Goro Furuta's awesome Plesiosaur sculpture

[sauroid]

his refreshing rendition is so different from the others ive seen.

[IrritatorRaji]

It looks so weird but I really like it. The scales are gorgeous.

[sauroid]

his version is heavily inspired by extant chelonian species like the indo-australian snake necked turtles and the fly river turtle. Goro is a turtle hobbyist btw. and to those who do not know, he sculpted a lot of Kaiyodo's prehistoric animal figures.

[DinoToyForum]

Whoa, they've taken the whole "snake threaded through the body of a turtle" quite literally.  It is a beautiful sculpt. Inaccurate in many ways, unlikely in other ways, but stunning to look at. As Sauroid said, it looks like they were mostly inspired by long-necked turtles, which have a very different skeletal anatomy to plesiosaurs. Is it for sale anywhere?

[PhilSauria]

The lake in our local park is full of Eastern Snake Necked Turtles so it's weird seeing an ancient marine reptile so reminicent of these modern reptiles! I too would love to know if this is a one off or available commercially, though having said that I suspect that it will be out of my price range as a lot of these higher end figures usually are. Great to see the images however.

[tyrantqueen]

It's unique, I'll give it that. And the sculpting is nice.

[sauroid]

i do not know if this figure is for sale because his fb posts are 100% in Japanese

[Reptilia]

I like how the neck is fleshy. Has a fishy feel too. Great sculpt.

[tyrantqueen]

I doubt it's for sale. A most he'd make casts of it. But from what I've seen, most Japanese sculptors keep their originals.

[Jose S.M.]

It might not be accurate but it's a great sculpt, I love turtles, all of them (by the way we have only a word for turtle in my country, I've seen like 3 in English  ), so this looks great for me.

[Lanthanotus]

"Fresh" and impressive, I really like it, though the surface structures look to me like a somewhat wild mix of several creatures.... neck of the named Chelodina, flippers and belly from Caretta or Chelonia,  back scales from Hydrophis or another sea snake.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Saw this last night, very cool. Adam that snake through the turtle bit is exactly what I was thinking lol 

One of his post said he might sell copies at Wonderfest I think?  I tried translating it.  "   宇都宮聡 On the wonder festival next year
Three, one.
I'm going to sell it for 50 million!  "

[Lanthanotus]

[...]

"   宇都宮聡 On the wonder festival next year
Three, one.
I'm going to sell it for 50 million!  "

Proud price

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

yeah..even in Yen.. lol

[WarrenJB]

Not much to add to other responses...

Whoa, they've taken the whole "snake threaded through the body of a turtle" quite literally.  It is a beautiful sculpt. Inaccurate in many ways, unlikely in other ways, but stunning to look at. As Sauroid said, it looks like they were mostly inspired by long-necked turtles, which have a very different skeletal anatomy to plesiosaurs.

... ditto!

It looks like something you might see in a modern-day Harryhausen film, and that's not (only) intended as criticism.

[Libraraptor]

I like it.  It differs from the standard plesiosaur figures in so many ways.  inaccurate or not,  I like it very much.

[Bokisaurus]

Very interesting! If only they would make a toy version of it.

[sauroid]

i hope he proposes to Kaiyodo to make a plastic version of it. hopefully the same size as the original sculpt.

[Joey]

Man, it looks gorgeous!

[zatrex99]

That does look really gorgeous.