Today is May 25, making today the 39th Anniversary of the release of ALIEN in US cinemas.  As far as I am concerned today is the real ALIEN Day – it carries a lot more significance than that 4/26 silliness, fun as it is.  Let’s celebrate this fine occasion with something truly unique; nothing short of a set of valuable relics from those bygone days when our multi jawed friend first started terrorising innocent audience members.  Those poor souls who thought ALIEN was just going to be another light hearted space adventure like Star Wars, which was released exactly 2 years earlier.  …but I digress.

What we see here is a set of wax dorsal appendages (and tail) from an early sculpt of the original 1979 Kenner ALIEN action figure.  These parts – along with a handful of others – are all that survive of this unique version of the figure.  From these wax sculpts, moulds would have been generated from which the final figure would have eventually been cast.  Yeah.  They’re kind of important when you realise you are looking at the earliest known stage of the figure’s 3D development.

This image is just one of several that have been added to the page dedicated to prototype items associated with the old 1979 Kenner ALIEN toy.

Thank you Derek Ho for sharing these images, right on time to celebrate the movie’s 39th Anniversary.

-Windebieste.