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This is a quick review of the 1/10 Alien Big Chap from Kotobukiya.
Sharp, and great paint. Excellent statue for collectors, even if it is tiny!
If you typically collect sideshow, Prime1, prop replicas, scaled statues or premium formats, this little guy is worth a look. This Xenomorph is an easy-to-display addition to your desk or mancave.
What's not to love about ALIEN?
In space no one can hear you scream.
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ALIEN "Big Chap" BACKSTORY
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The Alien, nicknamed "Kane's son" by Ash, was a lone Xenomorph Drone that was born on board the USCSS Nostromo from Executive Officer Thomas Kane in 2122. It was responsible for wiping out all but one of the Nostromo's crew in just a few hours. It was eventually killed by Ellen Ripley, who ejected the creature into space and burned it alive.
The Alien began its life as one of the many Ovomorphs aboard a derelict Engineer spacecraft on the moon LV-426. At some point, this spacecraft crashed on LV-426 under unclear circumstances, while at around the same time the vessel's Pilot was apparently impregnated by a Facehugger. Before dying, the Pilot set up a warning beacon to deter any other lifeforms from investigating, and this signal was later detected by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.
In the year 2122, while transporting an ore refinery from Thedus, the Nostromo, a commercial towing vehicle, was redirected to LV-426, supposedly in response to detecting the distress signal emanating from the planetoid; in reality, Weyland-Yutani had pre-selected the Nostromo to investigate after detecting the signal themselves, placing a Synthetic sleeper agent aboard to ensure the survival of anything that was discovered.
Three of the ship's crew - Captain Dallas, Executive Officer Kane and navigator Joan Lambert - set off in search of the signal's origin, eventually discovering the derelict ship. While investigating, Kane stumbled across the ship's cargo of Eggs and was attacked by a Facehugger.
The Alien had grown into a full-sized Drone and claimed its first victim, technician Samuel Brett, who was ambushed as he searched for the ship's cat Jones; the Alien punctured his skull with a Headbite before dragging the corpse into the Nostromo's ventilation ducts. When Captain Dallas went into the air ducts in an attempt to flush the creature into the ship's main airlock using a Flame Thrower, the Alien captured him as he descended a ladder next to the Drone.
Eventually, the survivors, elected to set the Nostromo for self destruct and abandon the ship in its shuttle, the Narcissus, although in order to survive they needed to collect additional coolant for the shuttle's life support systems. Ripley, now alone with the creature, set the Nostromo's engines to self destruct and headed for the Narcissus, but was cornered by the Alien and cut off from the shuttle. She escaped while the Alien was distracted by Jones, left behind in a cat carrier, but was unable to shut off the ship's self destruct sequence. With no choice, she made for the shuttle again, this time finding the Alien gone and escaping before the Nostromo exploded.
After preparing to enter hypersleep, Ripley discovered, to her horror, that the Alien had actually escaped the Nostromo's destruction by sneaking aboard the Narcissus with her and was sleeping in an alcove.
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LIST OF NOTABLE VICTIMS:
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Thomas Kane (host)
Samuel Brett
Arthur Dallas
Dennis Parker
Joan Lambert
The Alien was designed by H. R. Giger, based on his 1976 lithograph Necronom IV. However, before Giger became involved both Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb made some preliminary sketches of Alien's antagonistic creature. Upon being hired, Giger made several conceptual paintings of the adult Xenomorph before crafting a full-size sculpt of the final version, constructed from plasticine and incorporating pieces such as vertebrae from snakes and cooling tubes from a Rolls-Royce. This sculpt was then used to cast the latex suit, which was again embellished with unusual inorganic components, including bottle caps and even macaroni pieces. The highly detailed costume was very restrictive and severely limited Bolaji Badejo's movements when inside.
The creature's head was manufactured separately by Carlo Rambaldi, who had worked on the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The prototype translucent ALIEN suit was created during pre-production as was one of the first (if not the first) suits to be struck from the original Alien sculpted by Giger. One of their original concepts for the creature was to be almost translucent, allowing viewers to see the eerie internal workings of the body.
The suit was acquired by the Prop Store from the personal collection of Ivor Powell.
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