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Originally Posted by TomsToyChest

6 out of 7 for you? Just curious, are you new to the line? I've been collecting Predator since series 4 and that would make it 0 out of 15 Predators in my case that I've opened if I'm doing my math correctly. All of them have had issues, the biggest of them being crap joints. I'm constantly having to re-balance the Predators I have on display because they all look like they're about to fall off my shelf.

I fail to see why you find what I've said about the Predator line so strange. Have you read about the problems of series 1-3 of Predator? After seeing all of that I'm glad I missed out on them.

Of the Predators that I have yet to open, I think I'm most concerned with Bad Blood. If the formula holds true with the crappy NECA joints then I'm going to be really angry if that figure falls off my shelf since he has so many adornments and optional decorations on him.

Regarding figures like Tacit Ronin, that's stuff from another line I don't collect. I've seen them in stores once or twice but never gave them a look. Considering Trivial's experience with them I think I'll leave them on the pegs if I see them for sale again.



Considering the overall crappy build quality of the Predator figures, yes, they are overpriced. If they were being sold for $10 I'd still think they were overpriced.

Now that I think about it, how about the upcoming Blade Fighter vehicle going for around $100? That's even more absurd and makes that vehicle a really easy pass for me.

If you're not discovering the QC issues then you're either allowing your personal bias to cloud your judgement or as you said, you aren't digging deep enough to find them. I expect a quality product and that's not happening. 1 or 2 series with some hiccups is one thing, but allowing 10 series of figures to go on is just ridiculous.

So you grew up with McFarlane... funny you mentioned that, I dug up some old figures from Sleepy Hollow and Movie Maniacs that I had in storage the other day. The Jason Voorhees figure looks better than the newer NECA Jason figures that I've seen in my opinion.



A curse? Hardly. It's inevitable that it will happen.

I've only started getting NECA Predators from series 9, I remember reading about them doing predator toys way back in 2010 when they started them for the third movie but I never got serious about it. Last August I finally discovered BBTS and when I was browsing all the stuff they had I stumbled across these cool looking predator toys from NECA. Water Emergence Predator was my first, since anything from series 8 was sold out, and it was great. Then I got all of series 10 with only Hive Wars having issues, skipped all of 11, got the NES Predator (his hip joints aren't as tight as the others but he holds his poses very well), and now from 12 I got Elder v2 and Viper with Elder having that little spot of paint under his eye. I've heard the first waves of predators weren't great, but that's going back to 2010 when they started the line. I've got 38 NECA toys right now and the only ones that have QC issues are Hive Wars Predator with his arm, Coyote Tango's right cannon can be plugged on or off due to lack of glue, and Tacit Ronin's upper knee joint are loose. I will say that for the majority of my collection I don't handle these toys like they're sacred artifacts. I mess with them, make sure the pose isn't stuck, and hell I've even (accidentally) dropped a few from about 4' and they're alright. There's a sense of caution, like if something's stuck leave it alone and come back later, but they are certainly tested.

McFarlane's toys that had any usable pose were complete crap in the durability category, every single Predator or Alien I bought from them had something break. Most often it was wrist blades, mandibles, tails, and hands or feet. Some McFarlane stuff does hold up pretty well, but only if it has little or no pose or if it was going back to their actual action figures from Spawn.

In any situation those who have been wronged are always going to be more vocal than those who are pleased with the results, even when those wronged are the minority. Every company has QC issues, I can't think of a single toy manufacturer that hasn't had at least one problem even if it's not recurring.

Finally, yes the Blade Fighter vehicle's price is stupid. I have no clue how that thing is the same price as the Alien Queen and their 1/4 scale figures.