NECA: Predator Movie Franchise Figures

[A.L.I.E.N]

My god. Whoever wants an 18" Predator has made their point. There is nothing we can do now but annoy our fellow board members. If it happens, it happens.

It seems some people just join the boards to moan or whine!

 

[Rotfish]

Yeeeaaaaahhhhh...... Rider, not that your wishes don't make sense, but it's NECA. It just won't happen.
At most it'll have a sound feature and lights (but even lights seem highy unlikely). That's the way it usually works. And for $30-$45, you're still getting a nice piece.

My god. Whoever wants an 18" Predator has made their point. There is nothing we can do now but annoy our fellow board members. If it happens, it happens.

 

[Sabres21768]

So please...for the love of all that's holy...stop posting your "want list" over and over again.

I'm sure NECA gets it...I know we all do.

 

[MaulFan]

And to some extent, NECA just doesn't care what some people will want, especially people who are more used to a Hot Toys level of features, that's not what they make or who they cater to in the grand scheme. We're part of the market, but so are teenagers who have precious money to spend and a cool looking, sculptural figure satisfies enough.

 

[Sabres21768]

And to some extent, NECA just doesn't care what some people will want, especially people who are more used to a Hot Toys level of features, that's not what they make or who they cater to in the grand scheme. We're part of the market, but so are teenagers who have precious money to spend and a cool looking, sculptural figure satisfies enough.

EXACTLY!

This isn't going to be a uber-poseable piece with all kinds of extras.

If you want that...buy a Hot Toys figure.

This piece will be well sculpted AND very affordable.

And that sounds damn good to me.

 

[MaulFan]

Yup, NECA and McFarlane basically ammount to nice, very affordable statues, with just a bit of articulation which allows for slight customization for how each person's "statue" looks. That's why it's a big deal which pose is chosen, because you'll be stuck with it, and why I'm glad with the pose Tankman went with for the P1 and Elder, it's a classic pose and really captures the creatures.

 

[prefused]

i think "nice" is a strong word for McF figures these days.
they never did anything that NECA couldn't blow out of the water.
i got rid of mine years ago.*




*that's a lie. i still have their Maxx figure. it's not great, but it has sentimental value, dammit.

 

[Rotfish]

What I like about NECA is that their main poses are more generic, so articulation is less constrained, and the changes you make will have a bigger impact on the figure.
Plus, I never got McF's mid-air flailing dreads . Sounds cool on paper, but in the end, it just looks like your Pred's hair is thinning.

 

[Reinhardt]

I thought the McF AvP figures were quite good actually, and a great size for 1/12 scale. I wasn't crazy about their P1 and P2 figures though. I did like the Alien Predator boxset they did though.

 

[The Rider]

Yeeeaaaaahhhhh...... Rider, not that your wishes don't make sense, but it's NECA. It just won't happen.
At most it'll have a sound feature and lights (but even lights seem highy unlikely). That's the way it usually works. And for $30-$45, you're still getting a nice piece.

Only I pay for a 18"figure far more (55-70 $) and then I also want a figure that correspo nds to my expectations.
3 heads, a real netting, the 4 little cloth Bands and the Light-up feature is very simple.

You still want a great figure, then we "fight" for it ?

It is ne thing of supply and demand.

And a large Predator figure is in demand.

I want to buy me any Hot Toys figure of 200-250 $.

I want a very good figure to me a minimum of cool Features.

 

[MaulFan]

Nothing wrong with wanting those things, but you're quite unlikely to get them from NECA. NECA is as much about what financially works best for the company as what fans want. With these Predators, from the way Tankman speaks about getting them done, it seems we're lucky NECA even makes them at all. It seems like it probably took a lot of pushing from the creative team to get higher ups to even OK doing Predator figures, but they're only going to pour so much into them. NECA's market needs to keep the 7" figures around $10-$20 and the 18" ones around $50, they start getting too high and their customer base will decrease and they'll start to lose out. These figures cater to teens starting out collecting with low incomes and while people willing to spend HT prices might be willing to spend more on NECA if they had more features to them, those teens have a line they have to draw where they can't buy it, and NECA needs those customers as much as the Sideshow/Hot Toys level customers.

 

[The Rider]

The Pose of The Elder Predator ist not so good.
Not so Movie acurate(Dagger in false Hand).

 

[The Rider]

Then you have to go on just one step.
Companies continue to evolve as well.

Be happy to provide it so easily?

Since it is not critical to Neca and want more


What do you wish you everything from Neca?
What bothers you when Neca?
What features are must-haves for you ?

 

[MaulFan]

I wish NECA would make all their figures unique instad of recycling parts, but I also understand that recycling is the only way we get multiple figures from them because it's about spreading out costs more than offering multiple figures. I'd rather buy 3 Terminators that are very much alike to have the various looks represented in my figure collection than to get just one figure.

Same with these Predators, I'd prefer just to get one figure that's inclusive, but they'll do multiples to spread costs and balance profit. Sucks buying two or 3 very similar figures, but if they didn't do that, likely there'd be much missing, we'd only get a masked head or only an unmasked head.

Companies like Hot Toys evolve because of market demand, NECA does fine as it is because there market doesn't demand big changes, some people within it might want them, but overall, people turn to NECA because they're a quality product at an affordable price, price is a huge factor in buying NECA, right now, the cost of their products balances nicely with what you get, but some changes would drive prices higher than what seems right for what you get, and people will stop buying their product.

 

[Rotfish]

NECA has it's flaws, but it's a more mainstream company. Every little sale counts, because it's meant to cater to a wider range of people. If prices increase (even if a figure has all sorts of cool doodads and features), that huge general collector population fanbase will decrease and sales will go doooooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn.
With HT, they can afford to go all-out on everything they do, because they don't produce too many to begin with, and they know people will go nuts for them anyway.

I'd like a NECA fig to have all those cool features, too. But they've never done it before, and there's no reason for it to "evolve" now. They already did a Predator (the Wolf), and he was still a hit.

MaulFan basically said it all. If you change NECA's winning formula, well, it might satisfy some of their collectors, but most will start to turn away from it.

 

[The Rider]

Neca In Europe, the products are much more expensive.
And they will be purchased anyway.

The people at prices of $ 50 complaining "yammerl" buy only the products in 7 ".

The people who collect 18" figures have a little more money, make $ 10 more for not much consequence.

Apart from that, if something is wanted, it sells well.

Look at so many old McFarlane on Ebay, which sells for much more than they cost back then, because there are many they are looking for.

You have to see it all too global, not just the U.S..

In the U.S. there are Neca stuff at Toys R Us and other stores.
The stuff is pretty cheap.
But there is no Euriopa Neca stuff in stores like Toys r us. Msn get the stuff there in Comcläden or the Internet. The Internet is the No. 1 source of purchase
Fewer children or teenagers to buy the stuff.

Neca there is no High Priced brand, but the people there, the stuff is worth more.

I think it's a big gap between Neca and Hot Toys.
I know many film enthusiasts from another forum, like beautiful pieces of ihreren favorites.
But Hot Toys is Neca them too expensive and sometimes do not look good enough.

Neca must try to win these people and make not only toys r us stuff.
The Internet also plays a major role .


Take for example the 20" Predator.
Buy All the 7" figures.

And the 18" figures will be purchased only by those which is the figure the value.
I think it is improbable that collects Someone who for years Neca Stuff, provides a brilliant 20 "Predator of just $ 15 more expensive than other 18" figures and thus why not buy it.
We must remember also buys some of each 7 "figure version.
At what cost to all versions you can buy himself a large 20" Predator.
Even 60 dollars is a great price for a large, detailed Predator.

 

[MaulFan]

Neca In Europe, the products are much more expensive.
And they will be purchased anyway.

Yes, but factor too, if the U.S. price goes up, so will the international price, and I'm sure some of those buyers would eventually draw the line at what they're willing to pay for what NECA makes.

Neca must try to win these people and make not only toys r us stuff.
The Internet also plays a major role.

You feel they need to, but I think their strategy shows they're reaching successfully to where they want to reach. NECA's products have been about the same for like 5 years now, it works for them, maybe not for some people that buy their stuff, but if they really felt they weren't succeeding how they'd like, then they'd have changed things up.

 

[The Rider]

NECA has it's flaws, but it's a more mainstream company. Every little sale counts, because it's meant to cater to a wider range of people. If prices increase (even if a figure has all sorts of cool doodads and features), that huge general collector population fanbase will decrease and sales will go doooooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn.
With HT, they can afford to go all-out on everything they do, because they don't produce too many to begin with, and they know people will go nuts for them anyway.

I'd like a NECA fig to have all those cool features, too. But they've never done it before, and there's no reason for it to "evolve" now. They already did a Predator (the Wolf), and he was still a hit.

MaulFan basically said it all. If you change NECA's winning formula, well, it might satisfy some of their collectors, but most will start to turn away from it.

There is hardly an alternative to Neca.

If people not buy Neca, what buy then ?

Neca has the license.
And Hot Toys are even more expensive.

Apart from others who might be exactly what the competition did what I wanted.
Sota Toys has made a lot of diorama sets for horror movies.
McFarlane makes some sets, which sold very well.
Neca has in this sense at least.
Only the figure.
That's nice, but unsatisfying for a fan.
Apart from that, one must differenzieen.
You always talks about buying the less people.
Which she says only buy the 7 "figures and not the 18".
18 "is almost exclusively Neca that machtNeca rather unique.
My ideas concerning the major figures.
And since the buyers already looks again different.
And Zusaqtz sets i 7 "format, even separately, so do not buy less of the 7" figures.
On the contrary, so many still buy figures to make a diorama.
One must not forget one, Neca makes no high-quality products.
How to look great things, In total, they are very very cheap to produce.
The only thing more expensive to license and tank Mans work.
But these are fixed costs.
If one converts the whole of the specimens makes Neca very much profit.
Companies such as Hasbro also offer a wider variety of figures and make even large vehicles.
Thus, they are very very successful.

 

[MaulFan]

If people not buy Neca, what buy then ?

Nothing, that's how it goes sometimes. Probably every person at this site can name at least one item they wished someone would make that hasn't and probably won't ever happen, we simply can't get everything we ever want, all we can do is take what is offered to us.

 

[Rotfish]

Neca must try to win these people and make not only toys r us stuff

Toys R Us happens to carry them. They're still good solid figures, so why does it matter where they're sold. The company won't change what it stands for, nor will it change who it caters to.
They don't need to win anyone over, because they already have. That's why we're all so pumped for these upcoming Pred figs. If they increased price to add more features (which only some people care about), then they would not have as many customers. They've got the people; the main thing now is not to lose anyone.