The Making of the 14-Foot Alien Queen: Practical Effects, Puppetry, and Legacy

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The 14-foot Alien Queen was built as a fully functional practical puppet by a large hands-on team led by Jim Cameron and Stan Winston, with Shane Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan carrying that craft into Legacy Effects and showing how treating creatures as characters made the Queen feel alive, even though most of the original pieces have vanished.

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Legacy Effects Oscar-nominated duo Shane Mahan and Lindsay MacGowan share tales from the trenches of 1986s Aliens