This is bizarre. A 16-year-old girl saw a giant black ring in the sky above England and captured it on video. After three minutes of floating around like a cloud, the black ring disappeared completely. So far, experts have no idea what it was.
The last time we saw professional cosplayer Peter Kokis, he was wearing his Crimson Typhoon costume. He reached out to us to share his latest creation, the Brooklyn Alien. Like his other costumes, this Xenomorph suit is made from various everyday objects.
Peter said some of the parts he used include “knife sharpeners, toilet plungers, drain mats and conduit tubing.” It took him about 16 months to gather the parts he needed and a total of 400 hours to put them together. The end result is this 120lb. recycled beast.
Hug your browser’s face and head to Peter’s website for more pictures of the Brooklyn Alien.
Sideshow Collectibles will release two Xenomorph busts this year. Both the Big Chap and the Alien Warrior will be in “Legendary Scale”, the toy maker’s term for 1:2 scale. Unless we’re talking about a Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann scale model, I refuse to call anything that’s half the size of the original “Legendary”. That said, these busts are freakin’ scary.
Come on Sideshow, use a banana. Get with the program. The Big Chap is 14″ high and has its trademark slimy shine, semi-translucent head and French kiss-ready mouths. It also bears a relief of a xenomorph egg and a facehugger at the back of its base. It also comes with a plate that bears the Alien movie title in its stylized font.
The Alien Warrior is not as slimy or imposing as the Big Chap and has its distinctive ridges. Its bust also has an egg and facehugger relief has an Aliens film plate.
Get in the power browser and head to Sideshow Collectibles to pre-order the busts. The Big Chap costs $400 (USD) and will be released this November while the Alien Warrior costs $350 and will be released this July.
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H.R. Giger’s creations in the Alien universe are some of the most awesome, iconic and creepy designs in the history of moviemaking. Now you can own your very own Space Jockey, just like the one in the original Alien.
Artist Dave Tootill says he’s been working on this amazing 1/8th scale model for about 900 hours, spread out over over two years. Tootill made the Space Jockey sculpture using DAS modeling clay, plastic sheets, rods, tubes, dowels, a model skull, and other bits and bobs.
Once the sculpting was complete, Dave handpainted it – much like H.R. Giger did himself when dressing the set for the original film.
It’s currently for sale over on Etsy for just under $9,000(USD), but due to its size, Dave will only ship it to a buyer in the United Kingdom.
You can read all about the build and the effort that went into this incredible creation over on his Space Jockey website.
You may heard of Switzerland’s Giger Bar. They were put together by H.R. Giger, the artist best known for the incredible, but creepy designs for Ridley Scott’s Alien flicks. The bars mimic the style of those movies, but with alcohol. Too bad we don’t have something similar in the U.S. However, a Giger Bar could be coming our way.
Graphic designer Andy Davies wants to open a sci-fi themed hotel called… The Sci-Fi Hotel. It would combine a variety of classic sci-fi designs, but he wants a bar in it too of course. The property is being developed with the full permission and partnership of H.R. Giger, so it should be awesome.
As of now there is no definitive location that they have in mind, but apparently Seattle is near the top of the list, as well as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans. Anywhere is good. Just build one here already!
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I don’t know about you, but generally speaking, all games look a whole lot better at a higher resolution. As to whether they will play better, that remains to be seen. I clearly remember turning down all of the graphical details in Quake to Quake 3 in a deathmatch to exact the best framerate possible. For those who are interested in Alien: Isolation, you will be pleased to hear that this particular title is set to run at 1080p on both the Xbox One and Sony PS4. The thing is, existing generation consoles have yet to be confirmed.
This confirmation of 1080p resolution for Alien: Isolation was confirmed by Creative Assembly, using their official Twitter feed by informing fans that they were “Happy to confirm that the game will run in 1080p on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One!” This particular game will continue in the rich history of the Alien series, where you will follow Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda as she creeps around a derelict space station and stumbles upon some Genestealers. Nah, I jest, she was up and about to search for clues for her mother’s whereabouts. Expect Alien: Isolation to launch on the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC later this year.
Alien: Isolation To Run At 1080p On Xbox One And PS4 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Say hi to the Portuguese man o’ war. It’s purple, it’s clear, it looks like a balloon, it’s painfully venomous, but it’s not a jellyfish and you wouldn’t have to convince me too hard that it’s from an alien world. This Portuguese man o’ war, which other than being a fantastic name, washed up on a beach to freak people out (and to expose the alien hideout that is the ocean).
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Quick, what’s the first thing you noticed about the planet we visited in last night’s Doctor Who special? That’s right: It was a soundstage.* None of Matt Smith’s final hour was filmed in a real location. Alien worlds used to be filmed in the studio more often — here’s why we miss visiting Planet Soundstage.
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Look what grandma Xenomorph made you for Christmas! It’s a life-size facehugger hand knitted by Etsy seller Katie aka Knitrocious. Its legs have clips on their ends so you can wrap it around your head or any part of your body for that matter.
You can order the knit facehugger from Knitrocious for $150 (USD). If that’s too pricey for you, you can wait for ThinkGeek’s plush version to be back in stock.
[via Fearnet]
If the Alien films taught us anything it was never to look into the top of an open alien egg. You know a facehugger will hop out and puke itself down your throat. ThinkGeek now has a perfect gift idea for fans of the Alien franchise.
The inside of this replica alien egg glows with an eerie green light and has a little facehugger sitting there inside. The egg itself has open flaps and is designed to look like the one Ripley discovers in the films. The coolest part of this egg is that once you trick your friends into checking out the shiny lights, you can press a button on the front of the egg and a facehugger shoots out at them.
The egg is 4.5 inches-tall and the facehugger is 8 inches-long. The Alien egg is available now for $29.99(USD) over at ThinkGeek. It’s too bad you can’t launch the facehugger with a motion sensor or remote control of some sort. Time to start hacking…
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