Hot Toys - MMS 106 - Alien - BIG CHAP collectible figure

[MaulFan]

But the ribbed wrist band is still too short. It should be extended more to the hand side.

If you mean touching the hand, it doesn't because you'd have no aritculation if they did that, you can see the ball from the wrist joint.

 

[Sabres21768]

HOT DAMN!

HELL YEAH HOT TOYS!

I'm now super excited for this fig!

 

[darren1228]

Great news for all the disappointed ALIEN fans , including myself. Check this out ! This is supposed to be about 90% finished .

Thanks for the update dude!! It looks so much better.

 

[furystorm]

Just waiting for my rewards points to pop over $100, and I will be ordering the Big Chap from Sideshow. Should be a very nice addition and an integral part of my display, to go along with Kane, Dallas, Ripley in Lucky Star, Lambert in spacesuit (I gotta have Lambert!), and the whole crew done in regular attire as well. Bring it!

 

[laudanum09]

holy crap. With the Connor recall and updates, the complete resculpt of Marcus, and everything else that's been going on, I have a newfound faith in hot toys. I never really touted any fanboy stuff before but I have to say they really are the best at what they do right now. Bravo.

edit: I'm really curious now, WTF was up with the original head? Was it just a work in progress they threw out there to show what they've been up to? I just don't understand why they couldn't have nailed it the first time because the head looks perfect in these new shots...were they responding to criticism or was it enough for them to just look at it and realize it was wrong? I really wish we had more info on how stuff worked behind the scenes and how much direct impact our criticism has on these changes and how much of it is internal.

 

[PredatorFreak13]

I wasn't sure if I was going to get this before, but after seeing these pics I definately am.

 

[DeadLeaves]

Wow, looks much better.

Just some observations from the background pic: The teeth/head from the show model. Plus, is that a ship I see there too? Or just the base?

*edit* Yeah, just the base.

 

[Jmek]

Woha! That's much, much better. Well done HT, SOLD!

 

[tylerdurden]

Great news for all the disappointed ALIEN fans , including myself. Check this out ! This is supposed to be about 90% finished .

ahh, another example of ht listening to collector feedback and acting quickly on it. good job, the face looks much better now. (assuming the pic is genuine of course...)

but the ugly seam running along the back of the dome is still way too obvious to me.

 

[DSD]

Sales +1!

Assuming it's genuine of course.

 

[P.]

Great news for all the disappointed ALIEN fans , including myself. Check this out ! This is supposed to be about 90% finished .

teeth are bull^^^^.
skull is too far from a dome.
dome is not cloudy white.
HT never checked movie character. they just checked fan' photoshops.
they are not going to make this alien normal.
p.s. i don't care as it is resin.

 

[laudanum09]

good job at not making any sense. resin? too far from a dome? not a cloudy white?

 

[P.]

too far from a dome?

forehead should be closer. and here it is like on all alien toys.

not a cloudy white?

totally transparent dome is like all toys.

resin?

covering material... i thought it would be a plastic figure. i mean that as it is not so, i stopped to care how close or far from the original this alien would be. now the head is the same crap as in the beginning, but fans don't care as they don't see it and i don't care because i won't like a resin figure

p.s. it is an opinion of only one person and should not be taken into consideration one cannot be right against many, and many people like the "refreshed alien".

 

[A.L.I.E.N]

teeth are bull^^^^.
skull is too far from a dome.
dome is not cloudy white.
HT never checked movie character. they just checked fan' photoshops.
they are not going to make this alien normal.
p.s. i don't care as it is resin.

I know HT crank out some really accurate stuff these days! Maybe we have been spoilt with quality recently. Were they have gone wrong they have gone to lenghts other companies would not. John Connor head sculpt in particualr, other companies may/probably have said "Live with it! We have your money! We don't care!". Fair enough they have a company rep to keep up but it's rare to find a company thats maybe putting the customer first. Not profit, now im not saying profit is'nt a factor when making a figure but they do their best to replicate a movie legend ithin reason.

As A L I E N fans, we may feel let down. I understand, im a bit of a perfectionist myself! The Alien in the movie was changed, slightly, to make use of angles and effects. We seem to be forgeting they are replicating a seven ft tall creature into a hand held version that we can display. It's a given some detail maybe lost, sculpts may not be perfect. They are dealing with a creature thats: a movie legend, cult icon and object of terror! Alot of pressure is on their shoulders. We seem to forget also this is a prototype, not 100% finished. Look at Marcus for god sake! how many times did they change things on him?

My two cents.......

 

[shockwave]

I like it! Better than the prototype. It would be nice if HT updated their site w/the revised pics.

 

[P.]

Fair enough they have a company rep to keep up but it's rare to find a company thats maybe putting the customer first.

i totally agree that their figures are the most accurate. for a long time i disliked 1/6, but when i started getting it, i chose HT, and it says much.

the only thing that bothers me now is rumors that the alien will have rubber body. i hate this idea
if they just made it plastic, they would do such a great thing. i just don't believe their rubber after muscle bodies and after ED-209.

i actually wanted to delete my bad posts here, but they were already read and answered by others, so it would be silly.
no, i disliked HT recently but now i respect them alot. i think i will get this alien just to honor the job they did to remake it after customers' complaints. even if i don't like rubber. don't know why i was so angry in my previous opinion

 

[furystorm]

If you don't like rubber, you could always try the "rhythm method."

Sorry, potty humor this morning! But I am really excited about the Big Chap!

 

[Reinhardt]

If you don't like rubber, you could always try the "rhythm method."

Sorry, potty humor this morning! But I am really excited about the Big Chap!

 

[Darth_Thorpe]

this looks great, yeah its prob not 100% right, but what model we have is 100% right, but these keep me alive, i love looking at all these models and think of fond memorys of the films

 

[Wor-Gar]

Better, still not right though. But better.

Glad to see some improvement, IF this is genuine.