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    Quote Originally Posted by euansmith View Post
    Ripley, Newt ("Hudson! This little girl survived longer than that with no weapons and no training."), Vasquez ("Okay. We have several canisters of CM-20. I say we go back in there and nerve gas the whole f***in' nest."), Ferro ("We're in the pipe, five by five"), Hudson ("No. Have you?"); Aliens featured a fist full of strong female character taking care of business. The fact that the game doesn't seems a real shame.
    Yup, though at least there apparently is one after all. They need to advertise it better though, the Aliens franchise is a feminist icon and treating it like another male dominated setting is not good enough,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfshade View Post
    Ripley was originially intended to be male...
    Which is why she's such an excellent example of positive feminism. Male character, female actor. No difference in how they treat or cope with the situation.
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    Edit:
    Actually the middle one looks like she might be female, I take it back:
    Last edited by eldargal; 11-08-2013 at 05:27 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eldargal View Post
    Heh, there are five Marine sculpts in the box, four are pictured. All male. That doesn't scream after-thought at all...
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    65k goal met and 75k goal unveiled:

    At 85k get 5 free facehuggers added to the box:


    Still not overly convinced of the value to be honest.
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    At the risk of showing off what a geek I am, the original Aliens vs Predators comics had an Asian woman who fought with the Predators against the Aliens and was more or less "adopted" by them at the end of the story line. There was at least one sequel where she is shown as part of the crew. This model seems to show a human female in Predator costume so I wonder if that is what they intend.

    Having said that, I don't recall her breasts being quite so dramatic.

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    Never really had any interest in the franchise beyond "Alien" myself, but it mostly looks well sculpted/designed for the most part. I only liked the Facehuggers too, so not something id get into - but I did pledge for their Warzone KS and I was quite pleased with the quality of those models, and when I let them know my box was missing a part they sent replacements within a few days.

    I would probably pledge if they had a lower level for just a few of the Facehuggers though.

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    It's really too bad that this is GBP instead of USD. If the standard pledge of $100 USD got the game and unlocks a la CMoN, I'd be all over this.

    As it funded, I think I'll just wait for it to hit CoolStuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfshade View Post
    Ripley was originially intended to be male...
    Weaver was very masculine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eldargal View Post
    Kind of pissed off there is no female Marines to be honest and the female predator just has giant breasts, so original. Alien was the first female led action films that I'm aware of and even the AvP films had female Marines so reducing female presence to a pair of giant ****ing predator breasts is offensive.
    If you read the AvP novels, you'd also know that in Predator society the women are homemakers not allowed to hunt. Thus one of the reasons the female human who was inducted into the Predator hunting pack is looked down upon and frequently called "b*tch" (in their language).
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