BERSERKER PREDATOR

Originally i only planed toget one single Predator, since i saw soo many of this guys and most of them looks really amazing, i didnt wanted to fill my room with Predators. But destiny wanted something else… it wanted me to meet a guy who wanted to get rid of one of his figures… the poor predator was dusty and had his “leather” leash on his armour broke, soo this guy wanted 100$ for his Berserker Predator.

100$ is not cheap, but things change when you notice the real price of this guy back in the day and the price he boast now day. I could not rests since this figures are pretty rare here in my country and eded getting him, cleaning him and adding glue to his armour and he is as good as new for half his real price!!

 Aside of that, the Berserker Predator was the most unique design from the Predators movie and given his price, i never consider getting him at all. Hot Toys did a great job with him tough he have a couple of flaws that make it obvious how really old is he.

He is big. BIG. Huge and i think he is the tallest figure i actually have. He is bigger than the Gecco statues and he is pretty heavy. He can stand on his own perfectly tough he still comes with the standar Hot Toys base (wich is kinda useless given how big this guy is). The scale is a problem tough since it seems this guy is supposed to be taller than the “standar” Predators, but he have the same scale as the City Hunter Predator. I think 6 years ago many people complaigned about it to Hot Toys and is understandable since scale is one of the most basic issues when you have a full collection of characters already stablished like Hot Toys have.

I am up to ignore the scale tough.

His articulations are fantastic and strong and since he dosnt have the fish-net outfit of the City Hunter Predator and his armour is pretty light (he is almost nude), his arms and legs can move freelly around as much as we want. Out of all the Hot Toys i have, he is the one with best articulations along side Batman.

His armour have a cooper like texture and color, and while its design helps to the articulations, the whole thing keeps in place thanks to the leather straps. This makes it really delicate actually, since you can hold him from the torax and remove one of the straps by accident. I can see why he didnt ahd the straps in place when i bought him.

I have to say his boots are hilarious and pretty damn cute since i never saw a Predator wearing shoes.

The real threat are his quills and his body. His quills are fantastic looking and have a disturbing and real texture, they give a lot of life to his silhouette and the red tips make him totally different looking than the City Hunter Predator (or the rest of the predators actually).

His body have extremelly sexy shapes (those pecs!!!) and the reptile texture is really amazing. The other Predators have a skin with a “meaty” texture… not human but not really animal either. This guy here is just a big lizard, full of scales with a natural and detailed pattern and theres not a single mistake on the paint in here. The red marks are vibrant and the ones on his chest looks almost iridescent.

He comes with his BioMask that can be plugged to his back and with the push of a button, turn on his laser sight thanks to a LED on his helmet. The light is actually pretty soft but is a nice little extra (this is way i didnt take pictures). The mask have the coolest design with the lower jaw bone as a trophy, that makes him looks really savage.

But here comes the only issue i have with him. Unlike the Cuty Hunter Predator, the BioMask dosnt comes with a lower mandibles portion to fit inside the “madibles hole”. Instead the mask is only placed over his face and thats it…is supposed to fit and stay in, but in reallity it keeps falling over and over again even if i dont touch him.

This is an extremelly lazy design for such an expensive and high end product. But this is a pretty old figure as well soo i guess Hot Toys was still experimenting back then. I am glad the most rescent Predators have this detail fixed.

Details on his armour includes the plasma cannon on his shoulder that can be removed and have an articulated arm to move around (The barrel also rolls perfectly) and the detonator on his arm wich is revealed after opening the small door near his hand. This is actually not a detonator at all, since it dosnt have a screen to how th show the cowntdown, but instead i think this is the manual control of the Predators ship.

Once the mask is removed (wich is extremelly easy) his revealed face is really good looking. His forehead is bright red and looks almost painfull, since it seems his head is bursting open. He dosnt have the green radioactive eyes of the other Predators, but instead he have yellow pupils with the resy of the eye in blood red deliniated by a black shadow under them, he is really demonic looking.

The sculpt of his interlocked mandibles is really nice and sharp too and this sections can be removed and exchanged for the open mandibles segments. His look is amazing, he looks even more frighting and evil, tough i have to say, Hot Toys didnt manage to nail the perfect look in here. In the movie, his lower jaw is pretty elongated and looks almost insectoid, in here, the mandibles are a little too short and make him looks less repulsive.

Is weird that Hot Toys miss this kind of details, tough the result is not as unerving and sad as The Boss.

He also comes with a short blade on his gauntlet. This shirt blade can be removed and exchanged for a medium size blade and a long sized blade for real combat. This blades are all made of real metall and are pretty sharp.

He also comes with this (pretty usefull) extra hands and a skull trophy. This trophy was the biggest disapointment of the package since is pretty much the same it comes with the City Hunter Predator, soo now i have two bloody skulls that looks exactly the same. Really? Hot Toys? More than 100$ for your toys and you rescicle accesoryes?

And thats all he have. Out of all the Hot Toys i have, he is the one with less accesoryes and extras, but it makes sence since he dosnt used any tool or trick in the film, after all, it seems he only have his cannon and his blade and i am actually glad they didnt add a lot of useless shit since every accesory of him looks good on the display.

Even if his face is not 100% accurate and he is supposed to be taller, i am pretty happy with him and how he looks on display with the City Hunter Predator. Get this guys is really adictive!! I am now pretty damn tempted to get the Tracker Predator with his hound or the Elder Predator.