Manufacturer: Kenner Products
Type: The first action figure toy based on ALIEN.
Released: 1979 (October)
Product No.: 70060
Height: 18.75 inches.
Glow in the Dark Feature: Skull face and other details along the side of the head will glow in the dark.
Packaging: Blue box with windows in front and on top.
Inclusions: Double sided poster. Red card insert packaging.
Points of Articulation and Movement: 8. 1x Trigger operated mouth and tongue consisting of multiple parts. 2x freely moving ball and socket shoulder joints. 2x rotation at wrist spindle joints. 2x rotation at hip spindle joints. 1x rotation at tail spindle joint.
Note: The loose and often missing translucent smoky head carapace is not considered to be a moving part. There may appear to be some looseness at the neck joint but no rotation of the head is possible. The 5 appendages found loosely fixed in place upon the figure’s back may offer some migration within their points of attachment but are also considered not to be moving parts. The rotating prehensile tail is permanently and inflexiblymolded into its coiled shape and will not bend without breaking.
CANADIAN VARIANT.
A lesser known Canadian made variant of this figure is also known to exist. These alternate figures tend to be a slightly lighter grey in colour. They can be difficult to differentiate from the US pressings of the figure but when placed side by side can show obvious changes. They have frequently been labeled as bootlegs but this is not true. This version is a fully licenced product made by the Irwin Toy company under contract from Kenner. They are true variants.
Notably, US pressings of the figure have the ‘CPG PRODUCTS CORP 1979’ details stamped on the right hand side of the jaw operation trigger while the Canadian figure lacks this information. The removal of a single screw from the back of the figure and comparing it to one removed from a US made figure is also adequate confirmation. Internally, there’s an abundance of additional differences that will determine whether a suspect figure is a Canadian pressing as the toy needed to meet that nation’s manufacturing standards for the toy.
These alternate Canadian figures were also packaged into boxes very similar to their US counterparts. The blue boxes were largely identical in format, design, color and themes. The main differentiation being the bilingual badging and text present on all sides, duplicating same information on the US edition but appearing in both English and French.
This packaged version of the figure was also known to have been distributed to the UK and to Europe. These ‘international’ bilingual boxes are considerably more rare than their US counterpart making them significantly more valuable.
Much like the US pressing of the toy, a poster is also included in the Canadian version of the toy. It features one side printed in English and the reverse in French. The poster is extremely rare.
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