![]() ![]() Featuring the words “Alien Vs Predator” in gloss over the front, the entire packaging is a rather attractive design, highlighting the Predator’s mask on the front and the bloody stand of the figure on the back. Apparently utilizing a display that is available across the brand, the black box is reminiscent of the Predator DVD case released right before Alien vs Predator came out. Sculpted by Joseph Tsang, the Predator itself comes in a rather attractive box. It’s my first Toy Boy review, you know? I’m sure the seasoned veteran sees this sort of thing with much different eyes, but I’m rather bewildered and impressed.) (But, well, I’m clearly easily impressionable. Designed to look like one of the predators featured in the Aliens vs Predator film, this is probably the most detailed and authentic a predator I’ve ever seen aside from looking at a costume through a glass case - and as someone who is quite fond of Predator, this is truly something remarkable to behold. If you want a talking piece that shows you mean business as an adult collector, this is the piece for you. Which, you know, is fine and great and dandy and wonderful. ![]() In fact, I’d hardly call it a toy at all it has all the makings and markings of something you could call a toy, sure, but this is definitely something for the adult collector who is looking more towards putting this in a display case as a bragging point for anyone who comes by his or her home. A massive figure that defines collectible, this thing takes what I knew about toys - ie, action figures to smash against each other while grunting - and ups it to the next level. This Sideshow Collectible feature is something different entirely. I had a few Alien and Predator toys when I was kid (that are somewhere in a box in my attic right now), but my main experience with those was action figures, not as collectibles. I am a big fan of the “Alien” franchise, the “Predator” franchise and the “Alien vs Predator” franchise, but while I find it easy to talk about their movies and videogames and comics, my experience with toys are limited. And man oh man, did we pick a difficult toy to start out with.Īs a note, I’m not an expert on figures. ![]() With that out of the way, lets kick things off with our first edition of the Toy Box, looking at the Ancient Predator 1/6th Scale figure by Hot Toys from Sideshow Collectibles. And if this is something that appeals to you, please let us know in the comments below and/or get in touch with us on what you’d like to see or know about the product we’re looking at - this is very much new territory, something we’re testing, so bear with us on the growing pains. So today we’re trying something new: the Toy Box, in which we’ll be looking at toys as a semi-regular feature on the site. But, when readers as wonderful as you ask us to try new things, we’re only happy to oblige! Surprisingly, one thing that we’d never done on the site that came up in the poll was more content about toys it’s not only something we’d never really considered, it’s something that we didn’t really know a lot about. As some of you may remember, not that long ago we ran a poll asking what type of content readers would be interested in. ![]()
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