Thank you so much to the team for making this happen. Wanted a Smildon action figure like this for so long (I've said it like a million times, but I can't stop saying it). The articulation and all the extra parts for customization is amazing. This is one of the most hyped up figures out there for me (ditto for the Cyberzoic orange one). Can't wait to have this and the big boi mammoth together. Probably gonna have this guy go up against my Neca American Werewolf too, lol. Hoping to meet up at Legion Con this year. Hope I can get one of these then (if not the Dilo, etc). Edit: Omg your dog is so cute.
we cant wait for this one, u guys totally blew it out the park with this figure, congrats on making such an accurate, fun, posable and well painted figure!
Thank you! Ross did the articulation on this one! He and David had to invent/engineer a new joint style to keep the scientific accuracy and textures! Its insanely fun to play with
@@ChrisChaotic_ WOW! now isnt that impressive, such an incredible effort from the team. keep up the good work, and good luck with the new Kickstarter for the elephants
Aww Maaan!!! If I knew you can flip genders, I would've backed 2 (No Worries. I'll just preorder a 2nd). I have to point out an inaccuracy however; Smilodon could NOT retract it's claws. Unlike other felines, it's claws remained exposed.
I think the jump cuts are distracting, I want to see the poses from the different angles longer than half a second. Also going a little slower/being more deliberate on the articulation would be appreciated. 👍
I’ve already received the model. I think the only issue with it is that the limbs can hardly move side to side, which doesn’t align with the agile image of felines, and it’s unable to perform more realistic hunting movements.
Looks like there's no outward movement for the shoulders or hips, huh? Disappointing, especially with the elbow hinges restricting articulation even more.
Looking forward to ordering this, it looks great and I don’t have to buy six figures I don’t want just to get this. I was wondering though, why did you guys go with hinge joints for the elbows but disk swivels for the knees?
My one issue is, it's 1/12. I am a BIG believer in consistency of scale. I know that is hard when you get down to smaller animals - a meter or two in size - but suppose someone wants to display the true size of various prehistoric fauna relative to others. A T. rex at 1/35 scale, then, would look like less of a difference from a 1/18 Smilodon (suppose you want to have a lineup of your figures comparing big mammalian Cenozoic fauna and big Mesozoic predators) than it would from a 1/35 scale one. TRUE, the Smilodon at that scale would be TINY, but you could have multiple scales and release a less detailed, cheaper version for the 1:35 scale - a 2m long mammal would be under 6 cm, but not SO tiny you couldn't see it. I recognize that the issue of scale if you wanted to do DINOSAURS in 1:18 or 1:20 scale become daunting, given a T. rex alone would be, at that scale, over 0.6 m long (2 feet) while some of the biggest reconstructions of the biggest sauropods ever - depending on the reconstruction - could EASILY be well over a meter long EVEN AT 1/35 scale and at 1/18 scale, they could be some 2.5 m or more (over 8 feet long). Maraapunisaurus, for instance, has varied in reconstructed length from about 60 m (nearly 200 ft) long to more like 30 m (98 ft) depending on the proxy you use - and the biggest Barosaurus vertebra found would seem to suggest an animal that MAY have been over 150 feet or 46 m long, depending on exactly where in the sequence that particular very large specimen belonged. In other words, more than half an American football field long. At EITHER scale it'd be a HUGE model (though at 1/35 at least it would be in the range of the biggest Mattel sauropod figures). That's why I think 1/35 scale is IDEAl - it's the smallest you can do here huge sauropods would indeed be very big figures BUT you could still have (in the 5 cm range or so) Cenozoic mammals at the same scale, and then you could have, as an alternative, 1/20 or 1/18 scale specifically for the things smaller than, say, 10 m / 33 ft or so, so they could still have some detail. Just a suggestion. It'd be really good to have consistency of scale, though of course the VERY small creatures would be left out of a 1/35 scale line (e.g. cat or dog sized might be TOO small, but horse or pony sized would be just doable).
