New Aliens from Summer OR

NC Rock Climber wrote:meh. The Totem Basic (their version of the alien) is the best small cam out there right now.

+1 for that! Absolutely love them…more refined and machined than the Fixe version, great trigger/action and lobes give a sense of "grip" for confidence…I have X4 is the two smallest sizes and while okay aren't all that…short stem sucks for trying to place in deep pockets etc. Totems Rule.

Has anyone gotten their hands on some of these bad boys yet? This refresh bumped Aliens up to the top of the list of "things to spend money that I don't have on."

M Bageant wrote:Has anyone gotten their hands on some of these bad boys yet? This refresh bumped Aliens up to the top of the list of "things to spend money that I don't have on."

If the powers that be at mountainproject are interested in asking Fixe, I'd be happy to do a long-term review ala the x4 thread. Seemed to be a pretty popular thread that generated quite a bit of traffic and activity. I definitely don't need more small cams for my personal use, but between my friend's and my stuff, I can review side-by-side with x4s, mastercams, and slightly janky older CCH aliens.

Bump,
Any new info... Aliens with a extendable sling sound like the bees-knees to me

James Dean Anderson wrote:Looks like the new aliens in both varieties (standard sling and double sling) are available: backcountrygear.com/active-…

Guessing these Alien LITE the same thing as Alien Evolution cams...

Aliens are here at IME Utah. They are sweet.

We come in peace.

Big heads up, had a new set of these last week climbing in red rocks, broke two of them in a single day. The sheath that connects the plastic trigger and the piece that connects the trigger wires to the sheath separated. It is not pressed together like the older ones which have a steel sheath. Kinda in disbelief that this was put out on the market..

Pics?

Jaysen Henderson wrote:Kinda in disbelief that this was put out on the market..

The number of failures posted on forums of Fixed Aliens has been enough to convince me Totems are worth the extra money.

Trying to understand your description...it broke here?
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Jaysen. you should email Fixe and ask them to replace those two. I know they're really good about that

I saw the same separation happen this winter at J tree. Cleaned a cam that was stuck because the trigger assembly separated from the head. Will not be buying any of these...

sorry dont have any photos, we lost one of them and my friend has the other. We emailed fixe but no reply. My past experience working with the company was pretty sketchy, also they have fallen through on a few promises made to semi sponsored friends of mine equipping new areas.

Id stick with the totems, honestly malfunction aside they make the better product with the narrow head width.

The photo above is pointing to the correct area where the sheath separated.

cheers,

Update**

My friend heard back from fixe, they said "this defect was specific to the early production", and they are replacing both the units. We'll see if the improvements have been made.