The Nightmare Fuel of Kenner's 1979 Big Chap Alien - Oddities #27

[@vozpit]

Okay, so when this came out, I was 10. I had seen the movie already & was in the toy store, where I saw this beauty. If I remember, it was like $15-$20, which back then was pretty up there in price. I usually got my way, but when I asked my dad to buy it for me, he wanted to teach me a lesson in earning money. He offered to pay me $1 for each thing I did around the house. I was upset, but I started doing stuff like washing the dishes, cleaning the yard, etc... Well, it took about a week, maybe two to get enough money to buy the figure. So, I went running to the store & to the section where I last saw it & BAM! No Alien figure. I looked around, but to no avail. I asked a worker where they were & he told me that they pulled it from the shelves. They were getting too many complaints about it. I was devastated. Here I was, with enough money that I earned for something I really wanted. I never saw it again, even to this day. I have never seen the actual figure, only pictures. It bothered me for decades. Anyway, I just wanted to share one of the biggest disappointments in my life with you. Thanks for reminding me, Toy Galaxy!

[@TheRobotAssassin]

Fred S The true lesson you received was about the effects of angry Soccer Moms and Concerned Christians.

[@brandonpage7087]

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[@enclavecomms.officer5219]

god, you poor soul...

[@gamingwithjohn9249]

Well you can go to bigbadtoystore and look up super7 but the alien/xenomorph is the aliens one not the 1979 one it's similar to it you can also just try to find one online Edit: I got the super7 aliens one from bigbadtoystore it's about maybe 119$ or 130$

[@mistreme8341]

That’s awful! 😨

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

I came home from school one day in the early '80s, and my room was in our attic, up a steep, straight staircase that had a door at the bottom. I opened the door to go up, and this Alien toy came flying down at me on an improvised zip line. My dad had found it at a garage sale and came up with this elaborate prank.

[@tiefighter3445]

None of Your Business If this true that is pretty funny. Ha ha.

[@231mac]

@@tiefighter3445 Exactly, the operative word being IF

[@alison2649]

Cool dad!

[@michaelthomas6108]

Watched Alien when I was 8 years old on TV even after my dad had said no. I freaked out at the dinner table the following evening thinking an alien was going to bust out of my chest. My dad just laughed as I ran off screaming, shouting after me "I told you not to watch it".

[@unlimitedrabbit]

I had this and I'd never seen the movie to that point. Its coolness level transcended everything.

[@THEBLACKRIGHTWINGER]

WHAT IS WRONG WITH Y'ALL PEOPLE. UR THROWING AWAY HISTORY

[@kendane2001]

I’d be angry too. That toy is now A rare collector’s item.

[@kaltech04]

"Kids aren't as afraid of monsters as adults are" that's definitely true of my childhood. I saw all kinds of horror and rated R movies when I was probably too young. I specifically remember seeing Alien around the age of 7 or 8, and I didn't even realize it was supposed to be scary. Rewatching it as an adult is how I found out it was a horror movie. As a kid I was mostly annoyed that the monster was in the shadows all the time. I just wanted to see the monster!

[@brianartillery]

My best mate had one given to him as a birthday present. He was so pleased with it, he put it on his bedside table. Once. Waking up, and seeing this huge toy looming over him, whilst still a bit dozy, scared the shit out of him. It sat on the shelf where he couldn't see it, after that. I have the 'Alien' tie-in novel, and the cover proudly proclaims: "From the studios that brought you 'Star Wars' "

[@ranwolf7650]

I got this toy when I was 4, when I unwrapped it I let out a scream only neighborhood dogs heard and chucked that bastard across the room. it spent more than a month in the closet before i mustered up enough courage to take it out of the box.

[@Robogeek28]

I freaking loved this thing when I got it Christmas morning. I had no idea what it was at the time, but he was a perfect monster to go up against my Shogun Warriors Godzilla.

[@KevinArcade87]

You still have it?

[@Robogeek28]

@@KevinArcade87 Sadly no, it got a LOT of playtime, and eventually got thrown away after it broke a few years later. It was definitely one of my favorite toys growing up though.

[@Lumibear.]

I had this as a kid, I bought it with my own money from a bargain bin, I only knew it from movie magazines, but I loved the look of it, and loved playing with it. Many many years later I saw the movie, it felt weird that my toy friend was killing people so horribly, but I still loved the movie, and still do.

[@dennissmith5807]

I still have my Kener Alien. He's sitting right behind me on a shelf. His box is beat up but I still have him.

[@bleeneo101]

Epic

[@231mac]

I would think that an actual owner would know how to spell 'Kenner'...

[@brettu5052]

Growing up I was always freaked out/scared of ET. I feel that the Alien was, and still is, the greatest monster design in fiction. I'm a huge fan of the Alien series, and yes, the zenomorph is scary as hell. I didn't get much sleep after watching Alien as a kid, but for some reason that damn ET freaked me out more. I find it odd that the friendliest alien always looked creepier than the bad ass killer ones.

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

ET and Mac from "Mac And Me," scariest aliens ever put to film.

[@stasiuwong]

The E.T. puppet was designed and built by the same artist who earlier constructed the Alien head animatronics!

[@MikeB12800]

Scared the crap outta me when I saw E.T. in the theatre. Then my sisters had a bunch of card stickers in our toy room!!

[@Chucitron]

man, my older brother had it, and to this day I really want this doll, its freakin awesome. I still have nightmares with this guy.

[@Cyril29a]

Doll? It's an ACTION FIGURE!!!

[@Chucitron]

@@Cyril29a 😂 to me it was always a horror doll

[@bagsikdangal]

@@Cyril29a He must be from germany. They call action figures as *"dolls"* as well.

[@TreVader1378]

Mine too, he got it for Christmas one year and a few days later I broke one of the legs off and he was heart broken, needless to say he gave me such a hiding.

[@driver8sk]

I remember getting one well after Christmas at a Sears outlet. Considering the thriftiness of my mom, they must've been blowing them out for little of nothing. I also remember quite a few toddlers locking eyes with the Big Chaps on display and running crying to their parents.

[@xenofett7008]

Ha ha!😄 I remember hearing a story of a kid that would go out of his way to avoid the isle the ALIEN figure was in.

[@carlwest2752]

I received my Alien Big Chap from under the Christmas tree in 1979. I was about to turn 7 in January and to this day it was the most beloved gift I had ever wanted and received that year. I still have it in my collection!

[@jaytm2574]

Got one for under $10 as a closeout sale - they were dumping them because it wasn't popular. Had it for decades, and finally gave it away to a Thrift Store with a bunch of other older toys. Was a real cool toy for the day.

[@ArtofLunatik]

its a trip how detailed and fillm accurate that figure was.

[@Mizzelphug]

My older brother had that thing. It was in the top of his closet and just randomly fell one night, pushed the door open and rolled right into the middle of the bedroom floor where the moonlight hit it just right, illuminating the bubble head. He woke everyone in the house up screaming at the top of his lungs and hasn't slept since then.

[@joshchandler1302]

This was in a toy bin for $5 at an antique store when I was a kid. It was incredible. Me: Mom can I get this? Mom: Put it back. I think of the 'what might have been' often.

[@eumorphavonobscura2753]

My brother in law had this and damn I wanted it so bad as a kid. Saw the film when I was about 10 and wanted it even more. The coolest figure released in the 70s and so far ahead of it's time.

[@mistermatix8241]

I bought one at a toy auction a few years back. My wife grumbled, but he was worth every penny! He was expensive but in REALLY good condition!

[@AaronLitz]

I distinctly remember a cousin of mine having this. He was on my dad's side so I didn't see him very much, but I must have gotten a good long look at that thing and had a chance to play with it *at least* once because it is permanently burned into my brain from its sheer dark awesomeness. Those metallic teeth were etched into my subconscious. So rad. Seriously, people would pay good money for a simple recast of that mold, it just felt so movie accurate. It even that damn skull inside the translucent dome! In 1979!

[@soppdrake]

Well I knew that that thing was what I wanted! There was a pile of them at the toy shop in Woking, so I bought one for £4:50p (that was what they cost!). I was 21 years old at the time. And now my Kenner Alien is 42! Wish I'd kept the box!

[@jenniferlemke7884]

I was 9 years old when the movie came out, and I remember walking through a department store with my mom and seeing this toy. I begged her to buy it for me, and her response was "Oh my god, it's hideous! No!".

[@PeterEhm]

This was exactly my experience too. I can still see it sitting on the floor in the back aisle of Kmart next to the cafeteria. 😭

[@EDFCentral]

Thats back when parents actually gave two nickels about what their kids played with and watched. Now the kids tell the parents what to do. I'm jaded as I'm a social worker and have seen more kids push their parents around and the parents cower like whipped puppies. Back then my parents told me what I was going to do, and watch. If I tried to buck them then I got bucked!

[@crystalhastings4455]

Makes me miss the old ALIENS toys kenner brought out during Alien 3 in the early nineties. This was a nostalgic trip. Keep up the awesome Toy Galaxy, your videos make my day!

[@TheRobotAssassin]

Crystal Hastings NECA is making new ones. Both in realistic and retro styles.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I actually got one of these things when I was a kid. And I've had it since.... BUT.... The thing sat in an attic for decades. And then I moved out into a tiny apartment in my early 20's, leaving it behind, having no clue how much $$ that it, as well as my old, still functioning, Dark Tower board game, and Commodore 64 with EVERY peripheral and software, My Star Wars action figures, and my He-Man collection, including the Castle Greyskull. My dad sold each of these things for not more than $5-$10 each at a tag sale. Luckily, the Alien figure was in a box in the attic. My dad eventually sold the house and moved, and this.. box of stuff ended up in a garage.. where crap upon crap upon crap was piled on it. When it was found again, I pretty much cried. First off, one of the arms is broken off. The part that holds the arm in it's socket broke. The tail is broken off. Several of the spikes on it's back are broken off and are missing. The transparent covering over it's head is also missing. The mouth parts that shoot out when you push the trigger on the back of the head were also missing. And to top off this insult to toy collecting geeks everywhere, the whole thing's body looks like someone took the harshest grain sandpaper to it that they possibly could. The whole body is just scratched to living hell. I rescued what I could and I still have it, standing like an invalid on the floor of my closet, next to it's detached arm, looking like it's sadly looking up at me rasping, "Please.... *Cough! Cough!* kill me..... end my life.....*Cough!!!*". I just... can't do it. I can't let it go. Haha! It's a part of nostalgia, and a part of my childhood, and damn that thing made a great monster for my Star Wars action figures to fight. I had so much fun playing with that thing when I was a kid.

[@wstine79]

Xenomorph toys? Better call on A-TAX and his big, bad bug suit.

[@Synthetic_Strigiforme]

Blast 'em and bottle 'em. Bye-bye, bug.

[@velvetaeon2774]

Lol

[@jesterbear2099]

I was six when this was released and my older sister (14 years older) thought it was a great idea to buy this for me at Christmas. The movie scared her so much she wouldn’t grab it off the shelf and asked an employee to grab it for her! LOL

[@tiefighter3445]

jesterbear2099 Ha Ha.

[@xenofett7008]

My sister was disgusted and shocked our parents got this for me for Christmas, which made me dig the toy even more.

[@bleeneo101]

When they finally came out with RoboCop action figures, it was my everything. After the movie came out I asked if they come out with a toy can I have him and then Kenner finally did. So I owe Kenner a lot for my childhood....and my Mom lol. Thank you 😢

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

Aside from being a very funny and well written show, I have to say the editing is absolutely gorgerous. More, please.

[@georgetrapp6666]

In the last year or so, I found a rather vintage-looking 3 3/4" action figure in a huge pile of otherwise uninteresting toys at a flea market, and was surprised to only pay about a dollar for it. (The vendor must not have known its value) I looked it up, and it is a male (I've forgotten which) crew member of the original Nostromo. It's from 1979, and has better articulation than classic Star Wars figures.

[@SniffHeinkel]

4:26 I didn't know the Alien Xenomorph spoke 6th grade bully.

[@originaluddite]

I'm imagining it saying "ha ha nobody can stop Alien" in the final scene as it emerges from hiding to attack Ripley. Next best thing to a chest-buster singing Hello Ma Baby.

[@Oakbeast]

I used to take mine to bed with me. It’s head would glow in the dark for a few mins before I went to sleep. It explains some things now

[@keithmaxon9510]

Funny about the durability issues considering the instructions said that the kit was designed to easily fix or replace. Great video as usual!

[@grzetim]

Had all the Kenner ones that came out in the 90s. I did not see Alien and Aliens until home video with my folks when they thought I was ready; I think my brother and I were 10-12 range. Still one of my favorite sci-fi horror series to this day.

[@EdsRetroGeekOut]

Love that action figure :-D it's a grail I'd love to add to my toy collection!

[@mrrictus]

I still remember the Christmas I was gifted this that toy. And I also remember the moment my mom tossed it in the trash weeks later. She hated the look of it and my 6 year old past self, did not take heed of her threat to toss it,if I did not stop jump scaring her with it. In the dark... If only I knew then how much it would be worth today n dollar amount, I would have stopped lol.

[@3dagalathor]

omg i got this as a Christmas present as a child, was amazing. i watched the movie with my dad, and got the toy that xmas, would say it was my favorite xmas gift ever.

[@AcroRay]

I was the lucky recipient of one of these, X-mas of '79. I loved the film, even though I could only experience it through books, Famous Monsters magazine coverage and Kenner's licensed products, since I was too little at just 10 years old for my parents to allow me to see it at the theater. I loved its horrific design, but it terrified me so that every night I put it back in its box and tucked it away in a corner of my room where I couldn't see it (or, maybe, where it couldn't see me!). I traded it - box, poster instructions and all - away for an equally huge, expensive Godzilla toy back in the 1990s... and I missed it dearly. Only just this past winter - 40 Christmases after that original - was I able to re-gift the horror to myself by acquiring a used one in nearly-complete condition via Facebook marketplace (adding a repro dome from Shogun Plastics and new arm bands from Alien Hospital). One of the best toy presents ever - then and now - not only for the incredible design but for all the stories the toy carries with it and my own memories. Thanks for the great video!

[@derekstack7479]

I had this toy when I was nine. I saw the movie in the theater and loved it (I had already read the novelization and the illustrated story so it was pretty much a given that I could handle it). Good times!

[@treadstone1138]

Ready for interface: the INITIAL budget of Alien just over $4 million. BUT after Ridley Scott story-boarded the entire movie and showed the producers, the budget was doubled to just over $8 million. "Which just goes to show the power of a good story board." - Ridley Scott source: The Beast Within: Making of Alien documentary. End transmission.

[@360whiplash]

I remember having that toy as a kid. I wish I had taken better care of it and still had it. Now it's worth a fortune on Ebay if I wanted to get it.

[@christopherdaniel5919]

Omg I had one of these 40+ years ago. It's long gone. I miss the Alien, almost as much as I miss my Space: 1999 Eagle lander.

[@nps1016]

I didn’t have the Alien figure but I did have the board game, I don’t remember too much about because I was 8 years old and I didn’t see Alien until it was on cable in the early 80’s. But I loved the look of the Alien as it looked terrifying and wasn’t your typical guy with makeup, it was literally something out of your nightmares.

[@Gappasaurus]

7:55 That kid could not be more pleased with his horrific new toy 😅

[@charlesgrybosky1916]

I was 5 years old when I saw the commercial for that thing. It terrified the bejesus out of me and remember sleeping with the light on for a week.

[@petedevlin8268]

Yup, I had this toy as a kid... I was also 4 years old in 1979!!! I don’t know what my parents were thinking when they got this for me / let me watch this movie, but I loved it!

[@231mac]

Uh-huh.....

[@charlesballard5251]

My nephew was born in October of '75, so he was 3 when the movie opened. He turned 4 before christmas of that year and I bought him the Kenner Alien as his present from his Uncle Charlie. He loved it. A few years later his mom told me she'd cleaned his room while he was away with his dad for the summer. She told me she'd just dumped a bunch of toys in the trash and that the Alien had gone to meet it's maker. I replied, "You bothered to mail it back to Kenner?" We laughed about that. I wish I'd taken care of and kept some of my toys. They'd be worth a fortune. I wish I had all my early "Starlog" magazines. There was a time the first issue was worth a few hundred if not a few thousand dollars, but that was before scanning and the internet.

[@jeremyadkins9665]

I remember reading about this figure in an issue of ToyFare magazine. I can't confirm it, off the bat, but I remember reading an excerpt from it that said that the Xenomorph "Big Chap" from the movie - and, subsequently, the toy itself - was designed to have a horrific realistic phallus the length of its body coming out of its crotch to emphasize and really hammer home the sexualized nature of the monster. This, of course, was cut at the last moment, but man... As far as Oddities go, I'd love for you to cover Lanard Toys' K9 Corps, a line of 12-inch figures possibly inspired by comedy cartoon Road Rovers, but darker and edgier. It's an oddity because, from what I've researched, it was meant to have a TV show, only lasted like one or two waves, and the figures are going for hundreds of dollars each on the secondary market. Also, the figures had sculpted nipples. On anthropomorphic canines. Yeah, as I said, Oddity material, there...

[@Johnny6666]

Nah - the Alien as designed by Giger never had that kind of oversized appendage, and such an addition was never (to my knowledge) suggested at any stage of pre/production. (And countless books, articles, on-set footage and pre-production materials attest to that.) And, one has to ask: why would they need to? As already envisioned the Alien was hugely phallic, with its elongated head, retracting teeth and slobbering jaws - in a film rife with sexual imagery (from vaginal doors to winding birth canals to milky android viscera). The film wisely avoids endowing the creature with any traditional reproductive physiognomy, and that's part of the terror: we don't know what the hell is happening to Lambert when we hear her screams over the intercom, but the suggestive glimpse of her bloodied, naked (?) body (not to mention Ripley's guttural reaction to the scene) is nightmare fuel for the audience's (carefully primed) imagination. To simply give the alien a big obvious d#ck would sabotage the suggestion and suspense the film works carefully to build.

[@icebergo6]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE TOYS EVER! My step dad used to chase my screaming, crying brother around the house with it. Honestly, it's play value was really low cause it was huge compared to all of the then trend of star waste sized characters. It just didn't match up. Those lucky enough to have Shogun Warrior and Godzilla toys could put their toys against one another. But even with all of that said, this toy was mesmerizing! The look of the bizarre, never before seen creature was like nothing else I could even imagine. So the oversimplified design was still cool. The fused fingers, glow in the dark paint on the head, hooked spear tail, muted/blinded eyes shielded by the clear skull piece was freaking scary and mind blowing. but the best part...the articulated, inner fang-mouth that protruded when you pulled the trigger was out of this world. So violent. So cool. It more than made up for GI Joe and Star Wars laser bolts that never drew blood.

[@martok2112]

I so wanted this action figure as a kid. One of my friends did have one....it was glorious. I never got that figure, but many years later, I did get a warrior xenomorph from ALIENS that blew apart at the touch of a button (sadly, I seem to have lost that one), and I now have another warrior xeno from ALIENS by Reel Toys. Thanks for this video. 👍👍

[@xenofett7008]

This bad boy was #1 on my Christmas list in 1979 and I got it. Later that night when it was bedtime I got scared of it. My Mom got frustrated and took it back to JC Penny's the following day. A few years later I saw a pic of the Kenner ALIEN in a collectables book a remembered how awesome this toy was and it took years after that to track one down still in the box with poster at a much higher price tag. It's the Holy Grail of my collectables.

[@Mattalica-ss9pj]

There was one of these in my granmother's attic -- not recently, but wayyyy back when they first came out (no, I have no idea why). I was only ~8 years old (and had not seen Alien yet), but I thought it was THE COOLEST THING EVER.

[@TheGreatAbaddon]

i got my NECA "big chap" and i love it. i wish i still had all the alien toys i had as a kid when they were everywhere.

[@CFCMahomet]

I received this toy in 1980 on my 9th birthday. I loved it but knew nothing about it till I saw Alien on HBO later in the year. I didn’t sleep that night and I put that toy under my bed for over a year. For the short time I did have it out it was an amazing nemesis for my Bionic Man.

[@chefpete12571]

That toy always gave me the creeps my neighbor had one. I also remember a JAWS coloring book too. It had some weird pictures in it.

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

I had one of these as a kid. I kept it around for years, even well into adolescence. I had a bunch of horror movie memorabilia in my room when I was in high school and it was one of the centerpieces. Even though the dome had fallen off years ago and one of its arms had fallen off during one of its many play sessions, it was a good decoration among my Freddy glove and Jason mask, etc.

[@hollywooda111]

My old brother had one of these and I thought it was the best thing ever I was soooooo jealous!!

[@Necron-ez2cc]

I bought mine at a department store toy section off the shelf in 1981... also picked up a copy of BOC's Fire of Unknown Origin. Yeah, I was THAT KID. It still stands proudly next to my Shogun Warriors and Estes Rockets.

[@greenlanternhg5141]

I would’ve love that toy...on a separate note I would’ve have unexplained nightmares as a kid 🤷🏽‍♂️ Great video Mr Larson, Producer Greg👍🏽✌🏽

[@markphillips4836]

Holy fuck lol that cut with the chestburster was amazing. Keep up the good work!

[@CalaveraCandy]

I had several Xenomorph toys and Alien video games years before seeing any of the movies. I just loved the way the Aliens looked. 😊

[@ChefBoyareB]

My parents bought older brother that 18" figurine. He kept turning the tides on the Alien by inserting his own eggs in the form of raisins through the mouth. One day my dad picked it up, heard that thing rattle like a maraca and he shattered it in his usual pissed off fits. In the early '90s, my brother and I found out that thing was worth $500 in good condition out of box.

[@jrapunk2755]

"Alien can't be beat!" Should absolutely be a catchphrase the Xenomorphs utter in every film

[@billpagan3070]

Another awesome review Dan and Greg!😁👍 It is quite odd watching the movie how this ever got produced! Now alien toys are back at Walmart with neon colors!😂😂😂

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@Wario7793]

I was 12 going on 13 when this figure came out. I never had one, but I knew a kid in my neighborhood who did. I loved cupping its hands and saying "You're safe in the hands of Allstate!"

[@Spaceprince72]

Thanks so much for doing Toy Galaxy. Especially during these trying times it seems the only way I truly feel happy is thinking about when I was a child and felt like the future held so much adventure and discovery, happiness and hope. Sadly, as an adult I no longer believe any of that so I prefer to spend as much time as I can looking wistfully backward to better days long gone by. Thanks for the trip through nostalgia.

[@jonathanalmaden6772]

Saw these on clearance growing up. Never got one. Thanks for the vid

[@jasonmonholland7040]

It's nice seeing so many others in here had the same experience as myself! I got this for Christmas one year, way too early in my childhood, didn't get to see they movie til much later, but it didn't terrify me as much as fascinate me! The movable jaws were so cool! Now that I think about it, I must have been a weird kid, cause I remember having this, a really big Godzilla with retractable mouth flames, and a Dracula that came out of his coffin by squeezing a pump? 🤔

[@tzgaming207]

despite how much this movie terrified me back in the day (tossed in the back of the ford pinto wagon, taken to the drive-in with the parents, expected to fall asleep, but no, i watched the whole movie 😅), i still wanted one of these 😁

[@macorte1972]

I owned that doll as a child and I truly loved it. Unfortunately, my Goddzill doll ended up breaking it durring a massive monster battle breaking my heart.

[@xenofett7008]

The ALIEN was a very cool toy, but also very fragile.

[@macorte1972]

@@xenofett7008 Definitley was not a kid friendly toy. BTW, my Godzilla toy had his head exploded when I tried to take him down to the bottom of the 12 foot pool with me. Major heart break...

[@xenofett7008]

@@macorte1972 I had the Shogun Warriors Godzilla too. Awesome toy, but the fire breathing tab on the back of the neck broke off along with a few of his toe nails.

[@macorte1972]

@@xenofett7008 I found one at a comic book store here in Houston for $600 but I was not feeling nastalgic enough to drop that kind of cash on it! LOL!

[@cloudmover]

At ten years old, I had the toy in my hands at Alexander's Department Store. My parents had no qualms about getting it for me. They could see the artistry in the figure work (and dad and I had watched the movie on VHS). While on the register line, I saw that it glowed in the dark. GLOWED in the DARK. In my dark room before I fell asleep, I dealt with thunder and house creaks and spiders and sirens and if I bought this figure home, I was going to have to ALSO deal with an Alien that glowed in the dark. I put it back.

[@FotogInkArt]

Still have mine...no box anymore (bought a repro box) but I do have the viewer and game with boxes. I was 9 and ALL about Alien after Star Wars. Now 52 they reside in my ALIEN themed man cave.

[@winstonheard9769]

“Alien dessert,” or as Chewbacca calls it, “porg”

[@MattMcIrvin]

I figured the crew of the Nostromo was alien dessert.

[@allcity2city]

Yoooooo!!! I got one of those big Alien dolls for Christmas when I was around six years old. It was like a teddy bear to me.

[@ShadowACE1998]

Think of it this way. Now little Timmy's ROM figure has something to fight.

[@xenofett7008]

In the 1979 JC Penny's Christmas Wishbook the ALIEN was pictured next to ROM.

[@Forcemaster2000]

Great coverage! I bought my son several of the Aliens figures from the 1990s, he loved playing with them.!

[@TaffiLouis]

What?! That’s it? I enjoyed this video, but it could easily have been a half-hour, for this all-time classic specimen of action figure movie promotion. What about the supposed “ban”? True or urban legend? What about the knock-offs from Japan, modern Super 7 variants and their ALIENS version in matching scale? What about the design/manufacturing flaws that make this figure harder and harder to find intact before the joints and spiky bits crumble? What about repair and restoration options and fan-made replacement parts (dome, neck-tail)? Or the online trade in individual figure parts... even the poster instructions go for mad bucks today! What about the Hideous Plastic book project in the works that covers much of this? I bet the author would make for some great interviewing, or at least a valuable resource for info for a Part 2 & 3? This video barely gets started introducing the product in its cultural landscape, now think about how much more there is to tell!

[@Johnny6666]

Good to see your papers are in order, Taffi. Nice one. ;)

[@treadstone1138]

Yeah there was no "ban". The toys simply rotted on the shelves, got sent to clearance bins and/or were sent back. No one wanted them. Then.

[@CyberDragon10K]

I remember having the T2 Terminator with the fold-down front half; always had him armed with the minigun! Pretty sure I also had a spring-driven exploding Alien figure (front half and right arm were a piece, left arm and back half were another, over a red inner torso), although I'm not sure if it was from Aliens or the third movie... I think the mechanism ended up just rusting to hell from being in an attic that wasn't temperature controlled. Old timey toys were _hardcore._

[@georgetrapp6666]

The Terminator line used the same exploding gimmick for the T-1000, had the one prybar arm, and had a globby silver piece as the inner "guts" with the spring and catch in it. I had nearly every figure in both lines. I also had a mess of the Predators. Edit: I also own the Ellen Ripley and the upright forklift bot.

[@tyr0n313]

Oh man I had that exact Terminator 2 figure shown at 8:27. I remember my mom getting it for me as a reward for not crying after getting vaccine shots when I was 6. I loved that figure (and that movie).

[@Cassells2012]

When was there an update on this figure?? Didn't it have an extended "Inner Biter " That popped out ? Or was that later editions for later movie tie-ins

[@soppdrake]

There is a subtle trigger on the inside of the rear part of the head. When that is depressed upwards the inner mouthparts shoot out as the main jaws open. :-)

[@texasbeast239]

4:27-4:37 Shows the inner jaws action feature of this toy. Not an inner tongue with teeth on the end, but 2 additional inner toothed jaws.

[@evilalien1741]

ya love old kenner stuff

[@likonatera7452]

I remember seeing that action figure at the local toy store in the late 70s while we were getting some new STAR WARS figures. I remember being horrified by it and most of al by the simple package design. It all seemed as serious as a toy representation of cancer or a heart attack. Fascinating? of course but scary as hell. It looked like it smelled like dead animals to me.

[@texasbeast239]

"Hey kid, check out this Corona in a box. It's literally cardboard death."

[@davidpenn9396]

now i really do remember this one toy all coming out But! the movie Alien in 1979 was Rated R now i am not so sure if both Kenner and 20th Century Fox made a deal and just shock hands together with each other in order for this Alien figure to all come out which it really did later on because i saw it on TV talking all about it and i saw the figure it self in a toy department and i thought Wow! that was really cool but the price on that figure was way way too much money for me to buy from that period of time. But! that was really strange since this movie called Alien was a Rated R movie and they all at once made a Kenner Toy about it. it also makes you wonder from that period of time would you happened to show your ID which is Drivers Licenses in order to really buy this toy only God knows. ever since i myself have really gotten older for myself it does make you think just how some of these movies that were Rated R all at once come out with toys Yes! that is strange Good Video at least it gives me something to really think all about

[@DarxusC]

I was a kid when I first watched that movie, and was lastingly terrified.

[@NotMorganFreeman.]

I got for christmas the year it came out. It was the one and only thing I asked for to make 100% sure I got one. It was the only christmas I can remember vividly.

[@ATroknya]

Loving the new Oddities intro.

[@BayRidah26]

My parents got me this toy when I was 3 yrs old and I loved it. I played with it until it fell apart

[@ENigma-um8zw]

I had so many action figures from r rated movies I’d not see till I was older, different times indeed

[@LucatheDingo88]

Ironically when I was at Walmart I actually saw what was officially licenced toys for Aliens, they had everything, facehuggers, the exosuit, the military vehicle from the film, there was even a giant Alien Queen, and some stuff that wasn't in the films like a motorcycle. Of course the Xenomorphs themselves were done in various bright colored plastics to make them look more kid friendly, and even the Queen was a bright purple.

[@dylanfgarrison]

What’s funny is now (in 2022) you can buy (in Target!) a few different Alien toys which are right next to the Predator, Jason and Mike Meyers toys… way at the back, near the movies. My seven year old is obsessed. For Christmas he wants a Queen Alien and loves all the Alien and Predator movies.

[@ikeduno7973]

The opening track slaps! Love it.

[@darrellpasion8925]

I got that 18' Alien Figure way back in 79 or 80 ? on Xmas day, my mom bought it for me because I was really into monsters at a young age . I was 6 or 7 but too young to see it at the movie theaters because it was rated R. 😢 😢

[@d.blackwell6417]

I had it when i was 5. I was terrified of it at night. I miss that toy!

[@TymersRealm]

The 9 to 10 year old me remembers seeing both the Alien figure and the movie viewer at the local Service Merchandise back in the day. Yea, that thing was nightmare-fuel inducing...

[@chefjrmz]

I saw the movie as a kid when it aired on a regular network once. I had no idea what I was getting into. Although it didnt show everything, the xenomorph became the only creature that would recur in my nightmares. Like the movies, I would be stuck in a place with this thing, although typically somewhere like a grocery store. It constantly lashing out at people from under shelves but no one other than me was aware. It didnt happen in my sleep often, but it did show up for years. My uncle had a puzzle of it that came in an egg (the same thing pantyhose came in). I put that puzzle together so many times and it was the only thing I had access to that showed it in detail. I also acquired his MAD magazine that had its parody Of the film. Wish mom hadn't trashed my mags as a punishment for my grades.

[@3dagalathor]

wholly shit i had one of these toys was a kid, it was fucking amazing, i loved it so much. Sadly it was lost during a move to a new house. i still miss it. i watched the first movie with my dad, i can still vividly remember the room and the tv we watched it on at the age of 6 years old.

[@craigsadler1728]

I seen the movie I was 5 and I was freaked the F out! I was hiding under the seats in the movie theater. My mom took me to see it, not sure why she did. Then she got me the 18 inch toy! I remember playing with it. The good old day!

[@marcuspetford1098]

When I was about seven my older brother had a glue together model similar to this, always gave me the creeps. I did not see the movie however until I was eleven (mid-80's) staying over at a friends house. It was playing on the French channel late at night and I watched in horror without the context to understand exactly what was happening. He slept in a huge waterbed and I had a sleeping bag on the floor. I was scared $#!tless that night!

[@ariochiv]

Even if you don't know the context, I think just from looks alone this thing is ten times scarier than any classic movie monster. I was 12 when _Alien_ came out, and my parents wouldn't let me see the movie, even though our 6th grade teacher had read from the book to us and showed us the Metal Metal graphic novelization... and I had nightmares about it long before I ever actually got to see the movie. The Kenner alien was relatively rare in stores, and it was intimidating... but I would have bought it except for the unusual size. It was big and expensive, and completely out of scale with pretty much any other action figures.

[@anionhero]

Honestly, I don't remember seeing this anywhere when I was a kid. However, I believe from what you presented here that the major problem they faced, besides the toy being based on a non-kid friendly movie, was the scale of the toy. If it had been made in the scale of the Star Wars action figures, they could have produced more characters from the movie and maybe had actually managed to do decent in the market before parents got into an uproar over what Kenner was trying to sell.