QUEEN - FREDDIE MERCURY Action Figure Due This Spring
February 18, 2006, 18 years ago
According to Classicrockrevisited.com, the late QUEEN frontman has been immortalized in plastic by NECA, which plans to release the 18-inch-tall figure in late May. The designers portrayed Mercury as he was at Queen's famous Wembley Stadium concert in 1986, complete with short hair, moustache, and yellow jacket, as well as a microphone and a mic stand. There will also be a musical component to the figure, but no further information about that has been announced. Mercury died of AIDS in November 1991.
Queen guitarist Brian May saw a prototype of the action figure, and he wrote on his official brianmay.com website, "I think the likeness is amazing... it looks like a real tiny version of Freddie... quite uncanny."
Queen and current frontman Paul Rodgers (ex-BAD COMPANY) will kick off a North American tour in Miami, FL in March 3rd.
