The Loyal Subjects Ice Blue Metallic Alien

I had never heard of this company up until 3 weeks ago when I stumbled onto a YouTube video that reviewed some of the figures. I found this guy on Amazon so I ordered myself one.

This little Xenomorph is cute. He's a light blue color with highlights throughout the body. He comes with an Alien egg. These figures come in blind boxes. You can either get an Alien or one of the human characters from the Aliens film, such as Ripley.

I specifically wanted one of the Xenomorph aliens so that's what I purchased. He's articulated in the neck, shoulders, upper torso, thighs, knees, ankles, and a hinged jaw that opens with a little inner mouth that sticks out. His tail is also bendable so you can pose it a little. The joints are pretty decent, the thighs and knees have the widest range.

The hinged jaw was working fine until it broke after like 10 minutes. The inner bottom part seemed to snap off and fall out. I'm still able to keep the mouth closed and in, but without the extra piece, the hinge doesn't work without falling out. It seemed to attach to the jaw via two small little pegs (above). It doesn't appear to be very thick plastic, so that's probably why they snapped so easily. Of course, this isn't the first time I had a figure break from Amazon soon after pulling it out of package. I think I'm done ordering figures from Amazon.

Another issue is that on the right arm, where the hand pegs in, there seems to be a split, which can cause the hand to pop off. I don't think it's supposed to be designed like that, as the figures in the reviews didn't appear to have that.

With all those issues, this figure is just ok. It looks nice, but the easily broken jaw hinge and hand that easily falls out brings it down. You're better off getting a non articulated Xenomorph that you won't have to worry about breaking, or just get a bigger NECA one, of which there are many.

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