Loved alien now 25 years old

For a generation the prase "E.T. phone home" has been a funny and well known sentence.
Next week E.T.'s 25 years birthday is celebrated in Hollywood.
Steven Spielberg released his film about the funny little alien E.T. at the film festival in Cannes, May 1982.
Some days later - on June 11th - it had it's opening night in the US and it immediately became a mega hit. Which it has been ever since.

Fhe movie has later been published on dvds and been showed in TV several times. Spielberg and his staff have never been slow to exploit those extra income potentials and the film put new standards at the beginning of the 1980s, as to merchandise.

The film has appeared in three versions - the most impressing and radical one of these are the 20 year version, which premiered five years ago. A DVD version contains both the revised and the original version.
Spielberg changed some of the scenes with the help of digital technology, but was later criticised for political correctness because of the changes. Spielbergdefended himself with that he since the first recordings had become like a father to the film and now thought that the pistols in the police officers' hands were just rather too threatening (in the new version those police officers carried torches).

The Film originates from Spielberg's own childhood where he created a character while his parent's were getting a divorce.
The film describes family affairs and typical American suburban-environments, which are very analogous with the circumstances and the surroundings from the instructor's own childhood.

already in the film's first months Spielberg and Melissa Mathison were busy writing the manuscript to an "E.T. 2".
In that film the three children were abducted by evil aliens and had to seek after E.T.s' help.
But the first movie enjoyed so much success and Spielberg was so satisfied with it that he decided to drop all plans for a continuation. He simply could not live up to all the expectations.

25 years later

November 29th, 2007 together with all of the actors, photographers, technicians and second crew Spielberg will be celebrating the film's 25 years' jubilee. The set will be a special gala performance in The Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. A celebration, which is arranged by Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences - the same organization, who stands behind the distribution of Oscars, which will take place on February 24th next year - for the 80. time.

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Alien Abductions

People report typically that they e.g. during a night in their homes - or driving - suddenly are lifted by aliens.
Typically the people involved maintain that they are brought to a spacecraft - or to a distant base - where strange creatures carry out medical investigations on them.
Many of the victims are often traumatized after the bizarre aliens had focused on their sexual organs.
Women often, report that they have their embryos removed while men typically report that they experience having taken sperm samples.
Another essential postulate is that people get implants in the body composed of small metallic objects. Also there are stories of pain tests and studies of the internal organs with the help of probes.
After the investigations the victims maintain that they are brought back to their houses, cars or from where they had been abducted.
Many people report that they discover unexplainable wounds on the body after the alleged episodes.

The stories about these offensive violations are rather scary - not least because the aliens are described as very insensitive, expressionless and effective.
The communication with the often terrified and angry victims is often limited and happens mainly through thought transfers.

The American author Whitley Strieber has described the maintained phenomenon in several books.
Both fictional and non-fictional.

One of his books has even been filmatisized with Christopher Walken in the role as the author.

The Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and the historian David Jacobs are some of the few graduates who think that those stories could be true.

John Mack became aware of the maintained avductions in connection with his meeting with research reindeer Budd Hopkins.

The American doctor Roger Leir has ostensibly operated over 10 apparently strange objects out of people who claim that they have been abducted by aliens.
According to Leir the objects have gone over different analyses and had to have a very remarkable composition.

There are of course also many sceptics to the maintained phenomenon.
E.g. the Harvard-psychologist Susan Clancy and the sceptic Philip Klass.

Clancy is the author to the book:
Abducted:

A story:

There are fairly certain more versions of this story.

An American pair in September 1961 saw a strange flying vessel on a drive in New Hampshire.
When they came home there had ostensibly disappeared two hours in a mysterious way.

Under hypnosis - as some think can evoke forgotten memories - they said that they had been in an UFO in which they were exposed to medical investigations. The hypnosist had managed to show a star atlas and managed to point out that the foreigners came from a planet that circles around the star Zeta Reticulum about 39 light years away.

Another UFO story
In 1975 7 forest workers had in a car on the way home from work seen a strange light in the forest.
Travis Walton got out of the car and moved closer to the lights.
He was however ostensibly struck down by a ray of light from what there appeared to be a metallic disc shaped vessel.
After this Walton's friends ran away because of fear but later they returned only to discover that Travis had disappeared.
The case woke the media's interest and the episode was reported to the police, who analyzed the forest workers in lying detectors.
5 days after the episode a longbearded Travis turned up again and apparently was very befuddled and confused.
Under hypnosis Walton has reported that he had been on a vessel and that he was exposed to medical investigations among other things.
He had to have been struck by panic when he woke up in the vessel among 3 foreign kidnappers.
Walton has been frustrated over that he after the episode was blamed to avoid the media and that after he finally gave interviews, were blamed to search for attention.
Walton's alleged abduction has among other things led to the production of the film "Fire in the Sky" that is more or less a correct reproduction of his story.

Alien Abduction Story
Police officer Alan Godfrey from Great Britain maintains that he in 1980 under a night patrol saw a strange diamond shaped vessel over a road.
He reports that he got out off his car and threw a brick towards the object and learned that the trees along the road shook violently.
Godfrey jumped inside the car and began drawing the object.
He claims that he later found himself driving the car farther down the road.
Godfrey thinks after a hypnosis that he was brought onto a vessel and that he met a relatively tall man and 7-8 small creatures.

UFO Abduction Story
It appears that Rachel Devereaux from Great Brittain together with her mother and two sons became aware of a ball shaped fast flying light in the sky on a drive in 2005.
For a time the light floated over the car and gave the family a lovely feeling.
After that they were to have experienced "lack of time" in about one hour and seen the light fly away with an incredible speed.
Rachel's mother reports that she experienced a "loss" when the light disappeared because she liked the feeling it gave.
Unlike a number of other reports this episode involves several people who maintain that they have been abducted by an UFO during the day hours at the same time.
Furthermore there is an essential difference that the aliens here are taken as friendly and not as frighteningly.

Abduction Theories

Several human beings have started to think that it to a high degree is secret government groups who perform the proclaimed alien abductions like an alien abduction agency.
They are of the opinion that it is human beings who let artificially and, created programme ready life forms carry out the medical investigations in order to cover the activities.
The supporters of this theory name the phenomenon as MILABs, that is Military Abductions.
The purpose of the scary activities was also to frighten the inhabitants.
Advocates of such theories are for example Barry King and James Casbolt.

You always need to get creative when planning parties for the little heads. The busy bees are always waiting for surprises from your end and what better way to get them excited than getting some great alien merchandise for their birthday party! Plan some unusual alien party games, alien themes, alien costumes, alien make-up and such lots of options to pep up the party mood with the perfect alien merchandise to complement it.

When the movie Alien struck cords with the young generation, these wonderfully mystical creatures moved from the screen to the shops in the way of alien merchandise. Today there is so much alien merchandise you can find all around that throwing an alien theme party would be no difficult. Even the friends of your kids could bring in great stuff and add really merry to the entire event with rocking alien merchandise.

There are so many things you could get as alien merchandise today like alien life sized statue, real action heroes, Queen Alien Polystone Diorama, Cult Classic figures of aliens, Fetal Queen Maquette, Alien new born statue, Alien space jockey statue, Alien VCD, Alien warrior statue and even some movie masterpieces like the Nostromo crew, Dog Alien, or Alien bust.

For Halloween or New Year also you can plan an alien party lit up with lots of glow sticks. Alien merchandise like inflatable aliens will help you recreate the alien saga and also the highly detailed Alien Resurrection figures can actually make the entire theme come alive. Make them walk in straight into the movie that has captured their fantasies and you will be in turn making their dreams come true to life.

You could also rope in UK’s 3-D Space Base Playset to add in more fun to your adorable party theme. Because NASA also remains a great favorite with the kids, you could add some alien merchandise with the outer space collectibles like flying saucer toys, action figures and dolls, or other such other space play things to add flavor to the alien merchandise.

To make alien merchandise really useful you could ask all invited kids to dress up as some alien characters from their favorite Hollywood films. Gifts for the best dressed could add fun to the entire theme and you could gift these children with some real cool alien merchandise. You could even give alien merchandise gifts to those who bring in the best alien spaceships. Make sure to keep photos of the entire ceremony as they are going to cherish this moment for a long, long time to come!