As some of you may know The Bridge Direct have the Hobbit License and it’s no secret that they are not doing to well with it. There’s not many figures been released in the six inch line and they kept getting pushed back and some of the important characters have not been given the six inch treatment. And on top of that they are not selling that well.

Personally I think the license should be given to a more established company who are known to deliver high quality figures at a decent price and there’s no other company better than NECA.

I know that when Lord of The Rings films came out NECA did a series of ¼ scale figures and a large Balrog and they did phenomenal work on them especially the Aragon which I still want to get my hands on. Recently NECA did a ¼ scale Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit film and Gollum which were fantastic figures and still widely available.

I would love NECA to get the licence to The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings film licences and make 7 inch scale fully articulated figures from them. They would be incredible I can just imagine them. Toybiz did a great job back in the day but I feel NECA could do them even better.

Take a Fellowship of The Ring Aragon for example. Toybiz did not get Viggo Mortensen’s likeness right. Just imagine NECA’s version.

It would have a proper likeness of Mortensen from the film, he would be accurately detailed, fully posable and come with a bow, three arrows, quiver on a strap, longsword and knife with sheaths on him to store them, multiple interchangeable hands to hold the different accessories and a soft goods Fellowship cloak.

If they were to do a version of him early on, say from Weathertop. He would come with different accessories aside the sword and knife. He would comes with a cloak with a hood, torch with different hands.

I know that they’ll only release three figures per series and there will be only a few series a year. Though it would last for years just like the Aliens and Predator line. It would be great for army building with the orcs, soldiers etc. They could release different versions of the characters from different points in the films with different accessories. All the figures would look fantastic and I would love NECA to do a Middle Earth line they would be perfect and there will be longevity to it too which is perfect for them.

I should mention that NECA have teased that they have a new video game license that may be revealed at NYCC next week and it possibly maybe The Shadow of Mordor and if so it may lead to getting The Lord of The Rings and Hobbit licence. One can dream.