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Re: New Blog Entries « Result #1 Today at 1:48am »
No, I don't have it, and I don't want it either. I almost wanted it, and then I bought the invicta and the procon lios, and I didn't really care to much for it anymore... Now that the new WS lio is coming out I don't care for it at all anymore.
I never said I was going to buy it, but just that it MIGHT be worth it
And you're right jeb, since the wild safari is coming out I really don't have a need for the WwD liopleurodon anymore (not that I really ever did though)
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Re: Griffin's fossil collection. « Result #5 Today at 12:44am »
very very cool! that edmontosaurus tooth is superb! thanks for sharing
there's a store downtown that has this great crab shell fossil, it's the entire top of the shell. it's several hundred dollars if I remember correctly, but I want to get it sometime...
It seems like it would be a relatively easy detail to get right on toys, but they don't.. I think that's where your "anger" is coming from
I'm glad you put 'anger' in quotation marks...I was just about ready to give you a piece of my...cough, never mind. Back to Schleich anyone? Actually I think we've all said what can be said about the Giga.
Which was my point, as far as dino toys go, it's not worth making a big fuss about. Which, err, you kinda are.
I replied to you previously saying that I agreed that it's not worth making a big fuss about as far as toys go, as they're just toys! Allow me to quote myself to be suitably anal and irritating.
Take the Papo Allosaurus - there's no way I wouldn't buy that because it had somewhat pronated hands, as it's a gorgeous figure (and indeed I do have it). I don't know what '15-20 dollars' means but I agree that we shouldn't get hung up on minor details on a cheap figure.
I'm aware he says that you can't rule everything out. But he also says:
"I have recently done a bit of work on a dinosaur book for kids and I think every single theropod that was sent to me had slappy hands. Every single one I sent back and told them to reorientate them, because they were wrong and that they didn’t look like that in pretty much any theropod and then a week later the next one would come in and well, you can guess where the hands were"
And
"but as a general rule of thumb this is [sic] portrayal [hands palm-in] is accurate"
I'm really talking about 'serious' reconstructions here. As I said before pronated hands on toys don't bother me so much - hell, I own enough of them. I don't want to create a big fuss, it doesn't bother me THAT much! I'm not sitting here with steam coming out of my ears or anything.
It seems like it would be a relatively easy detail to get right on toys, but they don't.. I think that's where your "anger" is coming from
Re: New Blog Entries « Result #14 Yesterday at 11:07pm »
I never said I was going to buy it, but just that it MIGHT be worth it
And you're right jeb, since the wild safari is coming out I really don't have a need for the WwD liopleurodon anymore (not that I really ever did though)
The right leg is up, the left leg is behind, the tail is raised.. THe only differences are the head turning back, and the hand touching the ground so it can stand.
The Bullyland Deinonychus doesn't need a hand to stand, it has a base.
He's talking about the odd Waiphoon one, not the Bully one:
^^^ I don't think that one looks anything at all like Bakker's Deinonychus
The Bullyland Deino is IMO the best Deinonychus there is and it does resemble that drawing
The right leg is up, the left leg is behind, the tail is raised.. THe only differences are the head turning back, and the hand touching the ground so it can stand.
The Bullyland Deinonychus doesn't need a hand to stand, it has a base.
Which was my point, as far as dino toys go, it's not worth making a big fuss about. Which, err, you kinda are.
I replied to you previously saying that I agreed that it's not worth making a big fuss about as far as toys go, as they're just toys! Allow me to quote myself to be suitably anal and irritating.
Take the Papo Allosaurus - there's no way I wouldn't buy that because it had somewhat pronated hands, as it's a gorgeous figure (and indeed I do have it). I don't know what '15-20 dollars' means but I agree that we shouldn't get hung up on minor details on a cheap figure.
I'm aware he says that you can't rule everything out. But he also says:
"I have recently done a bit of work on a dinosaur book for kids and I think every single theropod that was sent to me had slappy hands. Every single one I sent back and told them to reorientate them, because they were wrong and that they didn’t look like that in pretty much any theropod and then a week later the next one would come in and well, you can guess where the hands were"
And
"but as a general rule of thumb this is [sic] portrayal [hands palm-in] is accurate"
I'm really talking about 'serious' reconstructions here. As I said before pronated hands on toys don't bother me so much - hell, I own enough of them. I don't want to create a big fuss, it doesn't bother me THAT much! I'm not sitting here with steam coming out of my ears or anything.
I strongly agree with Radman... Yeah, the neutral position of the hands of many dinosaurs was the "palm-facing" one, but that doesn't mean they could bend and move their friggin' hands when they wanted to... It's just common sense!
Ever tried rotating your wrist independently of your forearm? Yeah, exactly. As I said before, research has shown that the forearm was locked quite solidly in most bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.
Did you even read the article you referenced? In the last reponse to it, the author himself says it was a rule of thumb, and you can't certainly rule out everything. Which was my point, as far as dino toys go, it's not worth making a big fuss about. Which, err, you kinda are.
The bones wouldn't be able to swivel around eachother like that in the wrist
Yeah. Of course the range of movement varied in different animals - perhaps some could *nearly* achieve pronation. However, since the radius was locked into the ulna, complete pronation would be impossible. They would have to have broken the bones in their forearm.
I strongly agree with Radman... Yeah, the neutral position of the hands of many dinosaurs was the "palm-facing" one, but that doesn't mean they could bend and move their friggin' hands when they wanted to... It's just common sense!
Ever tried rotating your wrist independently of your forearm? Yeah, exactly. As I said before, research has shown that the forearm was locked quite solidly in most bipedal saurischian dinosaurs.
I understand, but that study has taken into consideration the tendons and muscles that covered the arm bones in real life?
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