenes and aboard Leonov in the 2010 sequel. Space: 1999 pressure suits in a modern collector format would also be welcome. I'm sure you can think of others...
Guys, the reason he doesn't have a regular head is 'cause NECA couldn't get the likeness right to the actor who played Kane. This is their way of getting us a Kane figure through a loophole. Plus, I'd bet dollars to donuts we'll see a lot of custom Kane heads made for this guy, so someone will probably make head casts you can just pop on him.
My Hudson does not have a game over man face. He has a normal one.
Unless it is Godzilla.
You cherry-picked my quote. I said "It is one of NECA's goals as an adult collectibles toy company to make each figure as accurate and detailed as possible given size and price-range" you left out the bit about price and size. Sure SH Monsterarts are a bit better than NECA's Godzilla figures (like ten percent better), but they're also three times the price. The 2014 Godzilla from NECA was created directly using the computer model that Legendary used for the movie so minor pose and sculpt is all that's lost there, although I will say that the foot-tall/two feet long NECA 2014 Godzilla is significantly better than either the NECA 12" long figure or the SH figure. The NECA '94 Godzilla really only loses out to the SH figure because of how they scaled the gut and chest, but again the SH figure is three times the price but the same size.
Back on topic here: NECA said on Twitter that some figures in Aliens series 5 will probably have some eggs and maybe facehuggers too.
Awesome, thanks. Series 5 is the one with Ripley right? And that is Jan? For real? Not like how Series 4 was July, then Oct, and now maybe possibly this month? Same with the queen?
Speaking of which, I sold some stuff on ebay, so I have some of it set aside for the queen.
Yeah, whenever they give you a release month you usually have to add another two for proper expectancy. If I remember right then series 4 will be Dallas in space suit, Ripley in space suit, and regular Ripley. The Ripleys of course coming with one Jonesy each! I don't know if they've said anything about series 5 yet, but I will take a gamble and say it'll have Ripley from the end of Aliens with her taped together guns and maybe she'll be the first to have an egg since she destroyed the nest in that scene. This figure would also be able to fit in the power loader they're releasing next "summer" or whenever it actually comes out.
I love how NECA is saying "series 3 is just weeks away, we promise." This gets me excited as I quite want the dog alien, but when I check online TRU says it's expected on 12/23/14. Somebody needs to get their shit together.
The only one I plan to buy from Series 3 is Bishop.
Bishop looks great, better than this Kane just for having an actual face. They seem to have nailed Lance's face, NECA is great with face likeness when there's a face to be had (I freaking love Ash's expression on their Evil Dead 2 figures). I look forward to a full gallery of Bishop, but he's an easy pass for me. While Alien 3 was pretty much crap, I can't deny that the alien itself was pretty slick and much more an independent menace like Big Chap was, that's why I want the figure.
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