Alien has always been one of my favorite movies, and the nostalgia that surrounds my memories of forty years ago is profound.
This is the statue that is a bullseye hit to that nostalgia spot. It looks magnificent ( though I would have liked to have seen the inside of the dome tinted and not so clear). Otherwise, it is definitely a grail for me.
But it will have to remain one, because I came to the conclusion some months back that there is just no way I could ever justify that cost for this piece.
Not with the way I display stuff (pieces get packed away for years when they are out of rotation)
It was even more of a non starter when I saw another 1/3 statue coming this year for almost half that price, that I'd dig having just as much, if not even more because it's not as over exposed as this character has become in the last thirty years.
While it's a disappointment to have to pass on this, I can at least take comfort that the new UHD release of the film, restores the original look to it, after more than fifteen years of increasing revisionism.
Watching scenes from it last night was as close to being transported back to the theater forty years ago as I've ever felt watching it at home.
And all for only $15.
But yeah (sigh) looking at those pics is bittersweet.