INCOMING MONSTERFEST: ALIEN CREATURE KIT TO 1:8 SCALE FROM MPC
Mat Irvine: Here’s a blast from the past with a reissue of the first Alien kit ever issued, a 1:8 scale science-fiction monster from MPC, now produced by Round 2 LLC. The original promo line for the 1979 movie ran: ‘In space, no one can hear you scream…’ Maybe with this kit, it could be: ‘In space, no one can hear you model…’ Certainly, director Ridley Scott’s horror-cum-science-fiction movie was a blockbuster, and still has the power to shock more than 30 years later. Over the years there have been a number of model kits from Alien and its sequels, but this Round 2 reissue is based on the very first Alien kit, made by MPC in 1979, initially when the company was still part of General Mills. Now Round 2 LLC, current owner of MPC, has reissued the kit almost as it was, more than 30 years ago. You get a near-identical box (old one, left above) complete with classic MPC logo, containing a set of parts moulded in the original colours - 22 of them in black styrene, with a further, trans...