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Xenomrph posted:I've been getting in one heck of a "debate" on an AvP board about how "official canon" is stupid and arbitrary, and that "canon" and "continuity" aren't synonyms. It's been, well.... it's been a thing. I had all these toys i must own these. My favorite thing about the toys was drake being the team smartgunner over vazquez. Like half the marine team were people that didnt even survive the first encounter. Was happy though because drake owns.
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Those NECA aliens are everywhere. I might pick up the Mantis Toboggin and the facehugger one.
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God drat the old toys look like poo poo in comparison. Then again the 90's toys were made for actual children while the new ones are "collectibles" to go on the shelf of man-children who grew up with the previous toys. drat they look good. Makes me want to see a ridiculous movie where there's an alien infestation on some human planet that has a bunch of different animals and we get all these silly breeds of alien to fight. Or I guess a game would probably be better. Something like space-hulk but with aliens, which would be ironic since space hulk was an alien rip-off. It's rhymes, it's like poetry.
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How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?)
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Payndz posted:How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?) Xenomorph probably knows the answer. SMG would probably say that you're missing the point and analyze the toy as pop art. Me, I just think a mantis xenomorph is kicking rad.
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Payndz posted:How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?) Probably some huge alien mantis from another planet because science fiction aliens are usually garbage "well it's like this earth creature, only bigger and deadlier!" in their designs. Oh man that works for Prometheus too.
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Payndz posted:How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?) Black goo drips on a mantis.
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Actually the alien mantis came first, engineers used the black goo to purify it and make it into a much smaller version and seed it on earth. It's like woahhhh makes you think.
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Baronjutter posted:Probably some huge alien mantis from another planet because science fiction aliens are usually garbage "well it's like this earth creature, only bigger and deadlier!" in their designs. Oh man that works for Prometheus too. This is actually the case in the Aliens EU too like the aliens have a natural predator on a planet folks at first think is their homeworld. But they're literally just big pteranodon? Then when they find the aliens real real real seriously for real homeworld it's literally a swamp with a bunch of three meter tall eggs that three meter tall adult xenomorphs walk out of. Prometheus did that with the engineers but it had a thematic reason beyond "omg what if this average animal was huge!"
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Covenant appears to be a remake of AvPR set in space, much in the way Prometheus was a remake of the firstly AvP
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Xenomrph, what kinds of alien species exist in the Alien universe? On a side note, I almost spelled your name as Xenomurph, and had a sudden vision of a drunken Irish Xenomorph.
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Xenomrph posted:And here's the new versions: Can you still squirt water out of the Gorilla Alien toy? If not, no sale.
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I taped the gorilla alien to my chest once for halloween
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Xenomrph posted:And here's the new versions: Holy poo poo these look amazing. Please tell me they are doing the Bull Alien, that was my first Alien toy and I have a bot of fondness for it.
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Jerkface posted:I had all these toys i must own these. My favorite thing about the toys was drake being the team smartgunner over vazquez. Like half the marine team were people that didnt even survive the first encounter. Vasquez got the last laugh - eventually she got a toy, and it was the only one to come with a pulse rifle.  NECA's (mostly) movie-accurate Vasquez is totally righteous, though.  I say "mostly" accurate because they forgot to put the ADIOS on the side of her Smartgun.   MonsieurChoc posted:Also Lance Henriksen is one of my favorite underappreciated actors now so there's a lot of love there too.  For those who can't read his handwriting, it says "I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid". I kinda want to get other (surviving) Aliens cast members to sign it on appropriate pages now, too. Payndz posted:How the gently caress does a facehugger facehug a mantis? (And would it produce a thoraxburster?)  Leavemywife posted:Xenomrph, what kinds of alien species exist in the Alien universe? In terms of non-sentient/indigenous stuff, the first AvP comic had these sort of space-cattle called "rynth" that were used for space-farming and livestock, they crop up again in the AvP: Extinction RTS game. Technically there's also the super-lice from 'Alien3', they're indigenous to the planet. There's a sort of space-wolf that crops up in an AvP comic, too. The second AvP PC game had a couple random extraterrestrials you could run into, like these weird tunneling worms, or these big gorilla-reptile things. One of the Aliens comics shows a couple Alien-hybrids that were apparently born from some kind of aquatic life, but you don't see them. The old Aliens pencil-and-paper RPG had these huge space-armadillo things called Harvesters that were indigenous to some planet and were nigh-indestructible and would just... tunnel through whatever was in their way. That's off the top of my head, I know there's others I'm forgetting. As far as sentient stuff, there's a race that eats facehuggers:  And the Reapers, another race that eats facehuggers:  There's basically Grey Aliens:  And here's what the old comic book Space Jockeys looked like:  Here's that stone-age race I mentioned:  And another random dude:  I think that's all of the sentient ones you actually see in the comics, and like I said, each of them show up once and then are never seen again. There's one or two others that are hinted at but extinct, and then there's one or two more in the novels. If we start factoring Predator stuff in, though, we see the trophies at the end of 'Predator 2' and the start of AvP:R.   Note the Space Jockey skull in the upper-right corner. And a, uh, triceratops. 99% of Predator comics take place on Earth but occasionally they'll show a wacky trophy skull or whatever. Mr. Flunchy posted:Can you still squirt water out of the Gorilla Alien toy? If not, no sale.  Also you can remove the dome and it's got a gorilla skull underneath.  OptimusShr posted:Holy poo poo these look amazing. Please tell me they are doing the Bull Alien, that was my first Alien toy and I have a bot of fondness for it. I'm looking forward to them remaking the Snake Alien, that was my very first Aliens toy and I literally chose it because my mom was afraid of snakes. That was my only train of thought at the time, age 9.  
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I like that the comic looks like its saying NO NO NO NO NO NO. Scorpion alien & Gorilla alien were my favorites because they were closest to the 'movie alien' look. Plus scorpion alien blew up when you shot him with Bishop's incredibly canon rocket launcher. The queen alien toy was also pretty sick at the time because it had the little inner mouth that came out, and you could dunk its face in water and suck up the water and then it could drool like all the aliens in the movies. I got Jeanette Goldstein & Mark Rolston to sign a megacon booklet before, but I don't know where it is now. I told them I dressed up as Drake for halloween (which was true) when I was 10. I did not learn any insights into the movie or their process, just gushed at them like a nerd.
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I live right down the block from Jeanette Goldstein's brassiere shop.
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I used to have a comic where villagers sacrificed people to a Xeno in the woods. This was like twenty years ago but I think it may have been good. Was it good? Like worth my time to dig through storage to find.
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UmOk posted:I used to have a comic where villagers sacrificed people to a Xeno in the woods. This was like twenty years ago but I think it may have been good. Was it good? Like worth my time to dig through storage to find. It's pretty neat and the art is good, although it's more of a parable about religion that happened to have an Alien in it as the "nameless horror". You can swap the Alien out for pretty much any generic monster and the story wouldn't change for the most part, although the story plays up the notion of sight vs blindness and the eyes being the "windows to the soul" (and the Alien has no eyes).
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ruddiger posted:I live right down the block from Jeanette Goldstein's brassiere shop.
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I guess this is a good time to post Alien toy pics.         CelticPredator fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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Watch out computer fans!
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I got it down a bit.          
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I love your toy pictures. It's amazing what a little smoke and lighting can do.
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The expression on that Bill Paxton action figure is priceless.
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Xenomrph posted:And here's what the old comic book Space Jockeys looked like: What's the deal here, story-wise? Sounds like an interesting take on the space jockey.
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You edited out the computer fan one! That was my favorite!
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         Ah. I thought you meant people's computer fans. Here's the rest.
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Those are some sick as gently caress pictures. Lighting skill ++Sir Nose posted:Clearly some field research (with pics) is in order. Get on it, son! There's one in Pasadena and one in East Hollywood. I want to say there's one in NYC, but I can't remember if her shops were just inspired by those or if she had a branch out on the east coast. I've been to the EH one. It's a cute little boutique and the personal service is good. I was actually sitting and reading a People magazine while my partner shopped and Vasquez came over and sat a few chairs down while doing some paperwork. The price is not cheap by any means, but it'll be the best bra you've ever purchased. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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Xenomrph posted:I've been getting in one heck of a "debate" on an AvP board about how "official canon" is stupid and arbitrary, and that "canon" and "continuity" aren't synonyms. It's been, well.... it's been a thing. gently caress off, dude.
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I apoligize, I didn't see this post before telling you to gently caress off and I'd like to retroactively attribute it to this one: Xenomrph posted:Vasquez got the last laugh - eventually she got a toy, and it was the only one to come with a pulse rifle.
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Actually, I apologize for that, Xenomrph shouldn't gently caress off, this dude should:CelticPredator posted:I guess this is a good time to post Alien toy pics. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dan Didio posted:Actually, I apologize for that, Xenomrph shouldn't gently caress off, this dude should: gently caress off
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Isn't there some sort of predator ( ) for the Xenomorph on their home planet? Or something to keep them in check?
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Dan Didio posted:gently caress off, dude. Dan Didio posted:I mean, seriously. Dan Didio posted:I apoligize, I didn't see this post before telling you to gently caress off and I'd like to retroactively attribute it to this one: Dan Didio posted:Actually, I apologize for that, Xenomrph shouldn't gently caress off, this dude should: What the gently caress is this poo poo? Mods?
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Leavemywife posted:Isn't there some sort of predator ( SUNKOS posted:What's the deal here, story-wise? Sounds like an interesting take on the space jockey. It came out in like 1999 or 2000 if I remember right, and it's from this post-Alien Resurrection period in Aliens comic publishing where every Alien was drawn either with Resurrection-style digitigrade legs, or straight-up aped the Resurrection design wholesale. It's one of the better comic series and I think it handles the Space Jockeys a lot better than the Engineers of Prometheus. Not that the Engineers are bad or uninteresting; taken separately I think a movie about humanity finding that they were created by aliens/"gods" in their image and then venturing out to find them is cool and interesting. It's just that shoehorning it into 'Alien' was a mis-step.
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It's not shoe horned, it's the summation of the thesis that was originally presented in Ridley's original film. e: also, the original intention of Aliens Earth War was Ripley and co. going to the Aliens home planet to capture the "Queen Mother" who they found by following her psychic link or whatever that she was sending out into the cosmos. No natural predators on the planet kept them in check so they were the only apex predator shown. Aliens fans hate the artwork and Fox hated that it reused the movie characters so there's been lots of rewriting/hand wringing/shoving round pegs into square holes to reconcile the series. It's a shame because I saw some scans recently of the black and white artwork and Kieth's inks are pretty gorgeous, despite the slavish adherence to the aliens universe the writer and studios demanded. ruddiger fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Dec 31, 2016 |
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A Deacon posted:What the gently caress is this poo poo? Mods? I think that poster just wanted to be a fuckstick and quote huge image posts
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