It appears Australia’s largest toy retailer, Toyworld, have re-stocked Lanard Toys ALIEN Collection series toys. Available here once again are the 7 inch Special Edition items: Drone, Warrior and Runner Xenomorphs. Each lurid and wonderful item inspired by ALIEN comics and other media is available online for Au$27.99 (plus postage). 
This is the 2nd ’round for this set of Lanard ALIEN figures appearing in Australia’s Toyworld; and it’s a welcome return. We don’t see much in the way of ALIEN content released here. You won’t find ’em at TARGET. They just never get stocked. You’ll have to rely on specialist stores or importers to get anything related to ALIEN stuff in this country – and it’s ALWAYS a lot more expensive. While it’s great to see this series back at Toyworld, I still hope to see the recently released Glow in the Dark interpretations also be released at Toyworld at some point. I have had assurances that will happen. Eventually. Sort of. Maybe… Who knows at this rate, right? Anyway, I’ve had this trio of Special Edition toys for some time now and reviewed them. Grab a set for your kids. After all, these are intended as toys for children and not just fake toys for collectors to hoard in pristine boxes and deny their kids the opportunity to even touch them. Give your kids some Lanard Love, I say. Give ’em some face ripping space monsters of their own they can cherish dearly. These things are great!
-Windebieste.
This is a fabulous item wearing its curious four decades old Kenner ALIEN toys history prominently on the upper right corner of the box. The discount price sticker displayed on this sample attests to how these children’s toys were originally intended to be sold for US$14.97 only to be later marked down and sold for the discount price of US$4.97 each. The substantial ten dollar clearance sale reduced the original sale figure of the toy down to under five US dollars. This would have occurred sometime during late 1979 (or early 1980s) and is documented on the label. Such discounts were common for these grotesque Kenner toys when they failed to live up to the sales figures of their exceptionally more popular Star Wars brethren. Tens of thousands of these ALIEN toys were sold in this manner mark down sales to clear dead stock forty years ago. My, has their valued climbed once again to lofty heights! 
I am hoping to have a sample for review at some point in the not too distant future. This weird stuff does take some hunting down but I hope to acquire one as soon as possible. That will be at least six weeks away, at the very best as shipping from Mexico to Australia is always a lengthy exercise. I am looking forward to having one on hand and adding it to my collection of loopy unlicenced Mexican ALIEN items very soon.
Personally, I find this expectation on part of the seller very amusing. While this item is for sale in the US, let’s see how much it translates into currency where I live, in Australia. hmmm… The international currency exchange rate is in an outstandingly bad situation right now, so let’s have a good laugh here…
