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The Roaring Dead by Omega Studios

Started by Blade-of-the-Moon, February 20, 2020, 01:59:56 AM

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Blade-of-the-Moon

A new toy line in the works from creator Josh Smith. If you love horror and Dinosaurs this looks pretty awesome!



Zombie Compy's


Zombie Velociraptor Poseable figure




Deluxe Allosaurus





Still in the very early stages expect a Kickstarter to start for it soon!


austrosaurus

At least with the amount of decay they've gone through there's a justification for the underfeathering on the coelurosaurs.

Blade-of-the-Moon

I'm also thinking, anyone that has wanted "dead" dinosaurs or corpses for dioramas could very well use these.

SidB

Quote from: Blade-of-the-Moon on February 20, 2020, 12:32:52 PM
I'm also thinking, anyone that has wanted "dead" dinosaurs or corpses for dioramas could very well use these.
Interesting idea. We've been waiting a while now for CollectA to release more dino corpses, so this may become an option, with a little repositioning of limbs, etc.

PumperKrickel

This is a great idea and I would love to support this, but the raptor prototype looks very cheap. The packaging reminds me of chinasaurs, the "articulation" is so limited it´s pretty much pointless and the paint job looks like someone´s first attempt at a repaint. Worst of all the sculpt itself is very bland and severely lacking in detail, so it´s not even worth customizing. I know I´m rather harsh on this, but I love the concept and I´m just really disappointed in the execution so far.

stargatedalek

It's not easy to get detail in soft rubber and the Velociraptor is really small. For what it is, and for being an early production sample with comparatively complex features, I think it's pretty impressive.

If these are modestly priced I might get a bunch of them, especially those compy's! If you're not a zombie mood they work well as injured or emaciated animals besides just corpses.

Blade-of-the-Moon

Quote from: PumperKrickel on February 20, 2020, 01:46:57 PM
This is a great idea and I would love to support this, but the raptor prototype looks very cheap. The packaging reminds me of chinasaurs, the "articulation" is so limited it´s pretty much pointless and the paint job looks like someone´s first attempt at a repaint. Worst of all the sculpt itself is very bland and severely lacking in detail, so it´s not even worth customizing. I know I´m rather harsh on this, but I love the concept and I´m just really disappointed in the execution so far.

As I mentioned, these are mockup/prototypes, nowhere near final. Josh is trying to put together a puppet for a commercial and other story elements when he launches the Kickstarter, funds raised will obviously lead to more complex pieces.  He has worked for museums and created other effects.  Here is an example or two more of his work from facebook :




https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007382384652&ref=br_rs

He does also sell copies of many of these pieces, I'm looking at one of his Postosuchus skulls at the moment myself.

Amazon ad:

CityRaptor

Zombie Dinosaurs? Wasn't there something with that premise?  And of course Hasbro has been doing these as along as they had the Jurassic Park license. ;D

I'm not interested in Zombies, but depending on how the final product turns out I might pick one up as a corpse. So far, it does not look likely...it also just came to my mind that I sill need to get CollectA's Triceratops corpse to complete my trio at one point. ( Funnily enough I only have one "normal" CollectA figure, but two corpses and the two "Family" figures )

Jurassic Park is frightning in the dark
All the dinosaurs are running wild
Someone let T. Rex out of his pen
I'm afraid those things'll harm me
'Cause they sure don't act like Barney
And they think that I'm their dinner, not their friend
Oh no

Blade-of-the-Moon

There are comics, they have been part of D&D and other games. There was a Syfy channel film with dinosaur skeletons..but  I haven't seen any with zombie dinos.

There are a lot of art pieces floating around too, seems a popular subject :



Smilodon P.

Quote from: Blade-of-the-Moon on February 21, 2020, 12:29:51 AM
There are comics, they have been part of D&D and other games. There was a Syfy channel film with dinosaur skeletons..but  I haven't seen any with zombie dinos.

"Triassic Attack" with Emília Clarke:



We already had a "jurassic Dead":
https://youtu.be/_owum6r91Tw

A pet zombie velociraptor in a web Cartoon:


Crowdfunding comics about zombies vs dinosaurs


Well, It's an interesting toy niche to explore.

Blade-of-the-Moon

I haven't seen "Jurassic Dead".  The trailer as expected, looks nothing like the cover art.

If you go back to 1992, Full Moon Productions, Dr. Mordrid, featured a Tyrannosaur skeleton fighting a Mammoth one. Maybe sort of Gwangi inspired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-HV4F1uXw

stargatedalek

If you really want to stretch the definition, there's also Night at the Museum.

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