User blog comment:Mr Bio Shock/NECA Creates New BioShock Infinite Action Figures + Awesome New Trailer/@comment-2250991-20130210195958/@comment-2250991-20130210224504

Pauolo,

Yep. The latter usually sell more than human characters, althought I do like Elizabeth. For the time being, at least I made a couple Big Daddies on my Blog last year.

Dr. Las Moore,

NECA mentioned that one of the reasons we don't see any more BS2 figures from stores is because of lack of demand, specifically by stores that still have multiples of the same products to try getting rid of, not to mention the nit-picky selections of a couple figures out of its series run bought, with only the remaining figures left on shelves; ever go by the Toys R Us isle, and see an overcumbered amount of Brute figures, or the box set Omegas w/the bunny masks? If you or no one else wanted to buy them, then that's why Series 3 is up in limbo. Basically, they can't just force more new figures if the line suffered like this in stores, because it didn't just cost NECA, but TRU in investing on the toys as well. In a way, to actually see more new characters made as toys, all figures from the line had to be bought just to show stores that there was an interest and demand for toys in the lisence. Even if it wasn't that figure you wanted because of the lack of articulation, or if its a repaint of a previous figure, all of those figures count. NECA was hoping the Brute could have launch some interest for BS2's last two figures to be released, but since seeing the abundance of them on shelves says anything, those didn't do too well, and NECA once again will have to find a "home" for them as some kind of exclusives. Columbia is different, but if it went better than BS2, then may be there's a better chance for that lisence.

XXIsonXX,

The souvenirs that have the note from Slate? Would be kinda neat to see. I think Pauolo thought you meant the figure matching the regular look of it from the game. Its mentioned as unfinished (which even the card below it says so), but where I can see a full game version of it as a alternate figure (or ven as a simple custom modification), I personally think this one had to do with it looking too much like George Washington, which if you heard about the controversy about their Django Unchained figures (which led to their Ebay worth), causes NECA to go a bit less sublte on the game's Washington details, and more on further mechanical aspects that may have appeared in the art or even in the game as "battle damage"( much like in the case of the substitute "Arnold" face on McFarland Toys' Terminator figure that didn't have lisencing approval to use Arnold's face).