[Dark Hayabusa]

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Originally Posted by miraclefan

Sort of, here's the story.

Back in 1999 a toy company called Re:Actionfigures made a toyline centered around the characters of 2000 AD.

I can tell you from what I saw and heard from people who carried this series that the only characters to sell where the ones related to Judge Dredd, no one bothered with Strontium Dog (Johnny Alpha) Durham Red (who looks like a generic Goth/hooker chick) and Slaine, who looks like a Scottish Conan the Barbarian rip-off!
The Dredd figures sold fast, but the 3 characters I just mentioned (NOT related to Dredd) where peg warmers for YEARS!

Ironically, the Dredd Re:action figure is one of the worst in that line. I still like my Johnny Alpha but Durham Red look like a goth Barbie doll. Someone on a 2000AD facebook page once told me he met the woman that sculpted the Dredd proto and she admitted she hated the character and the design. The Toy Biz Dredd is way better and I'm glad I got that one instead of Re:action's.
I was really hoping for a Dredd movie figure line, thinking it would right up Neca's street but they've not said anything. Maybe there's a slim hope Hot Toys may do it, they did figures from Sucker Punch and that film died a death in the box office. I know 3A are working on a comic Dredd, that's said to borrow design aspects of several classics artists, but knowing 3A it probably won't appear until 2015, which leaves the minitures you can buy online.

I would love any kind of figure line, comic or Urban movie. Do the initial characters, Dredd, Anderson, Hershey, Death, Rico. Then more of the villians like the Angel Gang and Call Me Kennith (in a two-pack with Walter). Then move onto other 2000AD characters, especially the ABC Warriors