Excellent shot! Matches the back-up lights in the Operations battle.
1/6 Hot Toys - Aliens ALIEN Warrior 2.0 (2016)
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Excellent pic Sean 
Reiser is about to get it 
Reiser is about to get it 
jimmie_dimmick
Super Freak
Thanks, everyone. 
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Badass photo buddy, looking forward to your photography when Ripley comes out!!
jimmie_dimmick
Super Freak
fistfulmetal
Super Freak
Definitely great pic! No kidding about Ripley.Thanks. Can't wait for Ripley to show up.
ColombianLove41
Super Freak
So after I sent back my faulty Alien, the new one is on the way back. I just hope they gave it an inspection because I'm tired of the defectives. I just want to collect and display my figures, is that too much to ask? 
ColombianLove41
Super Freak
just got my replacement back from SS and I want to know: the retractable jaw is supposed to be able to stay open in its own correct? I'mg pretty sure that the first one was able to stay with the mouth open without me holding the slide. please help before I call, thanks!
Correct.
It "clicks" in place and stays open.
Try applying a bit more forward force.
abake
Rex Tremendae Majestatis
However, I would advice against leaving it in that position for long...
Be hard to pass that up if it actually features an accurate paint job. With the new and improved sculpt, that's the last piece of the puzzle. Don't know why they invented some two-tone/pearlescent color scheme for this figure when references are so easily available.
Johnny6666
Super Freak
Likely because the black/brown warrior screen appearance might not pop so much on a figure for advertising purposes. The suits in the film weren't painted with any elaborate detail, because Cameron emphasised film tricks (lighting, angles, quick cuts, etc.), rather than design or airbrushing (as with the Big Chap) to invest the creatures with character. Indeed, given the nature of the film, the suits were being bashed, smashed and blown up during the production, so form completely followed function.
That's why jimmie_dimmick's photo above of his warrior (bathed in red light) looks so awesome: it's totally in keeping with the logic of Aliens.
slikkerias
Super Freak
Be hard to pass that up if it actually features an accurate paint job. With the new and improved sculpt, that's the last piece of the puzzle. Don't know why they invented some two-tone/pearlescent color scheme for this figure when references are so easily available.
Hot Toys always seem to go for how the creatures are experienced on screen. Not the costume - of course they are totally aware of how the costume looked. That method leads to some interpretation and idealization of the character from the designers. It's a choice - some like it, some don't. In this case, a brown Alien would be the correct one, but it wouldn't have the feel of the character as you mostly experience them wet, in blue light... mostly. So they tried recreating that using blue pearl paint. That feel is what HT is going for. At least they didn't redesign the whole texture of the Alien as well like they did with the first version.
Same with the new Ripley, the flight suit she wore was actually sage green, but it was mostly experienced as blue or gray in the movie. So HT goes with blue. That's the direction they have chosen and it looks right to everyone but those of us who study the behind the scenes photos. We might disagree with they're choices sometimes -often - but no, they are not stupid. Most consumers don't want the 'correct choice. They want it how they remember it.
yeah. they are very wise and reflect it in their creations.
now remember the compexity of finest details and wonderful straight mechanic lines of iron meh suits. not so wise, i guess.
just admit it, HT don't care about alien/predator creatures, that's the only reason why they are so inaccurate and lazily done.
please point to a consumer who remembers aliens being golden. i'll know who's guilty.
also your words prove again that making ironmeh so detailed was a dumb decision - nobody remembers them so deeply anyway.
slikkerias
Super Freak
Well, I'm not saying that I agree with their decisions, just stating the business model. These are all choices they do. It's all business - what do people buy. Has nothing to do with intelligence.
When you do 2 million Ironmen and they are all almost the same, it's the little differences that make people collect them all. So they need to go into detail. If you do one Alien, that's the Alien people buy. No matter the laziness. And they think the metallic paint sells better and make people think of what they think they saw in their movie experience. They are probably right about that.
Again, I personally don't approve of this approach, but it's not that hard to understand. I would so want them to put more energy into the lines that I like, but they probably sell 1/10 of what an Ironman sells. Ergo their profit is 1/10, ergo they don't give a **** ;-)
ok. Robocop. old, unpopular - by their standarts - franchise. wonderful details, though some sculpt inaccuracies. terrible paint. a remake.
a sculptor puts his heart and soul into the job.
a painter does something that looks nothing like "consumers remember", everybody's angry.
nothing proves your theory
everything's that is wrong with aliens and predators is simple: HT don't like them, and there is a rumor Tsang (being both sculptor and painter) is paid so little (for things they don't care about) that he deliberately does everything bad. (though he seems to respect himself as a painter strong enough not to do awful paint, it's complex and very good, just wrong).
simple.
a sculptor puts his heart and soul into the job.
a painter does something that looks nothing like "consumers remember", everybody's angry.
nothing proves your theory
everything's that is wrong with aliens and predators is simple: HT don't like them, and there is a rumor Tsang (being both sculptor and painter) is paid so little (for things they don't care about) that he deliberately does everything bad. (though he seems to respect himself as a painter strong enough not to do awful paint, it's complex and very good, just wrong).
simple.
slikkerias
Super Freak
ok. Robocop. old, unpopular - by their standarts - franchise. wonderful details, though some sculpt inaccuracies. terrible paint. a remake.
a sculptor puts his heart and soul into the job.
a painter does something that looks nothing like "consumers remember", everybody's angry.
nothing proves your theory
everything's that is wrong with aliens and predators is simple: HT don't like them, and there is a rumor Tsang (being both sculptor and painter) is paid so little (for things they don't care about) that he deliberately does everything bad. (though he seems to respect himself as a painter strong enough not to do awful paint, it's complex and very good, just wrong).
simple.
Maybe - hope not.
...but why did they look like poo even before they got the Marvel and Star Wars licenses then? The Aliens have only gotten better since then.
Not too sure your (conspiracy) theory is much better than mine ;-)
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