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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jan 14, 2009 16:33:55 GMT
Hardly a custom, more a slight modification...  From the factory, the neck of this figure is positioned in an impossible 'S' curve:  |
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Post by sbell on Jan 14, 2009 17:28:22 GMT
Yours might have the S-curve (or did) but some of us were lucky enough to get the earliest ones--the neck is still curved,, but not pulled back in a swan-like pose. As seen here:  But I think I still want the new paint version as well. The different neck would just help them fit better on a shelf together (when, someday, I have a home with a space that I can fit shelves into again...) |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jan 14, 2009 17:57:36 GMT
The one I modified must have been an early one too - that's what it looked like before I had my way with it - still way too much flexibility in the early version.
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Post by sbell on Jan 14, 2009 18:24:12 GMT
The one I modified must have been an early one too - that's what it looked like before I had my way with it - still way too much flexibility in the early version. Oh yeah, very bent--but the new ones have their heads swung way up in the air--they look like the more classic swan-style. |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 15, 2009 0:33:41 GMT
I see it is guarding your little green chap mei plesiosaur ;D
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Post by Tyrannax on Jan 15, 2009 21:16:01 GMT
Looks a lot better now. Why can't companies do a little research? Its really not that hard to get things accurate! I'm ashamed of Carnegie!
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Post by sbell on Jan 15, 2009 21:22:19 GMT
Looks a lot better now. Why can't companies do a little research? Its really not that hard to get things accurate! I'm ashamed of Carnegie! To be fair, that figure has been around since the early 90s at least, when the general thought was that plesiosaur necks were very flexible and snake-ish; it is only a very recent idea that the necks were either fairly stiff and forward (see: Procon Hydrotherosaurus) or more inclined to reach downward (sort of the Dinotales Elasmosaurus), and then lock in a straight-forward position for travel. Only some newer figures--the Bully, AAA, and Schleich elasmosaurs, for example--that push the limits of flexibility to varying degrees. Others, like the Kinto Favourite, the Dinotale Plesiosaurus, and the aforementioned Procon that are using the more current reconstructions. |
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Post by Tyrannax on Jan 15, 2009 21:25:43 GMT
It is? Really? Surely when your trying to position the neck in a posture you like would have told them upon reconstruction that their necks weren't exactly able to bend straight up at such an angle? I suppose, unlike reconstructing most sauropod necks, the neck of Elasmosaurus appears to give a little?
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Post by sbell on Jan 15, 2009 21:39:03 GMT
It is? Really? Surely when your trying to position the neck in a posture you like would have told them upon reconstruction that their necks weren't exactly able to bend straight up at such an angle? I suppose, unlike reconstructing most sauropod necks, the neck of Elasmosaurus appears to give a little? Again, the figure came out when most references were still going to be based on the classic images from mid-20th Century, with elasmosaurs at the surface, their graceful swan-like necks reaching into the sky, while frilled mosasaurs jumped out of the water to grab their necks. So of course that's what people expected. But things have changed now; perhaps Safari just needs to do a new one (or redo the mold for the third time). |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 15, 2009 21:41:16 GMT
^^ They should just make a new one. In fact, they should redo all their marine reptiles. They are redoing the mosasaur, why not do the elasmosaurus and kronosaurus?  |
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Post by Tyrannax on Jan 15, 2009 21:41:33 GMT
They need to, like the Tanystropheus, make the neck flexible. This would add much more flexiblity to the toy, and probably help out sales.
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Post by Ajax on Jan 15, 2009 21:55:15 GMT
Looks good and makes it a pretty long figure now.
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Post by tomhet on Jan 16, 2009 4:36:05 GMT
You should resculpt the head, it's very painful to look at  |
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Post by Tyrannax on Jan 16, 2009 7:31:02 GMT
Tomhet, I thought I was the only one who thought that! Why does it look like a little demon? Its head has like no detail at all. |
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Post by sbell on Jan 16, 2009 13:30:39 GMT
Tomhet, I thought I was the only one who thought that! Why does it look like a little demon? Its head has like no detail at all. Not as detail free as the Invicta, though. |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 16, 2009 22:00:45 GMT
What is wrong with the invicta? I see it has nostrils, teeth, eyes.. why do people say it has no face?
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Post by stoneage on Jan 17, 2009 0:43:38 GMT
What is wrong with the invicta? I see it has nostrils, teeth, eyes.. why do people say it has no face? ;D Painted or Unpainted? ;D |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 17, 2009 14:10:06 GMT
What is wrong with the invicta? I see it has nostrils, teeth, eyes.. why do people say it has no face? ;D Painted or Unpainted? ;D Does it matter? |
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Post by tomhet on Jan 17, 2009 19:16:08 GMT
^^^ Yup, the unpainted one has almost no features. When they painted it, they added eyes and nostrils and mouth.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Jan 17, 2009 19:36:54 GMT
Really? That's.... Weird. I wonder why they would do that?
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