 With more time than the original _Predator (1987)_ (qv),  Stan Winston (qv), Stephen Hopkins (qv) and  Lawrence G. Paull (qv) came up with ideas and designs with more  exotic weapons (the retractable spear, the detachable pincers, the  Frisbee blade, the net, etc.) for the Predator to use to  differentiate this film from the previous one.