Dan Harlow

The alien from Alien and it’s sequels and sidequels is certainly one of the greatest movie monsters of all time. Sure, the Wolfman is cool and I always liked the creature from the Black Lagoon and the Predator is a total bad ass, but H.R. Giger’s alien is the sum total of all that is great about movie monsters. First of all it’s scary, second of all it looks cool and third it has survived nearly 30 years as a pop culture icon and multiple interpretations. Even if the movies the alien is in don’t live up to fan expectations the alien always manages to survive (pun possibly intended) because it’s actually pretty hard to screw it up as a character. The alien is really just a giant, killing, acid-bleeding space insect - it has no character.

This lack of “character” inherent in the alien therefore leaves it wide open to artistic interpretation from around the world and in just about every imaginable medium.

I discovered the Lego version of the chest burster over at brickshelf.com where the artist has posted numerous photos of his work. Though I doubt the Lego corp will ever be picking up this license one could still dream, I suppose.

While traveling through Dubai the owner of the blog hombrelobo, una mente dispersa happened upon a store selling an incredible steampunk sculpting of the alien. The artists information is not given but I’m pretty sure someone is eventually going to track down the original creator and hopefully talk him into doing some more work. Oh yeah, did I mention this was found in Dubai? How odd is that?

Finally, we all know the alien is far from being a vegetarian so this interpretation by Till Nowak is really quite hilarious and terrifying..

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