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Freakalicious
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I am still buying, skipping that blade fighter vehicle though.
Seems they are in no rush to do AVp as someone asked when AVP Preds are coming and there reply was just "eventually".. So I doubt it if we will get them this year...
They killed this line, at least for me. They took way too long to release new sculpts between the Lost Clan predators. When it first started they were pumping out brand new sculpts like there was no tomorrow; the Predators line, followed by Predator 1 and 2, then the Lost Clan. After that they dropped off the face of the earth with lackluster, underwhelming repaints called "Kenner Tributes" and comic predators.
Randy's **** attitude toward AVP also irritates me. Yeah, I get it, it's not your favorite movie, but it will still sell like hot cakes, and isn't that your end goal? You are a business, no? My TRUs and Suncoast are loaded to the gills with the last few reject predators that no one cares about.
Yeah Kenner predators have a much smaller fan base than AVP ones, I guarantee it. My LCS refuses to order anymore neca preds after the first kenner wave because he ate them.
Ive lost pretty much all respect I had for randy when they pulled the blade fighter ********, what a waste
Wow, some people are acting like Randy kidnapped a group of Nigerian schoolgirls or something. If you don't like it, don't buy it. And I can assure everyone that these diversions into EU Preds won't keep the AvP Preds from happening, regardless of sales.
Wow, some people are acting like Randy kidnapped a group of Nigerian schoolgirls or something. If you don't like it, don't buy it. And I can assure everyone that these diversions into EU Preds won't keep the AvP Preds from happening, regardless of sales.
Are you serious? If the engineers from Prometheus have little appeal with fans of the movie, who would collect the line, then Prometheus as a whole has limited appeal to collectors. I loved the line, and bought everything they put out except for the holo engineers, and i really wanted Shaw. But to say that it was dumb to make the Engineers first is a ridiculous point to argue. I want Ripley, but Aliens are more visually interesting as toys. I wanted Dutch, but Predators are more interesting as toys. I too get frustrated that Neca doesn't always follow through with a line i want to see expanded, but to jump from that point to saying that all of these character choices are BS is a bit of a leapI don't collect this line as I was only interested in the human characters but I know from other Neca lines they make "questionable" character choices and then kinda pass the blame when the line fails on to the consumer. I think maybe that's why people are so frustrated.
The Prometheus line is a good example, the appeal of those engineers were niche but they had reuse potential so I think that's why NECA produced them, but they bombed. So now people won't get the shaw and fifeld figs they prototyped and Randy's reasoning is that "retail isn't interested and there wasn't enough fans". Well maybe they would have been if they'd made the figs they asked for.
They did this with L4D too, according to randy "human characters don't sell as well" which is why they led with two special infected characters, despite people clamouring for the survivors. Needless to say the line didn't perform and that's it for any future releases.
Don't get me wrong, they are by far and away my favourite "low end company" for the products and licenses they have, but they are as bad as Mattel for blaming the consumer for their own mistakes and failings.
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“@Clay_Pruitt: @NECA_TOYS @RAAM22 I'm curious, so does that mean no AVP Predators this year?” Correct
Wow, some people are acting like Randy kidnapped a group of Nigerian schoolgirls or something. If you don't like it, don't buy it. And I can assure everyone that these diversions into EU Preds won't keep the AvP Preds from happening, regardless of sales.
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