Oh, boy. Kenner has either gone insane or realised something we haven’t.
Where do I begin? This is another figure from Kenner’s Aliens, which are actually from a cancelled cartoon called ‘Operation: Aliens’. This particular figure is the queen alien, although you might not be able to tell at first glance. This was not actually the only queen that Kenner produced: There was this one, a winged one and a movie-accurate queen that came only in the queen’s egg chamber playset.
This queen looks like the movie queen and five other xenomorphs blended together and re-constructed by Dr. Frankenstein. It has six (!) arms, a tail sprouting out from her back, strange, torn feet and what I can only describe as claws instead of tubes on her back. Why they chose to give her an extra pair of tiny arms sticking out from her chest goes past me, as it certainly seems useless- too small to hold figures, yet too big to hold facehuggers and other accessories.
Talking of accessories, this figure comes with a huge black chestburster, or as the packaging describes it, a ‘deadly’ chest hatchling. Why is deadly in quotation marks? Maybe it just has a mean nature. I don’t know, it certainly seems deadly as it crawls through your ribs! Unfortunately, I don’t have mine. It must have run off.
This figure has two action features- squeeze an airbag on the back of her head to extend her inner jaw (and, depending on how far it is extended, you can suck it back in when you let go.) or press a button on her hip to swing her entire upper body her right, knocking over any figures near her with her tail. These are really fun features, and really make sense considering that’s standard xenomorph attacks. I’m surprised none of the other figures do this!
All in all, this figure is not at all accurate, but super fun! If you had only one xenomorph figure from Kenner, I would make it this one.
RATING: FIVE OUT OF FIVE ‘DEADLY’ CHEST HATCHLINGS.
Tiny claws 