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Dunno if everyone saw this under the comments in update #6

Prodos Games Ltd about 9 hours ago

Ok chaps, so this has induced more negativity than we thought. To explain 873 pledgers, when some one pledges they get a unique number, if they then drop out its not retro filled. On WZR we ended with pledge number 2017, but actually 931 pledgers.
Anyway, I write in bold not to shout, instead for all to see: THE OFFER IN UPDATE 6 WILL BE REPLACED WITH IF WE GET TO 2000 COMPLETED PLEDGERS ALL PLEDGERS AT £75 or MORE WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL £10 OF ADD ONS

 Forlorn wrote:
Dunno if everyone saw this under the comments in update #6

Prodos Games Ltd about 9 hours ago

Ok chaps, so this has induced more negativity than we thought. To explain 873 pledgers, when some one pledges they get a unique number, if they then drop out its not retro filled. On WZR we ended with pledge number 2017, but actually 931 pledgers.
Anyway, I write in bold not to shout, instead for all to see: THE OFFER IN UPDATE 6 WILL BE REPLACED WITH IF WE GET TO 2000 COMPLETED PLEDGERS ALL PLEDGERS AT £75 or MORE WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL £10 OF ADD ONS

Yeah, that's old news by now.

well that's good

The freebies are starting to add up nicely too.

Eyup, slowly but steadily we're getting there.

BrookM wrote:Also, the USCM Medic is the female marine with the incinerator, so no new model.

Weird. Weapon specialist = Medic? "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a nurse?"

 Kroothawk wrote:

BrookM wrote:Also, the USCM Medic is the female marine with the incinerator, so no new model.

Weird. Weapon specialist = Medic? "Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a nurse?"

If you've ever seen the movie you'll notice that cpl. Dietrich, the designated Hospital Corpsman of the squad, also carries a flamer as her primary armament.

'Looks like a nasty wound...we'd better cauterize it.'


I'm hoping we see some more interesting stuff for the humans. We got all kinds o' fancy Xe-no-morphs but the poor USMC are looking decidedly vanilla.

More variety in regular jarheads would be welcome. I'd love a helmeted head for the sergeant.

And if possible, tiny decals for the armour, so they can be unique and colourful snowflakes, just like their movie counterparts.

Next stop: Praetorians! Depending on the sculpt/price, I'm interested.

Hi people, long time lurker, but I just had to jump in here. Big fan of both the Aliens and Predator creatures and movies - AvP not so much.

I can't recall any Praetorians though - can anyone post a screencap or picture?

I think the Praetorians will be at £150k with a "freebie" at £140k they seem to have settled into that sort of pattern and they will probably be on the pricer side as you probably wont need many. It will interesting to see what design they use for them.

EDIT: Praetorians: http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Praetorian - basically Queens guard with slightly more ornate heads they don't appear in the films.

Good question basement, and one that I'd love to have answered too

Are they not something from the movie, but from a game or comic, etc?

Yep game based not film - I edited this in above but here it is again

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Praetorian

There's a few theories about what they really are best to read the article.

Thanks DaveC, that was ian interesting read - makes me excited for the sculpts and possible iterations of the praetorians. Hive King sound seriously interesting.
Some of the stuff seemed contradictory though

RiTides: Yeah looks like it's game based

I guess the background has been made up on the fly for Praetorians as they made the games.

here's a Praetorian next to a warrior and queen for scale (from the AvP game - the last one is an ancient queen)

So based on the size they could be £10 for 1!

 DaveC wrote:
I guess the background has been made up on the fly for Praetorians as they made the games.

here's a Praetorian next to a warrior and queen for scale (from the AvP game - the last one is an ancient queen)

So based on the size they could be £10 for 1!

Probably more like 15-20, they're significantly bigger than a Predator.

Nice pic, thanks for that DaveC!

Has anyone figured out what's on the horizon for Fox? Since this has a set date for release I mean. Prometheus is not part of the license, but there seems to be 2 sequels in the pipeline.
It seems that Predators(!) 2 has been confirmed so I am wondering if that is it. I am guessing that would be part of the license as well and could lead to some interesting new figures...

Maybe the franchise anniversary is coming up soon?

Yes that was my thought as well.. a couple of times a release window (as dictated by the license) has been mentioned.

There was also talk of a 'big announcement' from Fox some time ago, where I don't think anything materialised. Would be interesting to know what it was about, quite possibly connected !

I did some digging and I think it's an anniversary thing, as the Alien versus Predator franchise was kicked off in 1989, which will turn 25 next year.

Was that the comic book? I remember the first game was released on Atari Jaguar hehehe in 1994. I can't remember if they scanned actual real models or just photographed them in all angels for the ingame graphics...

Comic books predate everything else from what I've gathered.


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I like what I see there!

That Pred looks Capitol* quality.

*pretty fething good.

Anyone backing the project 75 pounds or more after the recruit a friend, message me so we can both get a free model :3

Recruit a friend has been replaced with the 2000 backer reward per update #7.

I wonder how that fine mesh is going to transfer to regular plastic there could be quite a bit of detail loss. My only slight issue with the Predators is the dreads have an odd flow to them due to the head being separate to the body but I guess that's unavoidable.

I really don't like the fact that they molded the microphone to the marines face. Everything else is awesome!

I may actually order some Free Marine heads to use on the Colonial Marines!

The Predator looks amazing, worth the price of the box set just for those figures...

Well, the Mars Attacks KS is finished - and what a finish - hopefully we can see AvP moving on again and push the stretch goals through the roof

Meh, now that I've given what I can/want to to MA, I'll have to pop on over to the AvP page and give it a look over. I want nothing to do with terrain, box game, or humans, but I may look into getting an Alien, Predator, or some combination (a set, or hybrid, read it both ways ) to paint up for my nephew. Not sure though, international shipping would probably make it not worth the effort. Maybe on eBay after it's done.