It’s a box.  With nothing on it.  So?  So what..?   What’s the big deal with that, then?

That’s what makes it so special.  Such blank unprinted boxes were made in 1979 for testing purposes by Kenner.  About 8 of these blank boxes are known to have survived.  Considering the action figure can sell for upwards of $400 when present in a normal retail box and they are easy to acquire the absolute scarcity of this blank package and its relationship to the figure prior to it being released to retail makes this item special.

It’s now been added to the page dedicated to prototypes of Kenner’s original 1979 ALIEN action figure.  Go check it out – that page is growing nicely.

I’d like to thank Jerry Buchanan for his first contribution to a growing list of people who have helped to flesh out the ALIEN Prototype Gallery on this site, which now holds no less than 25 different prototype ALIEN/S characters, many of them represented multiple times.  Thank you, Jerry!

-Windebieste.