Integration

Raine24 · 07-19-2021, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I don't think NECA even has the license anymore and even when they did have it none of the actors' likenesses were included with the franchise license. NECA would have needed to go actor to actor making deals for those characters and that's only even if the actor wants to let their likeness be used, looking at what happened with Elias Koteas for TMNT shows how not everybody is just okay with having their face on a toy (thankfully Elias was swayed).

I know and it sucks, and that's why even the absurdly expensive Enterbay RoboCop has Burke's face instead of Weller's (technically it's a RoboCop 3 figure however the helmeted face is Weller as are all the quotes) and there hasn't been a regular retail figure without a helmet since '94/'95 and those had very generic faces

But they went after a bunch of the actors for Aliens! It's not a 1-1 comparison, but if Robo was popular enough to continuously pump out figures for like 14 years straight, surely that's popular enough to get at least one actor on board. Just one! Get Nancy Allen and Robo gets his partner, get Ronny Cox and you get a Jones to bundle with an office backdrop for some special ED release. If you can't get Clarence, then get Emil and do a two-pack with his melting version. Hell, just do his melting version! No likeness issues there, right?

Maybe I'm naive, but I feel if they had any intention at all they could have done something. It just feels very odd that this character could be such a consistent money maker for them and yet they did almost to capitalize on it

07-19-2021, 09:32 PM	#53
Raine24 Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 564	Quote: Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd I don't think NECA even has the license anymore and even when they did have it none of the actors' likenesses were included with the franchise license. NECA would have needed to go actor to actor making deals for those characters and that's only even if the actor wants to let their likeness be used, looking at what happened with Elias Koteas for TMNT shows how not everybody is just okay with having their face on a toy (thankfully Elias was swayed). I know and it sucks, and that's why even the absurdly expensive Enterbay RoboCop has Burke's face instead of Weller's (technically it's a RoboCop 3 figure however the helmeted face is Weller as are all the quotes) and there hasn't been a regular retail figure without a helmet since '94/'95 and those had very generic faces But they went after a bunch of the actors for Aliens! It's not a 1-1 comparison, but if Robo was popular enough to continuously pump out figures for like 14 years straight, surely that's popular enough to get at least one actor on board. Just one! Get Nancy Allen and Robo gets his partner, get Ronny Cox and you get a Jones to bundle with an office backdrop for some special ED release. If you can't get Clarence, then get Emil and do a two-pack with his melting version. Hell, just do his melting version! No likeness issues there, right? Maybe I'm naive, but I feel if they had any intention at all they could have done something. It just feels very odd that this character could be such a consistent money maker for them and yet they did almost to capitalize on it Last edited by Raine24; 07-19-2021 at 10:03 PM..