My Top Five Xenomorph Figures from the  

The Flying Queen was awesome, as was one that was basically a giant facehugger with a retractable winch tail. Loved this line. Kay Bee constantly had sales on them, so it was the go-to for bypassing pick one, as you said. "But Mom, I got 100 on my Math test this week, and this says if you get two the third one is free! A whole extra toy for free, mom!" Worked every time.

The Bull Alien was the first one I got and it’s still my favourite.

The commercial on TV was my gateway drug into watching the movie when I was 8. I had older friends who I remember talked about the movie when I was 5 or 6, but I never saw the movie. After I saw the toys, I asked my dad to watch the movie and he happily let me watch. It blew my 8 year old mind! It's still one of my favorite movies.

Jeeze... this period of time was so great for kids. I remember i had quite a few of the Aliens toys. if i remember correctly i had the winged one, the bull one, the regular one and i think one that spit. I didn't get any of the human figures in the line cause i had other plans... You see by that time there was a Dark Horse comic i was in love with. That comic was of course Alien Vs Predator. So yeah i also got those predator toys to fight those aliens. Ya include the T2 toys i had and the Batman Return toys... buddy boy it was Alien vs Predator vs Terminator vs Batman. Like i said a great time to be a kid.

I remember when I watched the movie in 94 through Cable and I was hooked since! I remember once we were older 8-10 with my cousins we'd use the old queens as royal guards protecting the queen of the hive playset from the predators. It was awesome to have cousins that would have some of the same toys to really create a herd or a swarm. Good times thanks for bringing them again. My favorite back then was the bull Alien for the colors, but the gorilla was my top 2.

The scorpion alien was always my favourite. Such a classic design and the exploding body feature was fun

What a blast from the past. My first figure was the Flying Queen, the wings and flapping action were so cool as a kid. Always wanted the Gorilla Alien but never bought it in the end. I remember loving the normal Queen and Praying Mantis alien as well. I got the Scorpion Alien and Bull Alien together for one of my birthdays, and that was * chef's kiss *

It's actually bizar that a lot of children were fans of Aliens back than, while these kind of movies are not meant to be for children to watch, but I fell in love with Aliens as a kid too when I was 8 or 9 years old as I remember.

ahhh memories , damn ... how much i miss the 90's

Just found your channel and im loving it! I absolutely loved these figures as a kid, seriously nostalgic

I have a treasured memory of picking up up the Gorilla Alien and my brother picking up the Scorpion Alien at Walmart. We immediately loved them and I still have that same Gorilla Alien to this day in my display... with most of the rest of the line I bought as a man child.

Holy crap, I forgot about these! I had a friend who had every movie, toy, video game etc. imaginable (you know the type) and I specifically remember the mantis, panther (which we called “runners”) and snake xenomorphs. I always thought the panthers were the most versatile even if they’re maybe modeled more after the Alien 3 renditions. I also want to shout out my favorite character since childhood: Frost!

When I first saw these, I didn't know about Aliens (I was 6) I actually thought they were toys for Contra 3: Alien Wars 😅 .... I figured it out later lol

As I said, I am catching up with your ALIEN figures vids, and this one is just so cool. The Flying Alien appeared also on the Konami ALIENS Arcade game, where its head is a bit similar in design to the Kenner Flying Alien Queen, as opposed to the SNES AVP game Flying/Bat Alien. When I started collecting the 90s Kenner Line my first Alien figure was indeed the Scorpion Alien because it looked similar to the Movie Aliens version, the second was the first small Queen Alien which was ok in my eyes at the time. But you can imagine my rush to get the Alien Warrior in the two pack with the Renegade Predator when it came out LOL, and more importantly the Queen Alien and Egg sack Playset. The Night Cougar Alien was the first figure I customized ( had like 5 figures so I could sacrifice one) and to this day it is my best as a beginner in the customization. It retains the head articulation, but the head I re-sculpted to look like a Takeya's Alien Warrior. The Back parasite was eliminated and I made a bone ridge which looks good if I say so myself, and then I repainted it similar to the Dog Alien but with more black tones than brown. So far it is many's favorite, and it will be the first I will present in the future when I start presenting vids of my customs, though I've shared it in on my social media.

Had the whole line, {including vehicles and Predators!}, except Vasquez and O'Mally (?) which came out too late. Traded off my collection not too long ago, but was glad to run across this and see someone else really enjoy the line.

I remember mailing away 5 UPC codes and a month later I got the clear Predator. Coolest toy ever.

This was a very fun list! Kenner Aliens is probably one of my favorite toylines in the 90s, along with Jurassic Park/The Lost World and Batman TAS. However I felt the only thing missing was a large scale playset, but I ever knew they actually had one planned! Yes, there was an Alien Queen hive playset which was an old school slime pit, but that was it. As a substitute I use the back of my Kenner Batcave playset which looks like a suitable environment for the figures. I'm even tempted to buy the 1/18 scale JoyToy diorama sets because those look like the backgrounds used for the Aliens toy commercials. You really made me want to buy more Kenner Aliens toys today! Here is my top 5: 1. Flying Alien Queen 2. Gorilla Alien 3. Bull Alien 4. Mantis Alien 5. Snake Alien

I'm jealous, wish I still had my collection

I think I had all these - what a blast from the past!

Nice list, heres mine: 1: Killer crab 2: Wild boar 3: Rhino 4: Snake 5: Mantis

My favorite was the Drone that came in the AvP crossover line 2 pack. Looked exactly like the alien from Alien. Scorpion was a solid second. I remember getting a cluster of these Aliens toys for my birthday. O how my dad must have hated having to dig these out of the sandbox tunnels I would build.

Such a great and nostalgic vid, man! Watching this brought back so many great memories and made me realise I still have all my Alien figures from when I was a kid, and that I think I nearly have all of the Xenomorphs from the Kenner line lol. The King Alien and the Flying Queen were probably my favs as well as the Wild Boar figure (think that was my first). I also have a lot of the Predator figures from the same period (which I think was also Kenner?)

Bull gorilla, and scorpion aliens were my first of this toy line. I had almost all the "strains" as a kid which is surprising given we grew up broke. Just didn't know of/have the paint variants. Unfortunately lost them all since my mom lost her storage unit that had all of our belongings in it in my early teens. I need to collect them again

The "Warrior Alien + Renegade Predator" is still my favorite Alien. And my favorite Predator. Both are very movie accurate. ...for the times. I love how Alien figures came with Facehuggers where you could play with GIJoe and Heman and slap facehuggers on them.

I loved these toys!!

The flying king and snake aliena has me amazed. Thanks for making this video, it's hitting me right in the nostalgias.

I had the one with the spikes that came out haha awesome. Thanks for the flashback!

Oh, man. The memories. I didn’t have the whole set, but a group of my elementary friends had Alien/Predator toys too. With mine and theirs, that pretty much made up the whole set. So we’d play and exchange/borrow toys back and forth. 90’s were fantastic times to be a kid!

The scorpion alien was the first one I got, along with the Hicks figure, my mind was blown at the time. Scorpion was my favourite because it looked most like the aliens from the film, but youre right that the new breeds of aliens are kind of cool, although some like the scorpion alien with 'twin chestbursters' were kind of stupid. Shame all the marines didn't come with a pulse rifle, some of the weapons sucked. Vazquez was the only one with a pulse rifle to my knowledge and I never managed to get that one. The new Lanard alien toys look pretty cool.

Awesome video, never was able to get the queen, had a lot of the marines and that gorilla alien was one of my favorites, along with the bull alien. Power loader was also one I was lucky enough to pickup. Thanks for sharing my dude 🤓👍

I got several lots from eBay few years back that i planned on using for Warhammer 40K Tyranid monstrous creatures. The Snake Alien makes a great Trygon/Mawloc, the Boar was my Maleceptor, the Crab Alien was also perfect for 'Nids. I was going to use the Flying Queen as my Winged Hive Tyrant but it's a bit too tall and the head is huge!

Thoroughly enjoyed this video bro. I'm from the UK and like you , would have been 9 in 92 and just like you I remember going to the toy store with my mam and seeing the wall of Alien toys and being like WOOOOOAHH! My first was the either the flying queen or the bull, i dont remember but those are the only ones I have. I did buy the whipping tail mint on card and actually opened it up, back in 2002 as I always wanted it after seeing a kid on my school bus with it. P.s, is that green dye on your hair or the light?? either way it looks so good on you, you should do it, its very punk and you suit that. Rock n roll man \m/

This video is greatness! My favorite figure back in the day was the blue metallic one. Sick editing really great job! 👏🏻

the gorilla alien was my favorite of them all. I agree :)

It always kills me inside when these amazing 90s cartoons either get cancelled way to early (I.E. Spawn) or when they just never get past the drawing board. I used to have a gold rhino one and a cobra one of these that was super cool

I have these still. They were so bad I never opened them. I picked them up in the 90s but preferred any and everything Todd MacFarlane did. Had Todd had the rights to do Aliens and Predators when he was doing Spawn covers, we would have had spectacular figures. These were just pure fubar lol

I had most of the Aliens in the line as a kid besides the gorilla alien, bull alien, and the variant re-paints that appeared later on. The first figure I got was the Mantis Alien. Never bothered getting any of the heros besides the Xeno-combat armor figure.

I loved this toyline as a kid, was utterly obsessed with it! I think I can recall exactly where I got every single one of the figures. The queen alien I picked up in a UK store called mothercare, which weirdly enough mostly sold toys for infants. No idea why it was there. My 1st figure was the queen facehugger however and to me this is always my top fig from the line as it holds so many fond memories. I also later got to calling it Marjorie for some reason. Simple silly action features but fantastic sculpt and you could hang it off the front of the powerloader.

I have an Alien figure collection on display in my apartment, and I sold some at a random Toy Show, but I still have a bunch of this Kenner line. My favorite is the Alien Queen with Playstation. The whole transparent green thing you can load up with the slime included. That Queen was beautifully sculpted. Her connection to the egg sac was great, and the figure was removable. It's my favorite Alien Queen I own. The MacFarlane Alien Queens looked a lot better, but "back in the day", this was the best.

I remember having Both the Regular Queen Alien, and the Flying Queen!

When these came out, the only one I wanted, and which I got, was the Scorpion alien, because like you said, it looked the most like the ones in the movie. In fact, it always annoyed me when they would make toy lines composed of figures that never appeared in the movies, or they gave the human characters ridiculous accessories. Kenner did later put out a movie accurate figure, but some dimwit at the company decided that it should be molded out of light blue plastic! I never bought that one. Luckily, they finally got it right with the Aliens vs. Predator two pack.

I had the Gorilla, Bull, and Queen. The Gorilla was always my favourite too.

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I remember I had that one with the wings back in teh day, sadly got destroyed by me and childhood...

Subscribed! Loving your passion and when you mention imagining as a kid and later spoke on "how they hunt in packs," I can see your imagination and passion shining through and still going strong! Also, gorilla is my favorite as well

Aww man. I was pulling for the Killer Crab Alien to take the number 1 spot. 🦀👽🦀

As a kid I found that you could fit a human figure in the ‘tails’ of the Boar. Like it’s got a live prisoner.

The gimmick that they were going for was for it to shoot water through it’s mouth like as if it was shooting acid 💦 it shows on the box of it spitting acid.

Just wanted to comment that I too still have that Kenner future war Terminator figure in the back as well from when I was young. Toys definitely have a way of jump starting old memories.

DUUUUDE!!! THE OPERATION ALIENS COLLECTORS CASE!? Your collection is APESHIT.

The panther alien was always my favorite but I was never able to afford any of the toys until K.B. Toys closed.

In the comics the Gorilla Alien didn't actually come from an earth gorilla. It came out of a different alien creature that looked a bit like a gorilla. So I guess the same with the mantis alien. I used the Night Cougar Alien as the dog Xeno from Alien 3.

I loved all of these. I loved the flying queen. Did you see that Neca remade some of these figures?

I used to have a few of them. Deluxe Queen, Scorpion Alien, Gorilla, Flying Queen and the space Marine that disguises himself as an Alien. That was the only Marine I had. Then got the Bull Alien and the spiked one later on. NECA has been doing a great job with the Kenner tribute line.

There's actually TWO posters! There's another one that only has a purple xenomorph on it, which to my knowledge never got reused anywhere else, unlike the other one.

I always kind of wish the movies depicted some of these variants besides the one in Alien 3

Ironically my introduction to the alien & predator franchises was AVP 😅

Operation Aliens, the AvP cartoon and recently an Alien Anime all cancelled or buried. Aliens cartoons just can't catch a break.

really imagine those 3 hunting in a pack great figures man great video ✊😎🔥

I loved me some Kenner as a child, but Toybiz really showed them up with their articulation. Even their Batman from the first film had knees as opposed to the later Kenner line for the sequel. It was worse with the Aliens and Predators because they were all in dymamic poses which made it impossible to, for example, sit one in a Batmobile.

Love that your fav movie is Aliens! Who is your fav Marine and who is your fav Marine action figure

I can honestly say I have bought every single alien you showed on your video. But sadly, the only one who probably did not survive my childhood would be the queen, who was one of my top favorite next to the flying queen and the king alien. But because of her I did learn a lot more about how toy companies make toys. And because that is one of the reasons why I was able to stop buying toys when I realized this. Let me try and make a quick explain. Have you ever bought a toy that had like moving parts like springs or locking mechanisms and you love that toy so much that you just spent hours on days using that toy over and over again until eventually one day, it feels like the toy just doesn’t work anymore like something broke or something got dislocated and it’s just not working anymore, for my friend, it was his original sword, striking lion-o figure you keep pushing that button in the bag, making his arm go up and down, striking with his sword until one day, it just stopped working in the button, just jammed up inside him. Well, something like that happened to my queen alien 1st of the tongue launching action she had in my opinion wasn’t well designed because first off for it to launch out there has to be a amount of oxygen be able to push it out, then pull it back in when you look up problem was is that the seal was not very tight in the rubber would get brittle overtime from probably the oil from my fingers maybe?…. but I think the death blow was the tail whipping action say there is a button that you push that makes the queen twist yourself to strike with her tail and if you push the button, you could hear the clicking noise it had a spring inside that would spring it back into its original position. The problem is if you’re a kid who is loving this toy a little too much and you’re constantly pushing a button, knocking down your action figures over and over and over again eventually one day she’s going to literally throw her hip out!…lol This is one of my childhood kind of ended because I finally put two into together and realize that toy companies don’t really care about the quality of the toy. They just want to set them out and have kids play with them until they break so that they can bother the parents to buy more. Now that I think about it, maybe it’s not a coincidence that the ones I love the most with the ones that broke the most…… and not because I was rough with them or over play with them too much they were just not well built. Because the same thing happened to my flying queen, her wings were incredibly heavy and that seem like a design flaw by the company or maybe it was intentional I don’t know because as you’re trying to make her wings flap, the weight of her wings with sometimes caused them to pop off and then eventually, as time went by the plastic that held the wings in place would start to bend and warp, and you would never be able to get the wings to stay on anymore….. and then there’s my king alien who had that locking pincher that would double as a crown on his head, where he would go up to his enemy and you push a button and his crown would reveal pictures that would grab your enemy with two claws, it would come out and catch that that also had a spring mechanism and that also would end up getting worn out even if you didn’t do it much it’s still had a lot of weight to it in my opinion, and just doing it only a dozen times because the mechanism to wear out maybe the spring would stretch and next thing you know only one with come down or it would not lock in place at all. It’s a shame I stop collecting toys because I remember about two years ago at Walmart that they were selling a large queen figure that was modeled after the original queen from aliens. I am not gonna lie looking back. It was beautiful. You had a little egg next to it and a face hugger, and it came with a stand that you could lock it onto the display on the shelf or a display case if you want to do it had, I’ll give you a better retractable, tongue, action and its tail didn’t have a whipping action like it’s first version, but it did have a impressive wire in its tail that will allow you to move the tail almost any direction you want it also it was quite large too…. if I had to describe how big it was. It looked about as big as the original T-Rex from the Jurassic Park toy line….. seriously where was this when I was a kid?!?…lol Me and my friends are always joking around about how it’s kind of depressing that toys got cooler when we got too old to have toys.😂😂

wow, i had that stationary pack when i was a kid! totally forgot about it.

2 years later and we are still waiting on that rumored flying alien queen from Neca.

That commercial is awesome!!!

my 7th or 8th birthday my mom took me to KB toys near my grandparents. i got hicks and the scorpion alien. i believe i had 10 bucks. 30 years or so later i still have these figures. i collected most of the line . . lost all the weapons(thats what happens when you have 2 other brothers and a sister who play with your toys) my dad showed me the movie and i was in love with it ever since. I remember some years down the road they started selling them at big lotts so i got a lot of aliens and predators from there. Most of my childhood years involved playigh with my aliens and predator figures. i had the ghost busters tower so that was always the lv426 complex or the atmosphere processor. man those were the days. i still remember looking through a Darkhorse previews book on my way to school and seeing alien and predator comics and absolutely losing my shit. I am pretty sure my decision to join the Marines was def because of the the movie Aliens.

The Terminator electronic action figure in the background on the table... I had that when I was like 6 to 8 years old 🥲 damn I miss those days

Yes dude. One of my favorite topics

Good list my guy, Id definitely audition for rhythm tuba for Spitting Gorilla

The different xenomorphs come from xeno's implanting themselves into other alien species that have similar animal features we know. Meaning the praying mantis xeno did not impregnate nor was genetically engineer on earth. That xeno was implanted in a foreign alien species that has those features. This idea is presented and introduced in one of those comics. I think it was the rhino alien comic that went over it.

My first alien figure was the 1979 alien figure dont know were my uncle found it in 90s in box wish i still had it than it was gorilla alien and queen and got whole set about 10 to 15 years

I would've loved a tv show, but apparently, there never was a tv show in production. The clips and screenshots were all for tv commercials for the figures, and it was decided at the last moment that they were going to use the actual figures instead of the animated sequences.

Years ago Neca released updated versions of the kenner aliens and they did a good job on the scorpion and gorilla alien. They actually gave the scorpion alien a more unique look versus the kenner one. I gotta get myself a few of the kenners again just for the nostagia, ebay has them for a reasonable price.

I never got why they used the alien the alien for the Scorpions cardback whenthe Aliens Xenomorph looked alot closer.

I still have a bunch of them.

1. Warrior Alien (AvP 2 pack) 2. Scorpion Alien 3. Gorilla Alien (1st release) 4. Alien Queen (1st release) 5. Giant Queen Facehugger (ridiculous, but I like its features) Somehow the quadroped Aliens never quite did it for me. But I did like the appearance of Night Cougar Alien. I'd totally lost interest by the time the ALIENS anniversary 2 packs came out. I also saw like a complete collection of KENNER ALIENS all MOC at a garage sale like 10 years ago. I just had to leave. I mean, it was like...all or nothing situation for me mentally. Either I want all this or I gotta leave.

The green and black alien King is my favorite in comparison to the black and silver repaint 2 pack with corporal hicks. I use to have all these even the arachnid and the dragon fly alien I think it was called🤔 it had long legs and a little bug part at the top that connected and shoots out so it looks like it's flying as it detaches from the legs and tail. That one along with the 2 pack marines and repainted aliens are hard to find.

i also like the alien movies since im a kid

I always found it interesting how a toy company marketed a movies horrific alien creatures as toys. R rated toys?

They had a cartoon called bad bureow alien detectors

Nice video. Hate to be that guy, buuuut; although there was an initial plan to create an animated series to support the toyline as " Operation: Aliens", it never happened. Fox declined the proposal, however Kenner then pivoted to create animated TV commercials. The animation stills you refer to are from that unreleased/unused spot. At the very last second, Kenner dropped the animated TV spots in favor of the well known live-action TV spots. It's still unclear as to why the "Operation" moniker was ultimately dropped...

Could you please let me know what the name of the comic containing the space marine stories is? Would love it

King alien is really rare to find

Gorilla alien was impossable tp get in uk for years

Had these as a kid! Are they worth money now? Pretty sure mine are all gone or broken 😢

Oh, yes. Kenner were too dumb to remember that they shouldn't be making toys of R-rated Horror films after the backlash they got with their first Alien toy, but they did it again anyway to promote the third film whilst basing it on the second due to its military aesthetic. Because nothing says "For Kids!" like getting Facehugged and impregnated with a monster, doesn't it? And considering that Kenner also did toys for Predator, they also thought that an Action Thriller about an Alien coming down to Earth to _rip our heads and spinal cords off after killing us in a hunt_ was also perfect kids' stuff. Oh, lord were the 1990s wild for Children's Toys.

What is that book called

It's just "Operation: Aliens", not "Operations". You present several examples of it being spelled without an S and repeatedly refer to it as "OPERATIONS: Aliens" in every video about the subject. I couldn't help myself, I had to mention it.

Funny I thought gorilla was the most boring

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