As expected, NECA have fully revealed their first Predator figure from Shane Black’s upcoming Predator film. Titled “Fugitive Predator”, this is the same Predator we see throughout the new The Predator trailer. He has yellow skin with red patches around his body while is armour is grey with golden parts.
The figure stands at over 8″ tall and features 30 points of articulation. There are two interchangeable heads with masked and unmasked versions, interchangeable forearms and hands, various wristblades and a shoulder cannon.
Fugitive Predator
The figure will be shipping August 2018, just before the film’s release. NECA still have at least one more Predator figure to reveal in the future – the new Upgrade Predator.
Thanks to Master for the news.
I'm still waiting from the ones from AVP2, they had some really cool designs in the game, but at least they made m'boy Scarface.
Very fun shop to just walk around and I usually leave with some items in hand.
I don't have a Twitter account, just regularly check in for Neca news.
Would love them to fix their shipping issue, I'd LOVE to buy from Neca direct if it didn't add about 40% of the item's cost additional via shipping.
Why would Randy ban me for asking that? Was that sarcasm? Wouldn't he just as easily...I don't know...not reply to the post and show it to people? Maybe I don't fully know how Twitter works.
Even if you've made it obvious the criticism is meant to be constructive.
Just preordered through a retailer in the Netherlands.
Someone could do with telling him that Aliens should at least be able to look up whilst running on all fours, as they do half of the time.
I realize I posted this in the wrong thread...
Manufacturing issues, sure, but just priorities for a year? Nah.
Lolwut?
http://necaonline.com/events/2018-10/
Was this with The Fugitive? Like you were switching heads and the peg came out with the head instead of staying in the body to use with the other head? If it were me, I'd take a microwave safe cup, put water it in, heat it in microwave until boiling (the cup I use is pretty large and it takes 3:00 or more minutes to get bubbly and boiling). Put the head in there to soften it up for 3 minutes or so. Then I'd take a fork and put the peg between the prongs of the fork and slide it out. Then put the body in the hot water and slide the peg in there when its soft enough.
And moving forward, when swapping heads. Hold the plastic park on the neck tight so it helps keep it in the body.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/1042895083736104961
https://mobile.twitter.com/NECA_TOYS/status/1042893667395166208
It was just a nickname, so call it whatever you want. I just find them more interesting than Predator's dreadlock-like-appendix.
So Dreadlocks-Free-Predalien?
https://i.imgur.com/s4olYlo.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/WeWwFWm.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tnKKn1s.jpg
Except for the elegant proportions thing, such a description screams Zerg!
https://i.imgur.com/a0XmHfh.jpg
It was always spikes like the higher image or an optical illusion like the lower image.
Regardless of whether it's born from a Predator or not- the Alien should not have hair, or anything resembling it.
Giger dreads.
https://i.imgur.com/F2hSLnS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/K2e6Gm0.jpg
Take HR Giger's Alien, make it more beastial, crustacean, change/exaggerate the proportions subtly-
Add quils to the back- exaggerating the regular back pipes, perhaps even bring back the "Aliens" protrusions from the arms-
With the idea in mind of the Predator's larger but still humanoid silouette.
& I believe the idea of the previous pages' artwork of the mandibles acting as a foreskin is an appropriately sexual mockery of the Predator biology.
Always liked this one from AVP2010, that's as biomechanical as the Predalien have gotten so far. After the fleshy bastards from the previous games this one is good enough. Even Chet was better than those from AVP classic and AVP2.
Who remembers this ugly thing? Haha.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/f/f2/Avp2pred.png/revision/latest?cb=20110608235924
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1090/5272/products/IMG_5342_1024x1024.JPG?v=1498037831
https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/15659/4082395-light-stepper-avp-duel%232-vs_predalien.jpg
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-alO2jKDHqFU%2FTkA4u2ZzMxI%2FAAAAAAAAAoQ%2FWQF7R64TVos%2Fs1600%2Falienvspredatorduel1a.jpg&hash=a026668400bc6919ad01060e8ec00d990bc2036b
https://pm1.narvii.com/6618/7c281e926018063ce50c459ef63395908f78a6d9_hq.jpg
What's worse is that nearly all of them make the same mistakes.
I think it being extreme is warranted, with changes made.
Such as removing the human skull and making the face bear more of a resemblance to the Predator's jaw.
More of an elegant crustacean with biomechanics than an elegant insect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe5nRsvT2s
I think that particular pic is just a tad too extreme though. Just a bit too far removed from either an Alien or a Predator for my liking.
I've also always been a fan of Dave Dorman's original design. The dreads we ultimately got on AVP:R's Predalien never bothered me, but I completely understand why some hate them. I think Dorman's more slicked-back look is a nice compromise that acknowledges that particular aspect of the host without being just full-on "they have dreads too".
Of course I feel like the only design feature you really need to carry over is the mandibles, even if it's just on the bottom jaw, so they're also not something I need to see in any form in any given Predalien design.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/20071029.jpg
I can appreciate the body of Dave Dorman's, but I don't appreciate the head one ounce.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scified.com%2Fu%2FScreenshot_20161025-202321.png&hash=f3432ce6b0498f49be076949e211cba483fec72f
I really admire this head-foreskin idea, although again- quils on the back of the head are unnecessary.