An Alien Reaction opportunity for Super7.

Gentle Giant is scaling up the old Kenner 18" Alien to 24" and giving people the privilege of paying $500 for it:

http://www.gentlegiantltd.com/product_p/80267.htm

By comparison, you can get a loose vintage one for about $200 to $300.

So here's the idea: take the existing Alien Reaction Figure and get the magic pantograph machine (or whatever is used these days) to scale it up to 12", and sell it for $100. Hell, scale it up to 24" and sell it for $200.

Make sure it's styrene body halves with solid vinyl limbs, though, like the small one. None of this hollow vinyl malarkey that Gentle Giant pulls.

There you go. I expect this by Christmas. ;p

Wait, why is it that much? Fuck GG, seriously, it's just some cheap ass plastic. Even those big vintage Star Wars toys they make are overpriced I'd rather spend less on real vintage 12" Star Wars. Bah! OLdmanoldmanoldmangrump.

Yeah, S7, get on it, $7 know what I mean? Get in on this! Make it frigging full sized!

The Star Wars ones are cool, but the price is outrageous for scanning a pre-existing old sculpt and just scaling it up. If they were $25, I'd own a ton.

Gentle Giant's jumbo Star Wars figures actually aren't very good. They don't replicate the construction of the originals, instead they're made from airy vinyl parts that feel grainy to the touch and that you can see through when you put a light behind them. On top of this, they've screwed up things like the heights and proportions of figures, the color of accessories, and have even added embellished details to some figures. Read the Rebel Scum forum that covers them, you will find plenty of disappointment.

There was a Chinese bootleg made of the 12" Stormtrooper that is superb, though. Go here and find the section that says "12 inch reproduction":

http://www.imperialgunnery.com/reproductionfigures.htm

I have one of these and it's awesome. I'm hoping they make more.

An scaled up version of the 3 3/4" Alien figure like this would be excellent, but only if it was done right.