Hello peoples. Today I'm blogging about something I got recently. Here it goes!

So me, my dad, and Alex were at the mall yesterday and we ducked in Fye. I like that store because it's always got horror stuff in it that I haven't seen before that isn't a hundred miles away. While I was there I saw some cool stuff like some large Pacific Rim jaegers and kaijus as well as Dutch from the Predator movie colored like a predator was looking at him with thermal vision. But there was one thing that immediately caught my eye and that was a classic alien figure by Neca. Technically I have one but it's pretty cruddy and a bad paint job and I bought it with its inner mouth missing, not knowing it had one at the time. This one is really really cool.



Here's the box.






It's got the premise of Alien along with a picture of the figure, and a picture showing how a new alien warrior and Hicks are also available. It's like that because Neca releases it's figures in waves of 3. The front of that sheet in the box also make a good poster to put the figure in front of.



Here it is in all it's glory straight out the box.






You can tell it's difference from the alien warriors in Aliens from the head...






Hands...






Feet...






And elbows. Also mine had one of its elbow spikes bent as you can see which is a little annoying.

The figure has a mostly black paint job with some rusty gray in areas. I didn't find any flaws in the paint job on mine except a streak of black near the edge of the head piece that's only present on one side and a white spot on the back of the head.


It's a pretty good paint job with the gloss and everything but I've seen Neca do better paint jobs on Aliens before. Neca kept the improvements it made in articulation and also fixed the joints being to loose. It's articulated at the neck, although understandably limited because of the head and neck being the way it is. It's got a nice ball joint in the chest. The shoulders are ball jointed but rather stiff and the sculpt makes them quite hard to move. It's similar to the neck joint but I feel like they could fix that a bit more. There's also a cut joint right below the shoulder on the arm so you have to be careful not to put to much strain on that. Really the upper arms aren't that great. The elbows are ball jointed and the wrists turn with both those joints being fine. It's ball jointed at the hips but these are also restricted and it would be quite hard to get him into a crouching or sitting position. The knees are hinged above and below the knee caps, ball jointed ankles and hinged claws. It's also got a bendable wire in its tail and a movable jaw and inner mouth that Neca has done quite well with. And I also like the opaque head carapace that you can see its skull through.



You're beautiful.... You're beautiful it's true



Here's a pic showing all my most realistic aliens. Including the newest and oldest (both in movie appearances and figures I've gotten.)

Sent from my iPhone


By Ashton