The Carnotaurus Maquette
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Havok
Super Freak
Between my brother JC waiting for his Carnotaurus and me waiting for my Black Queen Comiquette, it's a very tense time right now. 
I thoroughly enjoy the Dinosauria pieces as well. 
I thoroughly enjoy the Dinosauria pieces as well. 
Reinhardt
Super Freak
Scar
Super Freak
Jeez, tried to post this a few hours ago but the board was down. So, late to the party as I am, I'll post my updates as of 3:00 p.m. EST this afternoon. 
-Account Charged
-Shipping Notification received
The maquette's been listed as "shipping soon" on the SS website for a few days now, but that's not exactly the best indicator. The case in point is that it lists my Darth Vader 1/6 as "shipping soon" and yet here it sits across the desk from me. The UPS e-mail, though, was the truly blessed gift of the evening. 
-Account Charged
-Shipping Notification received
The maquette's been listed as "shipping soon" on the SS website for a few days now, but that's not exactly the best indicator. The case in point is that it lists my Darth Vader 1/6 as "shipping soon" and yet here it sits across the desk from me.
The UPS e-mail, though, was the truly blessed gift of the evening. 
Scar
Super Freak
Indeed. Right now is, officially, peanut butter jelly time. 
JC
Super Freak
Mine comes tomorrow guys! I'll try my best to post pics as soon as I get him...I can't wait to have this guy in my hands :chew
Scar
Super Freak
JC
Super Freak
Yes, yes thank you
Nah but seriously, hang in there man, before you know it you'll have yours
Scar
Super Freak
I wish every day that SS were based out of Philadelphia or NYC. 
Can't say as I blame them for electing to base out of CA, though.
Can't say as I blame them for electing to base out of CA, though.
JC
Super Freak
Scotty's been in excavation since 1994, but estimates place him at around 16 feet high at the hips and 45 feet long. Still the King, baby!
:eek Words, incoherent sounds, and emoticons can't adequately evince how envious I am. Pics when you can, my friend!
Man I can't wait till they have him fully excavated..Can you imagine if they are able to put the full skeleton together? Wow!
Oh yeah man, I'm gonna try and take pics as soon as I get him
dansdinosaurs
Super Freak
It's very rare to find a complete fossilized skeleton of any animal, so if there was a display ever mounted, it would likely be artificial (at least partially, though a friend of mine now claims there is a way to safely mount the authentic fossils without damaging them).
Also, there were carnivorous dinosaurs known to have exceeded Tyrannosaurus in size. It's his ubiquity that keeps him king, though.
Also, there were carnivorous dinosaurs known to have exceeded Tyrannosaurus in size. It's his ubiquity that keeps him king, though.
Scar
Super Freak
The picture gives a good idea of proportion, though the more recent numbers we're getting for some individuals put T.rex right alongside even the high-end estimates for Giganotosaurus' length.
It's far from just ubiquity that, for me, makes T.rex sit head and shoulders above other large theropods. The brain case is considerably larger and more developed in every way, with vastly larger optic and olfactory lobes as well as a much more robust prefrontal region (the portion of the brain devoted to reasoning). We're all aware of T.rex having one of the largest olfactory regions in the fossil record, and how that was the main point championed by Jack Horner in his "T.rex was exclusively a scavenger" proposition, but take a good and hard look at the eyesight as well. The optic lobe is extremely large and derived, particularly compared to more ancestral optic regions in Carcharodontosaurids, and when combined with the 55 degree overlap in binocular range for the T.rex's stereoscopic vision, the result is the best eyesight for any known terrestrial animal. T.rex would have had visual acuity 13 times that of our own! To put this in perspective, even the most optically derived extant birds of prey come nowhere even close to the Tyrant Lizard King; eagles are around 4x and falcons 8x that of human vision, and these are the only non-aquatic animals alive today to reach estimates that great. In a study done by Holtz he found that this was "almost certainly" a predatory adaptation, in that a survey conducted of extant fauna concluded modern predators have much better stereoscopic vision than modern scavengers. Take all of these factors and combine them with the fact that T.rex was built to deal more thoroughly encompassing devastation in a single, bone-shattering bite designed to dispatch heavily-built prey items than any other land-based carnivore, and you have, in my personal view, the paragon of terrestrial predators. The best eyesight, smell, cranial weaponry, and an advanced capacity to reason unique among large theropods... still the king. Can't wait for that maquette.
It's far from just ubiquity that, for me, makes T.rex sit head and shoulders above other large theropods. The brain case is considerably larger and more developed in every way, with vastly larger optic and olfactory lobes as well as a much more robust prefrontal region (the portion of the brain devoted to reasoning). We're all aware of T.rex having one of the largest olfactory regions in the fossil record, and how that was the main point championed by Jack Horner in his "T.rex was exclusively a scavenger" proposition, but take a good and hard look at the eyesight as well. The optic lobe is extremely large and derived, particularly compared to more ancestral optic regions in Carcharodontosaurids, and when combined with the 55 degree overlap in binocular range for the T.rex's stereoscopic vision, the result is the best eyesight for any known terrestrial animal. T.rex would have had visual acuity 13 times that of our own! To put this in perspective, even the most optically derived extant birds of prey come nowhere even close to the Tyrant Lizard King; eagles are around 4x and falcons 8x that of human vision, and these are the only non-aquatic animals alive today to reach estimates that great. In a study done by Holtz he found that this was "almost certainly" a predatory adaptation, in that a survey conducted of extant fauna concluded modern predators have much better stereoscopic vision than modern scavengers. Take all of these factors and combine them with the fact that T.rex was built to deal more thoroughly encompassing devastation in a single, bone-shattering bite designed to dispatch heavily-built prey items than any other land-based carnivore, and you have, in my personal view, the paragon of terrestrial predators. The best eyesight, smell, cranial weaponry, and an advanced capacity to reason unique among large theropods... still the king.
Can't wait for that maquette.
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Reinhardt
Super Freak
I just got a 10% coupon from Sideshow for ordering one of their Dinosauria pieces. Sweet!!
JC
Super Freak
Actually got two of these coupons, one for ordering the T-Rex VS Tri Dio and another one today for the Carno maquette.
So as soon as I get My Carno today I'll take some pics for everybody, but be patient guys, cause it may not be till early tonight, cause UPS has a knack for saving my house for one of their last deliveries
So I should be able to put pics up no later than 8pm pacific time...I know it's a long wait, but I'm sure it will be worth it
