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Board Game ‘Alien: Fate of the Nostromo’ Will Let You Play Through the Events of the Original Movie

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Detailed for Alien Day today, Ravensburger is getting set to unleash the new board game Alien: Fate of the Nostromo this summer, and io9 brings us everything we need to know.

The site describes that Fate of the Nostromo is a “collaborative, strategy-based, thriller board game that makes anywhere from one to five players members of the Nostromo crew.”

The characters you and your friends are able to choose from include Dallas, Ripley, Lambert, Brett, and Parker, and the idea is to allow you to play through the events of the movie. Much like the video game Alien: Isolation, you and your crew are tasked with merely surviving the Alien menace rather than defeating it throughout much of the game, and you never know when and where the Xenomorph might pop up to scare the living daylights out of you.

io9 further details, “Together, players must survive and escape before the alien kills them, which means the game will never end the same way the movie does. Either everyone wins, or everyone loses, and each can be accomplished in several different ways.”

Head over to io9 to learn much more about Alien: Fate of the Nostromo, releasing August 1!

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The Tall Man from ‘Phantasm’ Finally Gets His Own Funko Toy

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The majority of the big franchise horror icons have gotten their own Funko toys by now, but one icon you haven’t yet been able to add to your collection is the Tall Man from Phantasm, played by the late Angus Scrimm across four movies between 1979 and 2016. For the 45th anniversary of the original horror classic, the Tall Man is finally getting his own Funko toy!

The upcoming Phantasm collectible has been previewed by Funko this week, the toy capturing Angus Scrimm’s iconic visage and even coming complete with a silver death sphere.

Preview the Tall Man toy below and expect it to hit toy shelves soon.

The only other official Tall Man toy we’ve gotten over the years was from NECA’s Cult Classics line of figures, part of the second series that was released way back in 2005.

Speaking of Phantasm, franchise creator Don Coscarelli returns to the universe with six brand new original short stories in Phiction: Tales from the World of Phantasm, now available!

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