Everything Dinosaur: Evolution

[Halichoeres]

I'd better fess up. Yes I did.

Anyone here preordered?

Well, if this endeavor lasts long enough to produce some other taxa, we'll have you (in part) to thank!

[GojiraGuy1954]

I still don't understand what that lump on the base is supposed to be. Is that one of the founder's extras? Coprolite?

[GojiraGuy1954]

I'd better fess up. Yes I did.

Anyone here preordered?

Well, if this endeavor lasts long enough to produce some other taxa, we'll have you (in part) to thank!

Begging and pleading for Hatzegopteryx

[Over9K]

@Over9K , once the latest PNSO "lipped" T-rex hits the market, at a considerably lower price point, you'll feel A-okay. Like you, for me the teeth are the breaker of the camel's back.

From here I turn to Boundless World and their upcoming Tarbosaurus... THAT is going to be a cool one...

[SidB]

@Over9K , once the latest PNSO "lipped" T-rex hits the market, at a considerably lower price point, you'll feel A-okay. Like you, for me the teeth are the breaker of the camel's back.

From here I turn to Boundless World and their upcoming Tarbosaurus... THAT is going to be a cool one...

Yes, good point, I'd forgotten. Let's hope that the pricing is reasonably attractive.

[postsaurischian]

"Remarkably, thanks to the brilliant work by palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax, palaeo-reconstruction artist Bob Nicholls and the digital designer Glen Southern even the first ever 3D printed figure stood upright and had perfect balance - seeing it was amazing. Hope this helps." - Mike on Instagram.

>>>  Sorry, yet again ED is being pretentious here. David Krentz has done this many, many years ago with his theropods and I'm sure he wasn't the only sculptor in the world who did so.

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>>>  Awful!! I wonder which one of the "brilliant palaeontologists and experts" is responsible for this mess of a set of teeth.    ..... and the acne, too.

I wouldn't dare to launch such a figure.
^{..... but I also wouldn't have dared to release any of Lady Gaga's No.1 hit singles that sold millions of times throughout the last decade. So my opinion is definitely not a yardstick of performance .}

Seeing this being released while the almost finished copies of HAOLONGGOOD's Giganotosaurus are getting destroyied is a good example for the paradox times in which we live.

[Flaffy]

"Remarkably, thanks to the brilliant work by palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax, palaeo-reconstruction artist Bob Nicholls and the digital designer Glen Southern even the first ever 3D printed figure stood upright and had perfect balance - seeing it was amazing. Hope this helps." - Mike on Instagram.

>>>  Sorry, yet again ED is being pretentious here. David Krentz has done this many, many years ago with his theropods and I'm sure he wasn't the only sculptor in the world who did so.

You are mistaking what Mike wrote. I believe he was referring to the first 3D-printed prototype THEY produced stood upright right from the bat, require no modifications to the pose or compromising proportions. Rather than claiming that EDE were the first to achieve such a feat.

>>>  Awful!! I wonder which one of the "brilliant palaeontologists and experts" is responsible for this mess of a set of teeth.    ..... and the acne, too.

The lesions are based off of a real specimen. Sue's mandible was hypothesised to suffer from a bone infection, and I believe EDE is approaching it as a trichomonosis infection. There are some researchers that disagree of course, but as with anything in paleontology nothing is 100% certain.

[Gwangi]

Mattel dinosaurs have better teeth than that. They're kind of unsettling. They look like they evolved to crush shells, like Globidens teeth.



I'm also not a fan of the arms being attached to the chest. It seemed clever at first but I'm not liking how it looks in the recent pictures.

I would definitely be more lenient on this figure if it was in a different price bracket.

[SidB]

I wonder if the teeth are a child safety thing? If so, that's inexplicable, as the price doesn't indicate such a target audience.

[Turkeysaurus]

They want Nanmu money for Collecta Deluxe quality. 

[Flaffy]

I wonder if the teeth are a child safety thing? If so, that's inexplicable, as the price doesn't indicate such a target audience.

Very odd choice if it was considering the high price. Even in EDE's promo video, the teeth on the resin(?) prototypes was not the greatest.

[SidB]

I wonder if the teeth are a child safety thing? If so, that's inexplicable, as the price doesn't indicate such a target audience.

Very odd choice if it was considering the high price. Even in EDE's promo video, the teeth on the resin(?) prototypes was not the greatest.

I wonder if it is possible to sharpen the teeth without splintering or shattering them. Or even if they could be effectively accessed at 1/33 scale with such a file, however small, or a cutting tool. Anyone here with an operation of similar precision?

[Baryonyx]

Very strange. Cameron's teeth are only slightly better, and are cast in the same mold that gives the detail of those tiny scales.
Battat Rex v.1 for those lucky enough has much better teeth than both EDE and Cameron. Doesn't make any sense!

[SidB]

"Remarkably, thanks to the brilliant work by palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax, palaeo-reconstruction artist Bob Nicholls and the digital designer Glen Southern even the first ever 3D printed figure stood upright and had perfect balance - seeing it was amazing. Hope this helps." - Mike on Instagram.

>>>  Sorry, yet again ED is being pretentious here. David Krentz has done this many, many years ago with his theropods and I'm sure he wasn't the only sculptor in the world who did so.

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>>>  Awful!! I wonder which one of the "brilliant palaeontologists and experts" is responsible for this mess of a set of teeth.    ..... and the acne, too.

I wouldn't dare to launch such a figure.
^{..... but I also wouldn't have dared to release any of Lady Gaga's No.1 hit singles that sold millions of times throughout the last decade. So my opinion is definitely not a yardstick of performance .}

Seeing this being released while the almost finished copies of HAOLONGGOOD's Giganotosaurus are getting destroyied is a good example for the paradox times in which we live.

Well, @postsaurischian , in a previous generation, the former great baseball pitcher and sports announcer, Dizzy Dean, a very brash fellow, was quoted as saying, "It  ain't boasting, if you can do it." IMO, , however, it doesn't seem to me that EDE has "done it" in this case. And sorry, but I personally don't put much credence that they have received a "huge" number of orders to date. That's just my opinion. When I look at my Eofauna Sue rex (slightly but expertly modified to eliminate the fabrication seam at the rear of her skull, for a mere 20 dollars Canadian), with all of it's virtues for a very low starting price point, relatively speaking, I have to acknowledge and respect the low key but very real and solid delivering of a product with TRUE VALUE.

[SidB]

Very strange. Cameron's teeth are only slightly better, and are cast in the same mold that gives the detail of those tiny scales.
Battat Rex v.1 for those lucky enough has much better teeth than both EDE and Cameron. Doesn't make any sense!

Looking at my Battat v.1, a product of a bygone epoch (1994), I remain amazed at it's level of quality and execution, regardless of that well known standing stability issue.

[suspsy]

And sorry, but I personally don't put much credence that they have received a "huge" number of orders to date. That's just my opinion.

What reason would Everything Dinosaur have to lie about the number of orders they've received? 

[PumperKrickel]

What reason would Everything Dinosaur have to lie about the number of orders they've received? 

It's a limited item, so they could be lying in order to make people afraid of missing out on a popular figure.

I don't think that's the case here, however. A "huge number of orders" is vague and subjective enough that it could mean pretty much anything and doesn't say much about this figure's success. Personally I have no doubt that this project is going to be successful for a while, due to their stellar reputation and business connections alone.

[SidB]

And sorry, but I personally don't put much credence that they have received a "huge" number of orders to date. That's just my opinion.

What reason would Everything Dinosaur have to lie about the number of orders they've received? 

I didn't mention lie, but I'm not precluding exaggeration.

[suspsy]

So this is what it's come to, baselessly suggesting that one of the most reliable and reputable dinosaur toy companies in the world is guilty of lying/exaggerating about how well their T. rex is selling?

Well, it fits with the rest of the sorry state of the globe.

[Over9K]

"Limited, limited, limited.... strictly."

Oh yeah? Let's hear a number, Everything Dinosaur.

The phrases "Huge Amount Of Orders" and "Strictly Limited" do not, on first blush, seem to compliment each other. On the contrary, they would seem to me to be contradictory.

I will admit, however, the English language is vexing and confusing...