yeah it's beautiful it's gorgeous
ladies gentlemen Adam Savage here from tested in my cave and I have an unboxing
that I'm really excited about okay one of the best things that happened in the
last year is the North Bergen high school production of alien I covered
this on my Instagram and Twitter feeds and I got to meet Steven defending the
teacher that guided the students to build that amazing production they then
got to put that production on a second time with some dough from Ridley Scott
and Sigourney Weaver actually got to go see it and the aliens ruled all over
Sigourney which is amazing everything about the project thrills me obviously
as a lover of Ridley Scott's films and alien and science fiction in general I
love the idea of a high school play doing something so current but also the
the the ethos of building everything from trash and from recycled stuff and a
book reading I did at Barnes & Noble in New York a few months ago Stephen
actually brought one of the helmets to show me and it's so beautiful how they
got the physical topographic gestures with the simplest of things like there's
all these little like piping lines on the real alien helmets they did it with
like hemp twine and hot glue which sounds like a terrible solution to that
but from like five feet away it totally sells at any rate I have
started a correspondence with Steven and the students and I sent them some pieces
of some castings I had in my collection of some alien suit parts and in trade in
these three boxes is Cain's suit from the North Bergen high school production
of alien and I plan to proudly display this here in the cave right next to my
real one I mean my replica of the original because
it needs a home on a mannequin and I'm just about to unpack it and see all
their work for the first time ah okay here we go I have been so excited like
checking the tracking number on this every single day since Steven told me it
was on its way look I'm always saying that theater is
the first art form that would survive an apocalypse totally intact because we
just need to tell these stories and the idea that these high school students did
such an amazing high fidelity job is so thrilling okay that's okay letter Adam
thanks for all thanks for waiting for us it takes a bit
of maneuvering to accomplish things once school is closed we packed up the suit
with a few extras North Bergen High School maker lab and Steven Tiffany
Steven defend Eenie if anything breaks comes loose feel free to repair or add
to it it's in the spirit of what we did smiley face yes okay ooh a lanyard wait
a minute I just have to take a look at a lanyard because you know I have a
lanyard collection give me an alien Day VIP pass well I'm just gonna wear that
okay order of operations that's the backpack and front pack that
I can clearly see is the helmet plus some other stuff that means this would
be the main suit and I'm actually kind of curious how they did the quilting on
the main suit when I actually did the research to figure out how the alien
suit quilting looked it not only took me tremendous amounts of research to figure
out all the specific kinds of fabric that they used and I did this in
conjunction with my friend Steve LaBute Oh
who is the alien suit and builder extraordinaire he and his wife are just
incredible and so it wasn't a solo effort by me by any
to the imagination however I did discover that even quilters seem to hate
quilting that like quilting one-inch longitudinal lines in fabric which most
of the aliens suit is built out of is an exhausting process because I did a whole
bunch of it so I still want to get to the soft ones and I think that's what
this is oh my god there's so many different thanks Oh
gloves okay that there that that looks like a main suit let's see this is
clearly oh that's the whole thing this is the whole suit all they use a packing
blanket genius it's already pre weathered ah that's great what a great
way to get that worn in used up look Oh velcro closures for my microphone aren't
I oh man look at that that's a tank they got that okay let's keep on going
all right now oh look they've got the lace going and everything that's awesome
all right I assume these are probably pants
I know what you're thinking you're thinking man you are rough at how you
open packages do you ever damage anything while you're opening it yes I
have me at Copa oh my gosh beautiful look they've got the big cricket and
knee pads that Mobius put in this original drawing it's so great looking
and I mean it's not great looking it looks like it's beat to crap but that's
the whole point it's just perfect so they just used some some standard
like climbing pants it looks like and they've done a bunch of spray paint on
them and then hot glued stuff to them man it's just like Peter Jackson once
told me that he was like if you can't bully cajole or bribe your friends into
helping you for a couple of weekends to make your first film then you have no
business being a filmmaker which is exactly the right ethos right you just
so you got to go got to go grab your friends so these are some I think these
are oh yeah these are the gloves for the costume they look great the original
gloves were actually hockey gloves
that's just packing okay oh my poor word boots looks like they might actually be
my size see insert looks like they're close to my size nice boots
excellent all right that's one box away no I'm gonna do that one last okay what
is this this is Oh No
they said aliens hands from their xenomorph costume dude I know exactly
the shelf this will live on look at that always beautiful look at that what they
did I mean again up close there's nothing super remarkable going on it's
beads of hot glue and some camping mat and some rope and some black paint and a
glove but from a distance they've got some real character out of this oh
that's amazing all right oh oh oh this is some part of
the set okay awesome any lab surgical work okay and then what is this thing
okay this is another part of set dressing from the show again again it's
just it's so great oh this might be a motion tracker that's what it feels like
looks like it could be a motion tracker whoa fabulous
oh my god you guys yeah I know I didn't realize that we'd made the trade and
then it meant that school was closed and I had to go in well the school is closed
let's see here oh this is amazing I don't have this in my collection this is
super important bit of alien alien historiography it is the drinking bird
the drinking bird this is the bird that you see drinking at the beginning when
the Nostromo is waking up and totally separately it is the same kind of bird
that homer simpson uses to keep pressing the Return button when he's working from
home on the nuclear plant and when the bird fails and the nuclear plant blows
up home respond says stupid bird which is one of my favorite Simpsons lines
ever oh that's great I have all I amazingly I do not have the drinking
bird in my alien shelf I know it's an oversight thank you
for helping me correct it let's see here what else we got - Adam thank you for
your support and for inspiration North Bergen High School maker lab the hot
glue gun I'm a little verklempt right now that you guys that BEC gets a pride
of place on the bathroom wall yeah I mean bub something to hang this cuz
that's an incredible artifact you have sent that I right really appreciate that
that's magnificent Wow oh it's Christmas oh I guess it was just my birthday
alright let's see here this is the backpack trying to see this oh yeah so
this is well the whole thing is that yeah let's turn this and use it as a
table Wow oh look at that they've got 200 I've got
it upside down I said okay Oh oh my god it's the Dallas oh look at that they've
got the two tanks the stuff on the side all the big details are there including
the front sort of samurai armor and they've using a little velcro here to
put it on so the person steps into it I mean you know I'm putting this on in a
second yeah there so we're all clear I am totally putting this on in just a
second all right here we go this is that the piece do is just on the mother lode
this I mean it took me 14 years to finish my alien suit and one of the most
difficult things was trying to figure out how to how to make the helmet it's
such an amazing and weird and wonderful shape again like I said famously
originally drawn by Jean Giraud Mobius one of the great illustrators and
designers and history one of my all-time heroes and then built by Academy
award-winning costume designer John Marlowe and his tormentor Don Malo if
you look his IMDB up he's done a murderer's row of all your favorite
science fiction and other kinds of movies and Steven told me that the only
thing they spent an actual money on for this costume was the plastic globe light
look at that look at this that's twine and hot glue and it looks amazing okay
we're gonna put the costume on Gunter our cameraman who's holding the camera
waved the camera Gunther he has to go somewhere in just a few minutes so I'm
gonna put this costume on so we can get him out of here
oh I'm so excited to be putting on this beautiful piece of the genius turns out
I'm not too much larger than a high school student which is good to know oh
I forgot to put the boots on oh the shoes fit they fit perfectly okay here
we go see that one is wait wait wait
yeah we're almost there we're almost there uh all right let's get the yeah oh
right there's a little clamp here where is it that's it that's probably for the
helmet to connect to so it stays on and so it is right boom look at that they
put it on the front and the back so it keeps on when the actor is wearing it
you can still hear me okay my mics all right all right dudes look
at this magnificent wonderful addition to my collection of incredible costumes
this is North Bergen High School's magnificent recycled build of Dallas's
suit from their production of alien I am so proud to be the caretaker of this
amazing piece of art that Steven Tiffany and his kids put together this year I
really appreciate you guys sending this to be part of my collection and I will
take excellent care of it in fact I'm going to display it next to my cane suit
oh it is hot in here you guys must have been sweating balls thank
you guys this is out of room tested signing out the next time you see the
suit it'll be on a mannequin