Life-Sized E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Stunt Puppet Prop Replica
In 1982, after E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial points to Elliott's head with a long, glowing red finger and says, "I'll be right here," and then blasts off in a rescue ship into outer space, leaving only a rainbow behind as John Williams' powerful score played through the speakers, I remember everyone in the movie theater sobbing their eyes out. I was too because I had just projectile-puked up an entire bucket of extra-buttered popcorn all over some poor guy in the seat in front of me. I was like 5 years old, so I don't know if it was the popcorn that got me or that I just sat through one of the grossest, creepiest, and most disturbing movies I had ever seen up to that point in my life, well, except for being taken to see ALIEN when I was 2 and POLTERGEIST the week before E.T. came out, which was filmed in the exact same neighborhood. POLTERGEIST is a whole other story of cinematic trauma.
Here are some of my main issues with the movie at the time. E.T. looked like a hideous scary mushroom blob who eventually turned sickly white and died. His glowing red beating heart was nasty. The house was an absolute disgusting mess. Drunk E.T. at home licking potato salad from the fridge was gross. Drunk Elliott saving the frogs from dissection was weird. The government agents were all frightening and menacing. It made me afraid of my Speak & Spell. E.T.'s blood-curdling scream in the foggy cornfield was terrifying. After the movie ended and being dragged to it multiple times that summer to relive the horror again and again, the E.T. nightmare continued on with that disgusting crispy peanut butter breakfast cereal tie-in, the awful Atari 2600 E.T. video game I got for Christmas instead of a lump of coal, and then I got to sit through this disturbing flick again in 2002 when Spielberg re-released it in theaters with weird Lucas-like changes like turning shotguns into walkie-talkies. I despise E.T. I couldn't wait for him to Phone Home and return to his vegetarian planet of blob creatures, an unpopular opinion for sure. I did like the bike scenes...
Anyways, despite my lifelong issues with E.T., some of you out there saw past all of that and loved it for some reason. Well, now you can hang out with an E.T. of your very own, anytime you wish without fear of your house being tented and your family being quarantined by government agents in astronaut/hazmat suits with this cool new yet quite 1980s-inspired NECA E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Stunt Puppet Prop Replica. This nearly life-sized E.T. stands 3 feet tall (his neck doesn't creepily rise up to make him taller like in the film), is made from foam rubber and latex, and is meticulously hand-painted in realistic detail. It's perfect for dressing up in old lady clothes and a wig and leaving it standing in someone's closet to discover, putting it on the side of the road near a forest or cornfield at night to cause concerned double-takes from drivers, putting it in a milk crate on your bicycle's handlebars and then falling off a cliff while hoping E.T. makes you fly past an abnormally large full moon, or just putting a bathrobe on him while you chug Coors beer and watch better movies together in your home theater or man cave. Reese's Pieces and Life-Sized Poltergeist Clown sold separately.
Related Videos
