Randy Falk from NECA Toys has been saying all through the 2014 New York Toy Fair that there would be a huge announcement. Well the announcement has dropped today, and it is indeed huge. It’s been leaked through the PR News Wire that NECA finally got the likeness rights of Sigourney Weaver to make Ripley figures from the Aliens movies! There are going to be multiple versions made, but there are no prototypes to show off yet. They are expected to be at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con along with the deluxe Alien Queen.
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Never let it be said that NECA isn’t going all out on their Alien and Aliens figures. To help celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 1979 film Alien, NECA is releasing an action figure of one of the Nostromo crew inside a spacesuit. From what I can gleam, this is just going to be a generic Nostromo astronaut in the spacesuit, and you won’t get to see anyones’ face. If that changes I’ll be sure to let you all know here. This seems to be a good way to get some figures from the original Alien movie though, since Sigourney Weaver won’t allow her likeness used for a new Ripley figure.