Medicom RAH Alien 2008 (Sideshow)

[bubbahotep]

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As much as I'd like this to be 1/6 scale (I'd be happy if it was just taller than other 12" figures, even 14"), I don't think scale will prevent this figure from selling. It's a beautiful reproduction (you can barely see any joints), and with all the alien fans out there, this thing will be sold out, and probably pulling $300 on ebay a year later. I just have to decide for myself if I am willing to pay $200, for $130 it would be a no-brainer for me.

 

[MaulFan]

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If this figure comes in at $200, I think it's best hope for smashing success is if a Hot Toys version falls short in quality or comes out after the Medicom starts going out to customers. Odds are HT would come in at $150 and if theirs is equal in accurracy to this, I think that'll hurt the Medi sales because Medicom's has a few things going against it compared to HT, 1) size, and I don't mean in terms of scale to other figures but simply if it comes down to a Medi 12" or HT 16", I would think most people would want as big an ALIEN as they could get, 2) price, because $200 for the smaller figure or $150 for the bigger seems semi-no-brainer. I'm sure some may still still go with Medicom, I'm just saying if it comes down to HT and Medicom being pretty much identical, I think the points I listed will turn favor towards HT, and as far as I know, only the ALIENS figure has had a fair ammount of issues with collectors and the AVP and AVPR figures have been sturdy and well built and I'm not hearing of issues with the PredAlien so I don't think too many will be scared to go with HT for stability concerns. Time will tell, it's a fun time to be an ALIEN franchise collector though.

 

[abake]

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If this figure comes in at $200, I think it's best hope for smashing success is if a Hot Toys version falls short in quality or comes out after the Medicom starts going out to customers. Odds are HT would come in at $150 and if theirs is equal in accurracy to this, I think that'll hurt the Medi sales because Medicom's has a few things going against it compared to HT, 1) size, and I don't mean in terms of scale to other figures but simply if it comes down to a Medi 12" or HT 16", I would think most people would want as big an ALIEN as they could get, 2) price, because $200 for the smaller figure or $150 for the bigger seems semi-no-brainer. I'm sure some may still still go with Medicom, I'm just saying if it comes down to HT and Medicom being pretty much identical, I think the points I listed will turn favor towards HT, and as far as I know, only the ALIENS figure has had a fair ammount of issues with collectors and the AVP and AVPR figures have been sturdy and well built and I'm not hearing of issues with the PredAlien so I don't think too many will be scared to go with HT for stability concerns. Time will tell, it's a fun time to be an ALIEN franchise collector though.

I agree with you.
If HT's comes out accurate it'll be a tough contender for this one. Me, I'll probably get them all, I'm a sucka for all things alien...
Unless HT just use the Aliens warrior body with a different head and hands. Then I will simply not buy it.

 

[shockwave]

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I agree with you.
If HT's comes out accurate it'll be a tough contender for this one. Me, I'll probably get them all, I'm a sucka for all things alien...
Unless HT just use the Aliens warrior body with a different head and hands. Then I will simply not buy it.

D'oh I hope not w/HT. Ok so Medicom has it up on their website for an Oct '08 release. If that's the case hopefully SSC will be pre-selling it soon, maybe April or May?

 

[bubbahotep]

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I'll definately go with hot toys version over medicom (especially given the likely price differences). Even with some artistic interpretation (I'm not an accuracy fanatic), I'd rather pay $50-70 less for a bigger figure. I like medicom, but I only own one fig (comic spidey, which is a great fig, but only cost me $90) versus the several hot toys products I own.

 

[MaulFan]

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I agree with you.
If HT's comes out accurate it'll be a tough contender for this one. Me, I'll probably get them all, I'm a sucka for all things alien...
Unless HT just use the Aliens warrior body with a different head and hands. Then I will simply not buy it.

I'd likely get both if I didn't have about a half dozen other properties I like to collect lol. I'm more into getting a little something from everything than everything from one source.

 

[bubbahotep]

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I'd likely get both if I didn't have about a half dozen other properties I like to collect lol. I'm more into getting a little something from everything than everything from one source.

See, that's my problem, too. $200 can net me 2 hot toys military figures, with tons of accessories. Also, for $200 I can get the eventual hot toys alien + neca alien.

 

[shockwave]

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I'll definately go with hot toys version over medicom (especially given the likely price differences). Even with some artistic interpretation (I'm not an accuracy fanatic), I'd rather pay $50-70 less for a bigger figure. I like medicom, but I only own one fig (comic spidey, which is a great fig, but only cost me $90) versus the several hot toys products I own.

Heck I am trying to sell my Medicom Spidey 3 Venom fig . The big chap is what I really want.

I found this on One Sixth Warrior Forum:

https://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?p=702048

Please scroll down for some new pics..THANKS OSW for the pics...

 

[Starkiller]

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Damn this thing is a thing of beauty. Just look at that sculpt...amazing.

 

[Shai]

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my p-nis gets hard when I look at it.

 

[Starkiller]

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my p-nis gets hard when I look at it.

Bam!

 

[lerath666]

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So we got confoirmation on how big he is yet?

 

[abake]

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Looking good! Looking very good.
Thanks for the pics.

 

[Batty]

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Man, that looks great. I wonder if Sideshow will put it up for pre-order next week.

BTW, what's Magical Toy?

 

[OSCORP]

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Just something they say overseas(from a magazine i believe)they did the same thing with the symbiote spider-man.

 

[The Chaver]

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Bam!

Bonner!

 

[galactiboy]

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That does look really badass...

 

[Starkiller]

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I miss all of those tubes and stuff that made it truly look not even organic..but almost like a machine at the same time. Nothing beats the original.

 

[Sabres21768]

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Beautiful...just beautiful.

Not screen accurate. But it's definately going in my collection.

 

[nash]

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this thing is f'n awesome! need more info now! !!!