NECA's Ultimate Sesame Street Action Figures

[The Count]

After doing a bit of research online, it looks like I misspoke and Osvaldo is actually a green-grayish furred grouch instead of an orange one, so that's now nixed the variant for me. And I agree I'd prefer the regular version released first since I really don't want Herry pushed farther back than necessary. Although Oscar's preorder is still listed as Expected for 4th Quarter 2026" at BBTS, I'm just waiting for whenever the next release comes our way to further the line.

 

[MWoO]

While this is cool I’d rather them release the regular Oscar first before they start showing off variants. Especially when it’s been pushed back to Q1 27.

Seems like they are saving production costs by running these variants at the same time. Same with Herry and Frazzle as they are like 80% the same figure.

 

[The Count]

BTW: MWoO, did your Blue Bird figure arrive? Did you have more or less the same "difficulties" posing him as the regular Big Bird figure? :curious:

 

[MWoO]

While this is cool I’d rather them release the regular Oscar first before they start showing off variants. Especially when it’s been pushed back to Q1 27.

Seems like they are saving production costs by running these variants at the same time. Same with Herry and Frazzle as they are like 80% the same figure.

BTW: MWoO, did your Blue Bird figure arrive? Did you have more or less the same "difficulties" posing him as the regular Big Bird figure? :curious:

Blue Bird arrived and the articulation is all the same. I wouldn't say there were difficulties. Big Bird poses well enough for what I need.

I have a clown collar from the Super7 Power Rangers Putty figure that I put on Blue Bird. Not fully accurate and a bit small, but it does the trick.

 

[Wander McMooch]

It's the waiting that drives me crazy. I can grab dozens of NECA TMNT figures right now if I wanted to, but I can only get one Muppet figure every six-to-eight months!? You'd think they'd do at least two at a time, like they did with Bert and Ernie.

 

[rowlfy662]

I agree. I understand all the figures are unique sculpts which will probably take longer at the factory etc but man the wait between the figures feels like it’s getting longer each time. Maybe next year will be different with NECA not having the Turtles could they fill the gap with Muppets/Sesame Street? Personally I don’t see it due to the long gaps between figures. I mean by the time Toy Fair rolls around next year the 3 Muppet figures they showed off last year still won’t be out. Mahna Mahna has been pushed from Q4 of this year, to Q1 27 but now on NECA’s store it says Q2.

 

[The Count]

Bro, that's weird and whack. BBTS still lists the following expected though not fully confirmed in terms of releases.
4th Quarter 2026, not sure if that means October 1 - December 31 2026 or December 1 -February 28 2027:
NECA Ultimate Sesame Street Volume 7 Oscar The Grouch.
NECA Ultimate The Muppet Christmas Carol Kermit The Frog as Bob Cratchit and Robin as Tiny Tim 2-Pack.
NECA Ultimate The Muppets Mahna Mahna and The Snowths 3-Pack.
Boss Fight Studios Wave 3 Classic Mokey Fraggle.
March 2027:
NECA Ultimate The Muppets Gonzo the Great and Camilla the Chicken 2-Pack.



The good thing is that I can supplement the months of waiting for these and other figures' releases by buying other figures that have already been released and are in stock like the four remaining Fraggles and Emmet Otter Jugband figures, still waiting on Alice Otter's arrival currently stuck in Jacksonville.

 

[rowlfy662]

Q4 2026 is from October 1st till December 31st then Q1 2027 Starts from January till March. The release dates for these lines seem to be all over the place. Even with Gonzo, NECA’s own store has him slated for Q4 of this year which isn’t true. Oscar has gone from Q4 26 to Q1 27 on their site also. I wish there was more communication from NECA regarding this.