It's kind of hard to believe Jaws turned 50 this year. Steven Spielberg's iconic thriller about a man-eating shark popularized a sub-genre revolving around the carnivorous sea creature, and it holds up well decades later (I need to rewatch it sometime). NECA did some Mego-esque figures a few years back that were pretty good, but they finally got to do 1/10 scale Ultimates this year for the film's milestone. Since Quint was the only one of the initial figures they did I got, his new version will be the first of the two Ultimates I go over.

The packaging has a retro look to it, with an aged look to the graphics and the iconic poster illustration on the sides. The front has a very nice rendition of Quint, being artwork provided by Stern Pinball (they don't credit who did the illustration, though). Like usual, you'll have to snip out a few plastic constraints for the figure itself, but everything else is held securely in the trays, and as long as you have some scissors handy, getting him open will be no hassle.

Trevor Grove provided the head sculpt for the 8" Quint a few years ago, so it's no surprise he did the heads here as well. The head is spot-on to Robert Shaw's likeness, and it's very similar to what Grove did before, just in a different scale. The paint is clean aside from a few small marks, and the wash for the hat and hair helps bring out the details. He has two other portraits aside from the one with the hat. One has him wearing a bandana, with the same expression as the main head, though the skin tone looks a bit lighter (it could just be the lighter wash on the cheeks). The other extra head is bareheaded and gives him a happy expression, not at all worried about killer sharks. The 8" Quint had the hat and bandana as separate pieces, and it's kind of a shame that's not the case here, but I guess NECA wanted the hair to look better on each one.

At about 7 1/8" tall, Quint has his default clothing on, and I assume Kyle Windrix did the rest of the sculpt work here. The clothes look great, with plenty of sculpted wrinkles and other details, and the wash on the jacket helps bring them out. The shoes also have wash on them for a dirty look, but the color is notably different from the prior clothed version. That one had accurate shoe colors, so why change them here? The skin is a bit reddish, likely because Quint's been out in the sun for a while, and the paint and finish are great. The jacket is a separate piece from the shirt, which is to be expected of a NECA figure, but Quint comes with an extra pair of arms for displaying him without it. The shirt isn't painted like the jacket is, though the wash, like the shoes, makes it look like it needs a good cleaning.

The usual NECA articulation is present for Quint, as he has a barbell head and chest, swivel/hinge shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles, ball-jointed waist and hips, and swivel thighs and calves. The joints all move with no issues, and the extra parts swap easily, with no need for heat. The accessories are almost the same as the clothed version, as Quint has the same weapons for shark-hunting, including a rifle, a harpoon gun, a machete, and a bat. He also has two cans of beer, one full and one crushed, and this time, NECA actually got the license to use the name of the beer from the film, Narragansett, rather than a clever pun ("Necagetsit". There's also plenty of hands for holding his various items, with right grips designed for the firearms, cans, and machete/bat respectively, and respective left grips for two-handed gun poses and the melee weapons. He also has a few gloved hands, with a gun-holding right and tight and wide left grips. Most of the hands have vertical hinges for proper weapon poses, and combined with the extra heads and arms, there are plenty of ways to display Quint.

When NECA put out their clothed Quint back in 2021, it was one of my favorite figures at the time, and it still is, but I always preferred the Ultimates over those, and I'm glad Quint finally got that treatment. The great paint work and detail, combined with tons of accessories for various display options, make him a fun figure, and a must-have if you're a fan of the movie. I got Hooper too, and he's just as good, but it's a shame Roy Scheider's estate isn't willing to license out his likeness; otherwise, we could get a Brody to complete the trio. Maybe someday NECA could work something out with them, but who knows if they can.

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Current Projects: costumes
Honorable Mentions: josh dun fist bumped me.
Favorite Figure: damn. Toybiz Raimi Spider-Man
Favorite Series: Spider-Man & Ben 10
First Figure: probably that battle damaged tobey
Collection Size: pretty damn huge.
Currently Collecting: ben 10
Want List: INTEK omnitrix Alien Force
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During his first decade, Curtin performed as Rockstar Spud, and worked in the British independent circuit, winning several championships in promotions like International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK), One Pro Wrestling (1PW), Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW), and XWA Wrestling. In 2012, he appeared in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, later Impact Wrestling) program British Boot Camp, winning the competition and being signed to a contract with the promotion. In TNA/Impact, he was a two-time X Division Champion.

Curtin left Impact in October 2017 and signed a contract with WWE that same month. He performed under the ring name Drake Maverick, first as the on-screen General Manager of 205 Live, the brand created by WWE for their cruiserweight division (205 lbs. and under), and served for a brief time as the manager of AOP on Raw. In 2019, he became more active as an in-ring competitor, becoming an eight-time 24/7 Champion. He was released from the company in April 2020 due to budget cuts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Following his release, WWE still had Curtin compete in the multi-month Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship tournament. Despite losing in the finals, he was given a new WWE contract and joined the NXT brand, where he formed a short-lived tag team with Killian Dain and Grayson Waller, until he returned to the main roster as part of Raw, and was released once again in 2021. He returned to WWE a year later, working as a part of the creative team....[See More]

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Prior to signing with WWE, Rosser competed in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic independent promotions including Chaotic Wrestling, East Coast Wrestling Association, Independent Wrestling Federation and the National Wrestling Alliance. Rosser signed with WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling in 2009 and participated in the first season of NXT in 2010. Later that year, he debuted on the main roster as part of The Nexus. In 2012, Young formed The Prime Time Players with Titus O'Neil, with whom he is a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion. Rosser was the first openly gay wrestler to compete in WWE....[See More]

Varnado began her wrestling career in 2010 on the independent circuit, most notably for Chaotic Wrestling, where she won the Chaotic Wrestling Women's Championship. She signed with WWE in 2012 under the ring name Sasha Banks and was assigned to the developmental territory NXT. She would later win the NXT Women's Championship. Her match against Bayley at NXT TakeOver: Respect in October 2015 was the first women's match to ever headline an NXT TakeOver, the first iron woman match in WWE history, and the longest women's match in WWE history at the time, lasting 30 minutes. Their match was named "Match of the Year" by Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI), with Varnado also being named "Woman of the Year".

In 2015, Varnado was promoted to WWE's main roster, where she went on to hold the WWE Raw Women's Championship five times. In 2016, she and Charlotte Flair became the first women to headline a WWE pay-per-view event, the first to compete in a Hell in a Cell match, and the first to win the PWI award for Feud of the Year. In 2019, she won the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with tag team partner, Bayley, at Elimination Chamber. In 2020, she won the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship at Hell in a Cell, becoming a WWE Women's Grand Slam Champion and WWE Women's Triple Crown Champion. That year, she was named "Wrestler of the Year" by Sports Illustrated. In the main event of WrestleMania 37 – Night 1, Varnado and opponent Bianca Belair became the first two African Americans to headline WrestleMania, WWE's flagship event. After creative issues in 2022, Varnado walked out of WWE and ultimately left the company. She made her debut for NJPW/Stardom at Wrestle Kingdom 17 in January 2023 under the ring name Mercedes Moné and became a one-time IWGP Women's Champion. After her NJPW/Stardom contract ended in December that year, Varnado signed with AEW the following month and made her debut at Dynamite: Big Business in March 2024, subsequently winning the AEW TBS Championship in her AEW in-ring debut at Double or Nothing two months later. In 2025, she ranked No. 1 in the PWI Women's 250 and became the most simultaneously-decorated wrestler of all time, holding 14 belts comprising 12 championships at the peak of her belt collector run.

Varnado is widely considered to be one of the greatest female professional wrestlers of all time. Outside of wrestling, she portrays the recurring character Koska Reeves in the second and third seasons of the Disney+ space western series The Mandalorian....[See More]

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He earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships. On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's No. 10 jersey,[5] and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later that year. In October 2021, Rodman was honored as one of the league's greatest players of all-time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.

Rodman experienced an unhappy childhood and was often described as shy and introverted in his early years. After attempting to take his own life in 1993, he reinvented himself as a "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics. He repeatedly dyed his hair in artificial colors, had many piercings and tattoos, and regularly disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. He famously wore a wedding dress to promote his 1996 autobiography Bad as I Wanna Be. Rodman also attracted international attention for his visits to North Korea and his subsequent befriending of the North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un in 2013.

In addition to being a former professional basketball player, Rodman has appeared in professional wrestling. He was a member of the nWo and fought alongside Hulk Hogan in the main event of two Bash at the Beach pay-per-views. In professional wrestling, Rodman was the first-ever winner of the Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament. He had his own TV show, The Rodman World Tour, and had starring roles in the action films Double Team (1997) and Simon Sez (1999). He appeared in several reality TV series and was the winner of the $222,000 main prize of the 2004 edition of Celebrity Mole....[See More]

He started his career in 1997 and after working on several independent promotions, he began to wrestle for the newly created NWA: Total Nonstop Action promotion. Storm participated in TNA's first event and became a tag team with Chris Harris, America's Most Wanted (AMW). AMW became one of the best tag teams in the promotion, winning 6 times the NWA World Tag Team Championship. He also won the NWA World Tag Team Championship one more time with Christopher Daniels. After the team disbanded in 2006, Storm started a singles career, crowning himself as the TNA World Beer Drinking Champion.

In 2008, Storm formed Beer Money, Inc. with Bobby Roode. Together they became 4 time TNA World Tag Team Champions and joined the Fortune stable. In 2011, Storm defeated Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, his first world title. During the following years, Storm won the TNA World Tag Team Championship two more times with Gunner in 2013 and Abyss in 2014, as well as the TNA King of the Mountain Championship once. He would leave TNA in 2015. Storm returned in 2016, winning the TNA World Tag Team Championship one more time with Bobby Roode as Beer Money. After leaving TNA in 2018, Storm worked for several independent promotions, most notably National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he won the NWA World Tag Team Championship once (with Eli Drake), and NWA National Championship once....[See More]

He is a Japanese professional wrestling manager, color commentator and retired professional wrestler signed to WWE, where he works as a Japanese-language play-by-play commentator and an occasional interpreter for Japanese talents in the company. During his time as an in-ring performer, he became a one-time Cruiserweight Champion and a one-time Hardcore Champion....[See More]

Adolfo Bresciano - August 6, 1948 – March 10, 1993)

After training under Gino Brito, Bravo started his career in Montreal in the 1970s, working for Lutte Internationale. He became one of the top wrestling stars of Canada; winning several major titles including the Canadian International Heavyweight Championship six times, the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version) and the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship. He later signed with the World Wide Wrestling Federation (later the World Wrestling Federation, now World Wrestling Entertainment), where as a partner to Dominic DeNucci he won the WWWF World Tag Team Championship. He was also the sole holder of the WWF Canadian Championship before the title was abandoned in 1986.

After leaving professional wrestling, Bravo became involved in organized crime, allegedly working for the Cotroni crime family of Montreal.[3] He was killed in his home by multiple gunshots in March 1993, and his murder remains unsolved....[See More]

While in WWE's then-developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), he became a three-time FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion as well as a two-time FCW Florida Tag Team Champion with his brother. FCW was rebranded as NXT in 2012 where Rotunda, repackaged as Bo Dallas, became a one-time and youngest NXT Champion. He was promoted to WWE's main roster in 2014, where he was mostly used as a jobber, and won the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (with Curtis Axel as part of The B-Team) and the WWE 24/7 Championship once each. He was released from WWE in 2021 but returned in 2022, portraying a character named Uncle Howdy, an accomplice of his brother's. After his brother became ill in 2023, both men were removed from television. His brother Windham died unexpectedly that August, leaving Rotunda off television before he returned with his new faction in June 2024, portraying both Bo Dallas and Uncle Howdy....[See More]

Satterley is noted for his high-flying style and aerial attacks, which has earned him the nicknames "The Super Superman" and later "The Man That Gravity Forgot". He began his wrestling career under the ring name Pac in his native north east England with the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF). After establishing himself throughout the country with promotions such as Real Quality Wrestling (RQW) and One Pro Wrestling (1PW), he began to perform overseas, most notably for American promotions such as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Ring of Honor (ROH), and Chikara, as well as the Japanese promotion Dragongate, where he won the Open the Brave, Triangle, and Twin Gate Championship. He is a former PWG World Tag Team Champion and winner of PWG's inaugural Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament.

From 2012 to 2015, Satterley wrestled under the ring name Adrian Neville in NXT, the developmental territory of WWE. He won the NXT Tag Team Championship twice, with his first reign coming as one half of the inaugural champions with Oliver Grey and his second reign being with Corey Graves. He is also a one-time NXT Champion, making him the first man to have held both the NXT Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship. He was promoted to the main roster under the shortened ring name Neville in 2015, and began competing in the cruiserweight division in 2016, becoming a record two-time (and longest-reigning) WWE Cruiserweight Champion.[3][4]

After leaving WWE in 2018, Satterley reverted to his previous ring name of Pac and returned to Dragongate, holding the Open the Dream Gate Championship for much of his time there and joining the villainous R.E.D. stable. He assumed the moniker of "The B***ard", which he continues to use. In 2019, he left Dragon Gate and signed with AEW, where he became a member of the Death Triangle alongside Penta El Zero M and Rey Fénix....[See More]