Friday the 13th is the one day of the year when a hockey mask feels like formalwear. If you are going to put one Jason on the shelf today, make it the rotten one: NECA’s Ultimate Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.
This is Kane Hodder’s first turn as Voorhees, and it is the look a lot of people mean when they say “zombie Jason.” Director and makeup effects artist John Carl Buechler has said he wanted “a torn up living dead ghost that inhabited a decomposing body,” with chunks missing from the frame and enough appliances to bulk Hodder up in the process. He also said he insisted on Hodder for the part. The figure is NECA trying to get all of that into seven inches of plastic: the tattered work clothes, the bones poking through, the mask that already lost a fight in Part VI, and the unmasked scream from the Tina Shepard showdown.
NECA’s own product page calls it “the definitive collector’s version of Jason as he appeared in Part 7,” back in Ultimate form. It is a 7-inch articulated figure, item 42003, in the usual window box with an opening flap. Amazon’s listing, which uses the same official copy, puts it at 25 points of articulation.
What they were actually sculpting
The homework started in 1988, not in a toy studio. Buechler’s Jason is the Jason Lives zombie taken further: years under Crystal Lake, clothes in tatters, skin in retreat, wounds from earlier movies still on the body. The Toyark’s 2021 review describes the figure the same way, right down to the mask with the lower left portion already missing from the Part VI battle.
I could not find a named sculptor or paint artist on this specific Ultimate release. NECA did not credit one on the product page, and the reviews I read did not either. I am not going to invent a name to fill the gap.
What we do know is who runs the shop. Randy Falk, NECA’s VP and senior creative director, has described a tight in-house team that collaborates on concept, design, sculpting, and packaging. In a 2015 interview with Trash Mutant, Falk said NECA is “almost all traditional” when the subject is a human or something organic: they rough the sculpture out in Castilene wax, cut it apart for the joints, and do the fine detail by hand, while fabricators build the weapons at the same time. Initial sculpt or prototype work takes about five to six weeks, then come licensor approvals, paint masters, and several months of tooling. Average time from concept to shelf, he said, is about nine months. They use digital sculpts for things that were built that way to begin with, like the Pacific Rim Jaegers, or as a starting point on some game licenses, then they still refine them the old-fashioned way.
That is NECA’s general process, not a making-of diary for this Jason. I also could not find any source that says this figure was 3D-scanned from Kane Hodder, or from Buechler’s original appliances. If a scan exists, nobody put it on the record. Given what Falk has said about sculpting organic human characters by hand, the safe read is that this one was sculpted, not scanned. If you have a credit I missed, send it in. We will add it.
This was not NECA’s first swing at the Part 7 look, either. Back in 2003, the company released an 18-inch figure and a related cold-cast statue “based on his appearance in Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood.” Toy News International credited that statue to lead sculptor Kyle Windrix, with paint by Ed Repka, limited to 1,000 pieces, and a certificate signed by Hodder. In 2005, a 7-inch Part 7 Jason showed up again in Cult Classics Series 1. Those are earlier, different products. The Ultimate is the 2020s version of that same design, with modern articulation and a much bigger pile of accessories.
Two heads, and the mask that finally splits
The headline accessories are the portraits. Bloody Disgusting flagged them when the figure was announced: one masked, one unmasked. The reviews get more specific, and they line up.
The Toyark and FigureFan Zero both describe two heads and two masks. The standard rotted head wears the regular hockey mask, already chipped along the lower left from Part VI, with rubbery straps holding it in place. FigureFan Zero also clocked a chip in the top, some light scuffing, and a slightly glossy finish, with the eye holes lining up the way they are supposed to.
The second head is the deep cut. It is the moment Tina uses her telekinesis to tighten the straps until the mask cracks apart, which is the best face reveal in the whole series, and I will die on that hill. The screaming portrait is built to take the split mask, which is two halves held together by the strap. Toyark noted a small peg on the straps that plugs into the back of that head, so the break stays in place instead of sliding around like a sad party cracker.
The weed whacker, and everything else in the box
NECA’s official copy just says the figure is “loaded with accessories,” which is both true and unhelpful. The people who opened the box were more useful.
According to The Toyark, you get two interchangeable portraits, two sets of hands, the regular mask, the split hockey mask, a machete, an axe, a knife, a tent stake, a brush cutter, a wood cutter, a sickle, and a metal chain around the neck. FigureFan Zero walked through the same kit against the movie, in kill order: the tent spike (Dr. Crews’ idea of therapy, then a gift to Jane and Mikey), the machete, the wood axe (Russell, later Melissa), the sickle from the barn wall, the butcher knife from the kitchen, the pole-ax that takes out Mrs. Shepard, and the motorized trimmer that makes the Dr. Crews scene go from “leaning on a tree” to “yard work.”
That brush cutter, or weed whacker, or motorized trimmer, whatever you want to call the circular saw on a stick, is the one nobody else gets to put in a Jason box. Toyark says the blade actually rotates. Of course it does.
Toyark also liked that the grip hands actually hold the weapons, and that none of the blades on their copy came warped. FigureFan Zero had one complaint that is extremely correct: no party horn. Jason sticks one in Karen’s eye in the movie, and it is not in the box. We can live with that. Barely.
The paint is doing a lot of the work
The sculpt gives you the rot. The paint is what makes it look wet.
The Toyark called the details “spectacularly gross”: bloated, rotten skin, exposed bones that look grayed and weathered, and a figure that reads slick and slimy. Both Toyark and FigureFan Zero pointed out the soft-plastic clothing overlay, which lets the rips sit on top of the body instead of being a flat sculpted texture, and helps the elbows and knees actually move. FigureFan Zero’s favorite bit, honestly ours too, is the exposed bone work on the back. On the axe, they noted a bloodstain on the wooden shaft near the blade and a patina on the metal.
I could not find a published paint-master credit for this figure, so there is no “painted by” line here. The reviews are what we have, and they all say the deco is doing the heavy lifting.
The body has roughly 25 points of articulation, which is standard Ultimate math. Toyark said he could get convincing two-handed weapon poses, and that this is one of the taller Jason Ultimates, a little taller than the Jason Lives figure, still shorter than the Freddy vs. Jason and 2009 remake versions. The one recurring knock, and Toyark is pretty blunt about it, is the hips: loose, in line with a problem they have seen on other Ultimate Jasons, and already a little floppy out of the box on their copy. That is a reviewer note, not a reason to skip it, but you should know before you start posing him like he is mid-stride out of the lake.
It took a while to get here, and it has been around since
NECA surprised people with this one. Bloody Disgusting and The Toyark both wrote it up on July 23–24, 2020, at a point when new Friday the 13th figures had been thin on the ground. Both noted the franchise’s legal issues had put fresh Jason product on hold. FigureFan Zero later called this the first NECA Jason release since those licensing problems in 2019. I am not going to re-litigate the lawsuit here. The useful fact is that this figure was treated as NECA getting Jason back on the schedule.
It did not land on time. The original announcement pointed to a December 2020 release. NECA’s product page now lists September 2021, and Toyark’s in-hand review that same month blamed pandemic production and shipping delays. By early September 2021, it was in stores.
It has been reissued since. Specialty shops circulated a “New Reproduction Run” using NECA’s own language, with a first-quarter 2025 window; ComicHub and Titan Toyz both posted that copy. And it is still easy to find in 2026, which is not something you can say about every Ultimate that came out five years ago.
If you want one today
As of Friday, November 13, 2026, Amazon had the figure listed at $69.99, sold by BTRGoods and shipped from Amazon, with delivery dates in early December. The listing is Friday the 13th – 7″ Scale Action Figure – Ultimate Part 7 (New Blood) Jason. It was carrying 4.8 stars from 612 ratings, and Amazon’s page said more than 100 had been bought in the past month.
That is not the only price on the board. Entertainment Earth had a pre-order up at $39.99, estimated to arrive in November 2026. If you can wait on a specialty-shop restock, that is the cheaper route. If you want it in time for, well, today, Amazon is the one with a live listing and a ship date.
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The bottom line
This is the Kane Hodder debut, sculpted like Buechler’s walking corpse, with two portraits that actually cover the movie’s two big looks, and a weapon loadout that includes the weed whacker. NECA did not publish a sculptor or painter credit for this Ultimate, and I could not find a scan or likeness write-up to lean on, so this is not a factory-tour article. It is a clear look at what they shipped, how it lines up with the film, and why this is still the Part 7 Jason to get. Happy Friday the 13th. Try not to do any yard work after dark.
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