Predator Figures
52 sixth-scale figures across 2 manufacturers
The Predator sixth-scale archive: 52 figures reaching back to 1996, 94 percent from Hot Toys' two-decade hunt. Jungle Hunters to Badlands, every clan and trophy, catalogued. If it ships, we can shelve it.
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PREDATOR & THE SIXTH SCALE
Consider, for a moment, what the Yautja actually are: a proud, patient species that travels absurd distances to acquire rare specimens, displays them with reverence, and lives by a strict code about what may honourably be collected. This Archive refuses to pretend the parallel is subtle. Predator is the hobby's mirror held up in infrared, and its shelf history runs deeper than almost any franchise in these records.
Fair warning: this is a love letter. The dates are sourced and the numbers are ours, and if a patch of this page seems to shimmer slightly when you scroll past it, keep scrolling. It is probably nothing. It is never nothing.
THE UGLIEST BEAUTIFUL REDESIGN
The 1987 production was a jungle disaster saved by a redesign: the original creature suit failed so badly on location that the shoot paused and the monster went back to the drawing board. It landed on Stan Winston's, and legend records that James Cameron, sharing a plane ride, offered one immortal note: he had always wanted to see something with mandibles. The result was the Jungle Hunter, arguably the greatest creature design in cinema, a dreadlocked, heat-eyed trophy hunter that stalked Arnold Schwarzenegger's commando unit through the canopy and into film history.
The film gave the hobby its texture pack: netting and bone, cloaking shimmer, thermal vision, a wrist computer with unreasonable settings. And it gave the culture two permanent quotations, one about bleeding and what it implies, the other an instruction regarding a chopper that no one has ever needed twice.
THE TROPHY CASE THAT LAUNCHED A CROSSOVER
Predator 2 moved the hunt to Los Angeles in 1990 and hid cinema's most consequential background prop aboard the hunters' ship: a familiar elongated skull, gleaming in the trophy case. That single set dressing seeded the Alien versus Predator universe, first in comics and games, then in the 2004 and 2007 films, and the crossover era runs strong in this Archive: fifteen entries carry the versus banner, Celtic, Scar and Wolf among them.
It was the franchise admitting what fans already knew: a species defined by collecting impressive specimens would obviously pursue the galaxy's most impressive specimen. The trophy case was never just a prop. It was a wishlist, and this site has deep professional respect for a well-kept wishlist.
THE RECORD RUNS DEEP
Here is the receipt that startles: the Predator record in this Archive begins in 1996, with Medicom Toy's Real Action Heroes Jungle Hunter and a Stealth variant, years before Marvel, Star Wars or DC log their first entries here. And when Hot Toys built its Movie Masterpiece line, the hunters were practically founding members: MMS008 and MMS009, the Celtic and Scar Predators of 2005, wear single-digit catalogue numbers. The line that would later carry Batman at MMS013 was born hunting.
Hot Toys never let go: forty-nine of the fifty-two figures here are theirs, a 94 percent devotion built across two decades of Jungle Hunters, City Hunters, elders, berserkers and every clan variant the films could supply. Predator is where the company's creature-craft muscles live: the netting, the skin textures, the trophy spines. Some licences a maker holds. This one, Hot Toys inhabits.
THE SPECIES IS THE STAR
Star Wars taught this Archive that one in five of its figures wears a faceless helmet. Predator laughs at such restraint: thirty-eight of these fifty-two entries file under the canonical name Predator, full stop. Nearly three in four. No franchise here concentrates harder on a single unnamed being, because the species was always the star: the films change casts, continents and centuries, and the mandibles remain.
The humans, meanwhile, are the rare specimens. Dutch Schaefer, the most quotable commando in the history of cinema, exists in this Archive as exactly one figure, scarcer on these shelves than any Predator variant, which the Yautja would consider correct pricing. Royce, Noland, Billy Sole and the comics' own Machiko Noguchi each stand at one apiece: a thin, precious line of prey, hopelessly outnumbered, exactly as the films always staged it.
A NEW HUNT EVERY GENERATION
The franchise's renewal trick is to change the prey, not the hunter. Prey proved it in 2022 by sending a Feral Predator against a Comanche warrior in 1719 and earning the series its best notices in decades; the Feral Predator promptly joined this catalogue. And the Badlands era has already colonized the preorder calendar: Dek, the first named Yautja to lead a film, holds three entries with more dated into 2027, alongside his synthetic companion Thia.
A franchise that began with an unnamed monster in a jungle now has a Predator protagonist with a name, a filmography spanning four centuries, and five entries here still waiting to ship. The hunt, in other words, has never been healthier. The prey should be worried, and the preorder queue confirms that it is.
PREDATOR IN THE ARCHIVE
All told: 52 Predator figures from two manufacturers, with records running from 1996 to preorders dated 2027, among the longest spans in this Archive. It is the hobby's definitive creature franchise and its most self-aware: every trophy-spine accessory and skull-rack diorama is the franchise describing its own collectors, fondly.
Because that is the joke the Yautja have been telling for four decades: they are us. Patient, honourable, discerning, willing to cross any distance for the specimen that completes the display. The Archive catalogues them the way they would catalogue us, carefully and by the code. If it ships, we can shelve it.