On June 21, 2011, NECA announced on their Twitter account that the Splicer series (Series 3) would be the final figurines in the BioShock 2 line, since interest in the line had declined. Although their interests were focused on the BioShock Infinite license, they did consider picking up more from the BioShock license sometime in the future. As for the current Splicer series, it was delayed from release for more than a year. Finally, NECA decided in early 2012 to release the Splicer series figurines separately as store exclusives, rather than as a full series line, beginning with the Brute Splicer on June 28th. In early 2013, NECA decided that not only the Crawler and Ladysmith variant would finally be released as a two pack in summer 2013, but through their newly created NECA Direct, which