Product line: ALIEN
Manufacturer: Super7.
Number of figures in set: 3. Comprising of Brett, Parker and a bloodied version of the Alien with an extended tongue.
Package: Packed into a 3 pack window box.
Inclusions: A clam shell tray inside the box secures all figures correctly in place.
Released: 2018.
Price: US$45 each.
Soon after the availability of the blue card set of five Wave 3 ALIEN ReAction figures at New York Comic Con 2018, Super7 released their entire range of Wave 3 ALIEN ReAction figures in a set of three boxes. Each box contained three items apiece, adding four additional items to Wave 3 thus expanding the product line to include a total of nine items.
This box is the second of three items. It’s contents contain two new sculpt items in the form of Brett and Parker. Also included in this package is the unique extended tongue version of the bloodied Alien figure. All three items were also released on blue cards at New York Comic Con.
Three figures comprise this set:
Brett.
Parker.
Bloodied Alien Variant.
Additional Notes:
– There are no accessories included with either of the human characters in this package.
– This version of the Alien is the only variant that physically differs from all other versions of this figure with any sculpted changes. It features a permanently fixed in place, fully extended tongue rather than the sliding tongue arrangement present in all other samples.
– The removal of the sliding tongue feature meant the vacant slot on top of the head to accommodate the manipulator for the slider has also been filled in, making the head whole.
– Aside from the modified head and tongue components, this version is alike in all other details including spattered blood paint scheme to the other Alien figure previously released as part of Wave 3 in 2018.
Notes on the box design.
– Other than identifying box contents and box set numbers, all design elements and features, logos and dates are common and exactly alike across all three boxes in this wave of figures.
– Barcodes are specific to each box.
– The colour theme of the window box is inspired by cloth badges appearing on garments worn by the Nostromo crew as seen in the movie.
– The Pump Demi font is used on the package design. This font appears throughout the movie, it notably appearing on clothing and elsewhere (Space suit name tags, etc.).
– The figures are marked as “EXCLUSIVE” on the back of the box but this feature is inconsistent with the actual release:
- The ‘bloodied’ Ash with removable head is the only character included in this set of Wave 3 figures to actually not appear elsewhere on blue card or in any other packaging format, making this version of the only truly unique – and genuinely exclusive – character in this set of nine figures.
- Dallas and the Bloodied Alien were each released at a later date on blue card, rendering their exclusive status as noted on the back of this box set as inaccurate.
- At the time of the release of this set, this colorway Ripley item was also not previously available. Nonetheless, unlike Dallas and The Alien, she possesses no “EXCLUSIVE” status on the back of the box yet all three figures were released at a later date on blue card.
