During the 1990s, Kenner released a series of ALIENS toys that frequently boasted accessories such as 16 page mini comics. Other ALIENS product lines around the world would have different inclusions such as trading cards. A fascinating post has just been made over at Kenner Alien Toy Blog documenting the entire set of “Bio Data” trading cards available to European and US releases. These cards would often feature art images only barely passing for any resemblance to the character/toy they were documenting. For example, both the Bull and Scorpion Alien cards feature the Dog Alien from ALIEN 3, with the Bull Alien version being notable as it has its horns clearly airbrushed on (images above). Many of the cards, particularly those appearing in Series One, display other anomalous features worthy of mention… Bishop with air brushed helmet and visor… That weird Lt. Ripley.

The art is simply all over the place. The weird and wonderful complete set of rare and hard to find trading cards is completely worth checking out. It looks like Kenner really liked that Dog Alien, too, as it also decorates the Gorilla Alien card. Thank you, Eric Fischer for posting this great item.

-Windebieste