First unveiled nearly a year ago at Toy Fair 2019, NECA has officially announced their special 100th Predator figure: the Alpha Predator! One of NECA’s Ultimate line, the Alpha Predator is also NECA’s first completely original Predator design and is inspired by Steve Johnson’s original take on the Predator!
To commemorate the release of over 100 different Predator figures comes the very first original design and concept by NECA, the Alpha Predator!
In place of the traditional tech, gadgets, and armor worn by other yautja, the Alpha’s attire takes on a more insect-like appearance; a subtle homage to the original 1987 Predator design. Standing at 8” tall with over 30 points of articulation, the Ultimate Alpha Predator is an entirely new sculpt kitted out with an array of accessories including a removable mask, hook, gauntlets, and 3 pairs of interchangeable hands. Classic Predator weapons such as the wrist blades, staff, and shuriken, have been reimagined to fit his unique theme.
Deluxe Ultimate Packaging with new artwork by Jason Edmiston and an original origin story!
The Alpha Predator is due for release in the States around June 2020 and will make its way across the pond in the following months. What do you think of NECA’s brand new design?
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Big bad toy store still doing pre-orders?
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I got mine from their eBay store. I was originally gonna get them from the Amazon store but they sold out, and then they sold out on their eBay store, but they restocked the eBay store 2 days later so I pulled the trigger the minute I saw them.
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I would imagine the concept of the Hish would have died long ago, even with Flesh and Blood doing it ok... why care about something made up in one novel hated by most of the fanbase over 10 years ago? The guy that wrote Forever Midnight also wrote Steel Egg and you don't see stuff from that novel being brought up anymore.
I've got some too. If you have a place to post them I'd be glad to add some
I tracked down a few of the backs. I don't have them all saved (there's about 100 right?) but putting them up in a thread somewhere would be helpful in assisting people looking for Lore. I got about 11 of these saved.
As someone who's never actually read any Predator novels I never knew exactly why people would always say "I never liked the Hish or their portrayal" etc. until now. Yeeeah that doesn't sound too hot.
That and the fact it's a terrible book.
A couple of the Hish things I honestly didn't mind. The kill-gland idea in particular was interesting (albeit really badly realised in Forever Midnight; it was far better implemented in Flesh and Blood). Even the gender-swapping didn't bother me (and would at least spare us the Yautja's ridiculous boobie-Pred look).
To be fair though I find the over-exploration of the Predators to be a bit silly either way, Yautja or Hish. I far prefer them to be vague and mysterious, the way they're presented in books like the Predator 2 adaptation or South China Sea.
Yeah that basically sums up why I never wanted to read Forever Midnight twice. I'm basically fine with it being a Legend and so we don't know for sure if this happened.
Man, I hated that book. I still own it but it's up there with One More Day in books I never feel the need to read again.
Basically everything about the Hish... The whole hermaphrodite aspect of the Hish (or to be more accurate, the gender swapping), the Hish being more conquerors and slavers than Hunters and Warriors, the Kill-Gland aspect which required them to take a medicine to control themselves, Hish pups using remote controlled humans to play Mortal Kombat with them, the whole setting fire to Hish pups right after birth to prove who's worthy to survive...
For me, I am all about the Yautja, and while I understand that most people don't like that aspect either-- to me, the Yautja seemed more in line with what came in the movies as far as the years 1987 - 2007 happened to be concerned. Now it seems like they're completely changing that.
I just don't like how they reconciled it. It would've been so much better if the Super Predators were written to be the Hish, and the normal Predators were the Yautja.
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Hish in Flesh and Blood? No problem with that at all.
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The sickle is said to be used by this individual Predator and the implication is that the figure and class in HG is meant to be this specific individual. But it's entirely possible these events are just tall tales or not exactly what happened though it seems the Amengi did have an encounter with them.
Oh I know this, but I am not a fan of this backstory at all.
That and I really don't like the Hish interpretation of the Predators, and the fact that they just got f**king Prometheus'ed here.
But the backstory mentions they were like that before Kaail, at the beginning when the Amengi arrived, once the tables have turned you get the Predators we all know and love. It's just that some predators still call themselves Hish, and some like the new term Yautja.
I'd be interested in seeing that too!
It might as well be apocrypha, because the Hish were the ones who had enslaved the Amengi in Forever Midnight, although this could be explained that they had turned their former masters into slaves... However, in THIS particular backstory, it is mentioned that the Hish were smaller, unintelligent and perhaps non-sapient until the Amengi had more or less produced the first Yautja, Kaail, where as there was no indication of the Hish being smaller, more animalistic, and unintelligent in Forever Midnight.
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We dont know what the Predator Bible says, it's an internal document.
There is no "literal truth", it's all fiction. If you think the NECA story sucks, then just ignore it and say it's apocryphal/Predator myths and legends/whatever.
The Emissary Predators had at one point been meant to be something like that, emissaries and scientists.
So... the Yautja as a species weren't ever really naturally an occuring species, but the Hish were and the Yautja were instead a result of breeding and genetic engineering? Yeah, I am not at all a fan of this bullshit retconned origin for the Predators. I really don't see why the Hish and the Yautja should be reconciled this way-- I would've preferred if the Super Predators were the Hish and the normal Predators were the Yautja. But this retcon just... Augh! Absolutely am not a fan of it at all whatsoever...
So you're saying this bull retcon isn't likely canon because the guy who wrote the Predator bible wasn't consulted and this is just NECA's own interpretation of the Yautja origin rather than what the Predator bible says? I hope so, because this just... doesn't make me happy.
So what IS the literal truth from the Predator Bible? I'm curious.
How the Predators got their tech is something I never really wanted answered. I don't care, I just want more alien hunters using cool gadgets. Hints here or there that slightly expand and tease lore is fine. But full in explanation? No.
That being said. In the past I have I sort of came up with the idea that the Predators found the tech from a precious civilization on their planet. Like if Native American tribes found a cache of Roman Empire weapons.
Behold!!!
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Neat! Who wrote the Predator bible and what is it/where is it? Sounds interesting!
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Though I'm not sure why the terms changed later. Both Hish and Yaujta are used and while Hish could potentially have simply become a term used for a fighting style, it's weird the term for the race changed. Though a potential explanation is that Yaujta could be a rallying name that took off during their rebellion or it was a name the Amengi gave them and they opted for a new one. Not gonna lie, I'd love to see a comic about that.
Haven't ya heard? Even Neca is canon!
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Nice find. I don't think this is cannon but, but considering it is a lisenced product, 20th century most likely had to sign off on it. Personally I don't like the Hish portrayal, more of a fan of Yautja.