[Joe Moore]

Predator ReAction Figures Toyark Gallery and Review

[En Sabah Nerd]

I'm getting a very Scooby Doo cartoony vibe from the Predator Reaction figures, maybe it's just me.

[snake5289]

Not just you they look goofy.

[kylactus]

I don't know about the whole "reaction" thing, as a concept initially I was into it, but it seems like they are playing it out fast. if these came out in 1987 they would have blown my mind and been the greatest thing ever, but simply grabbing every property you can and making Kenner Star Wars style action figures of them just seems like a big ass step backwards to me. sure it would be fun to put an invisible predator in you ewok tree fort, but c'mon even the original pred figures from the 90's were far superior!
I don't know, maybe there is something I'm not seeing here, but I just feel like with all the new modern innovations in toys (hell look at Hot toys, they're like little people) I just can't get myself into throwing money at something that's purely a nostalgia grab.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

I don't know about the whole "reaction" thing, as a concept initially I was into it, but it seems like they are playing it out fast. if these came out in 1987 they would have blown my mind and been the greatest thing ever, but simply grabbing every property you can and making Kenner Star Wars style action figures of them just seems like a big ass step backwards to me. sure it would be fun to put an invisible predator in you ewok tree fort, but c'mon even the original pred figures from the 90's were far superior!
I don't know, maybe there is something I'm not seeing here, but I just feel like with all the new modern innovations in toys (hell look at Hot toys, they're like little people) I just can't get myself into throwing money at something that's purely a nostalgia grab.

I only grabbed the Alien out of love for the franchise and because that toy was made in '79 but never released til now. Honestly you can never use Hot Toys as your go to comparison unless it's in the same price range. I feel like NECA or Hasbro's various detailed figure lines are a better comparison against Reaction. I hope the people that do get these like them, because they aren't selling for shit in my area so I can't say for sure how long these will stick around.

[kylactus]

yeah, the alien release made since to me because it was kind of a "resurrection" of a canceled line, which is cool on many levels because it could open up exclusive production of canceled figures in other lines, and the fact that it's something that (I feel) should have definitely been made at the time. but when you start getting into retrofying properties like "scream" and pin head... that seems, I don't know, I'll say unnecessary for lack of a better word. another thing I don't get is how it seems that multiple companies are making the same characters in action figure form? can a property sell it's license to multiple companies at the same time? I always thought there were exclusivity issues there.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

yeah, the alien release made since to me because it was kind of a "resurrection" of a canceled line, which is cool on many levels because it could open up exclusive production of canceled figures in other lines, and the fact that it's something that (I feel) should have definitely been made at the time. but when you start getting into retrofying properties like "scream" and pin head... that seems, I don't know, I'll say unnecessary for lack of a better word. another thing I don't get is how it seems that multiple companies are making the same characters in action figure form? can a property sell it's license to multiple companies at the same time? I always thought there were exclusivity issues there.

No there's no rule of exclusivity. Many licenses will try to go for exclusive rights, but now almost anybody can do anything if you can pay for royalties and likeness/character rights. Hasbro used to have Star Wars all to itself, but now Jakks Pacific is doing the jumbo figures and various foreign companies are taking their shots at the license. One thing that is often kept "exclusive" from company to company is size, I doubt NECA would sit idly by and let Funko make 7" scale figures of these licenses when they already have the rights for all of that. Just like DC won't let NECA make 7" scale figures of their characters because that's their field (NES Batman is an exception as DC has acknowledged it as more of a video game toy than a Batman toy), but DC is fine n' happy to let NECA make quarter scale figures of their characters. Sometimes it can be annoying when the only company with rights to a license can't seem to do it right, and the company that you want to do it better isn't allowed to make attempt.

[mj3141x]

I think the biggest thing to me with these ReAction figures is that there seems to be a pretty big division in quality *amongst the individual ReAction lines* themselves, at least based on what I've seen. And I'm judging the quality based on what they are...old Kenner-style action figures...which I think is great...and comparing one ReAction line to another. The Alien figures, the Horror Series and the classic Universal monsters for example (all of which I have and am very happy with) all seem to be made to a noticeably higher standard than, say, Firefly, Back to the Future, Terminator, Escape from New York and some of the others. It's almost like they're coming from two different teams within the Funko/Super 7 group. I've been holding off on ordering the Predator figures because I just couldn't tell which side of the fence they were going to land on, the good side or the bad sad. Sadly, even with all of these pictures to go by, it stills looks like they're on the lower quality end of the spectrum to me. So probably a pass for me, even though I would love to have the Kenner-style Predator line to go with my Alien figures and other monster/horror stuff.

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by mj3141x

I think the biggest thing to me with these ReAction figures is that there seems to be a pretty big division in quality *amongst the individual ReAction lines* themselves, at least based on what I've seen. And I'm judging the quality based on what they are...old Kenner-style action figures...which I think is great...and comparing one ReAction line to another. The Alien figures, the Horror Series and the classic Universal monsters for example (all of which I have and am very happy with) all seem to be made to a noticeably higher standard than, say, Firefly, Back to the Future, Terminator, Escape from New York and some of the others. It's almost like they're coming from two different teams within the Funko/Super 7 group. I've been holding off on ordering the Predator figures because I just couldn't tell which side of the fence they were going to land on, the good side or the bad sad. Sadly, even with all of these pictures to go by, it stills looks like they're on the lower quality end of the spectrum to me. So probably a pass for me, even though I would love to have the Kenner-style Predator line to go with my Alien figures and other monster/horror stuff.

I'm kind of in the same boat here. I think some lines work better than other for the ReAction series. Terminator, Horror, Alien were all pretty good. The Preds seemed like a sure fire hit, but wound up being only okay. I'm curious to see how the Star Trek TOS ones will turn out when they reveal them.

I also think they need to make some adjustments to the packaging. They're missing the mark on some of the small details, and they haven't been especially consistent in their design choices for the cards.