Hello and welcome to episode 6 of all my stuff. So like Star Wars and Doctor Who, Alien has been in my life so long I can't remember anything else. The Fast Nation started long before I was old enough to watch the movie when my dad bought me this book and I was about 12. So he knew I enjoyed science fiction and horror so this kind of ticked both boxes. It's really interesting book actually. I think it's still in print if you can get a hold of it. It's got some really cool concept artwork in here. I remember as well this was just after the first film would come out and there was no intention to do any sequels or anything like that. It also introduced me to a lot of artists like Chris Foss and obviously Geeger and some really interesting sort of tip bits in here about some of the original ideas of the film. Some which were to be revisited in some of the sequels. So this is a hieroglyphic that Geeger painted which is supposed to tell the life cycle of the alien. Again that was rejected for the movie but it's quite similar to something that popped up in Famithius a few years later and also like Famithius these strange alien sculptures. I think the original idea was to go to the Alien Homeworld and find the creature there and this sort of sarcophagus place. Again it's quite similar to what we've seen Famithius. There's also some stuff in here which they used I think potentially for the Alien vs Predator film. The idea of the pyramids. There's also original concepts of the interior of the spaceship which has to be powered down for the budget but again this particular image looks a bit like the Famithius ship. A lot more high-tech than what you see in the original film. This is a really nice book. I particularly like these photographs of Geeger working in the studio. You can see all the drawings and skeletons and stuff he was working for. And while it was a few years before I could see these scenes in their full gory glory. I remember we used to go to my uncle's house. He had a super eight version of the movie on a home projector. So at the time this is pre-VHS so in any way you can watch these movies was in like a cut-down version on a little cine reel. So we could hear sort of the screams and the shouts from another room with Sneak In looking through the living room door and see what was going on. I don't think I saw anything too too too bad. Nothing that traumatized me anyway. So this is from my Star Wars comics and it's basically about the cine films that you could buy. So you get silent ones which I can't imagine would be very exciting. We get sound ones which obviously a lot more expensive. There's a list here of some films. A and there's Nenia but there's quite a few films you can see that you could get like War of the Worlds when the Worlds collide. Earth versus the Flying Sources. Classic stuff. Sorry about an adventure. They came in cartridges like this. Little boxes. So it depends how long the film was. Depends on many reels you had. Maybe one, two or three. So a few years later I finally got to see the films on VHS it was then. Then bought them on DVD and then Blu-ray. So these posters are part of a promotional merchandise. And if it weren't the original trilogy first came out on the DVD box set. So I was working at the Virgin Megastore and Leeds at the time and I helped put together what is I think a full-size replica of the Alien Queen from Aliens. It's quite something to kind of construct that and have it in the shop. We put it just near the entrance when people come downstairs. So the first thing this series is giant creature staring at them. This is all fiber glass. It was pretty heavy. Came in like lots of boxes. We got to stick it together. Arms and legs and head and tail etc. Took a few hours as I remember. So in the time between Aliens and Aliens 3 there wasn't really much stuff going on in terms of Aliens. The main thing we had was the comic books. I had them. I had the first two but they seemed to have disappeared unfortunately. But what I have got is this magazine from 1990. And there's an article in here about the Dark Horse Alien comics. So the Dark Horse comics were kind of a sequel to Aliens and it talked a lot about the Alien Homeworld and Earth War and all this kind of stuff. It was all very exciting. And I think one of the problems that Aliens 3 had was that it couldn't quite live up to all the stuff that was going on in the comics. So you can see here they've used some of the images from the concept art. What we did get in the early 90s there was a lot of figures. I've only got one of them. Lots of variations of Aliens sort of Aliens bowls and Aliens sheep and Aliens tortoises. I don't know. Lots of different Aliens concepts. This is quite a cool one. Actually, pulled this thing at the back here. It actually falls apart and I'm going to try and do this. And then you get to see the insides of the Alien. Which is funny. I don't know what that is. Intestines or something. There he is in bits. So thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed my little look through some Alien history. Let me know in the comments about your own introduction to this series. When did you first watch the Alien films? How many formats have you bought the films on? But for the moment all of this is going in the box.