1:18 scale figure company Hiya Toys isn’t slowing down and continues to announce new pre-orders for upcoming waves of Alien, Predator, and AVP figures. They still have a number releases set for this year, and their ‘Exquisite Mini’ 2022 slate has been expanding. When we last checked in during spring, they had just announced Predator ... [Read More]

Practical Effects workshop StudioADI or Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. is attached to work on the new Predator film currently known as ‘Skulls.’ We’ve been thinking this was increasingly likely for a while, when previously StudioADI co-founder Alec Gillis put out a hiring call a few months back. A few weeks ago Gillis also shared an ... [Read More]

Super7 has announced a new wave of their ‘ReAction’ Alien figures in celebration of Alien Day! Coming are six new Alien figures including their first Runner and Newborn releases, as well as an exclusive Hudson figure. “Super7 has participated in every Alien Day celebration since the debut event in 2016. This year is no different and we’re stoked to add these ... [Read More]

We’d just like to thank everyone who took part in the giveaway. The answer was of course Sovereign! And we also have our winner. Congratulations to Carl Roberts for the win! An e-mail has been sent to request your shipping address. It’s Alien Day! And not only do we have a fantastic interview with Amalgamated Dynamic Inc’s Alec Gillis ... [Read More]

We have just uploaded the 126th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! Happy Alien Day! Since it’s Alien Day, we naturally wanted to bring you a special episode with some awesome guests, and for this episode we’re talking to none other than Amalgamated Dynamic Inc’s Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr! We ... [Read More]

Alien vs. Predator Galaxy recently had the pleasure of talking to Amalgamated Dynamics Inc’s founders and long time Alien and Predator creature effect extraordinaries Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff for our upcoming Alien Day episode of the AvP Galaxy Podcast! So naturally it was a good chance to try to get some information on those questions I’ve had burning in ... [Read More]

It appears the next film featuring our favorite intergalactic hunter is already in pre-production Predator fans and we know when they’ll be filming! Since November last year, fans of the Predator franchise have been brimming with excitement after learning that a fifth Predator film was in the works, written by Patrick Aison and to be directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Currently titled ... [Read More]

Over the last few months we’ve seen a number of new announcements from Hiya Toys of upcoming Alien, Predator, and AVP 1:18 scale ‘Exquisite Mini’ figures. Their 2021 release schedule has been growing significantly since we last reported about them in June, so we thought we’d put together a resource for some of their recently ... [Read More]

And that’s time called on our Alien Day competition! We had hundreds of entries for this one so thank you to each and every one of you who participated! So the answer the question how many Alien films Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. worked on was five! Both worked on Aliens under Stan Winston before forming Amalgamated ... [Read More]

Following on from their interview with the legendary Alec Gillis from Amalgamated Dynamics Inc, the good folk over at HN Entertainment have turned their sights on Prometheus and Alien: Covenant creature designer Carlos Huante. In additional to talking about other aspects of Prometheus’ design process, Carlos revealed some details about an earlier Prometheus script that seems to ... [Read More]

The good folk over at HN Entertainment recently had the opportunity to talk to Amalgamated Dynamics Inc‘s Alec Gillis and the topic of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 inevitably came up. Though unable to talk in much detail about ADI’s work on the film, Alec did reveal that Neill had been intending to go practical ... [Read More]

A few weeks back we reported on some concept art by Fausto De Martini for a facehugger-inspired breathing mask that was previously intended to be featured at the end of The Predator, prior to the “Predator-Killer” suit making the cut instead. Alec Gillis of StudioADI also shared a practical prop that was created for the ... [Read More]

Following the first The Predator video in which they showed off their Emissary Predator designs, studioADI has uploaded a new behind-the-scenes video of The Predator! Like the Emissary Predators, the menagerie has been absent from pretty much all the behind-the-scenes material but thanks to the studioADI YouTube channel we now get a look at these cut creatures – which were dubbed ... [Read More]