We’d like to wish a happy Alien Day to all the community and visitors to Alien vs. Predator Galaxy! It’s now April 26th in my little corner of the world, and as the planet continues to rotate many more of you will be waking up to celebrations of our favourite acid-blooded extra-terrestrial! Though it looks like 2020 is going to be a quieter year, there’s still plenty of goodies to look forward to, and we’ll try to keep you all in the loop!
Merchandise
- Alien: Blackout is free on GoogePlay and the AppStore for today! If you haven’t already given this underappreciated game a try, there’s really no excuse with it being free!
- EagleMoss is having a buy one, get one free sale on all their Alien and Predator statues.
- ZenStudios’ Aliens vs. Pinball is currently half price on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, on mobile in Zen Pinball and the Aliens vs Pinball app.
- MiniFigs has released a whole new bunch of Alien and Aliens themed minis.
- Super7 is celebrating Alien Day with a very specific sale: Buy ANY 4 Alien items and receive 26% off your total.
- Mondo are joining in with the chestbursting fun with two new variants of the Alien Queen Tiki and Alien Egg Shooters, a brand-new set of Alien pins.
- Feral Interactive’s Nintendo Switch port of Alien: Isolation currently has 30% off! The discount only applies in USA, Canada and Mexico.
- For their fourth and final Alien Day collaboration, Reebok has released their Colonial Marines inspired Bug Stompers, and two new shirts – long sleeve and short sleeve.
- CoolProps is holding a special AlienDay sale.
Competitions
- Feral Interactive is running a Twitter sweepstake for a chance to win a hardback copy of Aliens: Dead Orbit!
- Studio Yutani is also running a huge giveaway with some really cool and unique signed prizes!
Community
- The original creator behind Alien Day – before it became official – is running a watch party at 9pm EST.
- AlienTheory and In Search Of Tomorrow are also having a watch party at 12:30pm PST/7:30pm GMT.
- Studio Yutani has a whole slew of Alien Day goodies that she’s releasing on every hour. There’s already a tonne of interviews already uploaded, with more to come!
- The fan-comic Olethros will be publishing its 7th issue.
- The audio drama Charon will be releasing their 5th episode.
- The Perfect Organism Podcast will be releasing several new audio commentaries (one including yours truly), including a sneak listen to their new upcoming audio drama.
- Alien vs. Predator Galaxy will be uploading a new Weyland-Yutani Debrief video shortly, we’ll be streaming a live play of Alien: Trilogy around 12pm BST and at 4pm BST we’ll be releasing an interview with Mark Verheiden, the writer of the very first original Alien comics that kicked off the Expanded Universe!
We’ll be keeping this post updated with more as we find it! Any big announcements that come out of today will be receiving their own separate posts. How are you celebrating Alien Day? Let us know down below!
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Thanks also to AVPGalaxy for liking the post too
*raises hand* I volunteer to guest-star when AvPGalaxy does their Aliens commentary.
I don't think they were annoying, they just didn't took it as seriously as people here do because they're not fans of the initial premise ( Alien versus Predator, I mean). At the end of the day, site's called AvPGalaxy so AvP as a concept is taken into consideration as well as Alien and Predator while their show's called Perfect Organism which implies Alien, only Alien and nothing apart from Alien. So when they eventually get to talk about something else they just don't hold it to such high standarts. I had a lot of fun listening to them.
To be quite honest, AvPR commentary that Hicks and Co did while was quite enjoyable and fun left me a bit pissed off at the end when RidgeTop tried to evaluate the movie saying that it at least better than The Predator with what I just cannot agree. Sorry, RidgeTop, nothing personal, just difference of opinions.
But I agree that they need to do more of these.
The other guys were annoying.
Hicks' own AVP:R commentary was much better.
Must be the sequel to Echo.
I shot 2 videos, one shorter version (8 minutes)
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One longer version (24 minutes)
As for PO guys: I haven't listened this commentary yet (there was surprisinhly a lot of content yesterday) but I found the first episode of their so called Shit Show about AvP to be fun and engaging. I guess, I just enjoyed their more light and positive approach 'cause whenever I hear someone talk about AvP lately It's mostly giving the movie shit about how dissapointing it was.
As SM says. Until they rebuild after the merger, I wouldn't expect any big stuff. What's being announced now is that was already in place.
I was pleasantly surprised! Without any official announcements, it was still a very busy day! I was glued to the Twitter feed and it was always active. It was really nice to see it trending. Alien still makes some noise!
Yeah, the footage you sent me was much nicer. I was always keen to just do it "authentically" but I just think better looking is more preferable now.
I hope everyone had a good day, whatever they were doing!
Even though it was quieter there was still some nice artwork and shares going around.
Hicks' Alien Trilogy stream inspired me to mess around with some emulation for the game, and I must say I got it looking pretty good! Hopefully a 'Let's Play' for that one is in order.
Done!!! So glad this was available again.
It is very good. No question.
So.... no Audible audio-drama announcements? Not even a whisper?
Id dare to say one of the best soundtracks ever made. Haunting and gripping throat like very few
Hicks is alive and well! Awesome! Welcome!
True, true. On both accounts. It is a great film. However, a different film can still, and should be made. Side-canon.
Only ever played the game once on my XBox 360, so I just took advantage of that and grabbed the full collection!
I have the sound-track to this on my iPod and I often go for a spin at night in Toronto these days, listening to this.
Happy Alien Day folks!
Thanks bobby! I hope you're having a good day!
Happy Alien day!!
I wanted to get a box of 2018 Upper Deck Aliens, but I couldn't get one until this week. I also almost purchased a 2018 Upper Deck Aliens - Actor Reactor autograph of Sigourney Weaver (the artwork is fantastic), but didn't want to drop $600 just yet (notice I said yet). I will be starting my favorite film, Alien3 (Assembly cut version) in a few minutes, hope everyone has a great Alien Day and stay safe out there!
Do you think that there is any chance Disney will sell Alien franchise to another studio?
Anyway I decided last week to give the Zulu Hendricks quadrilogy a chronological re-read so I read all of "Defiance" on Sunday, read through "Prototype" over the course of the week and this morning I finished it off with "Resistance" and "Rescue". Now I'm gonna give the prequels a go.
Have a great day y'all!
Happy 4/26, y'all! Try not to catch any Bugs!
It'll be up in 45 minutes.
There's no-one in charge of the franchise at the minute. It's all still recovering from the merger.
Disney are stopping independent cinemas from showing ALIEN or limiting cinematic re-relases unless sanctioned by Disney.
There was a debate over whether this "vault" would extend to limiting the supplies of newly pressed Blu-Rays, but doesn't mean ones manufactured would be pulled from the shelves.
Happy Alien Day my a*s!!!
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What does "vaulted" even mean though? I can still go buy Alien on bluray at walmart or online. I actually just picked up the Alien 4k disc 2 weeks ago myself.
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"You blow, I'll do the fingering."
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Yesss! Let's party until cops show up
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Well Disney "vaulted" the 1979 movie and no mention from Mr H reviews (YouTube) on whose in charge or corporate structure at 20th Century Films.
If only we could get some idea of what Disney/Fox is planning with the franchise..
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Oh and Happy Alien Day. Thanks.