![]() ![]() It's not much, but at least it's not a statue.Įach figure comes with a base, and they connect together to form a scene in which the Queen and the Predator face off. The Predator doesn't fair nearly as well, and is more typical of the average articulation level in this series: he features a hinge at the top of the neck, a peg joint at the base of the neck, a peg joint at each bicep, and a balljointed chest. It's the closest thing to a genuine action figure in this line, featuring a balljointed "face", a mid-neck hinge (hidden by the rubber neck), a peg at the base of the neck, balljointed shoulders, a balljointed chest, balljointed hips, and a bendy tail. The Predator looks great, with lots of different colors and no real bleed or smudging anywhere, which must have been difficult on delicate areas like the mesh netting that covers most of his body.Īrticulation is one feature that inhibits playability in most of the offerings in this series, but the Queen is one notable exception. ![]() This was a feature utilized in the face of the MM6 Queen to show off the clear teeth, but here it makes no sense, as the teeth are painted silver. Curiously, the lower jaw piece is molded from clear plastic and painted blue. There's not a whole lot of paint to speak of on the Queen, but most of what is there works well. The Queen isn't quite as metallic as the prototype shown, but the dark blue with black wash looks nice enough. Paint is surprisingly good for such small figures. Still, it's pretty darn cool to see all the detail they could pack into such a tiny figure. He's missing the back armor and shoulder cannon from the first figure, but he still has the garish forearm blades that, in the film, were only used briefly by the Chopper Predator. The Predator is pretty much sculpturally the same as the larger one in the first series, but more pre-posed and with a few minor differences. The mouth is open and snarling, which looks pretty cool. The Queen is more streamlined, particularly in the area of the massive head crest, to match the design of the Queen in AvP, but it's still a bit off, mostly because it's based on a figure meant to match the proportions of the original Queen design from Aliens. Alien vs predator microman movie#Of the deluxe Queen offered in the Movie Maniacs 6 line, while the Predator is a shrunken, altered version of the Scar Predator from the first series. Still, regardless of the flaws in the theme and idea of this line, it's difficult to argue that they don't look nice.īoth figure sculpts are based on previous, larger offerings from McFarlane: the Queen Alien is a shrunken, retouched version The figures are really meant to stick in the base and stay there, as evidenced by the metal pegs that protrude from the bottoms of both figures' feet. "Diorama" would have been a more accurate description. Predator playset, which is actually two different figures sold separately that can be connected via interlocking bases.įirst off, there isn't much "play" in these sets. I myself was initially outraged at the change in scale and idea, but after having seen them in stores, I, too, succumbed to my desire for new AvP product. Alien vs predator microman series#However, fans also realize that McFarlane still produces some of the best affordable AvP product out there today, and if they tell us Series 3 will be one-inch-tall, completely unarticulated sculptures of a Predator's lower thigh, most AvP fans will still cave in and buy them. ![]() So now the "playsets" are here, and fans are still outraged. When the unmasked fig never showed up anywhere, McFarlane suddenly refused to talk about its status or answer any questions from fans. ![]() The flood of complaints was immediate, especially since there were obvious character choices missing from the first series that many simply assumed would be coming with the second set most notably, the third Predator, "Chopper," and the Unmasked "Scar" Predator, which McFarlane had initially claimed would be a variant in the first series. Predator figures would not be in the style of the 7" highly articulated figures we saw in the first series, but rather - stay with me, now - "playsets" in the 4" scale. So imagine the backlash when McFarlane Toys announced that its second series of Alien Vs. PredatorĪsk any DC Direct fan: one sure-fire way to piss off action figure collectors is to mess with scale. B u y t h e t o y s, n o t t h e h y p e. ![]()
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