[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by DevconSupreme

August release?? Bigbadtoystore has it in stock this month March! I just ordered the SH Monsterarts Alien fig so I definetly gotta have the Predator as well..........

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

I got stated this when translated from the contact:
Could mean a second printing or a backlog. Not sure though. Either way, I can remove the august note from the story.

I also noticed the different release date in the original story, which caused me to raise an eyebrow or two, especially when I got a notification from BBTS saying that my pre-order had arrived in stock.

However, I believe your initial suspicions might be right Joe, and think this is either a second printing, or a variant of the figure altogether. After watching several reviews (which I'll confirm once my own Predator arrives in a day or so) the one currently available comes with a whole different set of accessories, namely the medical kit and it's tools, and the extended whip. The current Predator available also does not have any land mines on his bandolier, features no disc weapons (either opened or closed) and only comes with one laser blaster, which I believe is non removable.

The Predator featured in this update appears to be a full priced variant slated for a later release date, which comes with different weapons and accessories, (which is a bummer, because I do like this one's accessories a bit more, and after seeing this one, makes the other Predator released seem a bit incomplete.) Hopefully these accessories will be workable on both figures, and available separately from Monster Arts at some point, although I realize that's probably pretty doubtful considering that's not the M.O. of how Japanese toys tend to be.