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

[abake]

Trust me, you won't be disappointed dude!

I love my "diverse" collection!

Dude, you're my inspiration! :chew

 

[FACEBOX]

Well, it's too small if you're strictly a 1/6 collector, and the detail is pretty soft on some spots.
Still, I love my Medi-Alien!

I'm actually thinking about expanding my horizons. I think I might start looking for other interesting figures/statues in any scale that are interesting interpretations of the alien. After all, with the Medi-alien, the NECA, McF and Aoshima figures, there's already some variety in pose-ability and accuracy in my collection, not to mention the HT figures.
I think that looking for the ultimate articulated 1/6 scale alien figure is a mirage.

But, I think I might end-up with a much more interesting collection!

We'll see.

However, if HT do listen to us and make a more accurate figure, I'll be overjoyed.

I know exactly what you mean.
For a while, I had the same outlook as you. (Happy with my McF, NECA, Aoshima, and Hot Toys figures)
I was looking for Hot Toys to make the "Ultimate" alien figures, however, after seeing what they did with the ALIENS figure, and then being let down by the prototype pix of the Dog Alien.... I went and bought all of the Sideshow dioramas. Hot Toys is a big let down in the alien department because I know what "could have, should have, would have" been.

Now, I basically see the dios as accurate incarnations of the creatures, while Hot Toys offers stylized, larger scale and highly articulated figures. Also, the rubber suit adds an extra "cool factor" too.

So, I know how you feel abake.
Welcome to the club.

PS. I also suggest getting some palisades pieces.

 

[Jamesways]

Marmits. You must find the marmits.

 

[CelticPredator]

No figure is perfect let's face it. But there's interpratations and then there's artistic interpratations. Imagine if Sideshow had thought to themselves "well Darth Vader's a great design but just doesn't look evil enough" and added a scar down his faceplate, horns and an eyepatch.

Yes, but this Alien looks NOTHING LIKE ANY ALIEN IN ANY ALIEN MOVIE. PERIOD. FACT. END OF STORY.

Show me a movie where the Aliens head looked anything like that....

 

[Darren Carnall]

Yes, but this Alien looks NOTHING LIKE ANY ALIEN IN ANY ALIEN MOVIE. PERIOD. FACT. END OF STORY.

Show me a movie where the Aliens head looked anything like that....

yes. you're right. It looks nothing like an Alien.

 

[Jmek]

Yes, but this Alien looks NOTHING LIKE ANY ALIEN IN ANY ALIEN MOVIE. PERIOD. FACT. END OF STORY.

Show me a movie where the Aliens head looked anything like that....

Dude, that's my point. Like the rest of you I was hoping against hope that HT wuld finally pull out all of the stops and produce the dfinitive A L I E N figure. No disrespect to the artist or HT as a company but they simply haven't done so.

Whether this is down to the mechanics involved with the jaw mechanism or licensing or what I don't know. If NECA,Marmit and Medicom can do it why on earth can't HT get it right. Their human figures and Predators are nigh on perfect so why?

Still let's see what happens. If memory serves the first Alien from AVP actually looked a lot better than the initial prototype.

 

[Les Walker]

I am not surprised from some of you fellas, Abake for one, who have such a vested interest in this figure, and it's adherance to total accuracy, but that may not be possible with the rubber and the tongue parts. BUT, that being said, I still plan on getting this REALLY COOL FIGURE, and simply reworking the teeth to my specs, as well as the hand and even the under dome area. If that dome is removable, I will have at it. If not, I will just darken what you can see anyway.

Here are some pics to tide you guys over, and to just add to the debate and image cache

With more closed lips... (love the thin and somewhat bendy looking wrists...)

With Giger himself (nore how dark the "eye" area is anyway...can't even see em...)

And a good study of the Rambaldi mouth workings...(and the eyes again)

All to say, fix the teeth, darken the dome (and maybe more of the facial area), and fix the fingers, and I am done. LOVE what this HT figure looks like so far. If it's improved before I get mine, so much the better. Either way, I am getting one.

 

[Indiana Fett]

...All to say, fix the teeth, darken the dome (and maybe more of the facial area), and fix the fingers, and I am done. LOVE what this HT figure looks like so far. If it's improved before I get mine, so much the better. Either way, I am getting one.

 

[Slipfilth321]

i have to have this Alien it looks so beautiful HT has done a great job i realy
like it

 

[Batty]

Anyone know about this?

 

[laudanum09]

All to say, fix the teeth, darken the dome (and maybe more of the facial area), and fix the fingers, and I am done. LOVE what this HT figure looks like so far. If it's improved before I get mine, so much the better. Either way, I am getting one.

I hear you on this, but for me all they need to fix are the evil eyes. Make them more circular and I could live with the teeth and all of the other inaccuracies. Part of what I loved about the Alien design was being able to see the eyes through the dome, not clearly but in the haze you could make out those eyes and it just made it that much creepier having those two empty black sockets there staring back at you. It seems counter-intuitive but the eyes are one of my favorite parts of Alien and its what sets him apart from all the warrior drones and the Dragon, so I could live with inaccurate fingers and wimpy teeth. To each his own however.

Anyways, do you think it would be a difficult mod to pop off the dome and fix the eyes myself if HT doesn't change them?

 

[Sabres21768]

Anyone know about this?

Now that looks interesting.

I don't like the superdeform stuff, but if it's in that pose, I'M GETTIN' IT!

 

[DSD]

That's all great Les, and I'm sure you'll do a cracking job, but sadly I have no skill in this area and so would be stuck with the figure out of the box, were I to buy it.

I mean, look at those chrome gnashers in those Rambaldi pix. That's what we want!

 

[Praetorian380]

Now that looks interesting.

I don't like the superdeform stuff, but if it's in that pose, I'M GETTIN' IT!

My sentiments exactly, that would look awesome if its in that pose

 

[abake]

I am not surprised from some of you fellas, Abake for one, who have such a vested interest in this figure, and it's adherance to total accuracy, but that may not be possible with the rubber and the tongue parts. BUT, that being said, I still plan on getting this REALLY COOL FIGURE, and simply reworking the teeth to my specs, as well as the hand and even the under dome area. If that dome is removable, I will have at it. If not, I will just darken what you can see anyway.

Here are some pics to tide you guys over, and to just add to the debate and image cache

With more closed lips... (love the thin and somewhat bendy looking wrists...)

With Giger himself (nore how dark the "eye" area is anyway...can't even see em...)

And a good study of the Rambaldi mouth workings...(and the eyes again)

All to say, fix the teeth, darken the dome (and maybe more of the facial area), and fix the fingers, and I am done. LOVE what this HT figure looks like so far. If it's improved before I get mine, so much the better. Either way, I am getting one.

Fantastic pics Les, they really show-off the beautiful lips of the alien!

 

[a-dev]

I hear you on this, but for me all they need to fix are the evil eyes. Make them more circular and I could live with the teeth and all of the other inaccuracies. Part of what I loved about the Alien design was being able to see the eyes through the dome, not clearly but in the haze you could make out those eyes and it just made it that much creepier having those two empty black sockets there staring back

I don't remember ever seeing the eye sockets underneath the dome in the film, maybe the contrast levels on my TVs have always hid it. So that part has never seemed important to me. What can be seen, frequently and in intimate closeup, is the Alien's mouth - I'm pretty sure the DVD extras go on about this emphasis on the creature's mouth. So thats why the dog alien is a failure to me and likewise this one. The mouth and teeth just have to be right.

 

[ironwez20]

i got a question the smooth head on the chap alien means thats its old or does it mean its young i keep forgetting.

 

[FACEBOX]

i got a question the smooth head on the chap alien means thats its old or does it mean its young i keep forgetting.

Well, all aliens are "born" with smooth heads, so based off your question I have to say it's "young".

 

[ironwez20]

Well, all aliens are "born" with smooth heads, so based off your question I have to say it's "young".

so are the one with the none smooth head are old right

 

[FACEBOX]

so are the one with the none smooth head are old right

Yep.

AVP-R completely ruins that theory, but AVP-R ruins everything alien, so I don't think it counts.