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NECA’s ‘Ultimate Dream Warriors Freddy’, ‘T-1000’ and ‘Preacher’ Action Figures!
NECA has been unloading new images and dropping new announcements through the weekend.
The biggest news is that they’ve shared the first ever shots of the finished “Preacher” figures, based on AMC’s live adaptation of the popular comic book.
The series follows a Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power: the ability to make people do his bidding with just a word. The assortment includes Jesse and Cassidy (a hedonistic Irish vampire who becomes Jesse’s best friend), both with authorized likenesses of their actors.
Each fully poseable figure stands approximately 6 3/4” tall and comes with character-specific accessories. Ships in December.
NECA also shared a closer look at their “Dream Warriors Ultimate Freddy Figure” from A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3. The man of your dreams will start shipping to retail next week.
Ultimate Part 3 Freddy features plenty of gruesome detail and tons of accessories, including 2 interchangeable heads, 2 pairs of hands, the Elm Street house, Freddy puppet and removable hat. He’s fully poseable and truly terrifying – swap out his regular sweater front to display the tortured spirits trapped in his Chest of Souls!
The 7” scale figure comes in collector-friendly deluxe window box packaging with opening flap.
Lastly, from the action-packed movie Terminator 2, the “Ultimate T-1000 (Motorcycle Cop)” is the perfect companion piece to the Ultimate T-800 and Ultimate Sarah Connor figures.
This deluxe 7” scale action figure features the authorized likeness of Robert Patrick and an all-new fully articulated body. It comes loaded with accessories to help recreate your favorite action scenes from T2: plenty of interchangeable parts (3 heads, 3 pairs of hands, bladed arm) plus pistol and machine gun accessories.
Comes in window box packaging with opening flap. Ships November.
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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.


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