Usually when I post about items being sold on eBay, I simply focus on the 1979 Kenner ALIEN toys currently available. …and believe me, for a forty plus year old toy that is often listed as rare, there appears to be a significant number of them available at any time I search on eBay. Eh… They’re not rare. Not by a long shot. Anyway, today I’m posting something different yet still inexorably connected to the notorious 1979 Kenner ALIEN toy. This post is dedicated to a Tsukuda Hobby ALIEN being sold along with a a pair of Super7 ALIENS ReAction figures. All of these figures are listed together for US$150 and they each have a story to tell. Marvelous! I love it!
First up, let’s tackle the Big Chap. This isn’t a bootleg. It’s a legitimately licenced item. This large figure is a Tsukuda Hobby action figure from 1995 and is indirectly derived from the older 1979 Kenner ALIEN action figure which I frequently post about on this page. Anyway, this 1995 ALIEN figure is a modified recast of the Halcyon model kit released in 1991. Significantly, the Halcyon ALIEN kit in turn is a recast of Tsukuda Hobby’s previous Jumbo Series No.2 ALIEN figure, released in 1984. That 1984 Tsukuda Hobby figure was itself a recast of the original 1979 Kenner ALIEN toy. Confused yet? Wait, it gets even more complex. For whatever unknown reason, when Tsukuda Hobby recast this figure and released it in 1995, they neglected to modify the date stamp that originally appears on the 1991 Halcyon kit. The manufacture date on the Tsukuda item will erroneously display 1991 on its right foot instead of the correct date of 1995. It has often been referred to as a 1991 Kenner ALIEN which of course is equally erroneous, although it does share a legitimate heritage with two other aforementioned figures associated with Kenner’s original ALIEN toy.
If you would like to further investigate this unusual figure made in Japan, you don’t have to go too far. Here’s a page I prepared some years back to help explain the curious history of this 17 inch tall item. Now let’s tackle the other pair of smaller human figures.
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I’m not even going to attempt to speculate on how errors of this nature happen during production. They just do; but there appears to be a great many samples of figures boasting anomalous features out there in the real world. A lot of them. I’ve only been able to document just a small sampling which are known to exist. Go check out the ALIEN freakshow where other 
This is a complete emulation of the four decades old blue box Kenner used to package their nefarious eighteen inch tall action figure back in 1979. Even the red insert card within the box used to hold the figure in place is present.
While the items on the left and middle were released in correct colour schemes, the item on the right is simply inexplicably painted the wrong colour. As this curiosity may be an error (or potentially some kind of paint test/product development sample) it’s now been ceremoniously added to the page full of 
There appears to be an abundance of Super7 ALIEN ReAction figures released featuring a variety of production errors. I’ve been able to document some of them; and more coming. I am thinking I will soon need to split the page dedicated to 
This is such a wonderful item and a great example of contents gone wrong, exploded into its basic parts. It’s been added to 
For me, this little guy is the epitome of what 
This Gloss Black Alien is from Super7’s A1 Series of blind box SPACE VILLAIN ReAction figures. At a glance, he doesn’t look too bad but a closer inspection reveals he is in possession of two left legs. Ash is from Super7’s ALIEN ReAction figure series Wave 3, he’s intentionally painted with milky android blood over his upper torso. He’s meant to be like that but he is strangely lacking any details on his face. His eyes and eyebrows have failed to be painted and he blankly stares at the world, eternally failing to connect with his human being peers. The mind of a deceitful machine forever trapped behind a blind gaze.
This area of the site has grown to become a major section on HIDEOUS PLASTIC and it currently stands at 25 pages in length. It is dedicated to documenting every ALIEN ReAction figure item Super7 has released to date; and is now complete.
There’s one obvious question to be asked about a facehugged Kane. If a host gets facehugged and the Alien adopts traits of the host character, does that mean the Alien emerging from this version of Kane will possess two right legs? Well, maybe we’ll get to find out. Just watch this space!
It’s not just ReAction figures that are being offered here. There’s a whole slew of Super7 items discounted at the moment including ALIEN themed Halloween buckets and drinking glasses tucked away in these bundles. These items appear to be 
This entry will mark the twenty third page dedicated to ALIEN ReAction figures and almost brings me up to date. The only items remaining to be added are the 2021 ALIEN Day figures. I am yet to acquire loose samples of this year’s release, so adding them might take a while. There are seven items to be added. I’m looking forward to bringing this lengthy guide up to date, hopefully before the end of the year. That would be nice. Let’s see how long it takes me to get those final, loose items.
This is a pair of commissioned pieces. T
Also available from today are five other new ALIEN and ALIENS ReAction figures. These aren’t quite as exciting as they’re more or less new variants of already extant characters, utilising already familiar sculpts. There’s a new version of the Alien and it’s good if a little bit of an eyeball roller; and long overdue for retirement. There’s three new versions of the ALIENS Xenomorph. Ummm… That’s OK, I think. Plus a mystifying “I’m not too sure why they made this variant?” of Hudson; which looks like Super7’s previous release of Hudson but featuring a grimace and mounted on a “Game over Man, game over!” card featuring layout stylistically reminiscent of one of Bill Gold’s early ALIEN posters. I guess it’s OK. …I guess.
My documentation of ALIEN ReAction figures is nearing completion. All the figures released as part of the ALIEN line are now represented. The only items missing now are the nine ALIENS items that were released last year.
Let’s see what’s on offer here. hmmm… There’s a pretty blue one. He’s great. I love the color blue. One is covered in spots like a dalmatian, except it’s spots are a bloody red instead of black so maybe someone’s face exploded all over him. Another is a beautiful translucent amber with glitter inside giving it the appearance of freshly poured beer; and the final item in this group of four is brown. Just like poo. If you’re into that kind of thing.