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Rather than go over the same ground over and over, if you want to check out my thoughts and history with Alien toys, check out my other reviews over the years:

• Alien Warrior (Aliens, Aoshima)
• Alien Warrior (Aliens, NECA)
• Alien Warrior (Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, NECA)

In the third review above, I state that the NECA Requiem figure is the best Alien action figure, despite coming from a terrible film. So, does the new Xenomorph Warrior from Aliens take the crown?

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Poe’s Note: Two things: one, this is a sponsored review – NECA sent me these samples for free. Two, you’ll notice a small black stand in some photos, to aid posing. It did not come with the figure, but was borrowed from NECA’s Dead Space 2 Necromorph Slasher figure).

Michael Biehn James Cameron’s go-to guy for four huge movies (the two Terminator flicks, Aliens, and The Abyss), plus the Michael Bay-directed The Rock, but after that he never quite had that level of celebrity again. His IMDB page shows he’s been in a lot more than I realized, yet except for Grindhouse I didn’t actually remember any non-Cameron movies or TV shows I’d seen him in. Seems like Cameron could have at least tapped him for one of the many forgettable roles in Avatar. And how did he never voice a Marine in a Halo game?

Hicks has had four previous figures that I know of: one from Kenner, one from McFarlane Toys, and both a 12″ and a 4″ from Hot Toys. The McFarlane likeness was passable, but the other three ranged from bad to “we didn’t bother to license the likeness.” 

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Poe’s Note: Two things. One, this is a sponsored review – NECA sent me these samples for free. Two, you’ll notice a small black stand in some photos, to aid posing. It did not come with the figure, but was borrowed from NECA’s Dead Space 2 Necromorph Slasher figure).

Y’know, when I first encountered Aliens in the late 1980s – mostly likely in edited-for-TV (or possibly unedited) form on the Movie Loft with Dana Hersey on TV38 – I was dying for toys from the movie. I’ve told this story before, but I did once see the 1979 Kenner 12″ Alien at a flea market for a whopping $200 and begged my parents for it (my parents, who had given me Fortress Maximus one Christmas, wisely stood their ground on this one). The only Alien “toy” I ever got as a kid was a tiny little gaming miniature that fell apart immediately. By the time the Kenner Aliens stuff came around, I did pick up a few figures (the Scorpion Alien, the Gorilla Alien and Bishop), but I wasn’t really into toys at that point.

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