After a previous sneak-peek of the figure at SDCC earlier in the year, NECA have officially revealed their first figure from Predator: Badlands – Ultimate Dek (Training Armor) action figure. The figure comes with a mask, interchangeable faces and hands. In terms of weaponry, the figure comes with an extended combistick, gauntlet blades, collapsed and extended Yautja swords, and an extended Yautja compound bow.
From the 2025 film Predator: Badlands by director Dan Trachtenberg! Set in the future on a remote planet called Genna, the “death planet,” a young Predator, Dek, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. NECA presents Dek in his training armor in 7-inch scale Ultimate action figure form. This fully articulated figure includes interchangeable faceplates and hands, extended combistick, gauntlet blades, collapsed and extended Yautja swords, and extended Yautja compound bow. Comes in collector-friendly window box packaging with opening front flap.
Ultimate Dek has a retail price of $39.99 and will be released in Q2 2026. Dek won’t be the only figure that NECA will be releasing from Predator: Badlands. At SDCC, they also revealed Thia and Bud figures.
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Not that I'm aware. Seeing that Dek was just announced, it's probably gonna be a minute before anymore updates. Maybe at Toyfair in February? Or San Diego Comic Con?
We as fans and collectors deserve better, and I am extremely confident NECA can do better. I'm voting with my wallet.
Perfect example and exactly what I've been trying to lay out here. Then we find out they had a finished design sitting around waiting to come out, like Samurai, only to learn the figure isn't fully accurate because of what we found out here from Blaine. This is how it goes for most big IPs, except maybe Star Wars. Even then, the figures aren't always based on the accurate designs.
Right there with you on that. I'm not totally happy with what I'm seeing in the legs or the face, though I get why it looks that way. But that doesn't mean I like it. I can understand the reasoning behind it and still not be into it. Both can be true.
I think Mike's insight here really helps understand the umbrella of how toys for larger IP's are really developed. It's easy to dog on elements of figures and assume some considerations weren't made in the early pre-pro process. But I recently learned my lesson while making the review for the Samurai Predator from Hunting Grounds. The initial figure is slightly different from the game model because early concept art by Ivan Dedov, was given to Neca years prior. Blane from Neca even explained
"So we actually had this in development before the game came out, and had limited references to go on since it was so early.
This one was actually sculpted by hand before turnarounds ever even existed!"
So all to say. Many variables of licensing and concepting can change and affect how we receive these products.
But I am not going to sugar coat it entirely, I really dislike elements of the badlands figure. Especially the knee joints and inner eye sockets.
Feral and Assassin Predator have bare knees and look nowhere near that shitty. A ton of other companies make knees that don't look like trash, NECA could have copied any of them.
Xcocann, a no-name Chinese company that had never made an action figure before, just made a figure with some of the best knee articulation I've ever seen. Again, it's not some esoteric feat of engineering.
Think about it: Dek's design and articulation had to go through multiple approval processes to get to the final retail release state, which they then took pictures of and posted online on purpose, and at no point in that sequence of events did someone stop and say "wow yikes that looks bad". Either they're incompetent or they don't care, and either one is inexcusable for a $40+ dollar figure.
NECA's Romulus XX121 figure has double jointed semi-pinless knees and they look great, so it's not like it's impossible for them to figure it out.
Not entirely sure about this. Dan even stated the merch/toy companies are delayed in releasing stuff because they didn't get access to the designs or files. They usually prefer to scan a suit if possible, so I wonder if they scanned what they had with one of the stunt practical heads, and then made tweaks once they saw the final design. If it was a digital file they had, I think the head would look a hell of a lot more accurate.
It will be easy for neca to make bone armor and the one he wears at the end, they will definetely gonna do them.
I wonder if their best sculptors have left the company. IMO their Predator series peaked with the AVP 2004 figures.
NECA locked the comments in their Instagram post revealing the figure, and I am not surprised.
The knees could surely look better.
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Something is really off with his face and knees
It doesn't look terrible, but at 40+ dollars, I don't know. That's double what these use to cost for a long time. These use to be 20 bucks.
It's the inner sculpt of the eye sockets that really throw it off for me. The depth of the sockets and the eyes are jarring.'
$40 is not bad at all either. Was expecting a bit more with inflation these days.
Doesn't look so bad.