Well your cousin was lucky. I hope he's still got him cause he's pure toy history! Now see, I was about 5 or 6 when My Grandpa was talking to Me about Aliens. I really didn't know any other aliens than E.T., Star Wars & Star Trek and I wasn't as educated on them then as I would become later on so this would become something new for a youngster Me. He recorded the first 2 on TV. In fact when Aliens premiered on Showtime in 86 that's when I believe this time was when I got into it. I loved the eerieness and darkness atmosphere the films had, they never bothered Me. Of course I'm not saying I never flinched out, cringed, went ooohhh or whatever, I still do that with a lot og films but it wasn't bad to a point where I never wanted to see it again. I loved the first two films, I watched them many, many times with My Grandpa in the dark and I so miss them times
My Grandma wasn't a big fan at first but I got her to like them. Same thing with My Mom but she likes Predator & Terminator more but still likes Alien. Predator I see different, I still cringe big on some of the parts in the first one. This is why I said I would have loved that Big Chap figure (that was the name of the Xenomorph behind the scenes) but he came out too soon