[Krunomo]

Some of y'all are sounding a little entitled. NECA does not have to give us anything. For the most part figures are released within 12 months of an initial tease. Just look at all the other stuff they teased and released last year i.e. Pinhead. Wolf was teased a while back but since then they've had a bunch of factory related problems which have held up their Alien and Predator lines. Combine that with anniversaries and new movies and you have the perfect storm for delays.

At one point we were getting 10+ Predators and 10+ Aliens per year then figures started getting delayed. The Capcom AVP figures were meant to drop in 2018 but got pushed back to 2019. The figures from The Predator and Covenant were given priority over other figures to better align with releases. The Alien 40th collection should have dropped in 2019 but instead got pushed back to 2020 and so on.

I imagine this year they're intending to give us a Predator 2 30th anniversary lineup (that's 11 predators). That's going to fill the entire years worth of Predators. While these are going to be rehashed predators they are likely going to feature a bunch of articulation improvements i.e. double jointed elbows secondary heads etc. This is also good for folks that missed out on the first run. I for one am keen to get a replacement Shaman. Heck if we're lucky they may even give us a Harrigan. Then it also looks like they may do Predator Hunting grounds figures ...

Add to that the Alien 40th lineup and it looks like the Alien/s quota is also filled. The alien lineup so far includes four figures two of which (Brett and Parker) are entirely new releases. Here's hoping they pull of a miracle and give us Ash and/or Dallas, Lambert and Kane with regular costumes.

AVP:R crosses both franchises so is likely being pushed into a year with nothing else going on. That is assuming they ignore the Aliens 30th anniversary which would be a good opportunity to give us Drake. The AVP:R lineup is otherwise a small lineup so can be knocked out in a single wave.

Just remember of all companies to tackle these franchises (regardless of scale) NECA has by far gone the furthest. Sure alot of it is repaints but for the most part there isn't all that much variance to begin with (That and it's no worse than Hasbro using that same old bucky cap body for every other figure). As someone who has mostly collected these lines i really can't wait for more and replacing my dated figures is certainly going to be worth that wait.