If you're in the mood to join in the next week or so, you'll be able to catch their bonus HD 3-part vid of the first beach day on their 2008 Caribbean trip, which I think is absolutely fantastic - just a batch of gorgeous sexy girls running around, getting drunk, playing in the surf and eventually diving on each other's pussies with abandon. I haven't seen girl/girl stuff better than ALS is presenting anywhere else on the web.
Their redone older pics look pretty damned good to me. The redone older vids not so much. There's just no way to make those older vids look anywhere comparable to the new stuff, but it's collector's type material if you like those models, who have moved on or, in many cases, long ago changed their body shape completely or retired.
Let me say to start that I absolutely love this site.
I'm adding a comment because I feel that it's incorrect to infer that this site is some one-note site where every vid and pic set is the same. I've spent a fair amount of time watching their new bonus set at the beach from their Caribbean trip this year and it is amazing. Approx 1 1/2 hours of vid - gorgeous nekkid girls cavorting on the beach, playing in the water, playing with each other, very relaxed, very high energy - not trying to conform to any stereotypical thing of what sex acts they need to perform to make the material ALS material.
Just hotter and more relaxed girl/girl play than I've seen at any other site.
Perhaps I mis-read the line where you described the number of zips you would need to down-load - if people want to download an entire site that has been around for as long as ALS Scan, they should definitey expect to be downloading huge numbers of zips.
Your description of the zip issue is not correct - unless there is an error with a particular photo set, the fewest you should be able to download are a full page worth of pics at a time, not 1 zip per pic. If you're finding a problem where that is not the case, you should notify their Support people, who want to know about these things so they can fix them. I know others here have complained about having to download 1 page of pics at a time, and that's a valid criticism.
The bigger-boobed models that they shoot are on their sister site, ALS Angels, which doesn't have nearly the updates as ALS Scan.
This was kind of a new initiative they were doing to please long-time members who had been requesting more of the girls they remembered from years before.
That was one bonus that I didn't care for either, but I didn't invest much time in it. Alex had warned that the quality wasn't going to be up to today's standards, so I downloaded one of the smaller vid files and decided that I wouldn't want to spend the time or space going further. They did it for the same reason they have done other things - lots of members asked. Good for them. I just wasn't one of them.
Some might love the emphasis on pee-ing and weird insertions. Some might be turned off by same.
Me, I love it for the great high-quality photography and vids of such large numbers of gorgeous babes.
And the appreciation of their customers that marks everything about this site is impressive - which models they update, when and how they update, what areas of improvement have been focused on first - all have been highly influenced by customer feedback.
More details on improvements - from Alex's blog 3/04/08:
We are in the process of changing our navigation and layout for the better; yes, we are going to move into the 21st century and get rid of those fucking frames. :) Please be patient with us during the next week or so while we get the navigation and links optimized and remove the frames from the member's section. Take another look at yesterday's Hailey Young photo update and you will see additional improvements to the navigation links from the way it looked before.
We are going to more than double the amount of pictures that we release in our members section. Here is the new ALS Scan release schedule. We are going to have new release updates seven (7) days a week. A new complete photoset will be released every other day; so for example, we will release a new photo set on Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun, Tue, Thur, Sat, Mon, Wed... and so on. On days that we do not release a photoset we will release a brand new full scene video. We will continue to release videos 7 days a week until our complete archive has been remastered and is available online full time.
The quantity of available vids is way beyond 100 - you might have missed the link that says "click here for more downloadable vids" - and that's just in the "new vids" section. Then they have a bonus up right now that's another 10 vids and the "Director's Best" section.
The vids section should continue to grow since they add a new one every day and no longer archive them - they haven't done so since April 2007, I believe.
I agree with you on this site - gorgeous girls beautifully photographed and video'd - all very high quality - being naughty as hell. I love this site.
For people that don't like the director's voice, it's easy to avoid the "photoshoot" vids, which are the ones where he talks, because he's working. He isn't going to get the great photos that he does without talking to the models and his assistants, so I'm fine with him yakking away. I've gotten used to his voice - he doesn't come off like a sleaze, like a lot of guys that yak during their vids.
I don't know when you were a member last, or why you're writing a "What happened to them?" comment if you haven't been a member in a while to see the quality of what they have been presenting, but for 8 months or so they stopped rotating off the vids, except for bonuses. I think their new models have been damned hot.
FYI - if you're a Jana fan, they're going to be releasing a huge bonus of her stuff, remastered to bring it up to today's standards, this week.
1) Alex isn't gay. He's married, has a couple of kids. I got the same impression that you had from his voice originally, but this is the story. He doen't think his voice is all that good either, but talks to get the most out of the models and the best shoots. For my tastes, he achieves that.
2) Their vid releases are clearly labeled as to whether they are photoshoots or not. The ones that are not only have Alex talking for a few seconds at the beginning at most - maybe he'll say "Hi" to the model and get her to tell us what she's going to do in the vid. Many of them, if the model is confident enough to talk to the camera, especially, he won't even do that. Looking at the last 10 vid releases, 60% have been non-photo shoot vids, so the amount of talking that Alex would have been doing in those would have been slim or none.
Alex's stated view is that he does the photoshoot vids more so that people can see what goes on in a real photoshoot than as stroke material. He's into that "educational" role of the site. One of my very favorite bonuses in the past year was a huge vid package showing a shoot in Czech from the time the crew woke up in the morning until they went back to their hotel at night. Given that the crew included Nella and Amber Rayne, both of whom were hotter than the models in the shoots, I was thoroughly entertained.
Send an e-mail letting Alex know what models you would like to see them shoot. If the model's still working and still hot and still has natural boobs, it's always possible. I e-mailed the other day about Kylie Wylde and got a quick response that he might be getting in touch with her to see how she's looking these days - pretty hot, the last I've seen!
I so agree - No other site continues to entertain me in the way that ALS Scan does - their bonuses are utterly unique, educational at times and entertaining on many levels - I've never seen another site do anything like their new Production Behind The Scenes Bonus - an entire day of a shoot for 7 AM to 7:30 PM. Most of this bonus is stroke material, but it's all completely entertaining to me.
This seemed like a fair review to me, though I disagree with it on key points, ALS Scan being a site that I compare all other younger women sites to for excitement factor. I actually find that this site is good at showing the lighter-humored aspects of their models. I don't believe that any other site has ever show-cased Susana Spears as being such a cheerful woman as ALS Scan did, instance.
Their Caribbean 2006 material is just wonderful at showing hot gorgeous women having fun in between the fisting and peeing and all that stuff - they certainly do a better job at this than FTV Girls, from what I've seen of that site's materials.
The excitement factor really is a matter of taste, though, and I wouldn't ding you for having different tastes than I do, since your review was fair and straight-forward.
Drooler, I believe that you're thinking of their sister site, ALCWPP (All Ladies Covered With Pecan Pie). It folded in 2004, unfortunately. I can't imagine why!
I don't understand the point of writing a review when you haven't been a subscriber in over a year.
In my opinion, but that's just ridiculous!
I'm glad that Sarah responded with some of the significant improvements to the site in the last year.
In terms of content, I find ALS Scan to be more "genuine" than most other sites around - the footage from their most recent Caribbean trip is the best example of this - but you wouldn't have seen that since you're reviewing a site that you haven't been a member of in over a year - makes this review fairly worthless, in my opinion.
Really, given that you haven't been a member of this site in over a year - truly hard to believe to me that you think you should be writing a review given that reality - you should have just put your distaste for this site's content as a comment somewhere.
I'm glad that you included the note about Alex's response to your note to him - it shows the honesty of the people running this site - if you don't like what they're doing, just go elsewhere.
Just makes this great site even greater - when I had an e-mail discussion with Alex a few weeks ago, he said that this was a change that they were thinking about - great to know that they made their decision.
FYI - Alex put a note in his blog this week that they were having a limited time sale on their DVD's. To tell the truth, I've never bought the DVD's so I didn't check out the details on the sale, but I remembered that there was someone here that mentioned liking the DVD purchase option, so I thought I'd add this note.
One other note - I e-mailed Alex and let him know the feedback here about how much higher value people think his sites would have if the entire library of vids were available.
He said that they were thinking about doing that - no promises about time frame - but that the vids that they currently offer as bonuses, such as the special collection of Caribbean trip vids or DVD's, would continue to be available for a limited period of time.
The great thing about ALS Scan, in addition to the high quality, is that for the past year especially, they have gone into a mode of continuous improvement.
ALS Scan currently has a full 2 1/2 months of vids available - this is at the upper end of the scale for them leaving vids out there, so this may change any day. While it is unpredictable how long vids will be available beyond the 4 weeks guaranteed, they do seem to be trying to increase the time of availability in practice.
I agree that the site would tremendously increase the value to their members if they had their full library of vids available.
I'll suggest it to Alex - he's always available for suggestions - and will be pretty direct in saying so if it ain't ever gonna happen.
Both ALS Angels and ALS Scan post DVD material - ALS Angels typically has material available from 2 or 3 of their DVD's as part of the current vids
Right now, for instance, included in the current vids on the ALS Angels site are DVD #87 with Sandra Shine, DVD #90 with Eve Angel and DVD #92 with Breanne.
On the ALS Scan site, you can get the complete DVD #91, ALS in St John, with Nella, Brea, Amy Lee, Sandy, Paris & Adele (this is a temporary bonus that may be pulled any day) plus individual scenes from about 7 other DVD's as part of the current vids available.
I've got to say that the vids of their most recent Caribbean trip with Jana Foxy/Jana Jordan are truly wonderful - some of the best stuff that I've ever seen them post.
So that un-met expectations aren't created, ALS Scans promises to keep the videos up for 1 month. It is often the case that they get left up for quite a bit longer - 2 months is about the maximum.
But then 1 day you will log in and all the vids older than 4 weeks are gone - until they're brought back at some point in the Director's Favorites area or as part of a bonus or as a re-mastered vid.
It would be nice if they kept vids up for 2 months in a consistent way.
That's pretty amazing to get AT, MHM and EA when joining AA. Evil Angel's site just launched a new design with "Channels" similar to AdultTime's structure. One of the channels is AA, advertising 677 scenes. Someone that's a direct member of AA would have to say whether that's the entire library, but I suspect that is.
I'm another EA fan and all of the criticisms of this site and network are completely correct and true. Navigation is hideous, the search is atrocious and you might well find broken links once you get a search to work.
I don't remember what score I gave this network when I reviewed it. It's a judgement call, but given how much I like their material, the pain is rewarded with fun and exciting content, frequently updated (sometimes several network updates per day, sometimes one). The Pretty Sloppy recent updates on this site have been stupendous - crazed spit-play and other such madness with gorgeous girls who seem to be having a blast (there's no air of grin-and-bear-it).
And there have been a number of recent network updates with Aurora Snow, who I just adore, and who I think has never looked more beautiful than she does now - including a 2 hour long mind-blowing live show now archived at Buttman.com. Amber Rayne, another fave of mine, is a fave of Jay Sin's and has a lot of updates here.
This site and network need to address their weaknesses but they're providing a lot of good content with frequent updates, so I give them the benefit of the doubt for that and I would recommend this site and network to fans of EA material - just keep in mind that you'll have slowly loading pages, material "posted" before the links are all set up, a horrible search engine and other such issues to give them feedback on.
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