Overall, I think it looks good just based on initial photos. Some things got better, some things seemingly got lost in production, but as mentioned, it could entirely be based on angles and lighting.
The sculpt I think looks phenomenal. Bio-mask does seem a bit narrower than what it looked in the proto pictures, but again, could just be lighting and angles. I also wish they had kept the lenses for the eyes as opposed to making them mesh, I don't think they were mesh. I could see someone potentially making a custom bio-mask for this with the white eye lenses and the cracked lense on the left eye. As for the body, I can't really tell if it's the Fugitive body or not. You're unable to see the bare midsection of the Fugitive Predator figure because as mentioned, it's covered by armor. And on the Wolf proto, the midsection kind of looks like it has the similar design going on that's causing people to think it's the Fugitive body. The color of the body also looks slightly different than the proto; the proto to me had more of a lizard green tint to it, whereas the final product seems to have more of a brownish/greenish tint to it, which I like better because it looks more accurate to me in many of the production photos I see that are under relatively normal lighting. Good eye by HT by also adding the shoulder scarring, which the proto lacked.
Based on these particular photos, I really do like the color of the body on the final product. Second image in particular, which also coincidentally demonstrates why I mentioned I could see someone potentially offering a custom bio-mask for this with the white lenses and the cracked left lense:
Can't wait to finally receive this guy and add him to the Pred collection, it's been a long time coming. I was getting tired of looking at the proto pictures and wishing that I had him displayed in the collection. This and Scar 2.0 I think are going to be my two prized Predator figures.
First instinct when the final product of a figure is released though is to look for the flaws, and the initial blogger photos are seldom ever the best photos. The in-hand photos and in-hand impressions are the best to go by.
Looks like they did tweak it a little, thankfully.
Also the new (Fugitive?) body seems lankier than the initial proto shots, which is promising.
This could become the best HT Predator release since the 2.0 P2 Elder and Celtic.
Any ETAs for North America?
SSC generally gets their stock 4-6 weeks after HK release, so I'm guessing end of January or early February.
