I wish I knew THIS before collecting NECA Toys

If you're new to buying NECA toys then this video will teach you all the things you need to know. NECA figures from TMNT to Predator and Aliens to Dracula, this is everything you need to know about collecting their action figures.

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0:00 - Intro
0:17 - short bio
0:49 - Number 10 - Warm Them
1:20 - Number 9 - Websites
2:32 - Number 8 - Social Media
4:16 - Number 7 - Exclusives
5:14 - Number 6 - Walmart VS Target
7:05 - Number 5 - 3rd Party
8:01 - Number 4 - Unlikely Option
8:30 - Number 3 - Online Stores
8:47 - Number 2 - Community
10:24 - Number 1 - Most Important

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[madisonlynn]

As someone who’s been struggling to find affordable TMNT figures for my personal collection, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! This is definitely going to help me!! Your content is stellar and I can’t wait to see what you do next!! 😄

[MonsieurJimjams]

Great advice here. Being an international collector, being part of the collecting community has really helped in hunting down those harder-to-find items, plus they're plugged into when exclusives are dropping as well.

[sab_]

Hey, just wanted to say I recently got into figure collecting, and I came across your channel and love it. You're always very positive, and seem to always have lots of fun talking about these figures, keep it up! As for my first NECA, I recently bought the Evil Dead 2 Ash Williams, and I love it. It's kind of crazy to me how these things can be so detailed and good looking for the $30-$40 dollar price range. Awesome stuff!

[wolfofthepride]

For real, the Facebook groups are AMAZING. Most people are really nice and willing to help complete your collection.

[TheChickler]

Hey, British collector here (yes get your wa’er jokes out now) but your advice was superb, and I’ve been collecting for a while now, so hats off to you! But for my other British collectors out here, a real good site (not sure if America has this) is called comics and cocktails, sure sometimes they are to pricy, but sometimes you can get a ultimate deal.




Also my first two neca figs were FvsJ Jason and Laser Shot Predator

[mjadams]

Great information! I wish I knew all of this when I started collection. These are all lesions I leaned over the span of years and I appreciate the fact that you compiled them all in one video. Very cool.😎

[Nascarfan-ebri]

Absolutely great video brother 👊🏻, great for new toy collectors or inbox collectors not knowing about how to help the joints etc, also great history lesson

[greenmagicdragon]

Awesome video 🤩 Well researched and a pleasure to watch! Thanks 🙏

[ItsGeekEffect]

This was a neat guide into collecting NECA especially for newcomers. I think you touched on some good points, especially with their website because that's one of the main things that baffles me!

[Luigi]

Thank you so much I am a starting collector and I’ve been looking for a good website and nerdzoic is hitting all the right boxes I’m starting with alien and predator figures because I’m also starting stop motion, again thank you so much

[thomasgoesnostalgic]

Excellent video! A lot of people just picking up NECA will really benefit from this. Nice job!

[chrisc]

Great video, I had to figure out most of the NECA shenanigans by trial and error but this video should be help a lot of new NECA collectors.

[superquad]

Great video! Love your channel, and thanks for the tips!

RoboCop was my first Neca figure. Gotten some Predator and Terminator figures since then. Regrettably, I missed out on the Colonial Marines from Aliens.

[SteampunkCreeper]

Very nicely done video here

My collecting started with a Gundam Model kit, which I followed up with a marvel legends figure I got for $9, through the first two years I picked up some more legends and some transformers, my first neca figure however was godzilla 1954

I gotta say, having about 20 NECA figures, I have never had to warm up a figure before use, the only time I've taken a blowdryer to a neca figure was to get a head to swap, maybe I'm just really lucky on that front!

Last part was really wholesome and I loved it

[jboogie]

You know one thing we have not heard of when people report broken figures is what time of year did it occur. Reason I ask is that I work in retail predominantly unloading trucks in the back stock room of Wal-Mart. Stock rooms are not the best climate controlled areas
Of the store.
The metal doors and shutters are not insulated, drafts are everywhere high ceiling pull any warmth away from the floor as well as any reasonable height of store's merhandise.
Also truck trailers are basically plywood and sheet metal and during the winter everything is cold.
So likely scenario is something
like this.
Neca figures are in a ice cold trailer for God knows how long, only shipped two to a box, so a small box, under five feet of boxes of baked beans that fell over. Throwed by some jerk unloading the line . Sits in cold stock room for eight to ten hours, finally stocked and bought that next day still cold from it's long journey. 10minutes later excited collector is home, put the groceries away, opens his figure and snap!
Must be neca fault.
Best solution is to let your newly purchased figure aclimitize to the indoor temperature of your house, preferably the warmest room, for a few hours maybe overnight, so the molecules of the plastic can expand and become more flexible . Also this warming process should be slow.
Dunking a cold figure in hot water could cause micro fissures to start as the sudden heating can cause a violent movement of the molecules of the plastic, imagine a faultline in the earth during an earthquake.

[joelamel]

Great video man, so cool you took the time to make this... THANX

[popculturehero]

This is a good guide to Neca collecting with a dash of salt. At least your giving them the benefit of the doubt that the breaks could be because of the thick paint. But many believe the grade of plastic they use is just not that durable to begin with, and some ambitious sculpts like the gargoyles wings are under engineered.

I remember the mention of the hairdryer method first with their giant pacific rim Striker Eureka. Just to get the backpack on.

I see a lot of Neca figures at toy shows and conventions and was able to get complete animated turtles figure affordably this way loose in plastic storage bags.

Also you got to be patient if your collecting these figures. Because it feels like quite a long time between even press announcements.
Walmart will get product, and often leave it to a department manager to eventually sort out where its going to go. A stocker is just going to scan it, with no location to put it up.

[anthonywoodham]

That was a great video. Literally made me laugh out loud. Your channel is amazing.

[freerentryan]

Do neca ultimate figures stay on sale forever

[joec]

Thanks for the details!! Yeah I went in circles on that stupid email sign up trying to get it to work.
They also have a calendar for upcoming dates but don't seem to use it for much of anything haha.