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Palisades Prepares for EVIL!
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 |  |  |  | Palisades, the company who has created quite a buzz with one new product announcement after another, has announced this week that they have acquired the rights to produce new action figures based on one of the most popular horror video game series of all time ...Resident Evil, from Capcom. In addition to action figures, they will be making smaller scale PVC figures, resin statues, and they will continue to produce vinyl statues. They have the first two of those vinyl statues, Nemesis and Jill Valentine, slated for a late fall release.
Which game will the new action figures be based on? "Well, all of the first four, actually", says Mike Horn, President of Palisades. "We have the rights to the first game all the way through Code Veronica. So we'll start with some characters from the last two games and work our way back ...do some retro stuff." That first line includes Nemesis and Jill from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and also two figures from Code Veronica: Nosferatu, a multi-tentacled boss enemy, and a Soldier Zombie with Zombie Dog.
According to Ken Lilly, Palisades' Director of Product Development, the figures from this new series promise to be awesome. "Nemesis is going to be articulated with at least fourteen points, probably more, and the rest of the line will have the same level of attention to detailed sculpting and articulation." The first series scale is slightly larger than a six-inch scale. This puts Nemesis at about 9 inches tall! The second and third series will include both classic and current characters and monsters.
"All you have to do is look at the popularity of these games and the coolness of the possibilities to gauge the level of excitement over this license," explains Horn. "We have some pretty rabid Resident Evil fans in the office and they are going nuts over the stuff we have planned." To see concept sketches for Series One, check out the images here. Expect Resident Evil Series One to become available in early 2001, with Series Two and Three scheduled for summer and late fall.
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