Quote from: SM on Nov 03, 2023, 09:19:50 PMQuote from: SiL on Nov 03, 2023, 09:55:58 AMQuote from: SM on Nov 03, 2023, 09:46:38 AMI remember buying a bunch of them in a bin at Toy R Us heavily discounted.
Why you gotta tease me like that.
The point was more that a kids toy line was run (and then repeated for Alien Resurrection).
I'd mention the '79 toy but that was scrapped for exactly what you're mentioning.
My point was that yes they were run - but were they popular. I bought heavily discounted Resurrection stuff too. And not trying to be facetious - I'm genuinely curious if those toys actually sold well.
To my recollection they sold quite well when they first launched, and even into the second wave and some of the AvP stuff. They were a big hit in my circle of friends at the time (I was 9, and the toys were genuinely what got me interested in the franchise after my friends talked them up and let me play with theirs). There was this mystique to them that these weird and interesting looking creatures (with fun action features!) from an "adult" movie that your parents may or may not let you see, so initially your only knowledge of them is what you pieced together from your imagination or the little mini-comics that came with them. Visually they weren't like anything else on the shelves at the time. I've heard similar stories from other collectors on toy forums and discord groups.
The interest died down as the Kenner line played out and we got more repaints and the goofy Hive Wars line, and eventually that later stuff ended up in K B Toys discount bins across the country.
I remember the Resurrection line being much less popular - aside from the line being really small (4 Aliens and 2 humans), it was as if it didn't know what its target audience was meant to be; there were no action features like the older Kenner stuff which made them a harder sell for younger kids, they were not particularly posable or articulated which made them less appealing to older collectors, and they were directly tied to a movie that wasn't particularly well-received by audiences at the time.
