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The Motion Tracker

The Motion Tracker is named in tribute to the news section that appeared in Aliens magazine.

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• Predator designer Stan Winston repeatedly credited Aliens director and personal friend James Cameron for coming up with the Predator's distinctive mandibles. According to Winston, Cameron suggested them to him during a flight they were taking together.
• In at least one draft of the shooting script for Alien³, Hicks is killed when a Chestburster erupts from him while he is still in stasis aboard the Sulaco.

• While the M41A Pulse Rifle props used in Aliens were constructed primarily from the Thompson submachine gun, the Heckler & Koch MP5 was originally going to be used as the base of the rifle. The original MP5-based design still appears in the film, on Private Frost's "PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER" T-shirt.
• The prosthetic head piece used to show Bishop II's injuries in Alien³ was built around an ear originally made for Jack Nicholson in the 1989 film Batman.
• Despite being set in Gunnison, Colorado, United States, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was filmed in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As a result, the climate and vegetation of the town depicted in the film is inaccurate to real-life Gunnison's, which does not support the growth of ferns or any of the other lush vegetation seen in the film.

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