It's not like they're laughing at fans who want Ripley or Hicks while they release Alien Girl...they KNOW Ripley would sell huge to Alien fans. They already had Alien Girl in the works long ago, and now they're just finishing her off.
As a woman and die-hard Aliens fan, this figure is like a double slap in the face to me.
HT: "Hey, you want new versions of Xenos, Ripley, Colonial Marines, and maybe Prometheus figures? Too bad! You get this cheesecake anime pinup with no basis in lore instead."
HT:"You want figures that don't portray women as walking sex dolls? Too bad, and get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich." (I know there are many companies besides Hot Toys that are guilty of this, but it's still shameful.)
I cannot imagine why they thought this figure was a good idea when there are so many great characters/creatures in the Alien universe still waiting to be made into figures. Color me disappointed.
Now to sit back and await the inevitable knee-jerk "sex sells" rebuttals.
As a man with common sense, I agree completely. Way to set the 1/6 market back a few years, HT.
Being largely destroyed on facebook.
OMG.
They would be hard-pressed to make this more tacky.
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Giger himself would probably have loved this figure ironically enough
Not at all. His creations were never just kinky sex outfits. They were biomechanical horrors which had traces of sexuality but nothing that was actually titillating. There's a reason men screamed in terror when Sil revealed her final form.
HT just posted on Facebook that everyone who preorders this figure will receive a free t-shirt that says "Never Been Touched by a Woman"
HT just posted on Facebook that everyone who preorders this figure will receive a free t-shirt that says "Never Been Touched by a Woman"
HT just posted on Facebook that everyone who preorders this figure will receive a free t-shirt that says "Never Been Touched by a Woman"
"I have seen a security hologram... of him... killing Younglings. " - Obi-Wan Kenobi
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