Jeddostotle7 wrote:Overcracker wrote:blackeyedprime wrote:Dinobot might have to cannibalise one of these Mattel guys for parts and the Hasbro peeps should take note of what dino hands could look like on a figure
They are not going for anatomical accuracy, they are going for animation accuracy (and being able to transform).
That's what Dinobot's hands looked like in the show mostly:
dinbothands.jpg
And technically speaking that's what Velociraptor's hands have always been shown to look like in the past when the show was made:
raptorhands.jpg
raptoirhands2.jpg
Not really true tbh. Any depiction of a Velociraptor (or honestly many, many other species of theropod) with its hands hanging down was always anatomically incorrect, even based on the now-outdated reconstructions from the time. Velociraptors could not rotate their hands to face downwards (or pronate them, as is the technical term), it was literally anatomically impossible, and that was known at the time. Velociraptors could only hold their hands with the inside surfaces/"palm" equivalent facing each other.
ALSO: I think Dinobot's hands are shaped that way to hold the Golden Disks like in the show.
Wether the depiction was correct or not anatomically speaking is not the point. As evidenced by the pictures I posted, the raptor hands were always depicted as hanging down with long spindly fingers with claws.
Yes, the depiction was incorrect, but at the time, those were the available depictions, so the show animations went with that. You can argue mammals like the maximals alt modes would not have been on earth at the same time as dinosaurs like Megatron and Dinobot. But they still went with it. Artistic interpretation.
Dinobot was able to rotate his hands and pose in different ways in the show because he was a robot, not constrained by the anatomy of an actual raptor. But was also shown to have them hanging down like the toy many times.
It may have already been incorrect at the time, but that's the way the chose to depict them for Dinobot.
Yes, they are a tad too long in relation to the show, maybe, but I chalk that up to needing to fit in his torso. Any other pose, or size, would not have fit in the space allocated for them. Or would have left a hole there and nowhere for the side panels to "tab" into.
But they are now almost accepting what they say.
