Peter
Pan Playthings 1993's Operation Aliens board game, licensed to - or loosely based on -
the second movie in the franchise, but no Newt (thankfully - pesky kids!) and a
nice bunch of 1:72nd scale figures!
Or at least that's what I thought until I
studied the dates? It must be off the back of the 3rd (space prison?), 4th or
5th (?) movies? I gave up watching them, it all became a little silly and
Sigourney Weaver was one of the biggest names in Hollywood until she tore the
arse out of the franchise she bought . . . to tare the arse out of it! In one
of the ones I didn't bother-with she even did an 'Arnie' with a vat of molten
stuff, but them so did that Skywalker's dad, Frodo nearly did, but at least he
'nearly' did it first!
There is a dice (or die) but the mechanism
is mostly 'order' card-driven as far as I can tell, and the 'winner' table
suggests the survival or escape of the space marines is a rare'ish event! This
was also photographed on one of those odd days (we had one last year a swell)
where the atmospheric light seems to fight with the camera's flash to produce
an insipid pinkish 'glow' which doesn't make for brilliant imagery, but I
suspect we'll find excuses to return to these in the future!
Close-ups, equally washed-out by the
lighting conditions, but good-enough for now. You get a queen alien, four
offspring and four character players; Ripley, Apone, Drake and Hicks but I
can't remember which is which - I think Ripley is the yellow one? The 'baby'
aliens have three heads, the mother alien has about sex or eight arms!
I've put a comparison shot on the Airfix
Astronaut page (which is a better image!) and you can see they are slightly
taller, only a millimeter or two, so a reasonable 1:72nd scale or a tad too
small for use as 28mm role-play gaming additions.
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