Prime 1: Alien vs. Predator - Chopper Predator 1/3

[VILE GUILE]

Originally Posted by chavez553

Nah they have to make the chopper because they can only make so many each of these. That?s why they have so many different pieces coming out at one time, so they can make more money. You can?t make 1000 of these massive things, so why not make a bunch of different characters at low to med es..? Whether they be slightly obscure or whatever, they end making same profit across all those different characters instead of just one or two. Kind see what Prime 1 is doing here now.

What?s striking me now is we could see these in smaller scale later on down the line.

I don't know man... They only reissue statue's that sell-out fast. These ain't selling out period, so the chances of a smaller rescaled version is slim to none.

That's another dumb decision they made by reissue's. Now people will just hold off thinking, maybe they'll get it in 1/4 scale...but that will never come, because it never sold well enough in it's original release to begin with.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by chavez553

Nah they have to make the chopper because they can only make so many each of these. That?s why they have so many different pieces coming out at one time, so they can make more money. You can?t make 1000 of these massive things, so why not make a bunch of different characters at low to med es..? Whether they be slightly obscure or whatever, they end making same profit across all those different characters instead of just one or two. Kind see what Prime 1 is doing here now.

What?s striking me now is we could see these in smaller scale later on down the line.

Chavez you have a really good point. If/when these won't sell enough, the quantity (ES) towards factory is still reached because it is one combined process for them.

[Halcyon]

But i'm not 100% convinced this will be three separate statues for PO.

Because all written text they mention "new 1/3 statue" instead of "these statues" and will have the "most switchout parts of any of the 1/3 predators" etc.

Also can't imagine many ppl who like to spend 10 to 12K on these when sold and shipped separately. But yeah don't know, combined package will prob not be much cheaper either looking back at the P2 price point.

Other possibility is Chopper plus Scar is offered as one statue (combo), bcs their body design and leg stance is 100% the same here. And the cut pillar and alien can be large switch out parts. They only showed one unmasked portrait with these three statues.

[Blade3327]

To be fair though, they also misspelled "guest" as "guset" at one point in the showcase.

[Halcyon]

Originally Posted by Blade3327

To be fair though, they also misspelled "guest" as "guset" at one point in the showcase.

But look like they already have shown a lot of statue details in this promo.
Can't see one of these have clearly more switchouts than previous 1/3 predators shown.

If you really count all the loose (switchout) parts, one by one. List would be:

Portraits shown:
- Chopper masked
- Celtic mask clean
- Celtic mask damaged
- Scar masked
- Scar unmasked

Chopper on his own has only (in this video):
- Chopper masked
- Long scimitar blades both arms
- pair of fists
- open hand left side
- Short wrist blades
- Skull rack

Scar is equiped here with:
- Masked portrait
- Unmasked portrait
- Long wrist blades
- Short wrist blades
- Shuriken in hand
- Spear hand full lenght
- Spear retracted on his back
- Plasma canon
- pair of fists
- open hand left side

Celtic is equiped here with:
- Celtic mask clean
- Celtic mask damaged
- Net gun (mentioned)
- Long wrist blades
- Short wrist blades
- Corroded wrist blades
- Spear hand retracted
- Spear hand full lenght
- Spear retracted on his back
- pair of fists
- open hand left side

The alien symbol with grating is on Choppers floor. So yes all three do have a diff base, makes it harder to imagine Chopper and Scar is one combo statue.
But their body and leg stance is 100% the same as lots of other parts of this statue, so maybe they offer package deal.

[Python]

The more I look at these, the more I actually think Chopper is the best posed of the three. Its a shame he's the most forgettable character. It's also a shame they removed the alien from the base even if it wasn't movie accurate.

[Halcyon]

Tbh my excitement for these 1/3 preds is not that high anymore, only thing that really matters especially for these three is price point.

Going to wait for total price and what is offered with Regular, if they only sell individually and divided in Reg/DX/DX bonus etc, then locally will also be too expensive (pure greed atm, look at the new Constantine 1/4DXS 2700euro locally. while originally already high at 1499usd).

Even with this plain (coffee creamer) paint scheme, these three are pob not going for less than JH.

[Blade3327]

New pics:

[jinkazama]

Up for pre order April 4........

[azurepred]

I believe this one already has a thread? I'm not surprised nobody is talking about this one. I wouldn't be shocked to see all 3 Avp Predators canned.