[Wonderful Toys]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I get why NECA didn't make any but I wanted some of the survivors from Left 4 Dead. Really just Zoey was the one I wanted but as NECA reasonably explained there isn't a big market for fairly normal looking civilian characters who aren't excessively well known or popular. The same reason they don't do figures of the victims from most/all horror licenses. The fairly valid point of "how many people really want a toy of just a normal person wearing fairly normal clothes?" I still would've liked to have gotten Zoey from L4D even if it had been made available only in a two pack with one of the special infected.
I have thought about wanting more zombies though from different lines. Like the regular infected zombies from L4D, more Dawn of the Dead, or Resident Evil regular zombies. Not more of the special super monster zombies but just the regular shambling walking corpse type zombies. My Smoker from L4D is so lonely.

How does McFarlane Toys get away with it with the Walking Dead? It may be a successful franchise but it's not like every character they make a figure out of is a household name and they dress normally, though a bit grimy.

I love NECA but if there's two things that bug me, it's their refusal to make figures out of so many major characters in franchises and opting instead to focus on the superheroes, monsters, and aliens even if the human/civilian characters are just as important if not more so, and their rejection of even bothering with some franchises because they're "too niche". They started out making Hellraiser figures, now Hellraiser is too niche for them.