NECA's Ultimate Sesame Street Action Figures

[Blue Frackle]

I'll bet Sweetums goes up to about the top of Big Bird's neck.

I will say a point toward Cookie seems to be in the interview, it was suggested there's some mandate from Sesame that they want the "main characters" to be out before an accessory pack, and for the main characters to get at least a piece in said pack. I would assume when the groundwork was laid that Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Cookie, and Oscar (and maybe Grover and Count) were considered the main characters. I would also assume (based on the interview) this is how Herry somehow is now "indefinitely delayed", after I believe at some point he was supposed to be the next figure coming out.

Its funny that Elmo is still seen as "new" when the show is 55 years old and he's been on the show for 40 of those 55 years. Thats like saying Bean Bunny is a new character for The Muppets. But yeah, there are still people who just HATE Elmo for some reason.

I think there are enough people who grew up on Elmo to mitigate the negative response. Where Elmon was once a 90s trend, he is now 90s nostalgia.

Elmo is emblematic of an era of Sesame that was much more childish and lost the duality of appealing to adults as much as kids. Elmo's World was literally designed as an effort to lower the age demographic to 3. I don't really get how this equates to him being a good pick for adult figure collector lines, unless they tried really hard to give him a sculpt and accessories toward his earliest appearances or something.

Plus, like come on. We need more Elmo merch when so many classic characters barely have anything? And then on top of this, add to the fact the absurdly slow rollout of this line.

 

[The Count]

Er... Based on the information at Muppet Wiki and posted in this thread, I thought the release order (if mirroring the announcement order) was:

2026 Toy Fare (February/March 2025):
Big Bird.
Herry Monster.
Oscar The Grouch.
2025 San Diego Comic Con International (July):
Grover and Mr. Johnson 2-pack.
2025 New York Comic Con (October):
Frazzle Monster.
Sherlock Hemlock.

And now add to that the mystery figure we hope gets announced at next year's Toy Fair that's said to be released after Big Bird... All I know is I have enough to be excited for to hopefully purchase throughout the year, then speculate about what additions get announced for 2027.