Alien

Hey peoples. Today I'm gonna talk about the alien as I see it. Here it goes.



So If you are a huge Alien fan like me you know the that is much unknown about it. Especially if you think about what's introduced in the comic books too. So there's millions of theories and new ad-ons to the alien universe throughout the Internet and even comic books. So my mind is constantly raging around trying to see what fan lore fits best in my mind set about the alien.



One of my biggest problems is how most fans completely deny that there is a difference between an alien " drone " and an alien warrior. I fully embrace this idea as in my little mind it comforts me that the alien from the first movie and the alien from the second are not one and the same so I can see them coexist in my alien universe. This way I can have the awesome color differences, hands, and especially the head which concerns the skull face, the dome, and the more prominent ridges the aliens from Aliens have.



Probably my second biggest problem would be how an alien changes from host to host. Me, I have tied this in with the existence of the Alien King solving 2 problems. What I think is that if a there's a King to mate with a Queen, a King being just a warrior or drone moved up and evolved in the hive, then perhaps the facehuggers are stronger therefore not having to use some of the hosts DNA to create a embryo inside. I figure that it's much more likely that the facehugger tells the body to create the embryo with this DNA so the antibodies won't kill it and it's already in position then the facehugger cutting open the esophagus and navigating it's way through life giving organs to put it in the chest cavity only for it to die.



That also fits in with the movies. In Alien the eggs were aboard the derelict for the engineer's bio weapon as what became evident in Prometheus. If they wanted a bio weapon than they probably had the stronger facehuggers that didn't take DNA therefore the alien in the first movie being purebred. In the second we can assume that all queens are purebred so if there were human derived xenomorphs than a king simply hadn't evolved yet in the hive so that the aliens there were human derived xeno's. If the hive survived long enough for a king and had available hosts than the human ones would be drived out to make a new hive so one of them would evolve into a queen. I'm 90% sure that theory is fits with the rest of the movies too. We can assume that the aliens in Aliens look similar to purebred aliens because of Prometheus. If they created all these bio weapons to wipe out us. Then it's probable that some human or engineer DNA was used in creation. Therefore we would be afraid of it's human like appearance and it's monster like features.



Finally there is how the aliens look different movie to movie comic to comic. I think it's either their DNA is unstable, hence mutation of different generations. Or the engineers did that purposely. How scary would it be to have a almost unbeatable enemy already constantly changing and adapting to it's environment.



I would use the warrior from this movie for the purebred warrior as I like the ridges on the head but I would give it the missing head support from the first 2 movies, less muscle and more biochemical escoskeleton, and the tail would be the same as the first movie's with a blade instead of just a barb.

Phew that was a long post. Needed to get that out. If you have any questions please comment. Bye!

An Artist's alien variation. Not done by me



A blog by Ashton

Aliens pics

Hello peoples. Here's another blog on Aliens. Here it goes.



Okay so as you know I am a huge fan of the Aliens series even though I've only seen the first half of their movies not including AVP everyone assures me it is the better half. So after the awesomeness of the first two movies and the sizable influence of all of the Kenner Aliens toys of all shapes and sizes. I have built up a sizable collection of some Aliens pics. These pictures are mostly concept art done by fans so they have the most variation. They range from ones like these.


To ones that still send tingles up my spine.


I in total have 414 aliens based photos. Wow. My geeky ness amazes me. Not all of them of course are different variations. Even though that's one of the things I look for to have fun.

Here are is some awesome Aliens art by Kevin Crossley.



Some of them are just fantastic art of original movie aliens and others so wild it's hard to call them a Xenomorph. So every blog I have decided to post a Aliens pic from my photo library. Including some Predators as well. If I were to post all of the pics in one post that would be no fun. After my collection grew to big amount I created a whole album dedicated to these pics. Sometimes for fun I just sit and put a slideshow on my iPad of the whole album.



This is some concept art for the predator's face before Predator.

So there's a little insight on all of the Aliens pics I wish they made action figures of. Feel free to comment and post one of you're favorite pics. Bye!



By Ashton

Hot Toys

Hi peoples. Today I'm gonna talk about a toy company. Here it goes.



Okay so one day I saw a picture of a really cool looking Alien figure on the Internet. I immediately went to its website below. It was a awesomely detailed, highly articulated Alien Warrior. I read the entire review by a really cool website called MWCtoys. Finally at the very end was some website listings where I could find them.



The alien I saw.

I read on feverishly until I came to the and it said... Prices range from 100 to 300 dollars. I almost threw my iPad in a fit of rage! I had come so close! I continued reading the many reviews on the website in a depressed stupor only to find that the same company named Hot Toys had made so many different Aliens and Predator toys. You can imagine how my obsessive brain felt by then.




A bunch of Aliens they made.

Luckily and unluckily for me they didn't make a Alien queen which would of sent me into shock. The closest I had ever came to that kind of quality was Neca toys who made around the same size but a lower price, lower paint, and lower details. I guess I'll just have to stick with them for now. However there is a Japanese company named Kayodo Revoltech that did make a Drone, Warrior, Queen, and Predator with around the same quality with prices around 100. Kenner made a lot of Aliens, Predators, and Space marines but they were for younger kids and were crazy variations of the Alien with a action feature. I have 90 percent of them.


The Kenner Aliens surrounding two Kenner Predators.


The Kaiyodo Revotech Queen.



This is the only Neca one I have.

So maybe for a birthday or Christmas I will get one Hot Toys figure. I can only hope although this Christmas is excluded. Bye!

Scroll down for more pics.



A Hot Toys classic Predator.



A dude from Predators disguised as a Predator. Also Hot Toys.



A tracker Predator from Predators. Hot Toys.



Hot Toys Predator.



Berserker Predator from Predators. Hot toys.



A Falconeer Predator from Predators.



One last Predator.



The "Big Chap" alien from Alien.




The Alien 3 figure.



The Alien from AVPR.



The AVP Alien.



A awesome dragon Alien from a artist on Devintart.

By Ashton

Nosferatu

Hey people's. Today I'm gonna talk about Nosferatu. Here it goes.











"Hello I am gothic Robin hood!"

So a while ago I watched Nosferatu. Nosferatu is German for not dead or undead. The movie was filmed in 1929. It was a silent movie. Nosferatu is probably the second most famous vampire in the world.












The Orlok castle.

The vampire in Nosferatu is named Count Orlok. No he does not sparkle. So Count Orlok has a oddly shaped head, tall with sunken eyes, pointy ears, long sharp fingernails, his 2 front teeth are the vampiric ones, and he preys on victims with no mercy. Dracula is handsome, with vampiric canines and almost always wears a long black cape. Edward sparkles in the sunlight we never even see his teeth and he preys on helpless animals.








A letter from Count Orlok.




The rundown house Orlok wants to live in.

It seems our vampires get more wimpy with age. Maybe less scary too. A Dracula movie hasn't really scared me. I doubt twilight is scary. Nosferatu was pretty creepy. The scares are almost instinctual. The hues and colors ( or absence of them ) make it that much creepier. ( no offense to twig height fans.)

It was named Nosferatu because they couldn't get the rights to Dracula. After the movie they were sued and that's why the actor that played Nosferatu never got any more attention. Film members spread rumors about how the actor was actually a vampire because one ever saw him without his makeup. I learned this from IMDB a awesome movie database.








Even the normal people look creepy.

So there's my thoughts on Nosferatu. Bye!




By Ashton

Playstation

Hey people's. Today I'm gonna talk about a upcoming Christmas gift. Here it goes.



For Christmas I was thinking about getting the Playstation or Xbox. It would be half mine and half Moms. So far I'm leaning towards the Playstation. Just because of I like the controller better and the graphics are better. I went to my Dads friend Scott's house to test out my theory.



My mom went out with Scotts wife Beth to see a movie. I stayed there. Scott's baby daughter went to bed and we started playing. I played Batman Arkham Asylum, Assassins creed, and Infamous. I had a lot of fun with Scott although we didn't get to try out the Xbox.

Yesterday my Mom, Katie, and I went out to TJ max and later to GameStop to check out the games. I had some fun and I saw that the Xbox controller was a little weird. I took some pics of used games for Christmas too. Katie and mom had fun at TJ max and then we headed out for ice cream. One of the reasons for a game system is that aliens colonial marines is coming out in February and it looks awesome.

So that's the rundown. If you have any game suggestions comment below. Bye!


By Ashton

Laser tag

Hey peoples. Today I'm gonna talk about a really cool birthday present I got. Here it goes.



I touched on this on my birthday blog but I am going to explain it more. So for my birthday my grandparents got this really awesome laser tag set by Nerf. It comes with 2 different guns and sleeves. A iPod or iPhone can fit in these sleeves and into the gun with different sleeves for each.


This is the iTouch one. The iPhone one is bigger.

Next you plug in a wire from the gun into the devices audio jack and launch a free app you can buy.


The app includes solo mode which is every man for himself and teams. After the countdown the game begins. When you first play you can change your pistol to a rapid fire gun with more ammo, so you don't have to pull the trigger with each shot, but it's not as powerful. You do this by holding the reload bar. Push a second trigger to commence a shield that lasts for 30 seconds depending on where you stop it so that you can't be shot but you cannot shoot them. You can see you're laser and explosion on the screen along while the camera views your surroundings while it also shows you your health amount, shields, gun, and ammo.


The game ends when only one man or team is left standing.



Single player you can play with the gun or without and is the same as multiplayer only you shoot aliens that show up on the screen. Eventually you earn points to spend in the armory to buy new guns and upgrades to use in multiplayer. I just bought a shotgun called the quad pulse and I'm working on a sniper rifle. It shoots far too with a good range gun. It counted when I shot Alex from across the entire backyard. You can play without a device too but it is harder and not as fun. That's why the odds were not evenly matched in Alex's and my laser tag battle today when the previous day he decided to throw his iTouch at me on a concrete floor. My face was like this.


So that's it. Pick it up today. Thanks! Bye.


By Ashton