Alien Day 4/26

The Alien Day is around the corner, so here’s a short history of it for our members who don’t know what it is about. 

“History of Alien Day”

Alien Day was created by a Sci-Fi subculture of people who wanted to honor not only the Alien film series. The first “unofficial” Alien Day was celebrated in the spring of 2015 by a group of folks in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

The choice of the date itself holds meaning: 4/26 refers to the designation of the moon in the 1st Alien film: LV-426 is the name of the moon where the xenomorphs are discovered in the 1979 film by Ridley Scott.

Beginning in 2016, Alien Day commenced as a more official celebration when the maker of the Alien movies, 20th Century Fox, got involved with sponsoring events for the day. One of the events for that year was a Trivia challenge that lasted an entire 24 hours. From midnight to midnight, Alien – Trivia questions were posted on Twitter every 42.6 minutes (a total of 35 questions) and prizes included collectibles and wearables related to the film.

2016 was a particularly important year because it was timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the release of “Alien’s” sequel, “Aliens“. However, rather than taking place on the exact day of “Aliens” release, the date was instead a reference to the planetoid on which the film is set — LV-426 (otherwise known as 4/26).

The idea of and hope for Alien Day is that more people around the world can learn about this great day and celebrate the wonderful world of Alien(s). And that continues to come true as Alien Day is now acknowledged and enjoyed by Sci-Fi fans all over the world!”

Have a bright Alien Day with lots of Aliens film marathons out there.

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