Aliens vs. Colonial Marines chess board

Scant details are available for this Aliens chess set, but it's wonderful. On the xenomorph side, chest bursters for pawns, with dual queens as the royalty, denoted in rank by whether or not their gelatinous egg sack has been ripped off. The human side is similarly ingenious: sentry guns for pawns, with a loader-armored Ripley as the king. Half of the board has even been bio-mechanically infected: all the black squares have been Gigerized. Checkmate = face hugged!

Alien Movies Chess Board [Contaminated via Gearfuse]

[#1 posted by Garr , August 19, 2008 4:53 AM]

*drool*

I need to have this! I can't imagine any better reason to start playing chess more regularly.
Beautiful! I find it hard to distinguish "white" and "black" fields, but then, I can count past eight so that shouldn't be a big problem.

Too bad there's no information on how to obtain this beauty (Gearfuse implies it might have been the unique work of a fan).

[#2 posted by Drawjunx , August 19, 2008 5:32 AM]

You missed the AVP version:

http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/4977.shtml

[#3 posted by PinterT , August 19, 2008 6:37 AM]

Could be wrong on this one but i believe the correct term for the xenomorph pawns would be "Face Huggers" not "Chest Bursters"?

[#4 posted by Anonymous , August 19, 2008 6:52 AM]

OOOOH. I bet Bishop is bishop.

[#5 posted by Anonymous , August 19, 2008 6:57 AM]

Scant details? Wa-huh? This has been out for over a year now. I had one collecting dust on my store shelf and tried to eBay that 50 pound pile of wretch several times to no avail.

It is the SOTA Aliens Chess Set - http://www.sotatoys.com/itemdetails.html?products_id=6

[#6 posted by duus , August 19, 2008 9:13 AM]

to #4: dammit, i was going to make that observation.