NECA: Predator Movie Franchise Figures

[Evil_Ash]

The vast majority of NECA figures are targeted at older collectors. Even in the late 90's and early 2000's when McFarlane was putting out a lot of monsters and horror figures, those weren't targeted at children. The Kenner Aliens, Marines and Predators were very colorful and not screen accurate at all. Those were targeted at children. The way I see it, if it wasn't advertised on TV, then it wasn't targeted to young children.

 

[redleo]

The vast majority of NECA figures are targeted at older collectors. Even in the late 90's and early 2000's when McFarlane was putting out a lot of monsters and horror figures, those weren't targeted at children. The Kenner Aliens, Marines and Predators were very colorful and not screen accurate at all. Those were targeted at children. The way I see it, if it wasn't advertised on TV, then it wasn't targeted to young children.

stop acting like dummies just cause neca is doing kenner homage predators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3yPsDiJS4I yea McFarlane stuff wasnt aimed for kids

 

[bigbisont]

The toys for the original Alien were marketed to kids too, but that doesnt mean it should have been or would fly today.

https://io9.com/5500685/old-alien-toy-ad ... over-again

Also spawn slipped in because parents foolishly lumped spawn into "toys of a comic book" and people still thought comic books were just for kids.


Lets ALSO not forget (or not get educated) that part of the reason the Aliens toys were so brightly colored and marketed toward kids was that the ground work was being laid for a saturday morning cartoon!
https://www.alienscollection.com/operationaliens.html

It would have been called "Operation Aliens" and hell, id have watched it. How would they get away with that subject matter on saturday morning cartoons? Easy. All the ridiculous aliens had animal hosts not humans. GI Joe ran for years with hundreds of gun battles but didnt have one dead guy.


The point is don't look too heavily at past marketing examples as having any bearing of today's practices. It was a different world back then. Today, this stuff is for adults and most of that crap back then wouldnt fly.

 

[crows]

The toys for the original Alien were marketed to kids too, but that doesnt mean it should have been or would fly today.

https://io9.com/5500685/old-alien-toy-ad ... over-again

Also spawn slipped in because parents foolishly lumped spawn into "toys of a comic book" and people still thought comic books were just for kids.


Lets ALSO not forget (or not get educated) that part of the reason the Aliens toys were so brightly colored and marketed toward kids was that the ground work was being laid for a saturday morning cartoon!
https://www.alienscollection.com/operationaliens.html

It would have been called "Operation Aliens" and hell, id have watched it. How would they get away with that subject matter on saturday morning cartoons? Easy. All the ridiculous aliens had animal hosts not humans. GI Joe ran for years with hundreds of gun battles but didnt have one dead guy.


The point is don't look too heavily at past marketing examples as having any bearing of today's practices. It was a different world back then. Today, this stuff is for adults and most of that crap back then wouldnt fly.

WHAT THE F______

 

[redleo]

WHAT THE F______

idk why you're acting so stuck-up for with that reaction. i mean ghostbuster had a cartoon series based on its movies and ghost were giving them bjs while they slept, surely that wouldnt be in the cartoon and i think either would a death of a character in the aliens cartoon (if it was aired) but its okay for kids to play with figures of them but not monster based figures? then why arent you up in arms about ben-10 or all the monster based spin off series out there? the conent from a movie to a cartoon changes another who seen transformers would knw that.

 

[Evil_Ash]

stop acting like dummies just cause neca is doing kenner homage predators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3yPsDiJS4I yea McFarlane stuff wasnt aimed for kids

Acting like dummies because of the Neca Kenners? I couldn't care any less about the Neca Kenners. I already said I was skipping out on them. And secondly, I never mentioned Spawn. I said McFarlanes Monsters and Horror, meaning the Movie Maniacs. Ghostbusters is another great example. All colors and not screen accurate. The toys weren't even based off of the movie. They were based off of the CHILDREN"S CARTOON. Also, crows is right. Spawn is the only McFarlane character to get the toy commercial treatment because of its 'comic book' appeal.

 

[redleo]

Acting like dummies because of the Neca Kenners? I couldn't care any less about the Neca Kenners. I already said I was skipping out on them. And secondly, I never mentioned Spawn. I said McFarlanes Monsters and Horror, meaning the Movie Maniacs. Ghostbusters is another great example. All colors and not screen accurate. The toys weren't even based off of the movie. They were based off of the CHILDREN"S CARTOON. Also, crows is right. Spawn is the only McFarlane character to get the toy commercial treatment because of its 'comic book' appeal.

the cartoon was based off the movie , the kenners aliens was going that route to be it didnt happen, and mcfarlane stuff back in the 90s was spawn mainly so i dont see why you brought mcfarlane in if it wasnt for spawn, i mean unless u mean what happened in 1998 , i was taking about the time of which kenner preds came out in 1994 which was the same year spawn toys did.

 

[Evil_Ash]

Again, the toys were based on the characters from the Ghostbusters cartoon. They had absolutely nothing to do with the movie. You still haven't explained why you are calling people (including me) names because Neca is coming out with a series of Kenner based Predators. Your posts are all over the place and they seem to change direction often. Thanks.

 

[redleo]

Again, the toys were based on the characters from the Ghostbusters cartoon. They had absolutely nothing to do with the movie. You still haven't explained why you are calling people (including me) names because Neca is coming out with a series of Kenner based Predators. Your posts are all over the place and they seem to change direction often. Thanks.

i was reffering to you, you said the kenner line was directed toward kids but then go to say McFalane's stuff at the time wasnt when it was the same time the pred figs came out were about the same as the spawns your going by 4 years later which the predator line didnt last that long to bring up the movie manic and other monsters mcfalane starting doing. So why would you name drop McFalane but meaning his later work? thats like saying oh McFalanes toys are aimed for kids (halo) when no recently its got back to being aimed toward kids cause a 4 years back it was spawn stuff.
P.S. the GB cartoon was based from the movie, i was saying im sure the alien line was going based off the movie to but kid friendly much like the GB but it didnt make it in this case the figures came first. so i guess the line might of failed or they just went ahead and done the line anyways even when the series was rejected.

 

[Evil_Ash]

You are incorrect. I only brought up Spawn after crows mentioned it. In my initial post, I said McFarlane's stuff in the late 90's and early 2000's was not directed towards children. Read and understand completely before you try to bash someone.

 

[redleo]

You are incorrect. I only brought up Spawn after crows mentioned it. In my initial post, I said McFarlane's stuff in the late 90's and early 2000's was not directed towards children. Read and understand completely before you try to bash someone.

oh alright i'd admit to speed reading your post nvm then

 

[CelticPredator]

I Was thinking about those two. Thank you for proving my point.
is even worst when you think about Aliens Predator Terminator and Robocop. Kenner had some really insane people working for them. WHY would they make kid toys out of those movies? seriously wtf?

Because it was ****ing awesome, and parents back then weren't huge stupid prudes, and it didn't matter where the toys came from. A monster is a monster. Didn't matter what movie it came from.

Kids would probably buy District 9 toys too. Those are cool monsters.

 

[bigbisont]

Because it was ****ing awesome, and parents back then weren't huge stupid prudes, and it didn't matter where the toys came from. A monster is a monster. Didn't matter what movie it came from.

Kids would probably buy District 9 toys too. Those are cool monsters.

Gotta say my 2 year old is getting into dinosaurs already. BIG TIME. Kids love of monsters is in their DNA.

That said, I wouldnt show him a movie of dinosaurs killing people or anything. I wont let him watch the movie till he is 7 or 8 (same age I saw em), but he can play with my kenner Predators anytime

 

[Vitus]

edit: woops wrong thread

 

[Vitus]

ghost were giving them bjs while they slept

Anyone got any magnesium-tungsten alloy?

 

[redleo]

https://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=139&itemid=20131 i know wrong thread but awesome

 

[CelticPredator]

Gotta say my 2 year old is getting into dinosaurs already. BIG TIME. Kids love of monsters is in their DNA.

That said, I wouldnt show him a movie of dinosaurs killing people or anything. I wont let him watch the movie till he is 7 or 8 (same age I saw em), but he can play with my kenner Predators anytime

That's the right kind of mentality!

 

[crows]

Because it was ****ing awesome, and parents back then weren't huge stupid prudes, and it didn't matter where the toys came from. A monster is a monster. Didn't matter what movie it came from.

Kids would probably buy District 9 toys too. Those are cool monsters.

Pretty much yes. I guess things were nicer back then for kids.

I think the internet has to do with it as well. Crazy people have a way to connect with other crazy people and get together and complain about things.
I guess it was not like that in the past.

 

[crows]

idk why you're acting so stuck-up for with that reaction. i mean ghostbuster had a cartoon series based on its movies and ghost were giving them bjs while they slept, surely that wouldnt be in the cartoon and i think either would a death of a character in the aliens cartoon (if it was aired) but its okay for kids to play with figures of them but not monster based figures? then why arent you up in arms about ben-10 or all the monster based spin off series out there? the conent from a movie to a cartoon changes another who seen transformers would knw that.

people complain about Alien Resurrection sucking and people complain about AVP sucking even more,
but an Alien cartoon would have destroyed the franchise.

Ghostbusters was a comedy.

 

[BuGz]

Anyone know when the Dutch figures hit the UK?

Bri