Elder on lv-426

you know, it's like you read my mind - I was just then about to reply on an.oth.er thread that maybe the LV-426er was BIGGER i.e. the pilots got smaller since taking on the Giger-skin... In my mind, the Engineers on primeavel Earth (in the prologue) were like 5 meters tall ... there are no reference points.

what do u thing of the aliens being like a virus

and this just popped in my head 2 lol what if the engineer at the start of the movie and the ship on lv-426 happend at the same time and they are on lv-223 try to make more aliens.prop not but just an idea lol

Space Jockey LV-426 is 'fossilised', however this 'could have happened' over 35 years. However, two thousand year old Engineer Pilot head 'isn't fossilised' so go figure. Basically, employing Lindelof was a really bad idea, methinks.

Again there are no reference points for the Engineer Race. We have the concept work and these show them to be like between 9 to 12ft tall (varies from concept artwork to artwork) The Alien Space Jockey was said to be 15ft tall but i actually worked him out to be 12ft but a every bulky and big 12ft (more bigger head than the one the crew in Prometheus picked up). I can answer the Elder Engineer question only as far as the Sacrificial Engineer as the Elders appear to be smaller and more frail and not hug hulking menaces. Again this only shows that the Sacrificial Engineer was taller and larger than the Elders and we do not know if the Elders are taller than the last Engineer and thus making the Sacrificial Engineer larger than the last one. The Space Jockey suits hanging up are about 10ft tall, at least 9ft... however the Ghost Engineer who ran through David is only about 8ft tall and the Engineer who fought with Shaw about 7.5ft or just under. I think these are maybe in hindsight errors due to filming and Ridley never expected us to scrutinize the size and work it out. It appears from what a number of production staff have said that the Engineer race do on average stand 9-10ft tall. Now where Mankind can range from 5ft-6.5ft average with some on rare occasions smaller 4-5ft and taller 7-8ft maybe the Engineer race also vary in size. So while just a speculation maybe the Race is supposed to vary between 8-12ft tall.

Big Dave, don't worry, the REAL 5m Space Jockey will be revealed in PARADISE, mostly...

@FreePlanet Yes there are some inconsistencies for sure. Apparently the room the head fell in had a atmosphere that effected the way it would not decompose. And yes we have a lot of height inconsistencies and i think in Hindsight they should have done what they did with Lord of the Rings to make the Hobbit actors appear to only be about 3ft to 4 tall when they all mainly stood about 5.5 feet tall. They could have then made the Engineer appear 9-10ft tall. which is what i think the aim was.

thanks guys dont normally put posts on cos i get slaged off about what i put so gd to have some nice comments for a change hope it does get showm what happend to him would be cool and bring on prometheus 2

Very good thought. However, like I said before, I feel the differences between the SJ and the engineers in Prometheus are simply due to changes in design. Even though I think it was a design changes, a while back I came up with the reasoning that the differences were due to the ship being different. The ship in Alien doesn't have the stasis chambers and all that. Plus, it seems the cocpit in the derelict did not rise up from below. As we know the egg chamber was below the cockpit in the derelict. It didn't look like there was any mechanisms above the egg chamber that would lift the cockpit. It didn't seem like there was any place for the cockpit underneath. But, as I said, I just think they were simply design changes.

Hmm they looked a bit smaller when they made prometheus - thank god they decided on a redesign: [img]http://www.superherohype.com/images/stories/2012/June/prometheus_elder.jpg[/img] Pretty sure the old SJ and engineers are supposed to be the same - very annoyingly...

cool pic and yeah i with u on that