Cute and Ferocious Theropods

[Takama]

Ok, its about time we have a proper theropod thread, I chose cute and Ferrocious, becaus not all of then are deadly. The good examples would be the Compys or modern birds,(which i must ask that you save those for the other toys and collectiables thread)

To start out, here are some varius theropods i have.
Enjoy my dose, then post your own if you disire

[Gwangi]

My theropods have their own shelves.

[Takama]

Nice huge collection.

however i always figured Godzilla belong in the non dinosaur area. I thoght that He is a reptile, but he mutated from modern lizards( or possbly hes an amphibian, in witch case, he mutated from the Japanese giant Salamanders)

[CityRaptor]

That only holds true for the American Version, Zilla, who is a mutated marine Iguana.  Godzilla himself is a mutated Theropod Dinosaur, whose species seems to have adapted for an amphibian lifestyle.

[Gwangi]

Cityraptor is correct. Godzilla is indeed a theropod dinosaur. I made sure to research this long before I even acquired a Godzilla for my collection. This is from "The Science of Godzilla" written up by Darren Naish.

Based on the conclusions of Japanese palaeontologist Dr Yamane, we 'know' that the original Godzilla from the 1954 movie was a dinosaur, and according to Carpenter (1998) it was clearly a theropod. Yes, this is Ken Carpenter, the palaeontologist best known for his work on armoured dinosaurs. By inferring certain morphological details, Carpenter concluded that Godzilla must have been an immense neoceratosaur related to ceratosaurids and abelisaurs. In part this idea comes from the shared derived character of bony scutes growing along the dorsal midline: present in both Godzilla and ceratosaurids, these aren't present in other theropods and were therefore interpreted as a synapomorphy. I don't need to tell you that Carpenter's article was written tongue-in-cheek.

I guess I need to move my Ceratosaurus down a shelf next to Godzilla.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

I seem to remember from the movie Godzilla versus King Kong a television reporter holding up a book and explaining for everyone that Godzilla was a mutated version of allosaurus with stegosaurus plates, perhaps a hybrid species.  The book he used is an older book , with tons of picture drawings I have kept ever since. I always remember as a kid thinking wow they showed my book.

[Takama]

I seem to remember from the movie Godzilla versus King Kong a television reporter holding up a book and explaining for everyone that Godzilla was a mutated version of allosaurus with stegosaurus plates, perhaps a hybrid species.  The book he used is an older book , with tons of picture drawings I have kept ever since. I always remember as a kid thinking wow they showed my book.

I always saw that film as a non cannon part of the Godzilla universe.

It just seemed too silly to me, haveing a 50 Gorella blown into the size of a 80 storey (im forced to say) Theropod dinosaur.

[Gwangi]

I hate to break it to you but the Godzilla franchise is nothing if not silly. 

[CityRaptor]

Ofcourse it is silly at times (but not always ). There lies the charme. Expect for the very first Godzilla.  That one is by no means silly. Oh and it was really sad when he died in 1995.
But blowing up Kong to gigantic proportions fits in quite well. Especially with the Showa Series. Also makes the  fight a bit more fair. Otherwise Kong would have been bite-sized....

[Takama]

Lets get things back running again


The King Bad@$$ from Papo

[Takama]

New opinons on this fatty?

[Jetoar]

New opinons on this fatty?

I have this figure and it is good more less but I think that the prototype was better than the currently figure.

[postsaurischian]

Disappointing ugly - sorry.

[Brontozaurus]

New opinons on this fatty?

Doesn't look nearly as bad in person. Unfortunately it has issues with standing up.

[tyrantqueen]

I never understood the hatred towards the CollectA Mapusaurus. Haven't people been lobbying for dinosaurs with realistic fatty tissues, instead of GSP style resorations that show every single muscle and bone...?

At least it's better than their tyrannosaurus.

I'd actually go so far as to say that I really like this figure. U mad?

[Takama]

My Mapusaurus stands perfectly fine on his two feet, I fixed it with a hair driyer.   It stands alot better then the T-Rex withount its base

[BlueKrono]

A few of mine:

[BlueKrono]

Theropod screamers