The Stowaway(s) Alien 3

[SM]

It was intentionally added to the theatrical cut.

The photo above is shopped.

[whiterabbit]

Cameron added it in to make a sequel an easy as pie job that they screwed up but still that giant facehugger with an egg on top would have worked. Well almost anything could have worked outside of an upside down egg.

[Huggs]

So getting back on task here ahahahah
anyone want to acknowledge the sounds you hear at the end of Aliens (the facehugger running noise) and maybe associate it with the attached photo? Could it make sense? Royal facehugger like we see in the directors cut?

What noise is this? I've never noticed it. Is it during the fade, or before they go in cryo?

[Local Trouble]

Right after the credits end.

[426Buddy]

It was intentionally added to the theatrical cut.

Yep i was misremembering, but at least i knew it was intentional 

[OpenMaw]

It was intentionally added to the theatrical cut.

Are you shitting me? I swear I remember reading that was a mistake.

Learn something new every day... Jeeze.

[Corporal Hicks]

Did we ever figure out when? For VHS release? Or DVD?

[SM]

I didn't stay for the whole credits in 1986, but I'm pretty sure it was there all along.

[Kailem]

It was with them all the way.

[whiterabbit]

Yea all the way from home base E-arth.

[markweatherill]

You mean you people haven't seen the extra special edition of Aliens with the post-credits scene that clears up this little mystery once and for all? I think it was in one of the more obscure box sets...

[whiterabbit]

I've got copies of Aliens from god knows where that I have never bothered to open but I think the debate is on whether or not the facehugger sounds was added to the theatrical run of the movie and I have no idea. Staying for post credit scenes didn't really become a thing until lethal weapon 3. I think Ferris Bueller did it first but it didn't catch on until "I'm too old for this shit" in lethal weapon 3.

[Wweyland]

I have a VHS of the theatrical cut from 1999 (recorded from an Estonian TV channel) and the sound is there. It was back in the day when TV stations showed all the credits of the movie, now they skip to commercial at the first second of the credits and that's a wrap.

[Shaun]

2 theories here

- There was 1 egg on board, with the Facehugger able to implant 2 embryos

This makes the most sense, a facehugger for Ripley and one for the Ox.
My issue with this, is why did the Ox's Alien come out long before Ripleys. Does a Queen embryo (which we know because of Resurrection) take longer?

- There were 2 eggs on board, one for the hugger  for Ripley and one for the Ox.

Either way, we can debate how the egg(s) got on board in the first place (and that's the biggest issue) until the cows came home. Was it Bishop or did the Queen stow one away, if so, when?

I could both things, I could believe they were 2 eggs but we only saw one or that there was a 'Queen hugger' if you will. My issue is how it got there in the first place and why there was such a delay between the Ox and Ripleys chest burst. The Runner had time to pretty much wipe out the population of Fury 161

[SM]

Does a Queen embryo (which we know because of Resurrection) take longer?

Yes.  We know it's a Queen from Alien 3.