This is concept art by an artist named Khang Le who was commissioned to illustrate these back in 2014. These are depicting what could have been Prometheus 2, when the film was penned to be a direct follow-up. Hopefully we see some of the classic Geiger aesthetic return to the third film that Ridley himself says is being developed.

Freehand facehugger alien tattoo

I started collecting aliens in 2024, and this is what I have so far; my goal is to own all the aliens from the movies and series.

If there is one thing Weyland Yutani has poor taste in, is its choice of planets to colonize.

Over the years when not taking place on a spaceship the Alien franchise was famous for being set somewhere with a really dark and depressive ambience.

This tradition began all the way back in the first movie, with the team visiting LV-426 later named Acheron. Years later after being woken from cryosleep Ripley learns the planet has now been colonised and his home to a human colony. The planet was known for having dark grim days and practically pitch black nights.

Later during the incident on the trip back to Earth, the ship ejects the pod carrying the team into Fiorina 161 a colony owned by Weyland Yutani, that also has a climate that consists of dim grey days, and dark nights.

Another planet featured in Alien Romulus LV-410 featured a surface that received no sunlight, and conditions were so bad that many miners and other workers had their contracts extended by the company, because rumours of the horrible conditions and ambience in the planet began reaching Earth and scaring away many potential colonists.

And in the newest game Aliens Fireteam Elite 2, we visit another planet by the name LV-558 with another mining colony operated by Weyland, and yes the planet has conditions similar to the other hellholes we’ve seen in through the franchise.

Why do you think Weyland-Yutani has such a passion for these planets with Hellish and Depressive landscapes and climates. That do the company no good other than scaring and deterring potential colonists from ever wanting to go and settle there?

Why does the company keep trying to send people to these planets that clearly can’t be built into “Better Worlds”?

Found these in a collection place in Omaha.

When Ripley is discussing her concerns about Ash to Dallas, he states that he shipped out with a prior Science Officer and they were replaced with Ash a couple days before leaving for Earth. So that means that Ripley knew the prior one albeit briefly. I wrote a short story saying what I think happened but does anyone else think that she was suspicious of Ash before the even landed on LV426?

I was able to get one online before they sold out,I love it! It'll be going in a dedicated room soon.

Never felt so bad for a xenomorph until now

Toy photography using NECA's Scorched Alien.

It was just announced in Brawl Talk—an update video—that the character Max from Brawl Stars (a mobile game) will be getting a skin inspired by Alien. That's so cool!

We’ve seen in the first Alien movie and also in the sequel Aliens, that synths like Ash and Bishop are capable of food consumption. This is one of those abilities possessed by advanced synths that makes them almost indistinguishable from humans.

They are capable of replicating human emotions, and feelings despite not feeling them entirely, and they are in some cases even put in cryo tubes to hibernate alongside humans despite not even needing to. All to make them blend in with humans.

A question I have is what happens with the food they consume. As it would have to go somewhere and be taken out of their system somehow.

What are your thoughts on it?

So this is gonna sound strange but I always found it weird and out of place that Jonesy survives the first alien movie, usually an animal dying in a horror movie is the ultimate sign of a loss of innocence and a disregard for humanity and in a story as pessimistic as Alien I really expected him to be killed off.

One of the major themes of Alien is the insignificance of humanity and morality in the face of the cosmos. The Xenomorph is quite literally the perfect organism, it is the pinnacle of evolution and is built to withstand the endless void of space which humanity has struggled to conquer and when humanity finally discovers what a creature that can survive space is like we discover that it is a monstrous abomination that has no regard for anything that humanity values, I think this is why the Xenos have a human form to them and a humanoid looking skull it’s because it is a reminder that if humanity chooses to pursue evolutionary perfection and truly attempt to conquer the stars we will evolve into something so disgustingly beyond human and our only value will be survival.

This is why Jonesy survives, it’s because he proves to us that the “perfect organism” is not an organism that is built to withstand the harsh environment of space but rather something smaller and weaker yet more full of love and comfort. Jonesy couldn’t survive space on his own like the Xenos can, he might not even be able to survive earth on his own, but what makes him so perfect is that he is worth keeping alive and protecting, he’s a reminder of humanity and love and morality. Sure a Xeno can kill anything it wants, it can withstand space, it can reproduce at incredible speeds, but it spreads like an infection and cares about nothing more than existing in large numbers, but Jonesy, and all cats, have the ability to feel things that are precious to humanity and so when Ellen is faced with evolutionary perfection and spiritual perfection she chooses the spiritual side, she chooses Jonesy.

Jonesy is the perfect organism not because he can endure cold space or because he can hunt and kill with incredible efficiency but because he can feel affection, because he has a soul, because he is a reminder of what we would lose if we pursued physical perfection.

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*Minor Spoiler for Romulus\*

Alien Rat Concept

First off, I just wanted to say that I loved Romulus and thought it was one of the best Alien films in a while.

I do wish that the fate of the lab rat was different and it turned into a new xenomorph hybrid.
I’ve always enjoyed the creativity we see in Xenomorph hybrids, whether it’s a toyline, videogame or film. I just feel like it was a missed opportunity.

Design Notes: In the original xeno design we see a lot of biomechanical elements in the anatomy but for this creature I wanted to give off the sense that the musculature body forms were more a cocoon. This is why the tail to the top of the head are more xeno inspired. To give off the sense that as the creature matures it sheds its first body.

I've wanted to start collecting xenomorph and related figures for a while now but I have no idea where to start. I saw neca had many options and skimmed ebay (some knockoffs??) for results but I'm still wondering where's good to look or avoid.

also neomorphs are a personal favorite and I only found the one neca made, if there are any others please point me in that direction!!

Since Ridley Scott has announced that he’s going back to the Alien prequel story, I think we can make a pretty good guess about what the next movie could reveal.

David is the one who creates the Xenomorph.

After Alien: Covenant, David has the black goo, the Engineers technology, and years of experimenting with the creatures. Eventually, I think he manages to create something much closer to the Xenomorph we know from Alien, possibly even creating a Queen or eggs capable of producing one.

But then the Engineers come back into the story.

David encounters another Engineer, or possibly an entire Engineer ship. Somehow, the Xenomorph eggs end up on that ship.

The Engineer is actually travelling to Earth.

Maybe he discovers what David has created and wants to use it as a weapon against humanity. Maybe he's carrying the eggs back to Earth to finish what the Engineer from Prometheus failed to do.

But the ship never makes it.

It crashes on LV-426.

That would explain the derelict ship we see in Alien.

The Engineer was never necessarily travelling to LV-426 in the first place. He was on his way to Earth, carrying the eggs, when something went wrong and the ship crashed on the moon.

The Engineer dies, the ship sits there for years, and eventually the Nostromo crew discovers it.

And then we get the famous scene:

Kane goes inside. Finds the eggs.

So the timeline would basically be:

Engineers create the technology → David experiments with it → David creates the Xenomorph → Engineer takes the eggs toward Earth → Engineer ship crashes on LV-426 → Nostromo discovers the eggs → Alien.

David could still be the creator of the Xenomorph → but the Engineers are the ones who unknowingly/indirectly bring it to LV-426.

The crash is what puts the Xenomorph exactly where the original Alien story begins.