Hot Toys: Prometheus - MOVIE SPOILERS!

[zuckuss77]

I assume it will be titled "Paradise".

That's a good possibility, with a title like that and where she is going would make us nerd out.

 

[draekus]

I really, really hope we get an engineer figure (in precious/pressure suit) at the very least. But Ideally I'd also like to get:

-Engineer in cloak.
-Shaw in blue suit with Dead SJ head/helmet.
-Vickers in Company outfit and/or blue suit with Flame Thrower.
-David in Blue suit and/or company outfit with Urn.
-Zombie/Mutant Fifield with "Pups".
-Deacon and Hammerpede
-Trilobite

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

It will have Prometheus in there somewhere. People need to see the brand name. Look at how the whole Twilight saga thing happened even though Twilight was the first book only.

Wish it could simply be called "Paradise" and they could just say it's the sequel to Prometheus in the advertisements or somthing..but you're probably right.

 

[zuckuss77]

I really, really hope we get an engineer figure (in precious/pressure suit) at the very least. But Ideally I'd also like to get:

-Engineer in cloak.
-Shaw in blue suit.
-Vickers in Company outfit and/or blue suit.
-David in Blue suit and/or company outfit.
-Deacon and Hammerpede
-Trilobite

Thats asking for a lot , i think we will get two humans and a jockey

 

[draekus]

Thats asking for a lot , i think we will get two humans and a jockey

I actually think we'll be lucky to get one human and the jockey.

My list was just an "ideal" wishlist. I know they will never make that many figures for this movie. It wouldn't make much sense.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

I doubt we'll get more than David and an Engineer, but I think this is reasonable:

1. David in space suit with ampule and or Hammerpede

2. Shaw in space suit with baby Trilobite and decapitated Engineer head + helmet

4. Engineer in bio-suit with Deacon

3. Engineer in Space Jockey suit with...idunno, full-grown Trilobite maybe?

 

[greygoose]

I doubt we'll get more than David and an Engineer, but I think this is reasonable:

1. David in space suit with ampule and or Hammerpede

2. Shaw in space suit with baby Trilobite and decapitated Engineer head + helmet

4. Engineer in bio-suit with Deacon

3. Engineer in Space Jockey suit with...idunno, full-grown Trilobite maybe?

I like your optimism.

 

[zuckuss77]

Whats the deacon?

 

[draekus]

You know what would be awesome... 1/6th scale dioramas:

-Engineer in SJ suit sitting in Cannon/Navigation platform.
-Shaw with MedPod and baby Trilobite.

(Yes, I know these will never happen in HT 1/6th scale.)

 

[draekus]

Whats the deacon?

The Proto-Xeno. Ridley named it the "Deacon" because he has a "pointy head" that resembles the pointy hat of a Deacon.

 

[zuckuss77]

The Proto-Xeno. Ridley named it the "Deacon" because he has a "pointy head" that resembles the pointy hat of a Deacon.

gotcha , me and my friend nerd-ed out and were talking , the wall picture with the proto xeno would mean its not a proto at all.Has this been discussed?

 

[draekus]

gotcha , me and my friend nerd-ed out and were talking , the wall picture with the proto xeno would mean its not a proto at all.Has this been discussed?

Its been discussed on other forums...i dunno about this one. But yes, you're right. Its not an actual proto since the mural contained a relief sculpture. However, it may or may not be a proto to the alien seen in the original "ALIEN".

 

[Niceman]

You know what would be awesome... 1/6th scale dioramas:

-Engineer in SJ suit sitting in Cannon/Navigation platform.
-Shaw with MedPod and baby Trilobite.

(Yes, I know these will never happen in HT 1/6th scale.)

I can easily imagine these as statues. In fact, I'd be surprised to NOT eventually see them.

The statue I want is the Engineer and the adult Trilobite wrestling in the doorway.

 

[zuckuss77]

Its been discussed on other forums...i dunno about this one. But yes, you're right. Its not an actual proto since the mural contained a relief sculpture. However, it may or may not be a proto to the alien seen in the original "ALIEN".

Unless me and friend go back in forth with discussion i would never have got that, and the fact it was crucified like jesus is a whole madness down a rabbit hole.But i want solid answers , if the movie doesn't have sequel than i want a book

 

[greygoose]

if the movie doesn't have sequel than i want a book

We have our powerful minds.

 

[Khev]

I really want Space Suit Vickers w/flamethrower, Space Suit Shaw with space jockey head, Space Suit David w/glowy Earth thingy, and an Engineer with exoskeleton suit.

 

[draekus]

Unless me and friend go back in forth with discussion i would never have got that, and the fact it was crucified like jesus is a whole madness down a rabbit hole.But i want solid answers , if the movie doesn't have sequel than i want a book

I like the fact that not everything was answered.

I think the whole "crucified" pose has significant relevance to the (hidden?) involvement of "Jesus Christ" in the film's plot.

Just in case you didn't catch it in the movie or the many internet forum discussions, the Engineers decided to wipe us out approximately 2000 years ago. Then they either changed their minds or weren't able to go through with it for some reason... So what major human event may or may not have occurred approximately 2000 years ago to lead the Engineer's to want to wipe us out?... The birth, life and death of Jesus according to christian religion/history. Thus the movie implies that the Engineers were either A) frightened by the birth/teachings of Christ and decided to wipe out the race they created, or B) Jesus was the Engineer emissary sent to enlighten us....only to be killed and crucified by us. (If the latter doesn't give them enough reason to hit the big red "abort" button I don't know what will.)

Anyhow, the above could all be speculation, except for the fact that point B was actually in the original script but was later cut because it was too much of a "duh" moment. (You were supposed to get it when they mentioned that we were up for execution approx 2000 years ago.) Below is the quote from an interview with Ridley where he mentions this:

Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

"RS: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him."

Source: https://www.movies.com/movie-news/ridley-scott-prometheus-interview/8232

 

[Viking Spawn]

How interesting. Now I definitely want a sequel to hopefully explain all of this.

 

[Khev]

Not to get all "teemu" on everyone but I could stomach the Engineers being descendants of the Biblical "Nephilim" (giants) that assumedly fled into space when God sent the flood and therefore having a 2,000+ year grudge against humanity.

But Jesus being a 9 foot bald dude from another planet and somehow everyone mistook him for and recorded him as an apparently normal looking Jewish man born from Mary? PROFOUNDLY IDIOTIC. I *really* hope they don't go down that road if a sequel is made.

 

[Reinhardt]

I still don't like the idea of space Jesus, or that the Engineers created us, and then decided to destroy us because we killed one of their emissaries. Not very "Godly" of them to create us only to then want to kill us.

Unless they created us not of their will, as in there was a higher race that sacrificed one of them to create us (see my post in the Prometheus Movie discussion regarding the possible link to Persian mythology - post 5584 here: https://sideshowcollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56771&page=559). If this is the case, then I can understand why the Engineers would want to kill us, and the fact that it was 2000 years ago is just a coincidence that it falls in the same time frame as the birth of Christ.