UPDATE: Sold for US $48.38. Just a little shy of my minimum expectations.

Here’s something you don’t see every day, although it does feel like these loose Kenner ALIEN dorsal crests appear on eBay with monotonous regularity. It’s been a few months since one of these pieces appeared on the service. This one is for auction right now and bidding commenced at US$5. It’s a safe bet this item will sell for more than ten times that amount despite the fact it is damaged. Yes. It is damaged. It’s an original piece, alright, and that will go a long way to contributing to the final value of this item when sold; easily exceeding US$50 at the end of the auction. Keeping this in mind, though, it’s true value may not be reached as one of the two tapered pegs needed to fit the part onto the back of the forty year old toy is missing. The point of breakage isn’t made clear in any of the photos provided and it is certainly not documented in the brief description provided by the seller. Nonetheless, this is still a valuable piece that will help complete somebody’s vintage ALIEN toy. They may need to rely on improvising a method to reattach it to the figure. This item simply will not remain in situ without that upper peg to secure it in place and it will simply fall out without additional care.

-Windebieste.