1979 Alien action figures are finally coming

Redmao · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:54 am

Super7 is bringing the 1979 Alien line to the collectors
http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=1&itemid=20296

Now your Kenner SW figures and Fisher Price Adventure People will know the fear of the 8th passenger.

raptor · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:14 am

You'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to lay out $20 for those.

- R

Redmao · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:25 am

raptor wrote:

You'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to lay out $20 for those.

- R

Indeed. With only 7 parts to assemble, the tooling and licensing fees must eat most of the production costs.

Rasputin · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Not worthwhile to me at all. Outdated figs and design and the price does not justify it. For the price I'd at least consider modern design and such

night force cynic · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I really do not get the appeal of these at all.

AdrienVeidt · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

Im interested in Ash and the suit, but only as fodder to bash-ticulate.

Matthew · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:12 am

I think they are awesome. I don't want to own them though.

sgartz · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I love 'em. I'm not sure if I'll buy all four, but I'm sorely tempted to. I'm a sucker for unproduced stuff, and those Kenner Alien figures are pretty high on the list of interesting unproduced items. It's also kind of cool that they even considered making figures from such a defiantly un-kid-friendly movie, so that's a plus. I consider Alien the best horror film ever made, and it scared the crap out of me as a kid (the facehugger scene, in particular), so I almost feel like I need to have these guys around the house as pieces of personal history.

That said, if they made figures of Harry Dean Stanton's and Yaphet Kotto's characters, I wouldn't even be writing this; I'd be handing over my money on the spot. "Cranky maintenance worker" is an underrepresented demographic in the action figure world.

Gaigaan-Dnok · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:53 pm

I'm all over these.
Not real thrilled with the price, but still pretty excited to get these. I was planning on getting at least two sets, one for MOC and one set for loose, but for $20 each, I may only get one set.

pluv · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:58 pm

Dallas is a must. Ash and Ripley are maybes.

Redmao · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:40 pm

pluv wrote:

Dallas is a must. Ash and Ripley are maybes.

It's about time we got a Tom Skerritt action figure.
He'll be able to tell Ace to stop being so reckless with the Sky Striker.

nova · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:55 pm

I'm excited for these... There is an undenyable appeal that 5 POA figures have...I like highly articulated figures as much as everybody else...but these just have such a vintagey goodness about them, I find them hard to resist...

kHAoS · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:58 am **Location:** SoCal

I think it's a neat concept and I'm glad for the Aliens fans out there. Not for me personally, but I appreciate the effort. Hopefully, this funds other action figure ideas for Super7.

fodder_monkey · **Joined:** Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:14 pm

I was in, but Now I'm out at 20$ ea. Just not that much.

Keenan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:42 pm

raptor wrote:

You'd have to be a pretty hardcore fan to lay out $20 for those.

- R

This was almost exactly what I was going to say.
BUT, I'm all in. =)

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