Medicom RAH Alien 2008 (Sideshow)

[lcummins]

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...Here's the hand sculpt. btw:

So was the hand ever used like this in the movie? Just curious

 

[Shai]

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That hand is gonna smack you Cummins.

 

[Batty]

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So was the hand ever used like this in the movie? Just curious

I believe that's the actual hand. Giger did the full Alien sculpt and then a mold was made of the entire thing.

Check out this site. It's an excellent reference for the Alien. And watch the "Screening Room" videos for footage of Giger working on the sculpt.

 

[The Chaver]

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I believe that's the actual hand. Giger did the full Alien sculpt and then a mold was made of the entire thing.

Check out this site. It's an excellent reference for the Alien. And watch the "Screening Room" videos for footage of Giger working on the sculpt.

Very cool site.

 

[furystorm]

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Check out this site. It's an excellent reference for the Alien.

Wow Batty,

Thanks for the link to a site I was never aware of. Do you know how much the original suit ultimately sold for? I would give my first born child to own that piece. But don't worry, I won't have any children anyway.

Great website though,
Andrew

 

[icruise]

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Yeah, but it still look better in those days.

That's what he means by saying it "devolved." The version of the alien from AVP and beyond is barely recognizable compared to the original.

 

[Batty]

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Wow Batty,

Thanks for the link to a site I was never aware of. Do you know how much the original suit ultimately sold for? I would give my first born child to own that piece. But don't worry, I won't have any children anyway.

Great website though,
Andrew

I'm not sure how much it sold for. I'd like to know myself.

 

[MaulFan]

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That's what he means by saying it "devolved." The version of the alien from AVP and beyond is barely recognizable compared to the original.

Actually it really started with Alien 3 somewhat. While the A3 design was Giger again, the lack of tubes in the back was sort of the start of a trend of departure from the source. Resurrection and AVP films turned the design more into a full living creature instead of a biomechanical organism.

 

[shockwave]

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Actually it really started with Alien 3 somewhat. While the A3 design was Giger again, the lack of tubes in the back was sort of the start of a trend of departure from the source. Resurrection and AVP films turned the design more into a full living creature instead of a biomechanical organism.

Those bastards...

 

[Batty]

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It's one of the reasons I hate them being called "bugs".

 

[MaulFan]

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It's one of the reasons I hate them being called "bugs".

If you're referring to the "bug hunt" line, I don't think that really alters what they are, even though the ALIEN society established in ALIENS is insect like, I think the bug line just shows the colonial marine mentallity to classify anything of the sort in the most basic of terms. I think xenomorph carries the spirit of the mechanical design, it almost sounds like a transformer or something and sound more mechanical instead of something like xenomorphicus or something more latin like from a 7th grade biology book.

 

[Batty]

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If you're referring to the "bug hunt" line, I don't think that really alters what they are, even though the ALIEN society established in ALIENS is insect like, I think the bug line just shows the colonial marine mentallity to classify anything of the sort in the most basic of terms. I think xenomorph carries the spirit of the mechanical design, it almost sounds like a transformer or something and sound more mechanical instead of something like xenomorphicus or something more latin like from a 7th grade biology book.

No, not the term "bug hunt". I know that could be used for anything the Marines were hunting. I mean that the design has almost evolved into a more insect-like appearance than biomechanical. And more than once people have referred to them as bugs. It's wrong!

 

[MaulFan]

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No, not the term "bug hunt". I know that could be used for anything the Marines were hunting. I mean that the design has almost evolved into a more insect-like appearance than biomechanical. And more than once people have referred to them as bugs. It's wrong!

Gotcha. When I first saw the AVPR warrior, I was flabbergasted. Is it a cool creature, ya I love the creature design, but the issue is it completely looks like a creature. The design of the domeless head for AVPR looks much more reptillian. It's still somewhat organic in ALIENS, but not at much as AVPR. ADI is the source of it all. They took the reigns in A3 and look what's happened since then. While Stan Winston took the dome away, he's still one of the greatest and he and Cameron recognized the power of not totally seeing the creature and such. It'd be interesting to see what Alien designs look like from A3 on if Stan had been behind them.

 

[Blackhole]

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I don't have a favourite...besides the Grid alien...all the Aliens have their good and bad points...

I like the fact the Alien Ressurection Aliens walk like Velociraptors...

 

[Starkiller]

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I'd like to see Aliens infect other animals...like in Alien 3, it would be cool to see all the slight variations..

 

[Bardoon]

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Just a question here about ALIENS...

Why did the Colonial Marines have 'Bug Hunt' on their dropship if they had never encountered the Alien creatures before (or had they)? And I remember Hudson asking Apone if it was "another bug hunt,sir?" or something along those lines. I was kind of under the impression that perhaps they've fought other "bug-like" races but the Xenomorphs were something totally new to them.

I think they would've faired better against them if other Marines had fought against them before.

 

[Starkiller]

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Just a question here about ALIENS...

Why did the Colonial Marines have 'Bug Hunt' on their dropship if they had never encountered the Alien creatures before (or had they)? And I remember Hudson asking Apone if it was "another bug hunt,sir?" or something along those lines. I was kind of under the impression that perhaps they've fought other "bug-like" races but the Xenomorphs were something totally new to them.

I think they would've faired better against them if other Marines had fought against them before.

Maybe it was just a term, sarcastic remark. Perhaps they had to fight, find, or hunt giant bugs or some other animals before?

We will never know...But I do not think they encountered the Aliens before, no one there knew about them or what they were...at least none of the marines didn't.

 

[Sick Boy 82]

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Just a question here about ALIENS...

Why did the Colonial Marines have 'Bug Hunt' on their dropship if they had never encountered the Alien creatures before (or had they)? And I remember Hudson asking Apone if it was "another bug hunt,sir?" or something along those lines. I was kind of under the impression that perhaps they've fought other "bug-like" races but the Xenomorphs were something totally new to them.

I think they would've faired better against them if other Marines had fought against them before.

Excellent question man!!!! I am wondering that now too?!

 

[MaulFan]

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Just a question here about ALIENS...

Why did the Colonial Marines have 'Bug Hunt' on their dropship if they had never encountered the Alien creatures before (or had they)? And I remember Hudson asking Apone if it was "another bug hunt,sir?" or something along those lines. I was kind of under the impression that perhaps they've fought other "bug-like" races but the Xenomorphs were something totally new to them.

I think they would've faired better against them if other Marines had fought against them before.

I think that's how you're supposed to take it, they know nothing about the xenomorph's but they have been exposed to other creature problems. Too bad a colonial marines franchise never spun off, could have been cool to see what other things they dealt with.

 

[Batty]

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I think that's how you're supposed to take it, they know nothing about the xenomorph's but they have been exposed to other creature problems.

That's what I've always thought. If they had run into xenomorphs before, they would have had some idea what they were up against on LV-426. They didn't.