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Movie Maniacs 6 Huge ALIEN QUEEN Action Figure
by McFarlane Toys
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Unbeleivably detailed...McFarlane does it again!
By Michael Pappalardo
This is by far the best representation of the Alien Queen that I have ever seen outside of the films. The queen is absolutely gorgeous...as gorgeous as a hideous, grotesque monster could ever possibly be!
Completely faithful to the movies, the Queen is rich in detail. She has multiple points of articulation, mainly in the arms and the legs. The legs, which are ball joints, can be moved easily, but initially they may be a little stiff. Her main set of arms are ball joints that can be positioned in a few different ways. Her secondary set of arms are ball-socket joints which can be moved easily, but almost too easily...they will fall out of the socket if you move them too much.
The queen, as was accurately pointed out by another reviewer, can only really stand in one position: a lunging, sort of hunched over position. The holes on the stand are required to stand her up, since she is so very top heavy. That's the other thing: the Queen is HUGE! Its not a bad thing...the size of the Queen makes it a very impressive figure, but the weight of it lends it to be a bit on the delicate side. The pegs on the bottom of her feet are pretty sturdy, and won't break as easily as some other McFarlane products (the Alien vs. Predator set broke within 20 minutes of being unboxed). The Queen's clear sculpted teeth are great, which is a minor yet very good detail that I appreciate. The 'bendy' tail is positioned while it is in the package, and since it spends such a long time in there the bendy tail takes on a permanent position which really is a negative attribute.
The chest burst victim is interesting. With good detail on the victim herself and the cocoon around her, the chestburster is operated through a small knob in the back of the base. You can rotate the chestburster and push it through and pull it back through at your leisure. The base itself is fairly bland but it is meant to be. The Queen is what really stands out in this set, and as I said before, it is by far the best recreation of the Alien Queen outside of the actual movie puppetry.
The bottomline: This is for Collectors only. The figure is not meant to be played with and should be handled delicately. It is finely detailed with a great paint job and excellent texture. Be forewarned that, as I mentioned earlier, the secondary arms are prone to falling out (taking down the durability a notch). Otherwise, this figure is excellent and I very highly recommend it to collectors. Consider the 5-star 'Fun' rating a general 'Like' rating...because I think this figure is outstanding, and I'm sure you will too.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.It's a Queen. She'll breed. You'll die.
By Jon Meisenbach
This is not really a toy. This is the kind of thing you put on your desk or shelf for the sole reasons of having something cool to look at and for inspiring awe for all those who enter your dwelling. This is inexpensive art at its best. The attention to detail is astounding, which is par for the course whenever you buy something from McFarlane. The durability is an issue for some of the protruding appendages on the Queen's back, but it shouldn't be much of a problem as long as you don't drop her or play with her excessively. That being said, the Queen should only be posed and not played with. Don't buy this for an 8 year old and expect it to survive a week (besides, the Alien movies are all rated R). Definately a buy for fanboys and geeks alike.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.Teeth and The Other Finds Found in Terraforming Space
By TorridlyBoredShopper
In many a future's passed, Aliens toys have been hyped for release, have looked good on paper, and then have been sickening when viewed. This seems to be the poison to many a movie monster, too, because they are prettied up for children to play with, the makers forgetting that the figures aren't some Disney byproduct and are for bigger kids. Normally they have something wrong with the way they look, their faces becoming too cartoonish or their bodies losing the darkness within them, the way they contort, or they simply have some funky action within them that doesn't make sense. Many examples can be included to prove this, too, with the Bull Alien released, the Scorpion Alien, the lovely Guerrilla Alien, and so on.McFarlane Toys seemed to learn from that failing example, though, and they did something nobody else has done. They've focused on things seen and loved by fans, kicking up the excitement with homage to the original and no gimmicks. And this has rebuilt something that seemed to be DOA in times passed.
In this piece, the Queen Alien looks wonderfully adorable. She has the walk of walks that says that she's not too terribly happy, the face that only a drone could love, and a body that is quite simply large.Like the image birthed in Aliens, she looks very much the part of the angry mother.When I first saw it I was impressed by the scale of this beauty, thinking it would be "action figure" sized like the drones that had been released, but it wasn't. The Queen is very much the part, with the size built in just like the movies indicate. That way, when set with the drones, they have a scale that separates the little boys from the fearsome lady.Added to her are also the ten points of movement, with the tail moving well and the head and legs posing, and the coloration that very much fits the part. If only the mouth would have opened and closed, allowing something to be held, it would have been wonderful. Still, it is a LV-426 dreamer's dream nonetheless.
The other piece provided is a blast from the terraforming past, showcasing what the Colonial Marines saw when they looked into the face of birthing. There's the wall and the substance transforming it into the Alien's hive, its color cobwebbed with organic looks and a concrete sheen, and there's also the human body in it with a chest burster sticking out that decorates it like a much-needed ornament on a shadowy Christmas tree. The body looks pretty good, too, with the skin tone looking ghoulism and that plastic form almost seeming to say, "kill me" right before the eyes.It could have had more detail to it, though, looking a little bit better to be perfect. The expression could have been exacted and the eyes done exactly right, contorting it all to the horrifying image that goes past the plastics of toydom.It added in is a nice thing to find, not required but given anyhow, and it helps complete the set despite those tiny objections.
Crowned with a nice little box that shows them both off, it is a keeper both in and out of the packaging and nice to set up. It is also part of a bigger series, too, and all of those toys are well worth picking up. The wonderful Dog Burster from Alien3 is done well, the Warrior Alien is good looking, and the Predator line-up is a nice cap for those gleaming, metallic teeth.Definitely recommended for anyone wanting to learn a little Xenomorphology.
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