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Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

It's up for preorder at blister.jp, here's the translation of the text:

..."BIGGUCHAPPU" will be coming RAH!...

Hmmm...I wonder where I've heard that term before?

Do we have anyone here who has "spent years translating Japanese to English" who could shed some light on this for us. :rolleyes:
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Man, why did the Tagline have to be "In space no one can hear you scream"?

"Space is your screams inaudible to anyone" is sooooo much better. It has such a great feel to it, and really conveys the feeling of being inaudible in space :rotfl
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Hmmm...I wonder where I've heard that term before?

Do we have anyone here who has "spent years translating Japanese to English" who could shed some light on this for us. :rolleyes:

What's your problem, friend? I never said that they didn't use the term. Simply that they didn't create it.
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

I don't know if I should resurrect this, but as someone who works with language on a daily basis on my job, I tend to get a little obsessive about things like this. I found a very interesting PDF file of the September 1979 issue of Starlog. It's definitely worth a read, but there is a paragraph that mentions the origins of the term "big chap."

Those working on the film called him "the
big chap," or "the big fellow."
The
nickname is not affectionate. The adult—as
seen in the film—is huge and menacing and
dark and loaded with teeth. Had the sets been
more brightly lighted, though, audiences
would have seen a tall, slender, half-lizard-
half-man creature with a tusk-shaped, ex-
truded skull and an almost equally long
tongue, a tongue that was equipped with a
full set of vampirish teeth. And he has no
eyes!

And:

Scott enjoyed the making of Alien,
though, and names Kane's death as the scene
that delighted him most. (John Hurt plays
Kane.) The filmmakers call this "the kitch-
en scene" or "the scene with the chest-
burster"—in which the alien hatches out
from within the rib cage of the dying Kane.
(Their "pet" names for the various stages of
the alien were: egg, face-hugger, chest-burster
and the big chap
.)

So as I had guessed, the term was applied by the people working on the film. It's not unusual for terms like these to become entrenched in Japan, while they fade away everywhere else. Maybe when the movie came out the Japanese media exclusively used that term to refer to the alien, and it just stuck. I don't know. The interesting thing is that, as I mentioned earlier, all of the references that I see in Japanese explaining the meaning of the English term say that it means "big chin." I expect that there was a misunderstanding or mistranslation somewhere along the way and it was never corrected. That happens a lot. Anyway, one mystery solved.
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Well now I can sleep at night :lol But good research... it is actually kind of interesting. I had never heard the term "big chap" until I was in Japan. If I remember correctly one of the variants of the old Medicom figure said "Big Chap" on the box.
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Yes...we're all better human beings for having read that. :rotfl
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Page 5 already?

Anyway, I posted this over at the Mediforums as well, but thought maybe people here would also have info:

Question to owners of Medicom figures that have "rubber suits" (I'm thinking some of those funky japanese monsters and some of the superheroes): what can we expect in terms of durability and posing?
Any experiences you'd like to share?

Thanks!
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Page 5 already?

Anyway, I posted this over at the Mediforums as well, but thought maybe people here would also have info:

Question to owners of Medicom figures that have "rubber suits" (I'm thinking some of those funky japanese monsters and some of the superheroes): what can we expect in terms of durability and posing?
Any experiences you'd like to share?

Thanks!

IMO the rubber MEDICOM used feels like that of a wetsuit.
It's a little more thin though. They stretch, but can hamper articulation a little bit. Overall...I have not noticed any deterioration at all. I am far more worried about Hot Toy's rubber suits than Medicom's.

And besides...Medicom has been around for quite some time now, so I'm sure they know what they're doing.
 
Re: Medicom RAH Alien 2008!

Page 5 already?

Anyway, I posted this over at the Mediforums as well, but thought maybe people here would also have info:

Question to owners of Medicom figures that have "rubber suits" (I'm thinking some of those funky japanese monsters and some of the superheroes): what can we expect in terms of durability and posing?
Any experiences you'd like to share?

Thanks!

I have the 1954 Godzilla figure, and while an older figure (probably close to 10 years) I've noticed no problems. He looks as great today as when I bought him.

But he also has zero poseability... but thats more a character design issue. The old base bodies can barely hold a pose on their own, not to mention working against a foam and rubber suit.
 
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