While at work today ( i do a lot of thinking at work... ) next year will be 30 years since Alien came out, while ponding that fact i worked out how long i have been a Fan of the Alien movies..... I have been a fan / collector of the Alien films for .... 26 YEARS...

No wonder i have so much stuff in my collection...

So how long have you guys been fans?

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I enjoyed Alien but didn't really become a hardcore fan until I saw Aliens in 1987- I totally fell in love with this film! So 21 years I guess.

I couldn't put together armour but I wore a lock across my heart ala Cpl Hicks on a survival vest back in my cadet days:



(Field exercise around 1990. That's a water pistol UZI ).


Wasn't until 2002 when I came across the old Alien Archive ezboard run by Dan that I first attempted a set of Colonial Marine armour:





Rest is history.


Kevin

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I like the pictures Kevin....(the first one looks like your from the Arine film Commando ) i got my first set of armour back in the mid 1990' (i still have it) a fibreglass copy of Detrich's armour...

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Pfc Glenn Allen ,
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You get the prize! That's exactly what I patterned that gear on- Col Matrix in Commando!

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I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME!?!

I got some stern looks from my local librarian when I checked out the novelisation of Aliens - I guess she thought I was too young, at
about 9 years of age!

So I've been a fan for 21 years, now.

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Well i was a fan of Alien since i was about 10 years old, my Mum bought for me the ALIEN illustrated storybook. Poor mum thought it was a Star Wars type movie she didnt have a clue!

I thought it was great, better than Star Wars, i loved the sets and the ALIEN itself, sod Chewbacca. LOL

I saw Alien for the first time when it came on TV when i was 14, it was a big thing it cleared out the pubs! I sneaked into my brothers room and watched it on an old BW telly.

Aliens came along and i was hooked well and tryly, totally awesome film and a sequal that did justice to the franchise.

I'd say 28 years in total.

I don't actually know which year I first saw Aliens. I think it was 89. I hadn't seen Alien at that point.

So I guess I've been a fan for about 19 years.

Aliens is the only one I haven't seen at the cinema

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I was too young to see Alien at the cinema, saw Aliens 6 times (once a week for six weeks IIRC) at the cinema and was hooked from then on.

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Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

since it was in the theater

man I'm old

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Rob Slater
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Saw it opening night... in a movie theater that is now closed!

Since the old Kenner toys were released with A3. They were no where near what we seen on film but damn were they freaking cool to a ummm hmmm too much corona in me to count backwards... 7 year old boy. I even remember the 1st one I bought, exploding scorpion alien.

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saw ALIEN when i was about 11 and then taped ALIENS off of ITV (the leading ladies series, sponsored by a ladies "hygiene" brand :s ) to watch when i got home from school and i must have watched it about 4 times that night when i got in and tried building a marine helmet from an old cycling lid! the next day at school it was all me and my friends talked about and went to the woodwork room at lunch and begun making our 1st pule rifles and shoulder lamps .

so that was 14 years ago now. wow time goes fast!

I remember a kid telling me the storyline of Alien back when I was in 2nd grade. Sounded freaky. Then my brother showed me Aliens on VHS when it first came out back around 88 or 89. Collected the Topps (I think) trading cards for Alien3 in high school as well as the Kenner toys (which I still have. 1 of each Marine done, plus a 2nd Drake, and 3 more Hicks. My first bug was the Gorilla alien, my first figure was Hicks.)

I remember seeing my first Pulse Rifle prop back in 97 at my first Megacon. Started regularly attending cons in 2000, started on a costume in 2001 which I wore once in Tampa. Drooled over Spatcave for a long time (still do) and remember seeing the cool Marines at my first and second D*C in 2004 and 05. Finally got off my arse and joined up last year. Here I am!

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Meh, I've never seen Aliens - is it any good?

Harry

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Been a fan since I saw it Opening Night

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I remember decorating my folder in elementary school...it had two people laying on the floor with the Alien standing beside them...his arms were outstretched and one of the victims heart was in his hand... That was about 1981...I think it was 2nd or 3rd grade.
I also have a picture of me in high school with an Aliens shirt on...Ill dig it up...I think it was around 89.


Derek

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I couldn't give you an exact year, but my middle brother and I sneaked a look at Alien from my eldest brothers Facehugger boxset.

We saw it, loved it.
I pulled out the 'Aliens' VHS and saw the queen on the front....was too scared to watch it.
But eventually I did, so I'll say about 18 years

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Saw it in theatre in 1986, a good buddy told me that there's some action, Marines and so on...but while i knows the Xeno are firghtenning creature was not so hot to go and watch it, anw if there's some Marines....

Have made at this time a kind of poster cutting all the USCM pics i could find and glue it on a A3 Sheets

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Nice idea for a thread

Well saw Alien when it came on video/TV (My dad & I love so many genre films,he always included me,bar the porn of course,that I "discovered" later as a teen...LOL).

Aliens I saw at the pictures/cinema`s (like Dom`s Gone now),saw that a few times & was truely smitten.

Always wanted the gear & well the 21st Century saw that.......Finally.

Though I`ve tended t stick to the kits,books,toys as the mainstay of my collection. It`s moreso the last 5 years it`s started to be 1:1 props/replicas.

Jason

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Ha ha I remember that Nick!! I was on holiday in Cornwall with the parents when this series of films were on... of course they turned it off since I was 'too young'

However they didn't know I watched Aliens when I was 9 at a friends house during the school holiday... scared shitless but absolutely loved it. Back then we were in Army Cadets and just loved the whole Military thing... so what I remember stood out was the drum roll while they were prepping for the drop. Man I love this film!!

So that's a glorious and short 14 years of loving this film.. with many more to go!


Martin

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HA, I remember watching that too. I even recall the sponsor <lol>
Ahh how time flies!!

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It was the time I got into science and sci-fi and decided I would go into space one day (sadly events transpired against me on that one); about 17 years ago - it's gone by so quickly

Remember being scared out of my wits by Alien, then when Aliens came out all of a sudden I wasn't so scared of the other one.
And when I saw the power loader for the first time and then at the end fight, well it was love at first sight.
Now many years later I friggin "OWN" a power loader how sweet is that.

So fan I've been since the movie came out, but I guess as an active fan, It goes back to when I saw Dom at a convention in full gear, in 2004 I think when he signed me up for the corps.

Thanks again Dom

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I saw the film in the theater twice when it was first released. 3 of
us went the first night, and then another friend joined us the
second night because he had to work the first night and couldn't
go. The thing that struck a chord with me about the film was the
simple formulae:

There ARE monsters out there... and you CAN fight back!

Never went overboard with the collectibles (just the "collectors"
magazine from Starlog and the novel) but years later I discover
that:

A: You CAN actually own Hollywood quality replica props and
costumes.

B: You CAN make them yourself sometimes!

And the rest, they say, is history. Been part of the lunacy ever
since.

Russ

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I got into Aliens when my dear parents let me watch the movies when I was about 5. I thought the alien was the coolest thing that had ever come out of...anything, ever. I remember going to playdates with other children when I was young and everybody pretending to be a power ranger or ninja turtle or some other stupid thing. Not me. I was a drone. I would try to explain the alien lifecycle to the other children. That got some great reactions . That was 13 years ago, and I'm still in love with Aliens. Rock on.

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