[Joe Moore]

NECA Teases Ultimate Friday The 13th Part 4 Jason Voorhees Figure

[Trivial Psychic]

Sigh....

After the last ultimate, this one ultimately feels like a waste of time, as there will be little difference between this one and the part 3D figure outside of headsculpt and a different colored pair of pants, and most likely a nifty box. They should just release a series of accessory packs back like they did with the Aliens and Predator series.

Roy, Pamela, or any Hodder Jason at this point NECA, please? You're just treading water with this line now.

Or better yet, give us a two pack similar to the Ripley/Newt set featuring the final battle with Tommy Jarvis. That would be a guaranteed seller with Friday fans!

[Dr Kain]

Now this Jason I might buy. The Final Chapter is my favorite movie in the franchise and features to me Jason at his finest. It's also funny that I see this announcement the very moment I'm uploading my review for The Final Chapter as I type this. :-D

[Dolemite]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Sigh....

After the last ultimate, this one ultimately feels like a waste of time, as there will be little difference between this one and the part 3D figure outside of headsculpt and a different colored pair of pants, and most likely a nifty box. They should just release a series back like they did with the Aliens and Predator series.

Roy, Pamela, or any Hodder Jason at this point NECA, please? You're just treading water with this line now.

Or better yet, give us a two pack similar to the Ripley/Newt set featuring the final battle with Tommy Jarvis. That would be a guaranteed seller with Friday fans!

I have to agree with this post, but I still can see the value of this set for those who missed out on the original release. But yeah, let's get some Hodder Jasons out there, NECA! Enough with the rehashes.

The corkscrew is fun, however. Now all we need is a Crispin Glover figure to use it on, lol.

[NECA TOYS]

Part 4 has a different torso, shirt, mask, and hands as well as all different accessories
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

As the saying goes - if you don't like it don't buy it

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Sigh....

After the last ultimate, this one ultimately feels like a waste of time, as there will be little difference between this one and the part 3D figure outside of headsculpt and a different colored pair of pants, and most likely a nifty box. They should just release a series back like they did with the Aliens and Predator series.

Roy, Pamela, or any Hodder Jason at this point NECA, please? You're just treading water with this line now.

Or better yet, give us a two pack similar to the Ripley/Newt set featuring the final battle with Tommy Jarvis. That would be a guaranteed seller with Friday fans!

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by NECA TOYS

Part 4 has a different torso.shirt, and hands as well.
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

I'll always think of part 4 Jason as the Jason with a gut. Not to say that he was fat but he had a gut compared to part 3 (since the costume designs were so similar). I don't know if I'll get this since I got the ultimate part 3 figure but my brother doesn't have any Jason figures so he might look at getting this one.

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Sigh....

After the last ultimate, this one ultimately feels like a waste of time, as there will be little difference between this one and the part 3D figure outside of headsculpt and a different colored pair of pants, and most likely a nifty box. They should just release a series back like they did with the Aliens and Predator series.

Roy, Pamela, or any Hodder Jason at this point NECA, please? You're just treading water with this line now.

Or better yet, give us a two pack similar to the Ripley/Newt set featuring the final battle with Tommy Jarvis. That would be a guaranteed seller with Friday fans!

Man id love a tommy and jason two pack. I always wished they would have tied the movies and tv show together ( they coulda done something like the had a curse on it and mickey, ryan and Marshak coulda found tommy and tina then they coulda taken the mask or something. )

[Dolemite]

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Originally Posted by NECA TOYS

Part 4 has a different torso, shirt, mask, and hands as well as all different accessories
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

As the saying goes - if you don't like it don't buy it

I know this wasn't directed at me, but it's still kind of a dickish sounding post, Mr. NECA man. Also, way to ignore the more constructive/positive aspects of his post.

[ATF]

Knew this figure was coming (again).

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by NECA TOYS

Part 4 has a different torso, shirt, mask, and hands as well as all different accessories
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

As the saying goes - if you don't like it don't buy it

If I know Jason? I won't go there with you...

I'm quite aware that the original Final Chapter figures (which I own all of) had alterations in the head, neck, torso and hands, most of which were extremely subtle (especially the torso...) but were indeed different from those same features of the Part 3 figures (which I also own all of.)

I also know that Ted White was a method actor in his approach to Jason, who spent very little time interacting with the rest of the cast while on the set unless he was in costume. He was also deeply ashamed of his role as Jason initially and asked not to be credited in the film, and he nearly quit the film altogether due to the awful treatment of Judie Aronson, who developed hypothermia during a scene in which White was supposed to kill her while she lied naked on an inflatable raft. But whatever...I guess I don't know anything about Jason.

The point that you missed due to you choosing to nitpick details and throw insults, is that the figure still feels like a missed opportunity due to the fact that it is a re-hash (or as the original working title to Part 5 was known as "Repetition") of something we've already received. The most casual of fans won't notice fine details like slightly longer fingernails, missing chevrons, and an unbuttoned bottom button on his shirt to seperate this upcoming figure from the previous Ultimate figure. It will be to them, literally, nothing more than a reissued Jason with a different headsculpt and a different colored pair of pants.

This point feels a bit intensified when there is a slew of looks and appearances for Jason that we've yet to receive, or have already received in the 8 inch MEGO scale as opposed to the standard 7 inch one that many of us primarily collect. I find it disheartening that there are already more Ash Figures from the Evil Dead line than there are for Jason, and Jason has been in more films than Ash and his line has had an even lengthier head start.

As for part 4 being the one that everyone wanted put back out...I'm not sure what pool of fans you've been interviewing, because around here, it's been quite the opposite. Around here, Part 7 Hodder has been by far the most requested look for Jason for a number of years now, but if you showed up more than 8 times a year, you would have known that.

It would also do you well not to insult fans for giving constructive criticisms or for knowing when to call a spade a spade. If anything, it should make you a bit happy that fans feverishly care so much about your projects, that we're willing to spend as much time as we do praising, speculating, fantasizing (or for that matter, bitching...) about them on a web forum. And time well spent.

By the way...did you know that Part 8 was only film in the original Friday the 13th series to NOT feature a stalled car? Or that the first time we see Jason as an adult in the films, he is actually being played by a woman?

[liamthecoolguy]

Yes! Thank you NECA, this made this Friday the 13th a good one :^)

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

He was also deeply ashamed of his role as Jason initially and asked not to be credited in the film,

He didn't ask to have his name removed out of shame for being in the movie, he asked to have his name removed because he didn't want to be associated with the movie's director, Zito, for the poor way he treated the entire cast.

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

By the way...did you know that Part 8 was only film in the original Friday the 13th series to NOT feature a stalled car? Or that the first time we see Jason as an adult in the films, he is actually being played by a woman?

"Whats your favorite scary movie?"

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

He didn't ask to have his name removed out of shame for being in the movie, he asked to have his name removed because he didn't want to be associated with the movie's director, Zito, for the poor way he treated the entire cast.

I'd call that shame...but we're quibbling over definition here...lol.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I'd call that shame...but we're quibbling over definition here...lol.

Perhaps, but the way I read your post is that he was embarassed for being in the movie because of its content.

[Joe Moore]

Ultimate Friday The 13th Part 4 Jason Voorhees Figure - The Toyark - News

[evilekim]

Love this! Parts 3 and 4 were always my favorites. I have all the other(older)versions NECA made, but I'll buy this too. Haven't seen too much in the ways of Jason figures lately, so I'm happy to see this. The new accessories, the retooled mask, and the packaging will make it worth it. Plus you can't beat the price! Now let's see that packaging!

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by evilekim

Love this! Parts 3 and 4 were always my favorites. I have all the other(older)versions NECA made, but I'll buy this too. Haven't seen too much in the ways of Jason figures lately, so I'm happy to see this. The new accessories, the retooled mask, and the packaging will make it worth it. Plus you can't beat the price! Now let's see that packaging!

A recent, and massive, Toys R Us restock of NECA in the Philly area has the Ultimate Part 3 Jason on shelves in good numbers now (along with everything released in last 3 months or so).

[John888481]

Quote:

Part 4 has a different torso, shirt, mask, and hands as well as all different accessories
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

As the saying goes - if you don't like it don't buy it

Part 4 also has a different upper arm sculpt. Part 3 has a bigger, more muscular upper arm. This figure is completely different.

[Dolemite]

I'm pretty much sold on this figure. I have the original release, but I never picked up the "battle damaged" one and being able to stuck the machete into his head wound is keen. Plus I love that corkscrew!

[evilekim]

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Originally Posted by NECA TOYS

Part 4 has a different torso, shirt, mask, and hands as well as all different accessories
If you know Jason you would realize that Part 3 had a wider hunchback unique to him.
Many details are different between part 3 and 4 and many fans want Part 4 back out.

As the saying goes - if you don't like it don't buy it

Here is a comparison shot. They are much different.

[Trivial Psychic]

I have both versions of the original figure so I would essentially be paying $20 for a hacksaw, butcher cleaver, and corkscrew, in which two of those accessories came with the Mezco version and work perfectly fine with the versions I have as is. On top of that this one will likely have the insane amount of clear coat that NECA has been putting on their figures as of recently. I'll pass.

[evilekim]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I have both versions of the original figure so I would essentially be paying $20 for a hacksaw, butcher cleaver, and corkscrew, in which two of those accessories came with the Mezco version and work perfectly fine with the versions I have as is. On top of that this one will likely have the insane amount of clear coat that NECA has been putting on their figures as of recently. I'll pass.

So far, It's 2 new masks, 3 new weapons, and the gravestone. Plus the paint on the wrists, nails, and the blood on the weapons. What we haven't seen is the packaging, which that(to me)may be the coolest part. All those things considered with a $21.99(most likely)SRP, I'm surprised anybody would pass on him.
As for the clear coat, considering it's raining in most of the scenes surrounding Jason in Part IV, that may work. Contrary to your Mezco accessories comment, they don't work that well. The Mezco figure was way more clunky.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by evilekim

the blood on the weapons

The part 3 ultimate was originally solicited as having blood on some of his weapons but the final result was not the same as previewed. Just saying that it might not be exactly as seen now. I for one am very interested to get this figure since my brother has both of the other ultimate Jason figures and likes them a lot.

[Bearjew]

Well I will say that this will be mine when it comes out. I passed on the others for various reasons, skin tone mismatch, warped mask etc. I wasn't a fan of the head sculpt. However I think it is time to grab one and this guy looks great to me. I love the gaping machete wound. There are just lots of things I like about it. I will wait and check it out in person but I have been picky about this figure for some reason and I think this one will be a winner for me.I think the hack saw is my favorite. Ithe would make a great cabin scene with a body on the table. I am sure I can find an extra figure somewhere in a bargain bin to repaint and chop up.
I noticed in their Twitter pictures that the nails were black in one picture and not painted in the others. I wonder which version will be produced.