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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I definitely get why you distrust NECA on account of how often they've failed you, though I guess it does still strike me as strange that it was the Predator line that you experienced most trouble with. I always look those over if I find any in stores and they always looked more consistently acceptable to me, good enough paint and I don't usually see anything like my Hive Wars' arm. Combining that with the good quality of 6 out of 7 Predators I had it looks like the line is generally good, key word being looks. I absolutely see why their Jaeger line has so many bumps since these robots can have some very strange designs like Tacit Ronin that almost any company would have a hard time making it look good and have any pose at all, though their Kaiju line is much more solid on all fronts.

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.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Do you actually consider NECA lines overpriced? I always thought they were actually pretty well priced when you consider the 6" toy from Hasbro is $20. Some NECA stuff goes for less than twenty and is still bigger and better looking, but then with less durability and/or pose. It is worth mentioning, since I haven't before, that since I grew up having the McFarlane Spawn stuff (which was all looks and no usable pose) I don't really care if NECA stuff has too much pose. I'm really glad they give us the pose they do, but I wind up only focusing on moving heads and arms for most of the stuff I get from them. This could be another reason I don't discover the QC issues you do, I don't really dig deep enough to find them.

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.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Finally, it feels like you put a curse on TimothyR. Just the way you worded it had this kind of foreboding thing going on. I know you wished me luck in avoiding NECA's QC landmine field and then I wished you luck in your toy pursuits, so I don't know it just kind of gave me a chuckle how you said that bit.

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