There actually was a cartoon in the works, and an opening theme song clip was produced (I’ve seen it before). I wish it would have made it into full production!
My grandma's brother Jim was a collector of star wars and aliens toys. My little brother inherited a lot of his kenner loose aliens. Some variants were wild looking..glow in the dark!
This brings back memories. I remember buying the 18 inch 1979 kenner alien. Bought it for 5 dollars at toys r us. Played with it along side my star wars figures and Shogun Worries. Who knew the alien 79 would be worth alot. Yes I am kicking myself. Yes may I have another each time I think of having this great alien piece as a child. Thanks junkman for doing an alien vid.
that thing sat at a flea market on the same table, displayed in the same spot up high. i stared at it every time we entered and left the flea market. i didnt know what it was. jump ahead to ten years and its still sitting there. i know what it is and im saving up my pennies for it. new driver me and my little bit of chores money got up early, invited friends to go along to get that Alien toy and whatever else we found. the old man that had the table died! i often wonder who ended up with that alien.
I bought a bunch of these from kaybee in the mall.I opened them up and displayed them diorama style with the humans being killed.they were a lot of fun.
I thought the Kenner Aliens toys were interesting. However, I didn't care much for the human figures in this line. The different various aliens (including the queen alien) were pretty awesome. I never bought them, but remember seeing them in the toy aisles. I think that the figures released from Retro Action a few years back were really cool from the first Aliens movie. Supposedly, they were made from molds originally made by Kenner back in 1979. However, the large Alien Kenner figure was so scary that it was pulled from shelves and they decided not do the 3-3/4 scale figures.
Between the Kenner Aliens and Batman stuff, Playmates Star Trek, Toy Biz Marvel and the Spawn stuff, it was a great time. Yeah, they're not worth too much these days, but the memories are.
I don't really remember this line but I do remember hanging out at the comic book store. It was always fun and I would always end up spending more money then I intended to. I had a job back then where I worked odd hours so I would hang out there at different times of day and different days of the week and I got to know most of the regular costumers. Good memories.
I remember those I used to have a full set of them back then. I always thought they were based on the Dark Horse comic series. There was probably a 100 different titles of Aliens and Predator in the 90’s
i think they got carried away with them. the alien, predator and terminator mini series and 2nd series were such a treat. then it was an onslaught of alien appearances and i lost interest.
I had this entire collection including Foreign exclusives, vehicles, and the Queen Hive Playset and the Predator line as well. About a year ago I let my 9 year old son open them all up to play with them (they were all still carded). He absolutely loved them!!
For some reason I love this comment!! Kept them on the card because of the perceived value or you just like the look of them and then instead of cashing in you just gave your son a memory he would never forget. What’s sad is most people read this comment and think what an iddot there worth so much less. We’ll I promise you on your death bed your letting ur son open your alien toys will not be running threw your head and if it does it will be the joy of the moment that I promise u whatever money those toys would of got ya would give u! Don’t change brother!!!
@@edwardtheenigma when he is on his death bed, his son might get those weird flashy hint memories of playing with those aliens. dad let me open his aliens and predators. i know it would be one of my memories or something similar.
@@edwardtheenigma Yeah, I collected many comics and toys over the years...most of which sat stored in boxes in the garage or attic. My son reached the age where he thought Aliens were cool (even though he isn't allowed to watch the movies) and I pulled them out of the boxes and he and I ripped open all of them. He's probably done playing with them already (this was a year or two ago) but the time he enjoyed playing with them was worth it to me.
This was the line that got me collecting again as well and I believe it was kept alive by the Dark horse comics.also my new job is stocking the toy department so now we will get to the bottom of where all the toys are going
Me and my brother had most of these toys. They were awesome, and the comics were a cool bonus. My favorite was definitely the exploding Alien at 9:20. You pressed a button and it would explode, complete with gory red ribcage bursting out. The Aliens were much cooler than the humans in this set. And also, you could scare your parents or sister with that little rubber facehugger.
Bought almost all of these with the intention of animating them. Kinda lost interest when the humans were so far off. Then Robot Chicken lowered the bar for stop motion and decided to shelve that idea. The Scorpion is pretty good film-wise.
Love your user name! The stop motion idea sounds really fun, but I totally understand why you wouldn’t pursue it. I’ve played with doing photo comics by shooting action figures but don’t know if it’s worth the time involved in setting it up. It might actually be more labor intensive than drawing a comic.
Loved the Aliens line. Had all of wave one but eventually wore them out from playing with them so often. Even the comics wore out from me reading them and trying to draw the panels I liked. Wish the little comics were available online or somewhere.
I was 10 years old when these came out. I acquired all of them and the Gorilla Alien was my favorite. That's so cool that you knew the guy who did the comic. I read that little comic over and over as a kid.
I absolutely loved this line as a kid! The human characters were FAR from accurate to their movie counterparts, but as toys, they were just fun to play with.
those crazy kenner 90s poses and bright colors were not for me. is this the line where they start doing wide stances and poses? star wars, batman co e to mind. crouched positions. they did dare to take chances, im guessing cause playmates turtle poses? but i prefer the straight standing posables myself. perfer the
I remember a friend of mine got the Wild Boar alien figure as a gift at some Christmas party he went to. I thought it was so cool that I finally found one for myself. Then I met a new friend who had the Snake, Mantis and Rhino aliens. I thought the Wild Boar alien figure was cool, but damn when I saw that Snake and Mantis aliens I HAD to have them. I eventually talked him into trading me all three for something, but I can't remember what. Then I bought a random lot of Alien figures off ebay that had the Gorilla, Panther, Killer Crab and two big face hugger figures. And later on I bought the Bull Alien. Always really wanted the Queen, Scorpion and Night Cougar aliens as well as the orange Rhino alien variant but never got them, sadly.
I was a huge fan of the films when these launched. I saw them at a local comic con for the first time and had no idea they even existed. I immediately left the con and drove to Toys R Us and bought the entire set for half the price the dealer wanted.
I had that Ripley action figure!! And having a HUGE crush on Sigourney Weaver, it was my prized possession at the time!! (I brought her EVERYWHERE with me!!) And then my cousin Jesse gifted me his Blue Alien warrior and a brand new Gray Rhino Alien for Christmas of 97 or 98. Needless to say, they provided me with countless hours of Xeno fighting fun when I was a kid!! Man, I miss the 90's!!
I’ve never been much for Alien, but these figures were in every comic shop (the comic store where I lived was run by a guy named Tony Harris, coincidentally) especially the drone aliens. Now I actually have thought about buying the bubble gum colored Walmart ones because they are so weird.
I was so excited when I found these toys in Fisher big wheel. I had watched the movies with my older brother when my parents weren't home so I was all about it. The toy line was based on the Dark Horse comic series. I had every one of the figures. Now I have the neca figures they are immaculate
Really like the Kenner ALIENS line. Nice change of pace That Junkman, didn’t think you would discuss this line. Loved the vehicles, the Power Loader was cool, but the Stinger XT-37 and Evac Fighter look great. Definitely preferred the Xenomorphs and would love to get the Aliens from this line. One of the greatest Kenner toylines, surprised it lasted from 1992-1995 but that was one of Kenner’s strengths.
You are so right about this being a big draw for adults. I was getting Batman Animated and Toy Biz Marvel, but these were a whole other level of cool. I had most of the Aliens. I’m fuzzy on if I had the gorilla Alien or not. I didn’t know Tony Harris’ work until Starman a year or 2 later. In fact, I don’t remember the comic books at all. Weird since I’ve always been a much bigger comic collector. I definitely had the Queen, Snake, Bull, and Scorpion. Like you, I didn’t really see the Alien movies until I was in my 20s. I had caught all of the original in the 80s, but completely out of order. Alien 3 was my first and I honestly loved it. It gets a lot of hate, but as my first one it was pretty awesome. Cool video JM!
I don’t know how I missed this video. Anyway I was stationed in Germany in 1992 and I remember seeing these at the Army PX and this was probably one of the first toy lines that I started collecting as an adult. I just focused on the alien figures though and never owned any of the human characters. The Scorpion Alien was also my favorite because it was the closest to the xenomorphs in the movie. Oddly enough I only bought one, even though it seemed like a natural figure to army build.
Loads of nostalgia here, man! 😊 Still have all the Aliens from the first toyline with me, complete, even today. (And a few more that came later.) Solidly built! Miss the good ol'days, man... 🤩👍 PS. I used to WEAR those rubber face-huggers like a ring arond my fingers and walk around. Man, the 90s...'wild' is putting it mildly! 😂
I had these figures and they were awesome. I remember going to Target with my mom and getting the Alien Queen, Bishop and the scorpion alien. The Scorpion alien was my favorite because it closely mirrored the movie version and how it would explode when you push the button. The comics were also quite well done and nicely illustrated and the packaging was awesome too. Anyway. Day twenty-eight of requesting Junkman to do a reaction video to Babes in Toyland 1986 or Star Wars Christmas special for a Junkman Christmas special.
I collected this line when it came out and really liked it! I was a big fan of the movie and grabbed the whole series 1. The Alien queen was very hard to get, had to ask a guy a Toy's R us to open a box of figures to grab the only one!!
I recently bought a Scorpion Alien of my own at a local store that was selling a lot of Kenner alien stuff, I wanna open it but I was told it’ll ruin its value.
Man I used to have those Aliens figures from Kenner, I have the plain xenomorph, and I think I had the cougar alien and Bishop and also Hicks but towards the end my mom threw them away.
Never bought these. I saw Aliens when I was 9 and by the time these came out I thought their designs were a joke. However, I'm getting my Hiya Toys "Big Chap" this week, as well as two drones and the queen from Aliens next month. 3.75 scale and their sculpts are awesome!! 👌
You know the kenner ghostbusters slimed heroes line, where you wet the figure and the colours change on uniforms and face, well when I was too young and sat each one in the toilet bowl......and oh yes my little mind said let's change these colours and away I flushed and proceeded to stair into empty toilet, true story still have not found them
There actually was a cartoon in the works, and an opening theme song clip was produced (I’ve seen it before). I wish it would have made it into full production!
My grandma's brother Jim was a collector of star wars and aliens toys. My little brother inherited a lot of his kenner loose aliens. Some variants were wild looking..glow in the dark!
H.R. Giger was very popular at that time. His art was on the Danzig III cassette at that same time.
This brings back memories. I remember buying the 18 inch 1979 kenner alien. Bought it for 5 dollars at toys r us. Played with it along side my star wars figures and Shogun Worries. Who knew the alien 79 would be worth alot. Yes I am kicking myself. Yes may I have another each time I think of having this great alien piece as a child. Thanks junkman for doing an alien vid.
that thing sat at a flea market on the same table, displayed in the same spot up high. i stared at it every time we entered and left the flea market. i didnt know what it was. jump ahead to ten years and its still sitting there. i know what it is and im saving up my pennies for it. new driver me and my little bit of chores money got up early, invited friends to go along to get that Alien toy and whatever else we found.
the old man that had the table died! i often wonder who ended up with that alien.
I bought a bunch of these from kaybee in the mall.I opened them up and displayed them diorama style with the humans being killed.they were a lot of fun.
I thought the Kenner Aliens toys were interesting. However, I didn't care much for the human figures in this line. The different various aliens (including the queen alien) were pretty awesome. I never bought them, but remember seeing them in the toy aisles. I think that the figures released from Retro Action a few years back were really cool from the first Aliens movie. Supposedly, they were made from molds originally made by Kenner back in 1979. However, the large Alien Kenner figure was so scary that it was pulled from shelves and they decided not do the 3-3/4 scale figures.
Your reboot idea sounds like a good one. Ghost ship full of aliens picks up a stranded human and it turns out to be Doom Guy!
I have the scorpion and queen in storage. They came out with a glow in the dark one I picked up, too.
is scorpion the cool one but falls apart ? i think i had that one and the black repaint that i only saw at, i wanna say Kaybee?
I had the queen alien I could only find at a comic store .
also Alien 3 cane out in 92 so that's probably why this toy line came out then .
Between the Kenner Aliens and Batman stuff, Playmates Star Trek, Toy Biz Marvel and the Spawn stuff, it was a great time. Yeah, they're not worth too much these days, but the memories are.
still have both waves , the Queen set , & a shiton still in package. These things STILL kick ass.Tons of actual play value.
I don't really remember this line but I do remember hanging out at the comic book store. It was always fun and I would always end up spending more money then I intended to. I had a job back then where I worked odd hours so I would hang out there at different times of day and different days of the week and I got to know most of the regular costumers. Good memories.
I remember those I used to have a full set of them back then. I always thought they were based on the Dark Horse comic series. There was probably a 100 different titles of Aliens and Predator in the 90’s
i think they got carried away with them. the alien, predator and terminator mini series and 2nd series were such a treat. then it was an onslaught of alien appearances and i lost interest.
I had this entire collection including Foreign exclusives, vehicles, and the Queen Hive Playset and the Predator line as well. About a year ago I let my 9 year old son open them all up to play with them (they were all still carded). He absolutely loved them!!
For some reason I love this comment!! Kept them on the card because of the perceived value or you just like the look of them and then instead of cashing in you just gave your son a memory he would never forget. What’s sad is most people read this comment and think what an iddot there worth so much less. We’ll I promise you on your death bed your letting ur son open your alien toys will not be running threw your head and if it does it will be the joy of the moment that I promise u whatever money those toys would of got ya would give u! Don’t change brother!!!
@@edwardtheenigma when he is on his death bed, his son might get those weird flashy hint memories of playing with those aliens. dad let me open his aliens and predators.
i know it would be one of my memories or something similar.
awesome story
@@edwardtheenigma Yeah, I collected many comics and toys over the years...most of which sat stored in boxes in the garage or attic. My son reached the age where he thought Aliens were cool (even though he isn't allowed to watch the movies) and I pulled them out of the boxes and he and I ripped open all of them. He's probably done playing with them already (this was a year or two ago) but the time he enjoyed playing with them was worth it to me.
This was the line that got me collecting again as well and I believe it was kept alive by the Dark horse comics.also my new job is stocking the toy department so now we will get to the bottom of where all the toys are going
Me and my brother had most of these toys. They were awesome, and the comics were a cool bonus.
My favorite was definitely the exploding Alien at 9:20. You pressed a button and it would explode, complete with gory red ribcage bursting out.
The Aliens were much cooler than the humans in this set. And also, you could scare your parents or sister with that little rubber facehugger.
Bought almost all of these with the intention of animating them. Kinda lost interest when the humans were so far off. Then Robot Chicken lowered the bar for stop motion and decided to shelve that idea. The Scorpion is pretty good film-wise.
Love your user name! The stop motion idea sounds really fun, but I totally understand why you wouldn’t pursue it. I’ve played with doing photo comics by shooting action figures but don’t know if it’s worth the time involved in setting it up. It might actually be more labor intensive than drawing a comic.
Loved the Aliens line. Had all of wave one but eventually wore them out from playing with them so often. Even the comics wore out from me reading them and trying to draw the panels I liked. Wish the little comics were available online or somewhere.
I was 10 years old when these came out. I acquired all of them and the Gorilla Alien was my favorite. That's so cool that you knew the guy who did the comic. I read that little comic over and over as a kid.
I absolutely loved this line as a kid! The human characters were FAR from accurate to their movie counterparts, but as toys, they were just fun to play with.
Think this figure line could have been better. Not a fan of figures which look nothing like the movie character.
those crazy kenner 90s poses and bright colors were not for me. is this the line where they start doing wide stances and poses? star wars, batman co e to mind. crouched positions.
they did dare to take chances, im guessing cause playmates turtle poses? but i prefer the straight standing posables myself.
perfer the
I remember a friend of mine got the Wild Boar alien figure as a gift at some Christmas party he went to. I thought it was so cool that I finally found one for myself. Then I met a new friend who had the Snake, Mantis and Rhino aliens. I thought the Wild Boar alien figure was cool, but damn when I saw that Snake and Mantis aliens I HAD to have them. I eventually talked him into trading me all three for something, but I can't remember what. Then I bought a random lot of Alien figures off ebay that had the Gorilla, Panther, Killer Crab and two big face hugger figures. And later on I bought the Bull Alien. Always really wanted the Queen, Scorpion and Night Cougar aliens as well as the orange Rhino alien variant but never got them, sadly.
I was a huge fan of the films when these launched. I saw them at a local comic con for the first time and had no idea they even existed. I immediately left the con and drove to Toys R Us and bought the entire set for half the price the dealer wanted.
I had that Ripley action figure!! And having a HUGE crush on Sigourney Weaver, it was my prized possession at the time!! (I brought her EVERYWHERE with me!!)
And then my cousin Jesse gifted me his Blue Alien warrior and a brand new Gray Rhino Alien for Christmas of 97 or 98. Needless to say, they provided me with countless hours of Xeno fighting fun when I was a kid!!
Man, I miss the 90's!!
Beetlejuice action figures next
In 92 I was 8 years old and ate these up! I think there were maybe less than a half dozen figures in the entire line I didn't have.
I used to have the warrior alien that came apart with the touch of a button on its back.
I’ve never been much for Alien, but these figures were in every comic shop (the comic store where I lived was run by a guy named Tony Harris, coincidentally) especially the drone aliens. Now I actually have thought about buying the bubble gum colored Walmart ones because they are so weird.
I was so excited when I found these toys in Fisher big wheel. I had watched the movies with my older brother when my parents weren't home so I was all about it. The toy line was based on the Dark Horse comic series. I had every one of the figures. Now I have the neca figures they are immaculate
Really like the Kenner ALIENS line. Nice change of pace That Junkman, didn’t think you would discuss this line. Loved the vehicles, the Power Loader was cool, but the Stinger XT-37 and Evac Fighter look great. Definitely preferred the Xenomorphs and would love to get the Aliens from this line. One of the greatest Kenner toylines, surprised it lasted from 1992-1995 but that was one of Kenner’s strengths.
This is my second or 3rd video on it ;)
@@ThatJunkman how in space did I not see it?
You are so right about this being a big draw for adults. I was getting Batman Animated and Toy Biz Marvel, but these were a whole other level of cool. I had most of the Aliens. I’m fuzzy on if I had the gorilla Alien or not. I didn’t know Tony Harris’ work until Starman a year or 2 later. In fact, I don’t remember the comic books at all. Weird since I’ve always been a much bigger comic collector. I definitely had the Queen, Snake, Bull, and Scorpion. Like you, I didn’t really see the Alien movies until I was in my 20s. I had caught all of the original in the 80s, but completely out of order. Alien 3 was my first and I honestly loved it. It gets a lot of hate, but as my first one it was pretty awesome. Cool video JM!
Loved Kenner aliens and predators back in the early 90s. We had Bishop everywhere at our stores, I never could find Drake or Hicks
I don’t know how I missed this video. Anyway I was stationed in Germany in 1992 and I remember seeing these at the Army PX and this was probably one of the first toy lines that I started collecting as an adult. I just focused on the alien figures though and never owned any of the human characters.
The Scorpion Alien was also my favorite because it was the closest to the xenomorphs in the movie. Oddly enough I only bought one, even though it seemed like a natural figure to army build.
Loads of nostalgia here, man! 😊
Still have all the Aliens from the first toyline with me, complete, even today. (And a few more that came later.) Solidly built! Miss the good ol'days, man... 🤩👍
PS. I used to WEAR those rubber face-huggers like a ring arond my fingers and walk around. Man, the 90s...'wild' is putting it mildly! 😂
I had these figures and they were awesome. I remember going to Target with my mom and getting the Alien Queen, Bishop and the scorpion alien. The Scorpion alien was my favorite because it closely mirrored the movie version and how it would explode when you push the button. The comics were also quite well done and nicely illustrated and the packaging was awesome too. Anyway. Day twenty-eight of requesting Junkman to do a reaction video to Babes in Toyland 1986 or Star Wars Christmas special for a Junkman Christmas special.
I collected this line when it came out and really liked it! I was a big fan of the movie and grabbed the whole series 1. The Alien queen was very hard to get, had to ask a guy a Toy's R us to open a box of figures to grab the only one!!
Wow! This is my first time seeing this line. When it came to toys, I was pretty jaded in the 90's. I only cared about Star Wars.
What happened to the "figures from the UK" series? It ended after one video, about Space Precinct.
It didn’t do well. So not sure. Might try one more. That’s why if you like a video and can share it ;)
@@ThatJunkman I'm not on any social media. Nobody to share it with 😂
i loved them. except for the hybrids and the bright colors. the hybrids might have been alright if black or grey. that card art was great.
I recently bought a Scorpion Alien of my own at a local store that was selling a lot of Kenner alien stuff, I wanna open it but I was told it’ll ruin its value.
Still got them all.
I'm pretty sure those figures were made to go with the comics being released at the time.
Nice line tbf and I definitely would have bought them had they been released in the 80’s!
Man I used to have those Aliens figures from Kenner, I have the plain xenomorph, and I think I had the cougar alien and Bishop and also Hicks but towards the end my mom threw them away.
Back in the day I randomly found a movie off TV guide called "the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai"...weirdest movie from the 80's
Classic
Never bought these. I saw Aliens when I was 9 and by the time these came out I thought their designs were a joke.
However, I'm getting my Hiya Toys "Big Chap" this week, as well as two drones and the queen from Aliens next month.
3.75 scale and their sculpts are awesome!! 👌
They were based on a cartoon series that was planned but it just never came out
Nope. I thought so also but it has come to light that there wasn’t a plan cartoon
Hey Junkman i think it might have been them trying to compete with the Jurassic Park Mutagen figures. if you look at the 2 lines they are very similar
I collect A L I E N figures
You know the kenner ghostbusters slimed heroes line, where you wet the figure and the colours change on uniforms and face, well when I was too young and sat each one in the toilet bowl......and oh yes my little mind said let's change these colours and away I flushed and proceeded to stair into empty toilet, true story still have not found them
I had most of the aliens and only Ripley and Bishop.kenner focused on the aliens and not so much the Space Marines
"Ripley" Believe it or not.
You should watch Prometheus and Alien Covenant Junkman M8, fantastic movies IMHO.
You missed out on toyfare. It was a good action figure mag.
Read a few. Didn’t care for it much. Hate the unfunny little bubble cartoons :)
@@ThatJunkman yeah i didn't like everything but it was my internet for action figures back then
I bought the Alien Queen but that was all. I was in college and too poor at the time.
3am idea H.R. Giger documentary?
scorpion alien was great. wasnt it the one that fell apart though? i hated that!
LOVE A L I E N but hate Aliens
Dont like the bastardization of the Xeno's and being from the UK they were never released.
I thought they were bad. Too gimmicky and made to make that series kid-friendly
??? It was a toy line. It shouldn’t be kid friendly lol
Yes, I collected a few of these.
Not impressed by their lack of realism, weapons suck big time! So not that impressed.
The reboot would be a comedy starring The Rock as the human or someone really nerdy
Ace Venture: Xenomorph Detective.