Which HT Alien is closest to the original/Giger?

[DSD]

See I knew you'd be one step ahead of me. I actually have the Giger's Alien book on order - amazing that I didn't have a copy really.

I think I'll have to scour the Quadrilogy extras again. That maggot idea sounds a bit extreme!

 

[abake]

See I knew you'd be one step ahead of me. I actually have the Giger's Alien book on order - amazing that I didn't have a copy really.

I think I'll have to scour the Quadrilogy extras again.

Just spreading the love!

 

[DSD]

Any other rare photos of the Alien in action that we might not have seen?

 

[abake]

Uhm... I can look for some from my "archives", let me check.

 

[abake]

Found this very cool site:

https://www.markta.co.uk/alien/

Too bad the screen caps aren't better quality.

 

[DSD]

Cool, that's kind of a Homebrew version of the Movie Book.

 

[Kaijuboy]

No.

The third one is a pic of the translucent test-suit. Giger's and Scott's original vision was to make the suit transparent so that you could see all kinds of cables and bones through the "skin", but they could never come up with a material that was both transparent and could withstand the use without ripping. There was also an idea to fill the dome with maggots. That was quickly left behind though...

WHOA! Someone MUST make this happen as a custom fig/statue/whatever!

 

[gold]

I'm not a fan of the NECA, because at no point in the actual film does the Alien look like that.

How is the second run (cloudy dome) not right? (Apart from the chin)

 

[abake]

Just like the Medicom alien, the NECA figure is only a few details short of perfection IMHO.

 

[Sabres21768]

Thanks a million for that first pic DSD!

I've been discussing the original suit color with someone on another board.

They claim the suit NEVER had any orange/rust coloring until it had deteriorated.

That pic helps support my argument that Giger himself added that color to the suit.

 

[Sabres21768]

Any other rare photos of the Alien in action that we might not have seen?

Here's a few you don't get to see very often.

 

[Sabres21768]

 

[D'oh!]

Sabres, that last one makes the alien's tale look like... something else.

I thought the McFarlane was a pretty good likeness -- but good luck getting him to stand, even with the stand.

https://www.armchairempire.com/images/action-figures/alien.jpg

 

[A.L.I.E.N]

Never understood why the aliens tail in that shot is a the front. Any reason?

 

[abake]

Giger's and Scott's obsession with phallic symbols.
That's my guess at least...

 

[Jmek]

The tail is actually posistioned between the legs, rather than sticking out of it's posterior. Hence the tial always facing forward. Far creepier than it sticking out like a dinosaur. Or the AVP version for that matter.

P.S. Great pix guys, thanks.

 

[Sabres21768]

Actually, it's because for that shot, the Alien was to lift Brett up using it's tail.

To give it a bit of length, and to avoid having the tail wrap under the pelvis (putting excess strain on the material) it was attached at the front for the scene.

Since the audience never really got a clear shot of it, no one would notice.

 

[Jmek]

Actually, it's because for that shot, the Alien was to lift Brett up using it's tail.

To give it a bit of length, and to avoid having the tail wrap under the pelvis (putting excess strain on the material) it was attached at the front for the scene.

Since the audience never really got a clear shot of it, no one would notice.

I stand corrected, well I'm sitting actually.

 

[ortiz344]

whats wrong with getting the 16 inch neca one, i love mine..

 

[abake]

whats wrong with getting the 16 inch neca one, i love mine..

Nothing at all! It's a brilliant figure, but the question was about HT's aliens.