CREATIVE BEAST STUDIOS Beasts of the Meso/Ceno/Cyberzoic

I'm glad I don't really care much for dinosaurs beyond the fun idea of sci-fi warriors riding around on them, because the baseline for Creative Beast Studio is just so fuckin' good. If I were a big dinosaur fan, they'd be getting thousands of my hard-earned dollars a year.
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
You going to get the riding harness for him?

That's the part I'm torn on with Cyberzoic. I'm definitely in for some of the dinos, but I'm not as sure about the saddles, weapons, and the riders.
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No I don’t think I’m going to buy into the riding harness. As you can see from my last picture that I posted here, buying a set of Allosaurs that I can use to flank that big diplodocus was my true intention for this figure. It’s the only reason why I went all in on the kickstarter in the first place was so I can build around that centerpiece in my display. And as big of a fan as I am on properties like Dino-Riders, when another company tries to ape off the brand and make it their own, it doesn’t hit the same. I’d go all in if they had the formal licensing and could recreate characters and dinosaurs and their assorted & unique armors from the show. But a pastiche just doesn’t do it for me.

I am however willing to plunk down $400 of my money for some kick ass looking dinosaurs. Especially if that dinosaur in question is Allosaurus, because it was one of my first loves as a kid. It was one of the first major predatory dinosaur skeletons I saw on display at a museum and I’m also a big fan of nature and wildlife documentaries and the walking with dinosaur series, as well as other dinosaur documentaries I watched as a kid always featured Allosaurus prominently


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Damien said:
I'm glad I don't really care much for dinosaurs beyond the fun idea of sci-fi warriors riding around on them, because the baseline for Creative Beast Studio is just so fuckin' good. If I were a big dinosaur fan, they'd be getting thousands of my hard-earned dollars a year.
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Lol I already fell into that trap for sure. I think I’m up to 6 different members of the ceratopsian series and I have at least 14 figures from the tyrannosaur series. But in my defense, most of those figures are redundant Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus because scientists have found communal nesting sites which would suggest gregarious behavior amongst each respective species. So I figured I would purchase 4 of the Albertosaurus and 3 of the Gorgosaur


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I've got a number of these figures. Not every single one, but I try to get one of each species unless I just really don't care for the coloring or something else about it. I love natural history, and this line is something I've wanted to exist for a long time: a line focused on getting them right as animals rather than monsters or based off of movie designs. The only armors I've bought are the ones that transform into robots that I will display separate from the animals themselves.

I also display my 1/18 JoyToy TMNT figures with these since they're the only two lines I buy in that scale and I think it's fun.
 
cmoney said:
I've got a number of these figures. Not every single one, but I try to get one of each species unless I just really don't care for the coloring or something else about it. I love natural history, and this line is something I've wanted to exist for a long time: a line focused on getting them right as animals rather than monsters or based off of movie designs. The only armors I've bought are the ones that transform into robots that I will display separate from the animals themselves.

I also display my 1/18 JoyToy TMNT figures with these since they're the only two lines I buy in that scale and I think it's fun.
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I’m in the same boat. I used to collect dinosaur figures religiously as a kid but when Jurassic Park took over suddenly it felt like that was the only thing on the shelves. I still saw the occasional Museum quality dinosaur toy like the Papo figures or Schleich, or the Safari collection and even articulated models like the Carnage and Dinosaur King lines by Resaurus. But it always felt like these lines were always so few and far between while Jurassic Park/World had too tight a grip when it came to the natural world and extinct life. Now it finally feels like things are finally trending in the opposite direction. Beasts of the Mesozoic is a more sophisticated and sought after brand than Jurassic Park, Dino documentaries and paleo art is popular and mainstream again. And also we have an abundance of dinosaur video games and simulators as well as an audience that is very receptive to them and they are not all inherently tied to Jurassic Park and extremely popular with their respective player bases. I really hope this continues.


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A thing that I find exciting that i havent mentioned yet: on a recent livestream they revealed that they are working on a chalicothere figure. I've always liked those weird horse-sloth looking things, and it's wild to think there's gonna be an action figure of one down the line. Can't wait to see some work in progress shots.


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I’m looking at these 1/35 scale Allosaurs and they are kind of enticing. I could see them being used as stand ins for Juvenile versions but it would feel like I’d be compulsory in the “VFX artist cheat” when it comes to most baby dinosaurs in video games, documentaries and films. Where it’s like “Hey wait a second…you didn’t make a baby dinosaur…you just took the asset that you had and shrunk it down! That’s just a Pygmy adult dino! I see what you’re doing, you can’t fool me…”


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I've been picking up the 1/35 versions of most figures in addition to the 1/18, because when they inevitably get to the sauropods, that seems to be the scale they will be using for the biggest stuff. Which only makes sense. And I'll want to have a few species to scale against each other when that time comes.
 
cmoney said:
I've been picking up the 1/35 versions of most figures in addition to the 1/18, because when they inevitably get to the sauropods, that seems to be the scale they will be using for the biggest stuff. Which only makes sense. And I'll want to have a few species to scale against each other when that time comes.
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I’d still love a 1:18th scale Argentinosaurus or even a Amphicoeilias altus based on the holotype remains that were described by Cope in 1877. But considering the size of the creature I know that a figure of such a dinosaur would easily be in the $1300 range and roughly twice the size of the Mythic legions dragon if it were designed with it’s initial size estimates in mind.


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
I’d still love a 1:18th scale Argentinosaurus or even a Amphicoeilias altus based on the holotype remains that were described by Cope in 1877. But considering the size of the creature I know that a figure of such a dinosaur would easily be in the $1300 range and roughly twice the size of the Mythic legions dragon if it were designed with it’s initial size estimates in mind.
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If I've done my math correctly, a 1:18 Argentinosaurus would be between 5.5 and 8.5 feet long, but a 1:18 Amphicoelia would only be a little over 3 feet long. However, even that 3' range would still make it an expensive, niche toy. 1:35 seems more likely and it would still be an engineering challenge. I think you'd have to use ratchet joints in the neck and tail to keep them from drooping under their own weight.
 
RunestoneCowboy said:
If I've done my math correctly, a 1:18 Argentinosaurus would be between 5.5 and 8.5 feet long, but a 1:18 Amphicoelia would only be a little over 3 feet long. However, even that 3' range would still make it an expensive, niche toy. 1:35 seems more likely and it would still be an engineering challenge. I think you'd have to use ratchet joints in the neck and tail to keep them from drooping under their own weight.
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Well if we go by Cope’s original descriptions and notes about Amphicoelias, its initial size estimates were outlandishly large. Somewhere in the realm of 230 ft long I believe and upwards of 12 stories tall. It was suggested that this sauropod was quite possibly the largest land animal ever recorded even though only a few fragmentary hip bones, tail vertebrae and femur bones have been discovered. Still if we ever find more remains that can corroborate those initial findings then we are looking at an animal that was over twice the size of a blue whale. A. Altus would have easily dwarfed Argintinosaurus which maxed out at around 110ft long and weight up to 60 tons


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Woolly rhino looks really cool. So far they haven't done a dragon that -really- excites me, which is probably a very good thing. Still can't wait to get in hand my first CBS figures. Honestly haven't even been paying close attention so I'm not sure where in production the KS exclusive and trooper with raptor buddy are.
 
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