While I passed on the rest of the game figures, I liked these two enough in-person that I didn’t want to pass on them. I’ve not played the game these two are based on, but I’ve always liked the designs, especially Dutch. Linn is packed with a katana, and a handgun, with right hands to match each of them. The paint on Linn is certainly bright and eye-catching, though I did notice that it seemed a little more prone to slop and bleed over than Dutch’s. The new parts are all pretty good, though she doesn’t have anything that immediately stands out the way Dutch’s robot arm did. If Dutch is NECA’s best male body, Vasquez is their best female, so Linn’s got another good starting point. Like Dutch, there are still plenty of new parts, including a new head and torso, as well as new dressing for the arms and legs. Given they’re both USCMC, it’s s pretty sensible bit of re-use. She’s instead built on some of Pvt Vasquez’s parts. Though she’s a new character, she’s not all-new pieces. The figure is 6 1/2 inches tall and has 25 points of articulation (including a balljoint on her pony tail that’s pretty darn cool). Whatever the case, she’s just as prominent in the game as Dutch, and a natural choice here. Linn Kurosawa was a brand new addition for the game, though given that she was given the Aliens connection, one has to wonder if at some point in the process she was meant to be a returning Aliens franchise character.
Dutch is packed with an extra, slightly more relaxed hand for his robot arm, as well as a fire-effect piece to plug onto the end. It’s surprisingly subtle on Dutch, and adds a pop to the figure without making him look weird from non-highlighted angles. Dutch’s paintwork follows the usual NECA classic video-game trend, with actual painted shading and lighting, simulating the way the sprites in the game are painted. It could have easily been badly articulated or overly fragile, but it’s neither one of those things, and it even manages to be pretty well balanced on the figure, so he won’t fall over as much as you might expect. It’s a clean sculpt, and it’s got working pistons and joints in all the proper spots. And, of course, most notably, he gets a new right arm, replicating his big robot arm from the game.
ALIEN VS PREDATOR MICROMAN PLUS
Dutch gets a new, slightly less Schwarzenegger-looking head, plus a new belt and knee/elbow pads. As I noted when I reviewed the Contra figures that were also built on this body, it’s a strong starting point, and still remains one of NECA’s best bodies. Unsurprisingly, this Dutch figure makes use of the molds from NECA’s previous Dutch figures. The figure stands 7 inches tall and he has 26 points of articulation.
ALIEN VS PREDATOR MICROMAN MOVIE
Whether he would have actually been cybernetically-enhanced in the movie is anyone’s guess, but it was a cool game concept. And, given Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ’90s stardom, it’s no surprise that there were plans to include him in the film crossover. He’s also no stranger to the NECA thing….being the protagonist of the first movie and all. Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer was no stranger to that whole Predator thing, being the main protagonist of the first movie and all. Both follow NECA’s trend of video game figures filtered through the lens of pseudo realism. They hit shelves between the Predators and the Aliens, which I guess makes some sense. There were two variants of Predator, and then there were Dutch and Linn, who I’m taking a look at today.ĭutch and Linn are a two-pack release as part of NECA’s game-based Alien Vs. Players could choose between four playable characters on their trek to mow down Xenos. Capcom was contacted to make an arcade game to tie-in with the film, and when the film fell through, decided to go ahead and release the game anyway. While it would take us another decade to actually get a movie made out of that concept, one was in the works, and a script was drafted for a mid-90s release. In 1994, with the golden years of both franchises firmly behind them, Aliens and Predator decided to meet in the middle, and dive headlong into the world of Alien Vs.
Now it’s a battle to end them all as human and Predator join forces against unending waves of deadly Xenomorphs!” Linn Kurosawa of the USCMC are surrounded by a swarm of Xenomorph drones when a pair of unlikely allies – Predators – appear and offer a temporary alliance. The cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lt. “Terror grips the city of San Drad as it is overwhelmed by a mysterious outbreak of aliens.
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