{"id":31739,"date":"2020-06-18T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=31739"},"modified":"2020-07-14T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T01:16:52","slug":"scorpion-alien-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/scorpion-alien-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion Alien addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of NECA's Kenner-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/necaalkenscorp.php\">Scorpion Alien<\/a> didn't even hint at how weird the creature could have been. First, though, here's the animal the alien came out of:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kenscoral1.jpg\" alt=\"a very small scorpion\" width=\"255\" height=\"175\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>How would a facehugger even attach to that?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's the original concept art of the character created for the toyline:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kenscoral2.jpg\" alt=\"Scorpion Alien concept art\" width=\"435\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>A lot more spikes, yes, but also <b>three heads<\/b>?! How would that have worked? And what does it have to do with a scorpion? They even had a simplified version intended for animation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/kenscoral3.jpg\" alt=\"Scorpion Alien simplified art\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Clearly things changed a lot before production.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #163\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-163\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #163<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - August '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/flippin-through-previews-august-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - August '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - September '14\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-14\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - September '14<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"ATFC '16 - Day 2: NECA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/atfc-16-day-2-neca\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ATFC '16 - Day 2: NECA<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #107\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-107\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #107<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's review of NECA's Kenner-style Scorpion Alien didn't even hint at how weird the creature could have been. First, though, here's the animal the alien came out of: How would a facehugger even attach to that? &lt;i&gt;And now, some more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/scorpion-alien-addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,9],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-31739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-kenner","tag-alien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31743,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31739\/revisions\/31743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}