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Post by kunimatyu on Jan 26, 2008 20:57:19 GMT -5
I'm surprised that I haven't seen any of Kinto's Favorite Collection Softmodels on this site -- lots of Papo and Battat and a little Safari, but no Kinto at all. Why's that?
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Jan 26, 2008 21:39:26 GMT -5
Probably because Kinto has died down and isn't releasing anything new.
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Post by thetyrantlizard on Jan 27, 2008 2:08:00 GMT -5
Kinto was supposed to release a second wave of Soft Model dinosaurs in 2005 (carnotaurus, iguanodon, etc) but for some reason the line was cancelled. They have only released a few special edition repaints of the rex and the deinonychus (painted so as to make the feathers even more prominent  ). I think sadly that Kinto has kicked itself into the higher-end dinosaur display model category; they still release one or two statues per year. I still have a few of the models because in general the manufacturing quality is very high, compared with, say, Battat. |
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Post by kunimatyu on Jan 27, 2008 13:44:45 GMT -5
Darn - a Kinto Carnotaurus would be awesome! So would a Papo Carnotaurus, but I expect we'll be waiting until 2009 for that.
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Post by Señor Pilty on Mar 7, 2008 4:37:36 GMT -5
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Post by Thorondor 33 on Mar 7, 2008 11:44:58 GMT -5
How big will they be?
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Post by Señor Pilty on Mar 8, 2008 0:36:29 GMT -5
Kind of small actually--the tyrannosaur for instance is only 10.5 cm x 5 cm x 7 cm.
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Post by Señor Pilty on Mar 8, 2008 0:41:20 GMT -5
And the brachiosaur looks emaciated Someone forgot to tell the sculptor that because sauropods couldn't chew their food, they needed huge fermentation guts, and therefore they had to be immense. The Metal Dino brachiosaur looks as if it was about to run a marathon |
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Post by tomhet on Mar 8, 2008 19:00:12 GMT -5
I hate famelic dinos. Why is it that companies prefer them so?  |
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Post by Señor Pilty on Mar 8, 2008 19:18:16 GMT -5
Thin is in apparently I think it's part of the usual phenomenon in which the current generation rebels against the ideals of the previous generation in the guise of being "new" and "hip" and "up to date" (the Bakker approach to paleontology). Since brontosaurs were once considered huge, bulky monsters, the enfant terribles now deem them to be svelte and trim--which of course doesn't make the brontosaurs any thinner in reality, as their immensity can clearly be inferred from their remains. That's unfortunately the same logic that fuels the "feathered dinosaur" folly ;D |
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). I think sadly that Kinto has kicked itself into the higher-end dinosaur display model category; they still release one or two statues per year. I still have a few of the models because in general the manufacturing quality is very high, compared with, say, Battat.
