Rebor: 1/35 Titanoboa

[Dyscrasia]

Full body (rendered) pic from Rebor's facebook page.

Kind of reminds me of a flatworm...   

[Faelrin]

They probably have it straight for the same reason the Ankylosaurus tail was straight, which is probably because of the bendy wire feature they mentioned earlier. I imagine it was probably easier to sculpt that way as well. I hope there will be some interesting poses down the line, considering the potential of that feature. Or maybe I'm just being really optimistic here.

[Reptilia]

Can't help but thinking that this is going to be a total letdown.

[Kaprosaurus]

They probably have it straight for the same reason the Ankylosaurus tail was straight, which is probably because of the bendy wire feature they mentioned earlier. I imagine it was probably easier to sculpt that way as well. I hope there will be some interesting poses down the line, considering the potential of that feature. Or maybe I'm just being really optimistic here.

I hope not,because the box will be too long and it will be very hard for collectors who try to display the boxes at the same time with the figures but doesn't have a huge shelf.But I see what they're trying to do,it's probably to keep the figure undamaged.

[Atokensis]

I wish their Titanoboa was more fat, as it looks like an ordinary snake with an anaconda's head.

[Shonisaurus]

In that photo the titanoboa looks huge with respect to the shark and the other fish. I hope it is articulated as they said in their day, otherwise it would take up a lot of space.

[suspsy]

Atokensis, the third photo does NOT show a Titanoboa skeleton. That's a oversized pit viper skeleton, created for and mounted in an art gallery. Hence its prominent fangs.

[Atokensis]

Atokensis, the third photo does NOT show a Titanoboa skeleton. That's a oversized pit viper skeleton, created for and mounted in an art gallery. Hence its prominent fangs.

I did not know that, thanks for the clarification!

I asked rebor about it and they said the Titanoboa should look exactly like the pictures. :O

[Shonisaurus]

The titanoboa was a nightmarish animal and the fact is that it existed in reality. With the amount of species of animals that exist today both vertebrate and invertebrate and that despite scientific and technological advances are always new species across the world I wonder what animals should have existed in the past? Do you think that even the producers of the best science fiction film, including horror, could not have imagined?

The amount of prehistoric animals that should have existed before the arrival of the current human being homo sapiens to which we belong must have been infinite and the few remains of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals of the various geological epochs of the earth discovered so far understand that they do not represent the 1% of animals that populated the Earth so there must have been other than rare animals such as those we know as monstrous and even true nightmare creatures.

Not in vain are the anemelocaris, hallucigenia or ophabinia as primal animals taken from the literary works of Lovecraft.

We must realize that human beings in particular with respect to the whole faunal creation and in reference to our existence in the history of the Earth are simply a mere particle of dust.

Our existence belongs only to a few thousand years in front of prehistoric animals such as the pteranodon or deinotherium that existed several million years without substantial changes, without going any further the tyrannosaurus rex that only lasted approximately three million years of life on earth surpasses us by a metaphorically speaking defeat to homo sapiens.

[Atokensis]

So the figure is going to be around 56cm/22in in length. That's pretty long!

I've drawn a quick representation of what I "think" the figure will be like. The drawing measures 56cm and scaled with a papo Allosaurus.





If it's anything like this, then I'm extremely excited for this figure!

[Shonisaurus]

I hope that Rebor reveals the titanoboa soon. In general there is a drought of commercialization of novelties on the part of the company.

Of course it is a figure much coveted by many DTF members among whom I find myself. 

[Reptilia]

I think to the potential of Rebor on something like Titanoboa, and then I see the silly gimmicks they use on almost all their latest products, and it feels like a big wasted opportunity.

[stargatedalek]

I would rather have a rubber pose-able snake that can be set straight out than a solid snake permanently fused into a coiled position.

[Atokensis]

Base on these photos, it looks like we will be connecting pieces on the Titanoboa (like the tail of Ankylosaurus and arms of Utahraptor/Deinonychus). I don't mind this as long as seam lines are not visible. I wonder how the final product will look.

Does anyone know of the Titanoboa will have an articulated jaw?

[Flaffy]

The sculpt looks off. Maybe because Rebor wanted to be "edgy" and add angry eyebrows just to spite science and real life.
A shame really, wasted potential, as with most of Rebor's products.

[Shonisaurus]

I said it from the first moment the articulated figures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are great for children but I understand that taken to these extremes makes the figure lose its value as a figure for a collector with few exceptions.

It all started with the figures of Papo in the traditional toys where theropods were made with articulated jaws and that practice, unfortunately, from my point of view, has been generalized in most toy dinosaur companies. I sincerely repeat that I would like more artistic dinosaur figures without articulations of any kind to those articulated. I know that it is an opinion among dozens of members of the forum that are in favor of articulated pieces.

I respect Rebor's philosophy of making articulated figures but I do not share them and the same can be said of other toy dinosaur companies. That does not mean that I stop buying these figures, I am a collector and sincerely when the titanoboa is put on sale I will perhaps buy it as well as that of the ankylosaurus. But in these two cases it would have been better if they had made them in one piece.

There are figures of non-articulated toy dinosaur companies that are just as good or better than articulated ones. All this I comment as an opinion respecting the philosophy of each company and taking into account the commercial demands demanded by buyers.

And obviously respecting the members of the forum that totally disagree with my statements.

[Atokensis]

[Lanthanotus]

Nice....

... for what I saw of their new sculpt before I was very skeptical,... but this looks rather interesting.

[Reptilia]

Looks cool, jaw should be articulated, size must be massive. If only it wasn't bendable...

If you like big snake figures the green anaconda by Collecta is much more appealing though.

[stargatedalek]

Looking pretty good if you ask me. I hope they give it generic boa patterns, I'd like to use it as a 1:1 stand in for a smaller modern species.