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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby PrymeStriker » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:40 pm

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I googled Dragons to look for legs similar to these and found nothing. Googled Dragon Legs, and found little to nothing. Hotlink a pic of one closest to Ripclaw's, Gothasaurus?
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby datguy86 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:43 pm

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If designers stepped away from either dog legs or the backwards knee, I think they'd find a lot more leeway with design.

Hell, I'd like to see a design one with six legs all mimicking human arms. The front legs can become the arms (love the way the claws turn into fists on Ripclaw here, btw). The next two legs transform flip two into a chest cavity and cover the cavity with a flip down plate. The last two sets of legs can combine together to ease the concern of hollow legs. Do eet, Hasbro.
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby gothsaurus » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:49 pm

when you google it, click "images." You'll get a whole page of them. Pasting these below because I found this all quite interesting to dig into. No other reason. Enjoy!

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Here's one from a site about Dragon Anatomy. (ROTFL)

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en ... ,s:0,i:169

Welsh Dragon is always awesome:
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en ... ,s:0,i:386

Even the Chinese Dragon gets into the action:
http://www.google.com/imgres?start=304& ... s:300,i:31

and here, wormy dragon again:
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/imag ... sGQ-GsH2Q_

Even silly kiddy cartoon dragons have the heel showing up. Quite interesting:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/imag ... RT8SJPgUew
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby PrymeStriker » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:50 pm

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GuyIncognito wrote:But you want me to believe that THIS figure's backwards knees were meant to reflect something in the fiction about how dragons knees are backwards, rather the way more obvious explanation that the toy designers didn't really care about anatomical accuracy?


Take the focus off of beast modes and look at robot modes. Robot modes are generically humanoids, yet we've seen Hasbro freely turn robot modes into semi-humanoids, or not a humanoid at all. They're aiming for freedom to design as they please; we don't need to hound them down because they didn't make the dragon mode's legs like they "should" be. >:oP

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Thanks. This one's got "backwards knees" like Ripclaw, albeit a different kind of dragon (serpent).

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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby gothsaurus » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:55 pm

There's probably no point in hounding them. But mind you, if the quality of the toys and designs keeps dropping (like FOC Jazz or this kind of missing joint/articulation), I can see myself switching to buying more 3rd party high-end figures.
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby gothsaurus » Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:58 pm

On that purple dragon, that's still the heel. If you look above that, there is another joint that's the knee. I can see how you could view this as a "backwards knee" in the way it looks. The flame coming off is like the dew claws seen in other illustrations.

Either way, no sense arguing about any of this. If we like it, we can buy it! If not, skip it. :D
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby gothsaurus » Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:01 pm

Looking at the toy, there COULD actually be another joint in there... Might be able to stand those back legs on the toes and get a better, more accurate pose after all. I'll be curious to have one in hand.
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby CBratetron » Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:22 pm

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Reverse articulated legs normally have the same joint articulation as a human leg walking on it's toes (albeit with different proportions). So such backwards knees are the heel anatomically.

But I'm sure someone will point out these are preschooler toys of make believe characters employing make believe transformation modes and thus have no bearing on reality.
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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

Postby gothsaurus » Fri Jan 04, 2013 6:33 pm

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Re: Official Images: Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Deluxe Ripclaw

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