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NES Contra Video Game Appearance 2-Pack by NECA – Toyark Photo Shoot

Posted on August 26, 2016 at 10:26 am by Joe Moore under Random Photo Shoot, Video Game Toy News

Contra! The classic Konmai video game was one of the defining games in the early years of the NES, and is still beloved by fans today. It’s best remember not only for it’s amazing soundtrack, but for the most well known secret code in video game history, giving players 30 lives. The game sees you control either Bill Rizer or Lance Bean as you take on Red Falcon, a massive alien creature leading an army of assorted alien warriors and creatures to take over the world. The game was a classic side scrolling shooter with platforming elements and also featured third person shooter stages throughout.

For years, fans have been hoping to see NECA create figures based on Contra. With them previously releasing both Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch and Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo (characters that clearly inspired the box art for the game), it seemed like a no brainer. Now, thanks to years of negotiations and back and forth with Konami, fans can finally grab a 2-pack featuring Bill and Lance from the game. NECA sent along the set for us to check out, and we have nearly 70 high resolution images to check out as well as a full review.

NECA Contra Video Game Appearance NES  Style 2-Pack

Pros

  • Excellent new head sculpts
  • Great new weapons
  • Multiple styles of firing effects pieces
  • Includes a Power Up Capsule
  • Weapons can be customized and can swap parts
  • Fun game inspired paint apps
  • Head sculpts can be easily swapped between the two figures

Cons

  • The spread shot firing effect is fragile

Overall
The figures come packaged in a fantastic NES game style flapped window box. The front of the box has the iconic box art, featuring near rip-offs of Predator’s Dutch, John Rambo and an Alien Xenomorph. The interior flap features the Contra title screen and a window showing the two figures. Bill and Lance come sitting on a plastic tray, with the effects pieces and power capsule on a separate tray behind the figures. All are easy to remove and place back on the trays for storage.

Bill and Lance each include a game inspired paint scheme, utilizing a variation of the pixelized paint applications NECA has used on many of the video game figures. Bill Rizer comes with blue pants and a blue bandana, while Lance Bean includes his red pants and red bandana. The figures use the previously sculpted body seen with NECA Predator Dutch figures, but include all new head sculpts, weapon holster belts, new weapons and the ammo bandolier previously used on Rambo. The figures features about 25 points of articulation.  Each figure includes a customizeable rifle, a handgun and a knife. There are weapon firing effects pieces for straight line shots, which can be chained together for multiple shots in a row. There is also a two part spread shot firing effect as well as the power capsule that would hold weapons.

NECA worked for a few years to get these figures released, and Konami had requested certain things for the figures. Apparently, this includes Bill and Lance having the specific head sculpts you see here. Many fans feel the head sculpts should be swapped. Thankfully, that’s an easy fix, as I swapped them with no issues. The heads work well on either body. The head sculpts themselves are excellent, with a great, stylized take on their NES title screen likenesses. The classic Dutch body sculpt still holds up quite well, and has plenty of articulation. Paint is handled pretty well, though Lance’s eyes are very slightly crossed on this figure. Joints were all fairly tight with no paint locking and no overly loose joints.

The included accessories are what really make this set so much fun to pose and display. The included rifles are specially nice, as you can remove and swap the gun barrels, fold down an extra handle and add an optional gun stock. The effects pieces fit snugly into the barrels, and are light enough to require no stand, except for the larger spread shot piece. Speaking of the spread shot, the piece that attached to the guns, on this, had one of the pieces snapped off in the box. it broke right at the connector to the blast effect. Those connection points are very small, and a little fragile feeling, so handle with care.

The NES Contra set is stellar. What’s even better is that because the game used so many inspirations from Alien, you an use some of the Alien Xenomorphs and the Genocide Alien Queen to create battle scenes that work perfectly. This set is highly recommended for fans of the game, and collectors of the Video Game Appearance line. Check out some highlight photos below, and 65+ images in the full gallery after that.

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› Companies: NECA › Characters: Bill Rizer, Lance Bean › Scale: 7 Inch

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  1. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 07:26 AM

    NES Contra Video Game Appearance 2-Pack by NECA - Toyark Photo Shoot





  2. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    08-26-2016, 07:36 AM

    Man, I love all the pics you guys take on here. How'd you get the great Contra backdrops, and in a good scale? I not only appreciate all the pics of the packaging and various angles of the figures but love all the cool lighting and diorama and displays you guys do here. Wish I could pull this off, have a heck of a time finding backgrounds that look good let alone in the right scale.

  3. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 07:40 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Alucard1138 View Post
    Man, I love all the pics you guys take on here. How'd you get the great Contra backdrops, and in a good scale? I not only appreciate all the pics of the packaging and various angles of the figures but love all the cool lighting and diorama and displays you guys do here. Wish I could pull this off, have a heck of a time finding backgrounds that look good let alone in the right scale.
    I had to composite them together from multiple game screen shots. Glad you like them. Was a blast to shoot, especially with the red Alien Queen.

  4. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    08-26-2016, 07:47 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    I had to composite them together from multiple game screen shots. Glad you like them. Was a blast to shoot, especially with the red Alien Queen.
    Man, composite them together? Sounds like it requires some math, bummer! Love the Genocide Red Queen and all the face hugger eggs, now I want an Alien/Contra game crossover!!

  5. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 07:51 AM

    Not too much math, just some patience and lining up pixels, and then removing any characters that were on screen. A little time consuming, but I enjoy doing that stuff.

  6. Dolemite's Avatar Dolemite says

    08-26-2016, 08:04 AM

    Man, you keep outdoing your ass on these photo shoots, Joe. Fantastic work.

    BTW, what's the story with the heads? I mean, in the game one is blue with a red headband and the other is red with a blue headband. Why would Konami insist on having the heads incorrectly reversed like this?

  7. K Dubious's Avatar K Dubious says

    08-26-2016, 08:06 AM

    Anyway you might want to make those backgrounds available to all?

    Just thought I would ask as I too love to put backdrop behind my figures

  8. deecee4's Avatar deecee4 says

    08-26-2016, 08:08 AM

    Wow, those pics came out great...very striking!

    One thing I wanted to point out..
    "The front of the box has the iconic box art, featuring near rip-offs of Predator’s Dutch, John Rambo and an Alien Xenomorph."

    The character of Lance is based on Rambo but, his depiction on the cover art is based on Dutch-both of them are actually.

  9. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 08:10 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dolemite View Post
    Man, you keep outdoing your ass on these photo shoots, Joe. Fantastic work.

    BTW, what's the story with the heads? I mean, in the game one is blue with a red headband and the other is red with a blue headband. Why would Konami insist on having the heads incorrectly reversed like this?
    I'm not sure. Randy gets flustered every time he talks about the hell with Konami. They apparently insisted on all kinds of goofy things, and it almost got this set cancelled, and did get the Castlevania NES Belmont cancelled.

  10. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 08:13 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by deecee4 View Post
    Wow, those pics came out great...very striking!

    One thing I wanted to point out..
    "The front of the box has the iconic box art, featuring near rip-offs of Predator’s Dutch, John Rambo and an Alien Xenomorph."

    The character of Lance is based on Rambo but, his depiction on the cover art is based on Dutch-both of them are actually.
    The pose/outfits for the cover were based on Arnold, but it was clearly meant to evoke an Arnold and Rambo team up.

  11. Phantomcrow's Avatar Phantomcrow says

    08-26-2016, 09:05 AM

    I want to think I heard that the heads are based on the box cover art not the in game models.

  12. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 09:07 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Phantomcrow View Post
    I want to think I heard that the heads are based on the box cover art not the in game models.
    Could be. They're definitely not based on the gameplay sprites, as the hair color is completely different.

  13. Dolemite's Avatar Dolemite says

    08-26-2016, 09:10 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    I'm not sure. Randy gets flustered every time he talks about the hell with Konami. They apparently insisted on all kinds of goofy things, and it almost got this set cancelled, and did get the Castlevania NES Belmont cancelled.
    Oh shit, I forgot about the Belmont figure. Although that thing was absolutely f'in hideous, so it's probably for the best it got canned.

  14. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 09:31 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by K Dubious View Post
    Anyway you might want to make those backgrounds available to all?

    Just thought I would ask as I too love to put backdrop behind my figures
    Sure. I'll post em here in a bit.

  15. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 09:32 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dolemite View Post
    Oh shit, I forgot about the Belmont figure. Although that thing was absolutely f'in hideous, so it's probably for the best it got canned.
    Awe, I was so hyped up for that.

  16. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 09:46 AM

    For those that wanted the backgrounds to print out.

  17. Alucard1138 has no avatar! Alucard1138 says

    08-26-2016, 10:27 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    For those that wanted the backgrounds to print out.
    Joe, you are so awesome! Thanks a bunch for these, hopefully I'll be able to pay it forward somehow. If I end up making decent backgrounds like this I'll share here!

  18. K Dubious's Avatar K Dubious says

    08-26-2016, 10:49 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    For those that wanted the backgrounds to print out.
    Dude this is really amazing. So hard to find things like this. I will post some pics once my set arrives and these backgrounds will make them look so legit!

  19. ludovicotek's Avatar ludovicotek says

    08-26-2016, 10:53 AM

    Fantastic pictures. Smart to use that red alien queen. Works surprisingly well.

  20. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 10:55 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by K Dubious View Post
    Dude this is really amazing. So hard to find things like this. I will post some pics once my set arrives and these backgrounds will make them look so legit!
    No problem. Most of the time, I'm just using movie screen caps (sometimes edited a bit based on my need) or abstract stuff. The final level background took some work though.

  21. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 10:56 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ludovicotek View Post
    Fantastic pictures. Smart to use that red alien queen. Works surprisingly well.
    Thanks. And as soon as I heard about the Contra set, I had those shots mapped in my head with the Red Queen.

  22. Dragasses's Avatar Dragasses says

    08-26-2016, 12:08 PM

    first and foremost, and most importantly just to pile on.

    joe, your work is fantastic and much appreciated.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    Awe, I was so hyped up for that.
    Is that based off a conan figure they did, or am I reading too much into it?

    edit: ahhh, nevermind. google just found me the original.

    I bet it's a colossal pain to hand paint the pixilated protos. seemingly easy, until you go completely mad.

  23. Dolemite's Avatar Dolemite says

    08-26-2016, 12:26 PM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe Moore View Post
    Awe, I was so hyped up for that.
    Eh, to each their own. Sorry if you're bummed. It bugs me that there are figures out there that got cancelled that'll never see the light of day. For example, SOTA Toys had a line of Darkstalkers figures that got canned that looked very promising.

    Also throwing in a big thx for the Contra backgrounds. I'd like to do something like that for Bioshock, like a Rapture glass tunnel background.

  24. RolandofGilead's Avatar RolandofGilead says

    08-26-2016, 02:59 PM

    These are so nostalgia inducing, I love it. Trying to resist....

  25. Joe Moore's Avatar Joe Moore says

    08-26-2016, 07:38 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXjnSr8zReA

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