1/6 1/6 Hot Toys: Ellen Ripley - Alien - Collectible Figure

[S. Griffin]

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A new and ACCURATE "big chap" is sorely needed, and if they do a two pack, it better be available separately like Han and Chewie. No Alex Murphying that ****er!

 

[a-dev]

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I just don't see the point in asking Hot Toys for a new Alien. They have proven time and again that they only go so far towards accuracy. Like the old figure, any new one would bear merely a general resemblance - a big **** for a head, an inner jaw feature, a bumpy tail and some pointy things sticking out of its back. They would make that, they would know that most people would be happy enough with it - all they need.

It's the same reason I'm not pushing for a new 1:6 Endoskeleton. Only the engineering would be improved over the old one. Sculptwise they would conceivably make it worse than the MMS033.

 

[cmiller99]

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Only about one month to go until the first anniversary of our proto sneak peek... This is gonna be the new Batman Returns!

 

[CollectorGuy]

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Well lets hope we get to see this at some point.

 

[Captain-Miles-Dallas]

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I'm still glad I bought the Iminime 1/6 Ripley.
It's not perfect, but it looks enough like her
that I'm happy with it. It's a shame that some
1:6 figures are advertised as "Coming Soon!"
and never materialize, or, they aren't produced
for many years- like the 1:6 Marty McFly that we
had to wait for many years to get..

 

[Captain-Miles-Dallas]

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A pic of Iminime Ripley.

 

[K1NG J0RDAN]

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I'm sure they're just waiting for the new Alien to get closer to reveal this. It would make sense.

 

[Captain-Miles-Dallas]

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King Jordan, I just read up on the new Alien movie.
It disregards what happened in Alien 3 and Resurrection.
I'm just hoping the new Alien film is very good, at least
as good as Alien & Aliens were.

X-Men: Days of Future Past disregarded most of what
happened in the first 3 X- movies, but it was a really
good movie, in my opinion.

Jurassic World is almost as good as the first Jurassic
Park was, at least in my opinion.

This has me optimistic in regards to the return of
Ellen Ripley. Not her clone, but her- the genuine
article.

 

[jedibear]

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Okay, okay....just got the NECA figures last week. They're pretty good for the scale (although that "hello Kitty" pink that the Dallas one is sporting with his compression suit is a bit much...but I digress)...

....and they reminded me of this so-called figure....

Is this figure dead?

This image is really summing up the wait for any news at this point....

any day now...

....and this one below was the only peek we had a while back.

C'mon HT...what's up?

It really is looking like if the character is not Marvel or SW, Howard and co just can't find the time to be bothered....and that's too bad...was really looking forward to this. Has Disney bought HT too?

I'm obsessed with the first three movies. I told myself a couple years back that I'd only buy one figure of a character in the same scale. With Alien being my favorite franchise (and Hot Toys finally giving us what we want), I don't think I can resist getting both. Hell, I'd buy an A3 version if there were a Doggy to go along with it.

I do want to comment, however, that I'm not sure what the progression has been sculpt-wise, but if the order of updates goes like this...

...that second sculpt was the best for Weaver's appearance in the first film IMO. Unless the low-angle lighting on the third sculpt is what's throwing me off, but that one looks much more Aliens-y.

 

[Mike86]

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Would love to see this announced soon too. Should be a really solid figure if it lives up to the prototype.

 

[karamazov80]

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Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek film ever made according to JJ Abrams. It would be hard to argue against that.

That explains his Trek movies then.

Yeah, Galaxy Quest is a fun, funny movie. But it has none of the real spirit or soul of Star Trek, ST:TNG, or Deep Space Nine. Those shows were more about idealism, relationships, politics, and cool pseudo-science than anything else. Galaxy Quest and Abrams' films are more about getting a laugh, having some cool action scenes, and pandering to the audience IMO. Not that there's anything wrong with that, except that there is when you're talking about Star Trek.

 

[Mike86]

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Well to be fair Galaxy Quest was a comedy parodying Trek so you can't really criticize it for that. I thought for a parody it was a fair spoof on Trek, especially TOS. The Abrams films are a different story entirely. I liked the 2009 film but didn't care so much for Into Darkness, but the problem with both of them is they felt more like Star Wars films using Star Trek characters and ideas.

 

[CollectorGuy]

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I ABSOLUTELY LOATHE THE NEW STAR TREK WANNABES!

 

[The Skull]

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I want this so much, HT really needs to put this up for PO already, hope to see a new alien announced along side this to, maybe they will show one at SDCC!!

 

[holtrax]

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Well to be fair Galaxy Quest was a comedy parodying Trek so you can't really criticize it for that. I thought for a parody it was a fair spoof on Trek, especially TOS. The Abrams films are a different story entirely. I liked the 2009 film but didn't care so much for Into Darkness, but the problem with both of them is they felt more like Star Wars films using Star Trek characters and ideas.

i dunno much like the Robocop reboot I was disappointed with the 2009 star trek reboot and subsequent films. Theres something about the earlier star trek movies like undiscovered country, wrath of khan and star trek 3 that is instantly re-watchable. I can't say that for the reboots though.

 

[Sundowner]

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....and this one below was the only peek we had a while back.

C'mon HT...what's up?

It really is looking like if the character is not Marvel or SW, Howard and co just can't find the time to be bothered....and that's too bad...was really looking forward to this. Has Disney bought HT too?

If we don't see another prototype in the next toy fair I'm going to give up hope for this one

 

[Gruff Old Bear]

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All right, I'm as tired as anyone of seeing updates to this thread that don't say "pre-order up." But this must be shared: I came across the receipt for my Hot Toys Big Chap.

$139.

Those were the days.

 

[holtrax]

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All right, I'm as tired as anyone of seeing updates to this thread that don't say "pre-order up." But this must be shared: I came across the receipt for my Hot Toys Big Chap.

$139.

Those were the days.

$139..even back then that was cheap.

 

[Gruff Old Bear]

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Actually, back then it was a fortune. I mean, it was over a hundred bucks. It shattered the $99 barrier!

 

[Moonloop]

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I can't believe it's coming up on one year since I saw this figure at SDCC, and it still hasn't even gone up for Pre Order! It has to happen right?