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		<title>By: Stuff From My Childhood&#160;&#124;&#160;The Contrarian</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-6450</link>
		<dc:creator>Stuff From My Childhood&#160;&#124;&#160;The Contrarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Ad for Kenner &#8220;Alien&#8221; figure, circa 1979. (My favorite toy EVER): [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Nordstrom</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-4865</link>
		<dc:creator>Nordstrom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Um, let&#039;s try that link again:
http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=50</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Um, let&#8217;s try that link again:<br />
<a href="http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=50" rel="nofollow">http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=50</a></p>
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		<title>By: Nordstrom</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-4864</link>
		<dc:creator>Nordstrom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Giger’s production designs (and Carlo Rambaldi’s faithful and sensitive work in bringing them to life) for Alien marked an amazing leap forward in mainstream dystopian pop sci-fi visuals, and Kenner’s unprecedented decision to produce a toy (a huge, marvelously sculpted, elegantly engineered toy) of the titular (and very dickular- look at that head) Freudian nightmare creature was an absurd miracle and a blessing in the lives of all us little freaks who received one.  I can think of no more startling example of mass-produced-toy-as-powerful-psychic-totem: a completely anomalous, coiled black concentration of surreal death-energy dominating the dresser-top, sending Smurfs and Star Wars figures running for cover and blowing impressionable young minds (Xmas ’79- I was 6, fer chrissakes!) wide open with its awesomeness. 

What you’ve got there, Caseward, is not a reissue of the Kenner toy but a new take on the “Big Chap”, recently released by NECA Toys.  Definitely cool; as big as the original with about 6 times the poseability, and I think they handled the all-important head sculpt and translucent dome very nicely.  As many toys as have been made of the creature over the years (hundreds), though, nothing beats the Kenner, from the dull sheen and durability of the hard plastic construction to the spring-loaded jaw trigger.  I, too, would love to own one again; I’ve even considered picking up the infamous (and far less expensive) knock-off of the Kenner put out by Japanese toy maker Tsukuda in the eighties: http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=5</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Giger’s production designs (and Carlo Rambaldi’s faithful and sensitive work in bringing them to life) for Alien marked an amazing leap forward in mainstream dystopian pop sci-fi visuals, and Kenner’s unprecedented decision to produce a toy (a huge, marvelously sculpted, elegantly engineered toy) of the titular (and very dickular- look at that head) Freudian nightmare creature was an absurd miracle and a blessing in the lives of all us little freaks who received one.  I can think of no more startling example of mass-produced-toy-as-powerful-psychic-totem: a completely anomalous, coiled black concentration of surreal death-energy dominating the dresser-top, sending Smurfs and Star Wars figures running for cover and blowing impressionable young minds (Xmas ’79- I was 6, fer chrissakes!) wide open with its awesomeness. </p>
<p>What you’ve got there, Caseward, is not a reissue of the Kenner toy but a new take on the “Big Chap”, recently released by NECA Toys.  Definitely cool; as big as the original with about 6 times the poseability, and I think they handled the all-important head sculpt and translucent dome very nicely.  As many toys as have been made of the creature over the years (hundreds), though, nothing beats the Kenner, from the dull sheen and durability of the hard plastic construction to the spring-loaded jaw trigger.  I, too, would love to own one again; I’ve even considered picking up the infamous (and far less expensive) knock-off of the Kenner put out by Japanese toy maker Tsukuda in the eighties: <a href="http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=5" rel="nofollow">http://xenomorph.org/item_page.php3?ID=5</a></p>
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		<title>By: casey</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-4862</link>
		<dc:creator>casey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Verily, I proclaim unto thee: Love Grandma, and fuck Oliver. NOT the other way around.</description>
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		<title>By: James</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-4861</link>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That shit has freaked me out ever since I secretly saw Alien at my friend Pete&#039;s house when I was like eight or whatever. I mean, look at that fuckin&#039; thing! Only thing that ever freaked me out more was when I saw the first Friday the 13th at my friend Oliver&#039;s house. Oliver, that total asshole, told everyone and all the girls made fun of me in art class on Monday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That shit has freaked me out ever since I secretly saw Alien at my friend Pete&#8217;s house when I was like eight or whatever. I mean, look at that fuckin&#8217; thing! Only thing that ever freaked me out more was when I saw the first Friday the 13th at my friend Oliver&#8217;s house. Oliver, that total asshole, told everyone and all the girls made fun of me in art class on Monday.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Parizo</title>
		<link>http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/2009/08/dangerous-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-4860</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Parizo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love grandmothers for the positive abuse of gift-giving.  My grandmother gave me the audio cassette of &quot;Shout At The Devil&quot; on my seventh birthday even though my mother refused to let me even look at the album cover at the local mall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love grandmothers for the positive abuse of gift-giving.  My grandmother gave me the audio cassette of &#8220;Shout At The Devil&#8221; on my seventh birthday even though my mother refused to let me even look at the album cover at the local mall.</p>
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