Hiya Toys Aliens: Xenomorph Lurker Action Figure (1:18 Scale)

I was excited to finally have a 3.75 inch scale xenomorph but when I took the figure out of the package the leg snapped off. Then the arm snapped off as well. I also thought the figure looked a little goofy but I would have been fine with that had the arm and leg not came off. The egg accessory with the lurker is supposed to be closed but I got a soldier egg where it is open. So I'm assuming I just got a defective figure. I will get the soldier instead of the lurker next time. I will also be returning this one.

The Aliens: Colonial Marines toy line by Hiya Toys is outstanding. Collectors of the 4" scale have generally been left without many affordable options for Alien figures, but Hiya has made dreams come true and are continuing to expand this line!The Aliens themselves, including this Lurker Alien, are nicely poseable. There are ball-joints around the figure's entire body. Shoulders, elbows, knees, neck, ankles... The extra hands are a nice plus too for some diversity if you pick up several alien figures, however they're a much more appreciated feature on human action figures I think (Which Hiya is making with Colonial Marines themselves coming soon! Check online toy stores like Big Bad Toy Store or Entertainment Earth for them!).The figure of an Alien is tough to deck out with accessories, yet Hiya figures out a way to do so! The Alien sports not only those extra hands, but an Alien egg (which appears to be different with each Alien type... The Lurker features a closed egg, nice for army building a hive!), a non-poseable face-hugger that looks just good and creepy running around, and a figure stand/base that is made to look like sci-fi deck plating of some sort to a ship or station or whatnot.While some balk at the price, the fact is these figures aren't domestic US products, and are actually imports, so there is always added cost to import toys.The sculpt is amazing, and even the tail is poseable on the Alien Lurker. It has a "bendable" quality to it with a wire molded inside the tail. Absolutely awesome stuff.One minor complaint, and more a warning, is to be careful on opening your figure and initial posing. The pins on some of the joints are extra small, and the paint wash on the deco can seep into the joints and "freeze" them. I suggest using warm water to pop joints apart and put them back together and then the joint should be more easy to move around. But either way, use caution trying to pose these for the first time, and carefully free the joints up first. Otherwise they will break. The hand and hip pegs are particularly thin.I use these aliens for a variety of scenes. I have them on a dedicated Aliens shelf, but I've enjoyed mixing them into even Star Wars figure dioramas, having my Stormtroopers fighting off an Alien hive. I rotate a display like that every once in a while and snap photos, and it's just good fun and they fit seamlessly with 4" scale figure lines in general. One's even in my dedicated Cantina shelf having a brew with a Predator and Snaggletooth.If you're not having fun, you're really not collecting right. :P

Despite my early enthusiasm, all of the 3.75 inch scale Aliens figures released by Hiya Toys are dreadfully fragile, and while very poseable, don't stand up to frequent manipulation of their joints, so you can forget about kids playing with them for more than a half hour before they're broken. That aside, they're also very pricey, and though it's great to finally have Aliens figures in this scale, it's too bad they're too expensive and too fragile to buy in significant numbers. Also worth noting is that these Aliens figures are the only products in the line you should even consider buying, as the personnel carrier (cheap fabric top, limited action figure capacity, unavailabile for several more months, ridiculously overpriced), loadlifter mech suit (fragile and overpriced), and Colonial Marines figures (fragile, paint issues, look nothing like the characters from the film, overpriced) all have their own issues that make them purchases you'll quickly regret. 'Nuff said.

I knew the figure was probably crap, but I really wanted the egg and facehugger and I had an Amazon gift certificate that was a year old that needed to be used once and for all, so I ordered this.I don't know what happened but I wanted the closed egg, which was supposed to come with the Lurker. What I got was the open egg, which was supposed to come with the soldier. The package didn't look like it had been opened, so I don't know what happened. I could return it, but I don't know that I want to bother with that. The figure is "o.k.", but the leg joints seem weak and it has trouble standing even when plugged onto it's base. It also had a clear head dome that was popped off in the package. It's really soft and I don't know if it got hot or what, but it doesn't fit unless you stretch it a little. But even then it slowly "shrinks" and pops off again. For some reason, the xenomorph designs from this game are really disappointing, or maybe it's just the figures, I don't know.I hope their APC kicks more ass than this thing does. With the gift certificate I only paid $9.95. I'm glad I didn't pay full retail price, but if I had seen this in a store for $9.95, I don't know if I would have picked it up.

While the vendor exhibited topflight speed and quality of service (well-packaged, excellent condition...) and while the figure is everything it's advertised to be, it needs to be noted it is not really a toy.For the first time in toy history two iconic licensed characters meet in the 1:18 scale and the recent quality upgrades exhibited in the GI Joe line over the past five years now matches the sculpting of a higher-end Japanese import Aliens figure line. The results are spectacular.The alien is appropriately articulated with about as many joints as could be realistically thrown into a figure at that scale, and the sculpt is frankly amazing. No doubts these are beautiful figures.But they are also a bit fragile as well. Mine broke at the right knee in the process of doing some mild joint posing. It was not rough play, just a gentle adjustment of a knee joint, and SNAP!!!So if you are buying one of these boys for display you will NOT be recommended, but don't let little Timmy play on the floor with them or it'll look like the Colonial Marines had a very successful mopping-up operation.