Hot Toys - MMS173 - Predator 2: 1/6th scale City Hunter Predator Collectible Figure

[Eamon]

Love this guy. Dat mask profile...

What hand you using here then?

 

[Arnold84]

Looks like shadows hand.

 

[DutchAzlon]

Tip:The Predator 2 comes with 2 left hands that can be used to hold the skull and spine.
1) Heat up either the flat opened hand or the slightly bent hand with a hair dryer. This will allow you to reshape the hand. Reshaping them to hold the spine is an extremely quick and easy fix.

2) Now heat the hands up until they are bendable. When the hand bends easy you now are ready to reshape them to hold the spine. Take the now heated hand and bend the hand around the spine in the desired hold "hand grip" you want.

3)While holding the hand and spine hold them under very cold water until the hand has hardened back up, the hand will now hold the spine.

You could instead of using cold water just wrap some tape or a rubber band around the heated hand and spine and place them both in the freezer for a couple hours or so. I have used both of these methods to reshape several Hot Toys hands and dreads with great success.

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Bought a Shadow Predator open left hand and a spare City Hunter blade gauntlet from www.toyanxiety.com. Can't find any Shadow sword hands for sale anywhere.

Modded the gauntlet by heating it up, cutting open in the front under the blades to pry them out, cut the blade tips off, and then stuck them back into the slots. They stay there okay-ish on their own without glue.
I marked where I cut the blades.

 

[RIDDICK]

Great idea! Def will try it.

 

[Furyan]

What hand you using here then?

Yep both hands are shadow's. They are super close to matching city hunters in color. Shadows sword hand even holds the spear better than city hunters does.

 

[Centurion]

Bought a Shadow Predator open left hand and a spare City Hunter blade gauntlet from www.toyanxiety.com. Can't find any Shadow sword hands for sale anywhere.

Modded the gauntlet by heating it up, cutting open in the front under the blades to pry them out, cut the blade tips off, and then stuck them back into the slots. They stay there okay-ish on their own without glue.
I marked where I cut the blades.

Great job, bro.
Looks proper right there.

 

[Tabula Rasa]

^
Thanks.


Just did the hairdryer/cold water mod for both the closed and open mandibles.
Only a slight change with the open ones. Tilted the lower fangs inward a bit, and straightened out the left/right mouth stretch flaps

Mod is so easy, I did it while inebriated.

 

[Centurion]

Damn, you're on a roll.
Very well done!

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Thanks.
Now, if I could only figure out a way to shorten the area between the upper jaw and the brow. That really kills it.

 

[Viking Spawn]

^
Thanks.


Just did the hairdryer/cold water mod for both the closed and open mandibles.
Only a slight change with the open ones. Tilted the lower fangs inward a bit, and straightened out the left/right mouth stretch flaps

Mod is so easy, I did it while inebriated.

Amazing!!!!

 

[Yoshi]

Bought a Shadow Predator open left hand and a spare City Hunter blade gauntlet from www.toyanxiety.com. Can't find any Shadow sword hands for sale anywhere.

Modded the gauntlet by heating it up, cutting open in the front under the blades to pry them out, cut the blade tips off, and then stuck them back into the slots. They stay there okay-ish on their own without glue.
I marked where I cut the blades.

Very nice job on the wrist blade Why can't Hot Toys get this stuff right? I'd rather them take their time and get it right than slap a pred together and us have to mod them correct ourselves. "More time" I guess they had more than enough time on this figure to be honest.

 

[SepticFlesh]

It took a couple of days for this Predator to grow on me but I love this particular Pred.
I am not too pleased with the head sculpt especially with the Mandibles IMO looking way off. I think Hot Toys should have kept the same formula with the newer classic Predator headsculpt which they did an amazing job on.
I do however love the Bio-Mask on the City Hunter and will probably leave it on. The City Hunter is a perfect Hot Toys Predator to pose right next to the Classic.

Cool...that was a long enough wait now hurry up with Scar.

 

[Arnold84]

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What material are those blades, is it metal coated plastic or what? And with what did you cut those?

 

[CollectorGuy]

Thought i'd try this pose, what do you think?

 

[Yoshi]

Thought i'd try this pose, what do you think?

Is that how your City Hunter's mask came? with the copper weathering in splodges like that or is it just some camera trickery?

 

[Furyan]

Is that how your City Hunter's mask came? with the copper weathering in splodges like that or is it just some camera trickery?

Mine is like that too. No photo effects. Hardly notice it in hand.

Love this guy. Dat mask profile...

 

[Tabula Rasa]

What material are those blades, is it metal coated plastic or what? And with what did you cut those?

Solid metal. I used heavy duty wire cutters and a hammer. They're pretty damn tough.

 

[Eamon]

Tip:The Predator 2 comes with 2 left hands that can be used to hold the skull and spine.
1) Heat up either the flat opened hand or the slightly bent hand with a hair dryer. This will allow you to reshape the hand. Reshaping them to hold the spine is an extremely quick and easy fix.

2) Now heat the hands up until they are bendable. When the hand bends easy you now are ready to reshape them to hold the spine. Take the now heated hand and bend the hand around the spine in the desired hold "hand grip" you want.

3)While holding the hand and spine hold them under very cold water until the hand has hardened back up, the hand will now hold the spine.

You could instead of using cold water just wrap some tape or a rubber band around the heated hand and spine and place them both in the freezer for a couple hours or so. I have used both of these methods to reshape several Hot Toys hands and dreads with great success.

I will give this a go for sure!! I will use the lat hand as the other is used to hold the net gun!

 

[Centurion]

Thought i'd try this pose, what do you think?

Kind of reminds me of Iron Man.