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 Pacific wrote:
Damn.. I can feel another avatar coming on! But, which to choose?! Alien, Predator, or Marine?!

In the spirit of the impending Day of Frights I suggest this



It's sure to give everyone nightmares.

I kinda hope they make a figure of that guy just so I can make an entire army of them to troll Aliens fans

 Pacific wrote:
What's the shortest KS to product release time we have seen so far? We've had it confirmed that this is coming in 2013.. even if the KS started tomorrow, that would mean finishing a month before Xmas and trying to get out expanded material to customers within that time-frame.. it hasn't been stated officially, but all the signs point to a non-KS release.

Shortest I can think of was Games&Gears Brushes, where they shipped like 3 weeks after the kickstarter since it was already done.

My wallet is going to be hurting for a long time. Warzone Minis and now AvP miniatures. These sculpts look fantastic.

They could easily market it as a multi-wave KS, with the boxed game coming out by the end of the year and a second wave to release in 2014. I'm not saying that is what they are doing, but it is doable.

 BDJV wrote:
They could easily market it as a multi-wave KS, with the boxed game coming out by the end of the year and a second wave to release in 2014. I'm not saying that is what they are doing, but it is doable.

It would be a smart approach as I've noticed the wait for the product to arrive is a frequent reason for not backing for some people.

How I feel about this game. . .



<3

wait wait guys, your forgetting THIS Alien. must have varient if you ask me. :-)




full scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5Bl9mwl-Y&noredirect=1

Izza wrote:
wait wait guys, your forgetting THIS Alien. must have varient if you ask me. :-)




full scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5Bl9mwl-Y&noredirect=1

Check please!

What made the scene even better was that the entire cast of Alien was present for that scene.

"Oh no, not again!"

Are you sure? Apart from John Hurt the others look like stand-ins.

 Bull0 wrote:
Are you sure? Apart from John Hurt the others look like stand-ins.

it was just John Hurt.

What do you think we will get in the box? Terrain tiles to make a colony base or a ship, I'm sure. Maybe I'm hoping for too much but I'd like a full squad of Colonial Marines: two four-man fire teams with a smart-gunner in each team, a sergeant, and an "artificial person"/apc driver with at least two female Marines in the squad, and enough Aliens and Predators to be a challenge to the squad.

Regards,

V

Im looking forward to this.

The marines look a little tall to fit with other parts of my plastic/lead collection. Im still going to get it but being compatable with other 28mm minis will dictate how much I spend on marines in total. Im hoping thats not the case waiting on the further scale pics from prodos.

I wonder if we'll bee a Xenomorph with inner jaws extended, havn't seen one in the teasers so far.
fingers crossed. :-)

Just wanted to post this again as I felt it had kind of slipped away. Somebody may want to update the OP?


Just addressing the point about the concept of the drone alien not being mature. Here is a pretty good indication of the size of the creature during the events of Alien.

You'll note its size. We know the actor portraying the Alien was 7ft2 and is seen here slightly crouched in this scene as he leans in to grab Lambert.


I think the foot thing, and the stunted Alien are really detracting from this. It's a shame because the Colonial Marines and the Predators look really good. I'm not sure why you guys are choosing to bungle one of the most iconic movie monsters in cinema history. You can clealy produce the detail required, but just haven't. If the stunted Alien is meant to be the Runner/Dog I'd have a look again. In the final corridor scenes it is pretty large with longer limbs than a regular Alien. I had a check to see if the Queen had more bestial feet, but again she/it has humanoid feet.

I wasn't going to say about the six fingers thing, but I think you need to change the design of the hands as well.

Several videos showing the Aliens throughout the series. NSFW obviously.

So, last page someone mentioned there was going to be an update tomorrow?

If this is the case, we may be on the verge of getting some answers/solid info!

Yay!

 Medium of Death wrote:

I think the foot thing, and the stunted Alien are really detracting from this. It's a shame because the Colonial Marines and the Predators look really good. I'm not sure why you guys are choosing to bungle one of the most iconic movie monsters in cinema history. You can clealy produce the detail required, but just haven't. If the stunted Alien is meant to be the Runner/Dog I'd have a look again. In the final corridor scenes it is pretty large with longer limbs than a regular Alien. I had a check to see if the Queen had more bestial feet, but again she/it has humanoid feet.

I have to be honest, I'm a pretty big Aliens fan. The first one was made just before I was born, but I remember getting a copy of Aliens on VHS when I was a kid, watching it with some mates and getting gak-scared by it even as I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. I've lost count of how many times I've seen the film, re-visited the original, and gone back to the cinema on opening weekends for the follow-up movies even though it seemed like I've had my fingers burnt each time. It's safe to say these guys are going to an essential purchase for me, even if the rules for the game are atrocious.

But.. I have to be honest, I really can't feel the same way as you about this - these miniatures, even from the basic, slightly un-focused shots we have seen so far, look like ten times better than anything we have had before. From the way the Predator with the wrist-computer, the marine with the smart-gun are posed, I'd hazard a guess that no small amount of effort and passion has gone into this. For detail, they make the Necron stood next to them look like a child's toy by comparison, and that is going to be more than enough detail for most.

So.. anyway, think you are picking a very minor nit with these miniatures, running with it, and overlooking the many cool looking elements of the miniatures we have seen so far. Each to our own/subjective nature of aesthetics, or whatever, but I know almost everyone who sees these miniatures is going to say "wow, those look great", they're going to think about finally being able to enter LV-426 with a squad of Colonial Marines, and they will go straight to Google and search on for them - rather than bemoaning the number of toes and fingers that are going to be the tiniest sliver of plastic at 28mm scale.

Anyway! Not to denigrate your opinion at all, and I would love these miniatures to be the best possible, but sometimes you've got to see the glass as half full right?

 Medium of Death wrote:
*snip!*

I have to agree with you, they've just not put as much work into the alien figures as they have the others. It's a real shame.

I get your point, and that's kind of why I'm annoyed about the slight deviations in the Alien design. I've watched these movies so many times and poured myself over the dvd extras and any morsel of information I can find. The Predators and Marines are really good (as I said before), really really good infact. Bloody amazing. I just think they can bring that detail to the Xenomorph but haven't. For me it's the Alien that sells it but to be fair I probably won't turn my nose up at this if those details don't get changed. I'll still be following this closely and hope more reveal pictures will sate my nitpicky ways.

I won't reconcile the Drone being a young Warrior though... some things cannot give!

I think the hands on the printed minis look right, the thicker digits look like two digits fused together. Works for me, and would make it easier to cast.

The feet look like they are a bit meh, but we really need close ups before we can truly judge.

Not that what's there won't be awesome though.

You know, I'm willing to make a concession on the feet.

The important thing to me is after all this time, someone thought it would be a good idea to make an AVP game properly, with highly detailed Colonial Marines, Aliens and Predators. Before this, we were left hunting down limited release resin Predators from Predastore, the fatty from Heresy miniatures, or the very rudimentary INAPs, terrible Horrorclix Xenomorphs, occasionally decent not-Colonial Marines from places like Hasslefree or conversions of Cadians.

We now have a stantalone game, with really great, detailed models all in proportion with each other. Simply for this, I can forgive the Xenomorphs feet not being as they were in the movies.

Like Pacific said - glass half full.

This is a sign of things to come!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=gb1h_img_c-3_0482_086a14f6?ie=UTF8&docId=1001421631&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0AT8DMB2K537VNJ1QM15&pf_rd_i=384082011&pf_rd_p=1634410482

feth! Everyone go buy the Alien Anthology blu ray box set RIGHT NOW

 primalexile wrote:
This is a sign of things to come!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=gb1h_img_c-3_0482_086a14f6?ie=UTF8&docId=1001421631&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0AT8DMB2K537VNJ1QM15&pf_rd_i=384082011&pf_rd_p=1634410482

There is also the Tamashii Nations MonsterArts figures coming out for Alien & Predator:

FYI from Facebook.. Looks like a news delay:

Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game: More info regarding release on Monday the 4th.

 primalexile wrote:
FYI from Facebook.. Looks like a news delay:

Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game: More info regarding release on Monday the 4th.

Well.. poop. I was hoping on a bunch of news regarding this and the Robotech kickstarters today. Now I'm just left with the latter.

 warboss wrote:

 primalexile wrote:
FYI from Facebook.. Looks like a news delay:

Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game: More info regarding release on Monday the 4th.

Well.. poop. I was hoping on a bunch of news regarding this and the Robotech kickstarters today. Now I'm just left with the latter.

And let's be real, one of those was likely just going to be a delay announcement.

So now they both are.

But I have doubts the second will only be 3 days.

 Forar wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 primalexile wrote:
FYI from Facebook.. Looks like a news delay:

Alien vs Predator The Miniatures Game: More info regarding release on Monday the 4th.

Well.. poop. I was hoping on a bunch of news regarding this and the Robotech kickstarters today. Now I'm just left with the latter.

And let's be real, one of those was likely just going to be a delay announcement.

So now they both are.

But I have doubts the second will only be 3 days.

Nope, we have Warzone Resurrection convention at Telford this Sunday so we are all extremely busy here.

More info Monday, I promise ;]

It's cool that you guys are prioritizing Warzone in this instance. That directly responds to many concerned posts ITT. And I hope this fact is not overlooked!