what alien is this from..

[charlie]

can anybody tell me what alien this is from..film.

EDIT BY ANDREW:  He emailed the image to me.

[Haoleus]

Looks like an alien from Peter Jackson's Bad Taste. Although i never saw the whole movie (though i here its great) and it was a along time ago.

[Andrew]

This is definitely not from Bad Taste in any way shape or form.

[Ash]

It looks like the piano player from Return of the Jedi.

That's not it though...

[Joe]

i think not.

[Haoleus]

Yo, was just trying to help.

ok my memory isnt that good.

Now that i look at the body i see clearly i was wrong. The face looked kinda reminscint iwth the rounded nosy features.

Sorry for any inconvenience my post may have caused.

[akiratubo]

Seems like I should know what it is.  He was using those levers to control a robot body or something along those lines, right?

[Joe]

haoleus, no hard feelings man just messin with ya. guess i should have put a smiley in or somethin eh?

[Andrew]

I had pm'd Haoleus about his posts, because he seemed to suggesting "Bad Taste" to this and at least one other thread.  My pm asked him to be careful, as he did not seem to be familiar with "Bad Taste" and was guessing at random.  Giving someone a dead end lead could needlessly cost the person in search of the film extra time and even money (if they rent a film based on a bad suggestion).

He did not take the polite suggestion or your post kindly.  He deleted his account and sent me a message that he will never be back, because he did not realize posts needed to be checked for accuracy.  Unfortunately, I believe that he probably needs to develop a thicker skin before doing much posting online.

On the subject of the film, it still stumps me.  The little thing must be an alien or something and it is obviously at the controls for a robot body or ship, but the image does not ring a bell.  Since the creature looks to be clay, can we assume some sort of stop motion film?  I did an IMDB power search with scifi as the genre and stop-motion as a keyword.  A few results looked promising.

[zombiedudeman]

I think it was from one of the Meatball sequels.

[Joe]

if i recall the alien from Meatballs Part 2 was a midget in a suit and had legs. if i remember correctly it had a fairly largehead almost reminiscent of "this island Earth" with an "E.T." like spin on it.

[KYGOTC]

Heh, it reminds me of Max Reebo.

[sebastianjackal]

I'm almost tempted to say the true form of a Dalek, but something tells me that's wrong.

[akiratubo]

The Daleks in the TV show did not look like that.  In their first appearance, you saw only a claw reaching out from under a rug - same for their appearance in the first Peter Cushing movie.  Post-Davros daleks have looked like yellow blobs, sometimes with eyes.  The only way it could be a Dalek is if it's from "Dalek Invasion of Earth: 2150 AD", the second Peter Cushing movie, which I have not seen.

[JaseSF]

Definitely not a Dalek. But if you notice that picture, the alien seems to be clutching at control devices which well look a lot like hot dog wieners. I suspect some type of 80s comedy, probably centering around food.