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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Maybe I am just lucky, but Hive Wars has been my only bad QC issue and I do think I don't let it bother me because I wanted it least of the three. If I had really wanted Hive Wars then I probably would have been pissed at that arm.

I’ll say it again Sabah, I get that you’re a fan of NECA products. I sincerely hope Randy Falk is aware of your loyalty.

You previously commented about the passion NECA brings in as a company in regards to the figures they produce. Being passionate about a product is admirable but it's no excuse for a lack of quality control in a product line. It doesn’t matter if it's something as simple as a paint app error or something more grievous such as damaged or broken figures for sale on store shelves, errors are errors.

NECA has had so many misses on their figures it’s ridiculous hence why I refer to them as a miss or miss badly company. Those misses take on an exponentially higher factor when you take into account that it is a small “insect company” (paraphrasing your choice of words) when compared to huge corporations like Hasbro and Mattel. I was glad to see that you backed off your earlier blanket statement of praise about not having any major QC issues with NECA's products when in fact you have had some experience with it after all.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Honestly, I'm not comfortable with a lot of things that happen in the society of America (or Earth entirely), it's an observation of American capitalism and what it means to any business that wants to succeed. I have little faith in people, in general I'm a cynic. I happen to be very biased in favor of NECA because they're the only people who make these licenses as well as they do for just under $20 usually. Nobody else makes good Predator toys for that much in this scale, Japanese companies have tried their hand at making 'em but they cost too damn much and don't look very good (accuracy wise, as toys they look alright). I don't like it being this way very much, money coming first to a company over fixing QC issues before release, but NECA does try a lot more than others to replace and fix these problems if they can. I guess that's what you were wanting to know, or I just rambled aimlessly.

No need to apologize for the rambling Sabah. I know you're a loyal fan of NECA figures, I get that. But it seems that we’re miles apart on what our definition of “good” is.

Randy and the rest of the NECA crew appear to only want consumers who are easily impressed by either a) mere looks or b) are so happy that their favorite characters are in action figure form that if they wind up with a figure that has a problem like a misassembled arm, they overlook the lack of QC because they’ve become as biased as you profess to be Sabah. They don’t appear to want consumers like me who are fed up with continually running into the same ridiculously stupid QC issues that are so rampant among their products.

It takes more than visually appealing figures or seeing favorite characters like Predator in action figure form to impress me as a consumer. Hell I'd like to see the rest of Dutch's extraction team make it to action figure form at some point. But at the same time I expect a company to have a high standard of QC to go hand in hand with the visual appeal that many of the NECA figures have in return for the money I spend on a company’s product, especially when a small “insect company” like NECA produces that product.

I wholeheartedly disagree with your statement that NECA does more than most companies to fix and replace problems. If the problems I mentioned previously had been limited to one or maybe even two waves of Predator figures then maybe that statement would hold more weight. On the past 10 waves of Predator figures, including the exclusives like you’ll find at TRU or SDCC, I have either run into or at the very least heard about the same problems on a consistent basis. And as previously mentioned, there have been well-documented QC problems with their other figure lines as well. That shows me that Randy and the rest of the NECA crew don't really give a damn about the QC of their figures because they've had more than ample opportunity to fix the problem and have done nothing.

It’s regrettable that I’ll be passing on the forthcoming NECA Predator figures because I’ve been a fan of the character since it was introduced back in 1987. Maybe Randy and the other NECA employees under his command really will take steps to elevate the QC on their figures in the future but at this point I have my doubts that it will ever happen. After all, it’s the American way to follow the route of profit trumping QC. Ooh-rah USA, right?

Anyway, as I said previously, I wish you the best of luck in your pursuits of NECA figure collecting.