[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I met a guy at my flea market who hated the SH Wolf Predator. It's not my cup o' tea (mainly because of its price and size) but this guy seriously just apparently couldn't find anything to like about it besides the accessories. Eh, whatever.

I wonder whether a NECA Predator or the SH one would fit in scale beFtter for the upcoming Mortal Kombat X toys from Mezco.

I've sparred back and forth with people on the SH Wolf predator a few times at local toy shows, and I've come to a few conclusions. Most of the complaints that I've heard lead me to believe that people are either...
A: upset about the price and are "sour graping" it.
B: hate the AVP movies so therefore bag on the Predator choice being The Wolf, or...
C: they just don't understand Japanese toys, the materials they use, and some of the concepts and designs they implement (such as Revoltech-style joints, and limbs and parts that easily disassemble.)

The only issue I've ever had with my Wolf is that it's tough to get the bio-masked head on at times due to the top of the head being really spikey (leading it to be physically painful to swap out) and the mandibles fitting a little loose one the open mouth set (my closed set fits fine.) His shoulder armor plate will come off on occasion when posing, but again, it's the nature of nearly all Japanese toys to have parts fall off like that, and they plug back in easily and stay put once I'm done posing the figure, so it's never an issue. It's a shame people hate, but it's their right, and in my eyes...their loss.

On the scale question, As we all know, since all 6 inch scales are done differently, if it's closer to Marvel Legends six inch scale, I'd say the SH Monster Arts one would fit better to scale. If it's done in a 6" scale closer to SOTA Toys Street Fighter Line, then I would say the Neca predator would be better, as the Neca Pred stands in near perfect scale next to some of the larger characters in that line (namely Sagat and T.Hawk, who both are over 7 feet tall in the game.)

My apologies for not having a Sagat figure out of the package that I could easily access...but at least you can make the comparison here pretty good. Sagat stands about 7'4" in the game, so I'd say it's about right.


And while I'm at it...MKX has me drooling right now. I BADLY wanted Jason Voorhees in the last one, especially after Freddy showed up, and now that he and the Predator are showing up...I'm sold. I hope that they eventually do throw Freddy back in there as future DLC, as he was a pretty well thought out character, and a nice breath of fresh air in the midsts of all those ninjas.

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Originally Posted by donmeca2020

so my question to you now is how did you get that jungle wilderness background for your predators? i've been trying to figure out how can i do something like that on my shelf for the predators and other sets of figures i own.

Action Figure Displays used to make awesome diorama backdrops for MOTUC, G.I.Joe, and a few generic displays (such as jungle or desert backdrops) but unfortunately the company folded not too long ago. If you don't mind printing up some of your own though, I highly recommend checking out [CG Textures] - Textures for 3D, graphic design and Photoshop!. They have thousands of large, high quality images that could very easily be printed onto poster or photo paper.