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Todd McFarlane’s toy company is teasing the acquisition of the MK license. Aside from some interesting collectibles to look forward to, this could also be yet another sign that one of McFarlane’s most enduring creations, Spawn, could indeed be making a guest appearance in NetherRealm’s upcoming fighter.

This is yet another bread crumb in a trail that leads all the way back to MKX, when McFarlane claimed he granted WB and NRS permission to bring Spawn to the game. He obviously never materialized for MKX and just recently on a Reddit AMA, McFarlane once again seemed confident everyone’s favorite hell spawn would be in MK11.

Could this all be an incredible coincidence? Or could Spawn actually find his way to our character select screens this spring?

May very well be a quid pro quo

Bring on the hellspawn

Great find, Detox! At this point I would be really surprised if we don't see him as a guest character.

Better than another slasher film character

I'll keep my fingers crossed and expectations tempered. Spawn is the one guest character I'd actually want in the game. Regardless, I look forward to quality MK figures.

Yeah I’ll be happy with Spawn if he’s a guest in MK11, certainly far more than another slasher movie character or two.

As far as this toy line, I just really want a cool looking character design that doesn’t set me back an insane amount. Looks great, but also relatively affordable.

Oh, mortal kombat toys incoming, Scorpion's normal costume toy, Scorpions alternative costume toy, Scorpions classic look toys, Scorpion naked toy, Scorpion green outfit toy, Scorpions orange version toy, Scorpions MK 2 toy, Scorpions Scorpion form toy. ECT ECT.

If we are lucky we get another (like the 100th) Sub-Zero toy as well, but only if we are lucky.

All other characters? Hell no, they are nothing.

Spawn doesn't even get in the top 100 books sold lists anymore.

And yet, the demand remains.

The demand is only because of soul caliber.

I liked Spawn before he was even in Soul Calibur.

Yay! So we might get Mortal Kombat toys that if you so much as take out of the package will crumble into a pile of sharp pieces of plastic

personally i wish they went with neca toys. they do some fantastic work and affordable . i havent bought any yet but there horror line really caught my attention . imiagine the ultimate mk versions and what they can be as well as the accessory sets they put out.

this is the noes one wich retailes for around 30 bucks wile the figure is 20

@TheOneAndOnlyDemonKing The problem with Neca is their sculpts can be pretty poor at times and the durability of the toys can be just as sketchy as McFarlane.

So worst case scenario with Neca is we get MK toys that look like the Deception ones and then start to fall to pieces once taken out of the box.

Spawn demand stems from an appearance in another series nearly 20 years ago? Nah. The character still has a strong following.

I have been an avid collector of McFarlane-brand action figures since my high school days (pre-2002) and I have never had an issue with the durability of the product. Personally, I've always deemed McFarlane Toys as the pinnacle of overall quality in the collectible market and Neca has dished out some extremely questionable products, questionable in both quality in comparison to source material as well as durability. I was ecstatic the moment I read that McFarlane Toys would be heading the creation of MK collectibles and I have no doubt that the quality will outdo anything offered by not only the company's competitors but any toy-making predecessors. Prior to now, my desire to collect MK memorabilia has been marginal at best. Now that McFarlane Toys is at the helm, I know I will be making many, many purchases and (hopefully) vastly expanding my scant collection of MK-related paraphernalia.

If anything his pathetically shitty and phoned in showing in SoulCal HURT demand for him in anything since. If he IS a guest, NRS will have SUCH an uphill battle to redeem him and make people forget that SC ever happened. Kratos was only ok with all of the limitations that were put on them. Hopefully Spawn will be able to actually use his chains and awesome hellspawn powers even if he does become dangerously close to getting mistaken for Scorpion with a cape by those somehow unfamiliar with him.

Ha, i had actually forgotten about spawn in SC, or rather blocked it from memory. His aesthetic fits nicely unlike most guest characters, but def an uphill battle to do the character justice. we shall see.

I have complete faith in NRS’ ability to make characters functionally and aesthetically interesting. Which is why it becomes so frustrating when they won’t give this treatment to a lot of their own characters.

I don't know what to tell you dude. Every McFarlane toy of have ever purchased has practically fallen apart in about a week. From the early Spawn toy lines to Alien Vs Predator; they were all a shadow of what they were before coming out of the box in no time.

Maybe things have improved due to the lack of articulation seeing how a good majority of Spawn and McFarlane figures in general turned into slightly articulate statues. I don't know, I stopped giving them a chance after experiencing how brittle the AVP figures were.

Including my early days of collecting, I have never looked at action figures manufactured by McFarlane Toys as toys in the same sense as those produced by Hasbro or Mattel or any other children's toy manufacture. It may be because I started collecting in high school, a time when I no longer played with toys, but I've always seen them as purely collector's items intended for display and would never purchase them with the intent to play with them. In my experience and given at least one pretty obvious sign, they're purpose is display-only. I mean, they all come with display stands, lol. So, to return your serve, I don't know what to tell you. I've owned Neca products and the craftsmanship was not up to par with what was being advertised and the overall quality definitely was not worth the price tag. But, everyone has their opinions and no matter how flawed or misinformed some may be, it's no one's place to try to force you to believe otherwise.

From what I've seen, Spawn isn't a dead icon. For over 20 years, people have been clamoring for either a sequel to the 1997 film or a reboot. I've always been a fan of the series (own issues #1 and #2 as well as an additional copy of issue #1 signed by the then-crew). He's still an instantly recognizable character and he'd be a better fit for a modern-day MK title than he was for Soul Calibur 2, which was released in 1998.

Back then, his cape and chains had to be sacrificed as a result of what I can only assume was a very limited polygon count. Of course, I wouldn't expect casual gamers to know anything about polygon count, lol. Not that I'd blindly accuse any of you of being casual gamers because I don't know you well enough to do that. But, it just seems to me that your complaints could be easily rectified if only you realized some of the more blatant reasons as to why a game created in 1998 didn't have a character looking exactly as you unrealistically believed he should.

Besides, Soul Calibur isn't popular enough to have had a negative impact on Spawn's image, lol.

as of now they are making mk11 sub and scorpion from their image

I don't know why you are acting as though I said somewhere that Neca was superior to McFarlane when I said they were just as much of a crapshoot if not more at times due to their questionable sculpts.

My experiences with McFarlanes toys don't stem from them being handled as action figures, and any that do were with figures owned by friends who had already broken them..

This was from me simply taking them out of the box. No sooner than I got Angela out of her packaging her arm fell off when I bent it. And the same goes for all the others I've dealt with right up to every Xenomorph I bought from the AVP line up having its head fall off.

And to counter your point about them not being intended to be approached as action figures, early ones did come with spring action gimmicks.