NECA Toys announced that they have acquired the rights to John Carpenter’s The Thing, a license that has been very hard to get for many companies over the years. MacReady includes three interchangeable head sculpts, a hat, goggles, a bottle of whisky, a glass, a lantern, a shotgun, and more accessories.
MacReady is slated for release this Summer.
Look for pre-orders and additional figures on Entertainment Earth, BigBadToyStore, Hobby Link Japan, Things From Another World, Zavvi – U.S./Canada and Zavvi – U.K.
In The Thing (1982), a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
