The prototype paint app was closer to the color scheme we saw in the movie. In the description for the statue, they even wrote that "The basic art style of this Cover Art resembles of the Predator that appeared in the first movie." And they added movie easter eggs which were not part of the original cover art.
Comic book label or not, you show me a prototype, I'm going to expect something in that ballpark: pale yellow with clusters of soft black spots. Not light brown with jagged, sloppy polka dots. Even with the usual 15-20% drop in quality, the colors and pattern styles should remain the same.
Prime 1 are clearly capable of using decals with soft edges (Sengoku Predator) and greater detail (Big Chap), so either they deliberately changed the 1/4 during production or they simply dropped the ball. Neither of those outcomes is something a buyer should expect when dropping close to $2K on a piece. Bootlick more.
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Originally Posted by csutkakoma
Imo it is started as a movie piece under a comic license but the end result became more comic like compared to the prototype because of the 1/3. Besides the movie mask there are other inaccuracies like the gloves, hands, control panel, bulkiness. Small things but they are there and not like in the film.
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Yep. But remember that the first time we saw the 1/4, it was part of a convention display and had two rigid square pouches hanging from its belt. Fans complained it wasn't movie-accurate so P1 replaced them with the soft, droopy single pouch we see in the film. That area of the belt is obscured by the Predator's arm on the comic book, so there was no reason for them to change anything -- yet they did. They wanted customers to consider this a film piece for more sales, even if it technically wasn't.
