Reaction Predator

Oh my, the Predator seems to have shrunk! No, not really. This pocket-sized Predator is produced by Reaction figures, and it only seemed fitting that I reviewed him in a jungle!

Mini Arnold does not approve. The Reaction Predator has strong standing abilities, and Mini Arnold wrongly thought this stream would sweep him away. Silly Mini Arnold! The Reaction Predator has a great paintjob, a stream won’t even wear off the white paint on his skulls!

Like in the movie, this Yautja comes with his deadly wrist blades, and this figure comes with the shoulder gun and mask. While the gun prevents his head from turning, his arms and legs rotate at the shoulder and crotch. Don’t get this figure if you want full articulation. But come on, who could resist a Predator that can fit in Star Wars vehicles?

Oh no, he’s trapped Mini Arnold on a waterfall! This Predator is 3.75″ scale and stands around 4″ tall, giving the Reaction Alien some competition. There are many styles available, including this masked one, invisible (clear plastic), open-mouthed, closed-mouthed and special editions such as blood-splatterd and heat-vision. In fact, the line consists of only Predators! The figure I’m using for Dutch is actually a Chap Mei figure.

I’m going to have to wrap up this review because the Predator is closing in on Mini Arnold and he can’t hold his breath underwater forever. All in all, if you need a cheap Predator figure that can terrorize Boba Fett and Alan Grant, go for this one. There’s a wide variety, and they are cheap enough to build an army of them or collect them all.

RATING- FOUR OUT OF FIVE 3.75″ SKULLS.

Kenner Mantis Alien

Back in 1993, Kenner decided to release a bunch of aliens toys based on their cancelled cartoon, ‘Operation: Aliens’. Because of course kids love facehugging impregnating parasites that come free with a rib-cracking prize. And, as it turns out, they actually did. The toys were a big hit (at least to start off with; the line soon fizzled away.) The Mantis Alien is one of the best ones from the line. To start off with, it looks gorgeous. It looks like it would be lemon and lime flavoured, too, or is that just me? (By the way, if you were wondering, it tastes of plastic. Oh.) The concept never really made sense to me, though: Did a facehugger impregnate a gigantic mantis, or was there a really tiny facehugger?

Anyway, like all the alien toys, it comes with an action feature:

When you squeeze the two tubes or fins on the back of the mantis alien, the arms pull on any figure, in this case Obi Wan Kenobi. Sorry, Obi, not even the force can save you now. What? You die anyway!

You can also pull or push the tubes left or right to move both arms in the chosen direction and shake your unfortunate prey figure all around. It’s really fun, but the Gorilla alien from the line does this too. (Plus it squirts water. But I bet it doesn’t have a distinct ‘lemon and lime’ feel. Probably liquorice. I don’t like liquorice.)

The one I have is the UK version- all we got is repaints of US versions. The US version of this alien has gold teeth and green tubes, so beware if you like one colour over the other.

Overall, This figure is out of this world! (I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. I needed to write that pun.)

CONCLUSION: FIVE ALIEN EGGS OUT OF FIVE