Drinky Birds in the films and their importance...

I knew it, I just [i]knew[/i] it that someone was going to start a thread on those darn drinky birds! Just in case we thought all topics Alien had been exhausted... Drinky Birds FTW! I always thought they were put in to add a touch of humanity into an otherwise very sterile looking mess hall/ dining room.

I approve. I don't much like the thought of any of this Brave New Trash mainly as it brings with it a slight little taste of vomit. On that basis I say, Drinky Bird or nothing.

I saw some sort of perpetual motion device that was silver in color, located in some sort of meeting room I think. One of the trailors or featurette has it in!

Vickers would be the ideal perpetual motion device

I can see why they were taken out later. It does take away from the intensity of the countdown scene.

[quote=Newtella][i]I always thought they were put in to add a touch of humanity into an otherwise very sterile looking mess hall/ dining room.[/i][/quote] Ridley states clearly in the documentary on the 2009 Anthology that they were supposed to be the very last thing seen (bobbing) before the Nostromo explodes.

I've been watching Alien again and had similar thoughts. There are several of these birds around and even a few bobble heads in the cockpit. As a kid watching Alien the first time, I was afraid of everything to include the rustling paper. These seem to represent their humanity, but they may also foreshadow/represent the Alien as it perpetually pecks at humans. Blowing one up at the end may have completed the "movie is over gag" by destroying the Alien metaphor.

Well in Prometheus they don't have the birds but they got a HOLLY SHIT!! I'm watching the Discovery channel as I'am posting and guess what just came on a Prometheus spot complete with the rated R posting at the end, pure joy!!!

@Xeno...i'm with you...i have a few, but they're not the "classic" drinky birds...they're cheap knockoff repros...i want someone who has the REAL THING!!! Let's start the "drink bird Revolution!"..

Yes, but can TIMMY translate anything into Prometheus fanboy dialect?

I was going to say that they got a X-Mas tree.

I'd prefer they go for the classy jingle bells rock "singing trout" wall hanging. They have a Christmas tree for god's sake... [img]http://www.earlytechnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The-Singing-Fish.jpg[/img] This is the TIMMY8 from Weyland pound stretcher enterprises. The Timmy 7 could barely manage a verse of "Merry Christmas". TIMMY8 is class and still has more computing power than the Apollo moon lander.

They were my favorite characters, and were supposed to have been the last thing we saw before the Nostromo blew up. The damn scene got cut. I think Prometheus should get a flip flap instead: [img]http://www.coolgizmotoys.com/images/old/6a00e550df20b1883401347fbf1a1a970c-pi.gif[/img]

I motion to find a whole bunch of them on E-Bay and bring them to the cinema with us.