DAWN OF THE DEAD license available

[dstephan]

Article over at figures.com - the licensing show is going on right now I believe - perhaps something new and wonderful will come out of it for SSC. Of course we won't know if anything happened at this show for a couple of years.

www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=6&show_article=1403 (http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=6&show_article=1403)

[screamingmetal]

I saw this yesterday and was going to post about it but, called it off because I had to watch Hostage.

I really hope Sideshow doesn't kowtow to New Line and make Dawn of the Dead figures right away. I think Sideshow started the Dead line unknowing that a DOTD license would be available. If Sideshow did both DOTD and The Dead figures at the same time, they would have conflicting product lines that could hurt the vitality of both lines.
Sideshow spent so much time and probably money creating their own line of Zombie figures that I think it would be best to just stay with the Dead and put off DOTD stuff for now.
Unless The Dead figures where always apart of the DOTD license, it's strange that New line announces this so soon after Sideshow releases their first Zombie.

Also, a very strange coincidence, before I knew about New Line adding Dawn of the Dead to it's House of Horror category, I had just Rented Dawn of the Dead from Blockbuster yesterday.

[dstephan]

Isn't NECA that has Land of the Dead figures? I'd imagine they'd have first shot at Dawn...

[screamingmetal]

True, but Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are now all under New Line House of Horror category, and are all 1/6 scale licenses Sideshow owns.
I remember hearing about NECA getting the Land of the Dead license but I didn't know it was apart of the House of Horror thing. Maybe they will get the Dawn 12" license, who knows?

[Azog of Moria]

SOTA toys has the Land of the Dead license, they do amazing stuff no doubt, but on the 6 inch scale meh, come on SS...

[screamingmetal]

SOTA toys has the Land of the Dead license
Ah, so that's why my search through the NECA news articles didn't turn up anything.
Going through the SOTA news articles, I found out Land of the Dead is a Universal property not a New line property. so it's unrelated to the House of Horror line.