Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

Here's a surprise spawned from Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror flick, "Alien": the tie-in action figures are finally coming out, after 34 years in stasis. San Francisco-based toy and apparel company ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

If this isn’t the coolest news to come out of SDCC ’12, I’ll eat my hat (if I wore one). Retro toys are some of the best collectibles, bar none. No, they may not drip with screen accuracy, or be ...

Toys have come a long way since 1979, but in some ways, it’s been a full circle. Back then, Kenner released a large, 18-inch tall action figure based on the xenomorph (nobody called it that at the ...

With the release of Star Wars in 1977, Hollywood learned an important lesson: If summer blockbusters were here to stay, then tie-in merchandising—particularly toys—would have to be part of their ...

In the early '90s, Kenner Toys made a lot of money from popular intellectual properties - Alien, Batman, Transformers, Jurassic Park, Robocop, Terminator, and so on. Predator did not escape their ...

In 1992, Kenner released a line of figures based on the Alien franchise. The series was canceled in 1995, just like the Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect, the intention was to make an animated show of the ...