NECA Alien Romulus Ultimate Scorched Xenomorph Figure
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00:00so it seems that Ripley wasn't the sole survivor of the stroma after all here's
00:05a look at the brand-new neck of toys alien Romulus Scorch xenomorph
00:30the 2024 sci-fi horror thriller alien Romulus takes the phenomenally
00:34successful alien franchise back to its roots while scavenging the deep ends of
00:38a derelict space station a group of young space colonizers come face to face
00:42with the most terrifying life-form in the universe
00:45NECA's ultimate action figure version of the Scorch xenomorph stands over 9
00:49inches tall with 23 points of articulation and features an opening jaw
00:53with extending inner mouth and wired tail the screen accurate figure comes
00:57with interchangeable dome parts for a drone xenomorph warrior look perfect for
01:01army building other accessories include interchangeable hands face hugger and
01:05chest bursters with wired tails and a display stand for dynamic posing
01:09sometimes there's a reason why things get left behind and hey you don't want
01:13to leave this one behind before we get a closer look at the alien Romulus Scorch
01:16xenomorph if I can I'd like to thank the folks over at NECA that provided the
01:20sample we could have a look at the Scorch xenomorph should be available
01:23right now in retail stores or online taking of course the tape measure he's
01:27a pretty big boy he's not a big chap though somewhat similar though the
01:32figures though gonna stand at about nine and a quarter inches in height or the
01:35Scorch xenomorph is about 23 and a half centimeters tall going through my tickle
01:40trunk of other xenomorphs from NECA I happen to pull this one here from alien
01:44isolation one that I don't really get a chance to talk about all that much is
01:48very similar in style to obviously the big chap but from a size standpoint you
01:52can see how much bigger and bulkier the Scorch xenomorph is compared to a
01:56regular NECA xenomorph paired along with the Scorch xenomorph NECA had also
02:00released an alien Romulus ultimate accessory set that will come included
02:04with partially fossilized remains of the big chap a couple of face huggers a
02:07couple of chest bursters and of course the containments as well to store them
02:11or at least temporarily speaking though of face huggers speaking of chest
02:15bursters both of which are actually offered up in this release as well first
02:18of all the figure does come in clue with a face hugger the face hugger from a
02:21design standpoint is very similar although the colors are a little bit
02:24different in fact actually kind of looking at the face hugger the way that
02:27is right now it sort of does look like it's painted in very similar fashion to
02:30a tarantula in that the individual appendages the fingerlings here have
02:35sort of this cool kind of striping feature where it's got black and
02:38alternating colors of beige it's more shinier of course with the way they've
02:42painted this the interior or the inside of the face hugger normally this wouldn't
02:45be the how close you'd want to get to a standard face hugger the face huggers
02:48did change a little bit in alien Romulus they sort of had broke the mold
02:52so to speak of what face huggers could actually do I didn't like some of the
02:56elements that were incorporate to alien Romulus in fact that some of the things
03:00that they were doing were more fan service than anything else had it only
03:02really been just a standalone alien movie they didn't feel the need to
03:06connect too much the original 70s film I think I would have liked alien Romulus
03:09just a little bit more anyways though the face hugger though is really cool
03:13though I love the coloring that they've done to this you may already also notice
03:16as well the giveaway signs that there's some holes on the bottom of this so it
03:19tells you right away that this has a wire built into its tail I don't do this
03:23too often when it comes to face huggers bending the tail that is just because
03:26again like the way that the tail is it's such a very thin amount of plastic I
03:30don't think that hope I hope that down the road this doesn't start to split it
03:34hasn't happened too much I think I had one face hugger that after time this
03:38started to kind of crack underneath so far straight out of the packaging fresh
03:43and crisp this face or doesn't seem to have those issues facing him just yet
03:47just yet the figure does also come in clear with a chest bursar and similar in
03:51style it does also have the air holes on the bottom of this as well they're not
03:54really technically air holes they're basically just guiding holes that when
03:57they put them in the press those holes are actually just like little pegs that
04:01then they feed the wire in between that even though a lot of times looking at
04:04that a lot of people speculate that's air holes but anyways you get yourself a
04:07pretty cool again chest burster again normally say don't get this too too
04:12close like this to a chest burster but it's well detailed and I think they've
04:15done a really nice job on it just by the nature of obviously chest bursters it's
04:19kind of really hard to have them standing on their own a lot of times I
04:22just have them like slithering around some of my other displays of xenomorphs
04:25speaking of displaying and displaying xenomorphs the figure does also come
04:30include with a display stand although I don't seem to be having much trouble
04:32right now he's actually perched a lot of his weight against the back of his tail
04:36if you did want to though use a display stand one comes included with a scorched
04:40alien it's very few times that we actually get these stands that NECA
04:43includes with their aliens it's nice to see that they offered one here with a
04:46scorched it does actually consist of two parts when you get out of packaging of
04:50course you got the circular disc down below here and got yourself as well a
04:53clear acrylic post the post attaches into the whole simple shapes after all
04:57and then on the end of it you've got yourself like a little C clamp now it
05:01may look broken to you in fact it actually isn't what they've done is
05:04they've made this on the bottom of this at least a ball joint so when you plug
05:07it in place you've got some posability at play there's no real instructions as
05:12to where specifically it goes on the scorched xenomorph I found actually the
05:16best place to put it and it's just my own personal opinion if you look at the
05:19back of his body where the tail connects to the rest of his body there's a place
05:23right there that I like to put the joints or I like to put that C clamp
05:28it's I find again the perfect place you don't have to put it there if you don't
05:31want to but I find it's I find it's the best place to store this if you want to
05:36have the figure balance the best way the figure does also of course come in
05:40clue with lots of hands lots and lots of hands I tried my best to kind of pair
05:44all the hands together like-for-like scary to scary starting first though the
05:48figure does come in clue with a couple of relaxed hands the relaxed hands
05:51though aren't as different as the ones that he already has on the ends of his
05:54forearms if you look at actually the hands that he starts out the packaging
05:57with they're a little bit more curved in but other than that they're not much
06:00different of course you get yourself two of these and everything that I'm gonna
06:04be showing you guys is basically a pair so every one of them have a mirror flip
06:07to one another so you get yourself a pair of just regular relaxed hands by
06:12the way too I know I'm probably gonna be talking more about that when we look at
06:15the rest of the remaining hands but again like each one of them so well
06:18painted the individual nails of course in the ends I don't know how well these
06:21get filed on the aliens but nicely painted though in silver and again all
06:25of them are wet to the touch not literally wet to the touch I shouldn't
06:28exaggerate but they have a little more of a clear clean fit clear finish clear
06:33finish trying to get that all out the figure also does come in clue with a
06:36couple of yes scary hands I mean really all these hands are quite scary but
06:40these ones have the fingers curved in a little bit more and by the way all of
06:44these just attached simply by pegs I'll show you guys how one of them work I'll
06:48just kind of pop the hands off the forearms in a second but hands that have
06:51slightly curved fingers but those be wave hands because again like the hands
06:55kind of have a wave gesture to them maybe the figure does also come included
06:59with much larger mauling hands wouldn't all of these really be mauling hands
07:03right but again like these just simply attach on to the bargain I'll show you
07:07guys in a second and then he also comes included with one just make sure I've
07:11got all of these here because there's quite again a lot to cover what we're
07:13looking at here six six pairs of interchangeable hands one two three four
07:17five six six pairs of interchangeable hands these hands are a little less
07:21stranger in design kind of actually looks like the alien has arthritis for a
07:26second though I thought this would actually attach onto the bombs of his
07:28legs and they would be actually swappable feet but the feet actually do
07:32have little tiny you'll see in a second they have little tiny spikes sticking on
07:35the sides so sort of has these weird looking hands again if you want to have
07:39them I guess posed inside of his cocoon of course the origins of the scorched
07:42xenomorph or the fact he gets damaged inside of a cocoon one of the kind of
07:45interesting incorporated things that alien Romulus did that I did kind of
07:50like the fact that it actually goes into a cocoon state the second time around as
07:53it gets to its mature adult self with all this talk of course changing out the
07:58hands I have yet to actually do this if you want just kind of hold on to this
08:01forum just kind of wiggle the hand and remove it from the post just like that
08:06find the hand of course you want to then use whether they're scary aliens or not
08:10I don't know if I would say the thought the rule of thumb still applies I mean
08:14let's just assume that this is the thumb we're gonna go with that and then we'll
08:17just plug that back in place super super easy I guess that's really all the
08:22accessories that will they come and clear with the figure except for one
08:24other thing just gonna move everything out of the way here we'll also move the
08:27display stand the figure does also have a swappable dome now out of the
08:32packaging if you want specifically to be the scorched alien we seem to be kind of
08:36one of those things that was incorporated in an AVP the idea that you
08:39could have a unique alien just because there's something damaged to him the
08:43great alien I thought was kind of a cool touch they sort of took that idea and
08:46incorporate it to the idea that a dome was cracked on a xenomorph and that sort
08:50of becomes the main alien throughout the film even though we really don't we
08:53don't really see the scorched xenomorph all that all that much which was kind
08:56of a one thing I don't want to get off to a side tangent I do really wish
09:00though that alien Romulus would have actually had one alien not several
09:04aliens again it just sort of felt like they were picking and pulling elements
09:08from all the other alien films instead of really just trying to be their own
09:11thing picking up though the alien though one thing I will will say right away
09:16again this guy the package I was happy to see that all the joints were super
09:18tight but the thing that makes him though the scorched alien is the fact
09:22he's got this crack right at the front of his dome if you guys can see it
09:25probably would help a little bit better if I took my blasted finger out of the
09:27way see the crack though that's on the front of his dome yeah it looks pretty
09:31cool doesn't it I think I also really like though but scorched alien is that
09:34he has this tiger tail striping all across the top of its dome now if you
09:38didn't want to swap this out let's just say oh I don't know twist my rubber arm
09:42you want to buy more than one of these if you wanted to have like an army
09:45builder and you don't want to also obviously all looking the same just sort
09:48of get your finger underneath this little ledge right here I guess probably
09:52even is easier to grab it from the side but either way though you can see the
09:56outline here of where the dome is a separate piece just detach it and just
10:00actually before I put on the other dome you can sort of see the skeletal inside
10:05of the xenomorph kind of looks a little comical doesn't he I mean still I don't
10:10think you'd want to get this close to an alien but then basically what you're
10:13gonna do is that there's pegs on both sides the replacement dome and they fit
10:17inside the holes on either side if again I get my fingers out of the way so we'll
10:21just plug that in place just make sure it's plugged all the way on there and
10:25now you got yourself a more cleaner looking xenomorph again if you want to
10:28have more than one of these I love the coloring on this do you think the tiger
10:33striping on the top of the dome is one thing that's incorporated into this
10:35alien that we really haven't seen much before but it works really well for this
10:39design of character the thing I also really like about him is while he does
10:42have a lot of similar xenomorph traits the tubes on the back of his body the
10:46little hoses that he has for his shoulders for example the long extended
10:50fingers the dome on the head and you can go on and on and on the thing I do
10:54really like about it is now incorporating colors of copper you can
10:57see like on the backs of his tubes for example he's got this additional copper
11:00color kind of looks like the color of coke all this rusted brown that they've
11:05added to the bottom of it extends out to the ends of this tubes I feel like these
11:08were probably all done in translucent plastic and then they've carefully gone
11:11in there and airbrushed or painted very much the meticulous transitioning of
11:15colors it works really well for the character he's got some of that there
11:18also underneath his shoulder again I don't know what you would call these
11:21little shoulder tubes that he has there's all these cool little things
11:24that you'll pick up on the character I don't get the tail caught on the camera
11:28but you can see like there's a lot of really neat looking Browns that they've
11:31incorporated it's subtle it's not to the point where it's smack dab in your face
11:35but it's so subtly added to the areas of the body that you don't for a second
11:39notice it until you start to spin the figure around again he's got it on his
11:43fingers all down the fronts of his legs down below even on his feet I did say
11:47though one thing that's interesting about this xenomorph is the fact he does
11:50have if you look at the front of his toes he's got these little hooks on the
11:53front and that may help to provide traction maybe for the alien when it's
11:56walking through space not literally walking through space but you know what
12:00I mean these are nicely painted too as well as the toes on the ends as well now
12:05I did have I've heard issues though getting the xenomorph out of the
12:08packaging that tail breakage was a common problem now I can only really
12:12speak for the tail that I have on this alien I haven't had any problems
12:15whatsoever but some have said one of the biggest concerns was the way that
12:18they actually stored the alien inside the packaging and that the tail was
12:21awkwardly bent it results though in fracture issues and sensitivity issues
12:26to having the plastic start to split or crack again I haven't had it at all an
12:30issue with my alien but I'm not saying it hasn't happened at all now for the
12:35figures articulation going though back to the head sculpt of the xenomorph if
12:39you're familiar really with the articulation on standard xenomorphs then
12:42you're pretty much believe familiar with the articulation on this guy as well so
12:45the heads gonna be on a ball joint independently on its own it does rotate
12:48when you rotate it though too far you start to kind of see the sculpting of a
12:52neck underneath now they easily could have just gone in there and left that
12:56unfinished but I do have to award some points to NECA that they actually did
13:00sculpt this so I mean even as awkward as that may be to turn that head of the
13:04alien all the way around like this I mean to actually go in there and still
13:07sculpt something something I think the team should be awarded for that again
13:12like the head does rotate all the way around this is probably not normally
13:14what you would do with an alien but anyways you can rotate it all the way
13:16around I did don't notice though with this dome this dome doesn't seem to stay
13:21in place as well as the cracked one every time I seem to push this down it
13:24comes off again and again I mean for me I'm only gonna display this guy anyways
13:29with the scorched crack look on the front of his face but I did notice though
13:32that this dome doesn't stay as well as the other of course this whole time of
13:36talking with the alien we've yet to actually mention the fact the figure
13:38does have the internal jaw you just simply open up the mouth which I kind of
13:42really wanted to leave off for the articulation on the figure and of course
13:45this alien like all others most the time at least has the extendable jaw I don't
13:50really really remember what the inner jaw looked like color wise in the movie
13:53I don't know if it was necessarily this color but it almost does in a way look
13:57like it's unfinished unpainted it does actually kind of look more like a tongue
14:01than it does an inner mouth but still I always appreciate the fact that they
14:04incorporate something like this just open up the mouth say ah and just pop
14:08that back in place he also does have a secondary ball joint which is a little
14:13little harder to access it's actually at the base of the neck I find if anything
14:17I have more ease to actually move the head but the neck itself does also move
14:21back and forth it is after all sitting on a ball joint oh there goes the dome
14:24just pick up the dome again pop that back in place as for his torso the upper
14:30torso of the xenomorph is of course gonna have a ball joint the arms
14:34themselves hinge out I would say comfortably at a 90 degree angle or T
14:38pose if you prefer the arms again rotate all the way around the figure
14:42does have a double hinge on the elbow here and here does allow and I did
14:47notice though with mine the joint right here is tighter on my xenomorph I've
14:51loosened it up on this side this side still pretty tight if you're having a
14:54similar issue stop what you're doing right now don't go any further maybe
14:59heat this up first with a hairdryer that's probably the easiest thing just
15:02to make sure that the joint is a little bit softer because you don't want to bend
15:05in this and inadvertently break the joint off then you'll be sad and you
15:10want to be blaming this guy for telling you that anyways the hands do rotate
15:13also all the way around when you want to use these hands or all the other
15:15provided hands which are actually right over there hands rotate all the way
15:19around there's a hinge back and forth as for the legs the legs split out I mean
15:23they're they're limited and that always seems to be the case with aliens
15:25anyways you can move the legs but you can only move them out about that far
15:28the legs however they'll move forward and move back so of course if you did
15:32want to have this more in a running pose by all means though keep this on
15:36the ready I just got it off to the side here but like goes forward you can
15:40certainly take the leg and move it back as well the figure does have also a
15:44hinge in the knee which always seems to be the thing that develops looseness
15:47over time I mean I already did say this getting the xenomorph out of the
15:50packaging the joints were nice and tight on this guy just love the coloring on
15:54this I know getting sidetracked here and then as for his feet if you look down
15:57below here so he's got a single hinge I guess where would be his ankle so that
16:02moves up and down and then he's also got in a foot a joint so the joint
16:06itself on the toe can actually move back and forth but you can also rock it back
16:09and forth as well can you see that you know I hope you can see that the figure
16:13also for a second I thought he had toe articulation but he doesn't actually
16:16have toe articulation the only other thing I would say though and it's hard
16:20to kind of pull this off with all aliens but the fact that he has flat feet like
16:23this even the if they didn't even include a display stand had they only
16:27just put peg holes on the palms of his feet it would also help for some
16:30stability of the figure I'm like I said though getting this guy to stand even
16:34without his display stand most of the time I can pull this off as you can see
16:38right now I shouldn't have even jinxed it but of course he does also come in
16:42clear with the display stand make use of that as best you can again I like to
16:45kind of have it near the back of his tail where the tail kind of connects to
16:48his well his lower torso that seems at least for me to be the best place to put
16:53that see there we go so let's just go ahead and do that right now just put
16:56this on the back of his body I mean I mean what little work did I have to put
17:00into doing that see that seems to be the best place all in all though I
17:03really like the look of alien I mean really was while I wasn't as much of a
17:07fan of the actual alien Romulus film I think just to note though I want to be
17:11like fully clear I like the movie if it was an alien movie on its own if it
17:16didn't have to connect at all to anything in the timeline where we start
17:19to kind of course correct the events that would follow afterwards I don't
17:22think it really needs to be in between the 70s film and aliens because I feel
17:26felt right away and I don't want to give anything away for anyone that hasn't
17:29seen it yet so I'm just gonna not give spoilers away but I don't feel it needed
17:33to be where it was in the timeline of the aliens it could have popped up
17:36anywhere in the timeline and I think it would have made a little bit more sense
17:39from a figure standpoint though and I have to come obviously separate the two
17:43the alien Romulus Scorch xenomorph is a gorgeous looking figure it's a lot
17:47bigger though also than other NECA aliens we've gotten in the past the
17:51colors are really good I love the shinier finish that they've given it and
17:53do really like also that they've incorporated some of that rusted brown
17:57elements into the figure there's still enough here of the alien that it
18:00doesn't seem foreign or alien but what I do really like though is that they've
18:04still taken the elements of what made aliens so scary in the first place and
18:07is found a way to tweak it they tweak it in the film they tweak it here in the
18:11figure and a figure is a fantastic release so now that we've wrapped up the
18:15review for the scorched alien from alien Romulus what's next well on the radar
18:19though we will also be looking at the alien Romulus accessory set so if you
18:22have been missing big chap and hope that he's gonna be coming back which yeah I
18:26don't know I don't think that we should have really been something incorporated
18:29into the film but don't worry don't fear we will be looking at the alien Romulus
18:33accessory set in an upcoming review back though to the alien scorched xenomorph
18:37the thing I really like about this thing is while it keeps elements still the same
18:41as what you're used to seeing with aliens right down the articulation points
18:44there's some interesting new elements that they've incorporated into the
18:47figure the joints were nice and tight in this other packaging again I've heard
18:50some horror stories of the tail snapping I again haven't had any issues at all I
18:55showed you in this review that the tail seemed okay at least on mine and the
18:58figure is tight enough on joints that he holds the joint pose really well in fact
19:03now that I've got of course the displaced and it comes accompanying this
19:06figure you can get at this guy in a pose that normal xenomorphs morphs wouldn't
19:10be able to do normally on your shelf the figure does have some really nice
19:13colorings of course it does have the face huggers it does have the chest
19:16burster and it does have a slew of hands what we count like a total of eight
19:20pairs of interchangeable swappable hands that's a whole lot to be coming in
19:24clear with the figure considering if we go back to the timeline no not the alien
19:27timeline but NECA's timeline we do remember of course when they started
19:31releasing aliens you know morphs it really wasn't much in the way of
19:34accessories that were included with the figures maybe if anything there was one
19:37face hugger one chest burster maybe one pair of interchangeable hands look how
19:41far we've now gone a big thank you again to the folks over at NECA that did
19:45provide of course the sample of the alien Romulus scorched xenomorph that we
19:48had the chance to have a look in this review let me know down below in the
19:51comment section first of all what you guys thought of this figure but also let
19:54me know what you guys thought of alien Romulus too much fan service too much
19:57squeezing things in already into established alien timelines what do you
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