It wouldn’t be Toy Fair without NECA (National Entertainment Collectibles Association), who had tons of new figures and prototypes based on their new licenses, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, of which you can see three of the robotic Jaeger here, Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, Kick-Ass 2, Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit Trilogy,” plus they’ve already started rolling out merchandise for the anticipated The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. (No action figures based on the new characters yet.) The Kick-Ass 2 molds were particularly good, looking just like the characters from the movie. They are also continuing their line of Aliens and Predator toys with some cool 7″ figures of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch from the original 1987 Predator movie, as well as a cool diarama showing Colonial Marines taking on Aliens. They also had four huge quarter-scale action figures including Captain America, Iron Man and both Michael Keaton and Adam West Batman figures. Check out the full NECA gallery by clicking here.
Mattel Toys has their annual Collectors Event, although they kept their Movie Masters figures for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel well hidden in a separate area and they wouldn’t allow us to take pictures. They had figures for Henry Cavill as Superman, Michael Shannon’s General Zod (without his trademark beard!), Russell Crowe’s Jor-El, and Antje Traue’s Faora all of which was been previously revealed.
Possible the coolest thing Mattel showed off (beyond the Castle Grayskull) was a replica set of “Ecto Goggles” from Ghostbusters, which will run you $110.
Another Toy Fair favorite is the Japanese company Kotobukiya, who had a great roster of Art FX Statues based on Marvel and DC properties as well as classic Star Wars characters. Their Marvel statues included two 15″ figures for Iron Man 3, one of the Iron Man Mark 42 armor and another of the Mark VII armor worn in The Avengers, but some of the non-movie Marvel Universe stuff was equally cool including matching statues of “Spider-Man Unleashed” and “Venom Unbound.”
More DC figures could be found at Square Enix’s booth as part of their Play Arts line, which included characters from Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight Trilogy” as well as stylish Manga-like alternate versions of Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman and others.
