[Joe Moore]

Sideshow Alien Space Jockey Maquette Images and Info

[Dr Kain]

I want this to go with my Alien figures from NECA. However, the price is way too high for me. I couldn't even pay half of that.

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I want this to go with my Alien figures from NECA. However, the price is way too high for me. I couldn't even pay half of that.

My thoughts exactly. Having a few Nostromo suit characters around that would be awesome (and fun to do a shoot with). $600 is just too much for me to justify. Once I get around the $300-$400 mark, my wife starts to give me the stink eye.

[Comedian]

Agreed. I want this for my Neca scene,but that price is out of hand. Sideshow has been increasing prices faster and steeper than any other company. My first starwars 1/6 scale was $50 from them,now they push close to $300. I love their premium format items but again,they started around $250 now they just showed of the new court of the dead at $600.

They have priced me out. To bad,but other companies will get my money now.

[Skoob]

Prometheus destroyed this for me. Now, all I can think of is those stupid black-suited Michelin Men. Previously, I would have jumped on it.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

Prometheus destroyed this for me. Now, all I can think of is those stupid black-suited Michelin Men. Previously, I would have jumped on it.

I don't see how. Prometheus changes nothing to the fact that one of the Engineers had a chest burster in him. Not to mention Prometheus was a fantastic movie and gave us a look into the Engineers.

[Skoob]

It's a matter of shattered preconceptions and expectations. I always envisioned the Engineers as something truly alien based on the remains in that chair, much more in the spirit of alien-ness manifested in Giger's original creation. For me, it was disappointing to see the Space Jockey reduced to a spacesuit for the Michelin Man. I look on the movie as profiteering through demystification and anthromorphization, and hate it for that reason (among others). Scott took something really artistic and cutting-edge and dumbed it down. JMHO.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

It's a matter of shattered preconceptions and expectations. I always envisioned the Engineers as something truly alien based on the remains in that chair, much more in the spirit of alien-ness manifested in Giger's original creation. For me, it was disappointing to see the Space Jockey reduced to a spacesuit for the Michelin Man. I look on the movie as profiteering through demystification and anthromorphization, and hate it for that reason (among others). Scott took something really artistic and cutting-edge and dumbed it down. JMHO.

Since it was Ridley's to begin with so he could do almost anything and say it fits, within the canon it would. I totally get why you, and a lot of others, didn't like Prometheus but I quite enjoyed that it wasn't just another Alien movie. I do agree that it's a disappointment the Engineers weren't more, well, alien. That doesn't stop me from thinking the chair suit looks really cool. Given the film's explanation of human origin it does make more sense for them to look fairly human.

[Skoob]

Thanks for understanding. It's a classic dispute, like criticism of the Anakin prequels and their effect on the Star Wars franchise.

This does looks like a good replica, if only I had room for it...

[Dr Kain]

Meh, if you say so. I personally can't wait for Paradise to come out so we can learn more about the Engineers.