[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

The figure looks beautiful and is a great update to the original. I have the 2014 release and the dome is colored white in the areas that are colored black-ish on this release (front and rear). Is one version more screen-accurate than the other? Great photo shoot by the way, Joe. Like Tony said, you really nailed the lighting and the look of the egg chamber from the first movie.

That said, I really have to address what is clearly a ongoing pattern of false advertisement on the part of NECA. For all of these ultimate re-releases they keep boasting about "all new sculpts." They even say it on the product description page this figure on their website:

We’ve given a deluxe upgrade to the Xenomorph known to fans as “Big Chap,” with an all-new sculpt standing over 9” tall.

Yet by Joe's own observations in his review, this is the exact same sculpt as the 2014 release. Why does NECA continuously insist on doing this? Claiming the sculpt is all new when it actually isn't seems like an underhanded way to entice people to buy the figure if the articulation update alone isn't enough for them.

Thoughts?

Thanks for the kind words! Glad people are digging the shoot. Every time I think I need a break from Alien, I wind up having a good bit of fun taking pics.

I believe the white cloudy dome from the 2014 is a little closer to accurate, but the cloudiness of that is a bit more opaque than it should be. It should be closer to the new one, with much less dark on the front of the dome. On the new one, the factory probably got a little too heavy handed with the black paint on the dome, and that may vary a small bit from figure to figure.

I never did say it was the exact same sculpt, as I make specific mention of newly sculpted areas. I just said the sculpt is still good, as they do seem to share some pieces. Is it a 100% new mold? Probably not, but it's not a simple repack/repaint of the 2014 release. There are clear differences between the two figures. The upper arms, legs, tail, feet, parts of the head sculpt are all newly sculpted. What seems to be the same are mainly the hands and torso, as there was nothing that needed to change there to accommodate the updates.