- Year: Mid 1990s
- Size: 6 inches
- Product Line: Unproduced by Kenner (Hasbro). Presumably, Hive Wars.
A form of hatching Pod/Egg ALIEN known to be one of many unproduced figures being developed in the mid 1990’s. The actual name of this figure is unknown but ‘Locust’ appears to be the most likely moniker associated with it, although ‘xenopod’ is also possible. Judging from known images of prototypes, two significant variants exist.
One version, the rarer of the two, was to have an egg pod with 4 petals that opened to reveal a new type of ALIEN sitting inside in the center, dubbed the ‘Dragonfly Alien’. This figure has a very long chin, spiny tail and four fingered looking hands. This figure also appears in the unpublished Hive Wars comic where it’s shown that the opening pod petals double as wings! The word ‘xenopod’ appears prominently in these comics and it is possible this could have been the name for this product line of figures.
Images courtesy of Steve Dwyer
The 2nd and more common of the two designs had a two part opening egg that revealed a more insect looking Alien inside with 3 pairs of limbs. Longer arms with smaller hands, a second set of shorter arms and 2 stubby legs. The torso was attached to the egg via its rear end. The enclosed item when folded into its egg is 6 inches tall and 3 inches across. When unfolded from his egg, he’s about 6 inches in length.
Images courtesy of Marc Cawiezel
Here’s another version of the same 2 petal figure cast in different colors.
Images courtesy of Steve Dwyer.
This sample is a hybridisation of both figures. It features the body of the 4-winged ‘Dragonfly’ Alien figure but only with a pair of ‘egg petals’ instead of 4.
Images courtesy of Derek Ho
Finally, here are samples of both variants together showing the various differences in design throughout both unreleased figures.
Images courtesy of Steve Dwyer.
