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 Post subject: Alien/Space Jockey question
PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:50 pm 
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Can anyone tell me how many Space Jockey statues they made for Alien?

I seem to recall they made one that was half scale and it ended up being burned to the ground while on display at a theater. Was there also a full sized version?

Is there any information on how tall it was?

I found something that said it was 26 feet tall, but it didn't say if it was the half scale or full scale version.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:58 pm 
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For the film I believe it was one they then used kids in space suits to make it look bigger, the one at the theatre was made especially for that

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There must have been a full size one or at least part of it, for the shots where they're examining it.

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Same one on set

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Yeah I think there was only one - and they had to battle to get that built. The same one for Skerritt, Hurt and Cartright was used for the Scott and Vanlint boys.


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So there can be only one, eh? To bad it was destroyed then.

I wonder what would have happened to it if it hadn't been destroyed, would FOX have kept it around?

O.k., so the undersized one was the only version made. Can anyone tell me how big it was supposed to have been in the fictional setting? I'm trying to create some file fillers and I have what's supposed to be a drawing that one of the people from the colony drew of the space jockey when they started investigating the derelict, I wanted to add dimensions of the SJ scribbled off on the side.

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Not sure how well they scaled it, but don't forget about the one in Prometheus. Might be more info on that one

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:29 pm 
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I wonder what would have happened to it if it hadn't been destroyed, would FOX have kept it around?


Unlikely. Stuff like generally get struck when they're done with it - unless Bob Burns comes to the rescue.


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