| Cacique Caribe | 08 May 2007 1:03 p.m. PST |
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picture I have these critters around the backyard. I've actually seen them drag ants underground. Now, imagine these guys were 10-15 feet long, or bigger? CC |
| Fifty4 | 08 May 2007 1:09 p.m. PST |
Funny -- that first pic looks like the things they put in Checkov's ear in Wrath of Khan. |
| Usrivoy3 | 08 May 2007 1:09 p.m. PST |
Especially nasty when found on Ceti Alpha 5. |
| Usrivoy3 | 08 May 2007 1:10 p.m. PST |
Fifty4, were you using a vulcan mind probe or something…… |
| Plynkes | 08 May 2007 1:10 p.m. PST |
There's nasty burrowing bugs called Antlions in Half-Life 2. picture Though granted, they probably owe more to the Starship Troopers bugs than real Antlions. |
| Fifty4 | 08 May 2007 1:15 p.m. PST |
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| Lowtardog | 08 May 2007 1:15 p.m. PST |
Nice..err Dan stop it I am having nightmares..lol all I can say is I am glad I dont live in the states if beasties like these carouse in your back yard |
| Fifty4 | 08 May 2007 1:16 p.m. PST |
Usrivoy3 – maybe…maybe not. |
| Top Gun Ace | 08 May 2007 1:16 p.m. PST |
They are very cool. Used to play with them/feed them when I was a kid. Yes, just glad they don't grow bigger, and live at the beach…. |
| Cacique Caribe | 08 May 2007 1:17 p.m. PST |
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| Stevenmack65 | 08 May 2007 3:38 p.m. PST |
Giant one of these in 1 of the original star wars? |
| cloudcaptain | 08 May 2007 3:53 p.m. PST |
Nah…that was the Sarlak. It was just a big stomach with a mouth. Seems like a grenade would do the trick on a giant one of these. |
| Goldwyrm | 08 May 2007 5:17 p.m. PST |
Anyone make plastic toy antlions? |
| Kayl MacLaren | 08 May 2007 6:39 p.m. PST |
Dunno about Enemy Mine, but there was a similar creature (giant antlion) in Star Frontiers. |
| Cacique Caribe | 08 May 2007 7:41 p.m. PST |
Goldwyrm, Don't tell me you've been smitten by this bug too? :) CC |
 Gungnir  | 08 May 2007 10:58 p.m. PST |
Lowtardog, antlions are European as well! |
| Privateer4hire | 09 May 2007 12:05 a.m. PST |
The creature in enemy mine was like a reptile with a long probe tongue. The monster stayed sub-surface except for it's snake-like tongue with a gripping pad that it used to grab prey. It would then drag the prey below surface to eat. The reptile looking rest of the body came up when the human pilot was captured and subsequently rescued by the Drak(Drac?). |
| Boone Doggle | 09 May 2007 1:36 a.m. PST |
Played with them as a kid. Flick a bit of sand into their funnel in the sand and they'll flick some back at you. They are not 100% effective as I remember seeing ants escape the trap. |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 May 2007 5:00 a.m. PST |
Privateer4hire, Didn't that creature also make some sort of funnel-like pit? I seem to recall one of those weird looking turtle-like critters falling into one and trying to get out, only to be eaten and the shell spit out to fall with others already around the rim. Or am I thinking of another movie? CC |
| Goldwyrm | 09 May 2007 7:09 a.m. PST |
Goldwyrm,Don't tell me you've been smitten by this bug too? :) CC- Yes, they remind me of the Thorny Tanker bug from SST. They were also a D&D monster. I think there is a 25mm miniature of one, but just the front of it coming out of a hole. Now that I'm playing 15mm Sci-fi as well as 28mm, I'll take them in whatever size I can find them.  |
| Goldwyrm | 09 May 2007 7:19 a.m. PST |
link # 5604 Ant Lion and Piscodaemon Sadly no picture there. I'm not sure if it is the same one I was thinking of. |
| Goldwyrm | 09 May 2007 7:25 a.m. PST |
It is, and I have one somewhere.. I found a pic at this auction:
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| Cacique Caribe | 09 May 2007 7:44 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 09 May 2007 8:04 a.m. PST |
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| Goldwyrm | 09 May 2007 8:39 a.m. PST |
If I could get one cheap, I'd just make my table larger :-) |
 Dances With Words  | 09 May 2007 9:02 a.m. PST |
Wasn't there something like this in the scifi movie, 'Enemy Mine' that ate the 'space turtles' and tried to eat DENNIS QUAID too???? 8-/ There are bugs as big as a human hand….(some beetles)…and in the Amazon…mantis's…have been seen at least a foot or so LARGE…. Who's to say these things couldn't get much larger…espeically on other planets??? (hence starship troopers???)… wouldn't be hard to find toy bugs or modify SST bugs to be something like that in a game???? But I still want a 'tentacle pit-beast' for my games!
8-) *slish…slish* sgt DWW-bartentacle on duty |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 May 2007 12:19 p.m. PST |
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 javelin98 | 10 May 2007 2:25 p.m. PST |
Goldwyrm, we think alike! I want some of these to use as big killer bugs in my 6mm games! |
| Cacique Caribe | 27 Nov 2008 4:48 a.m. PST |
I knew Enemy Mine had something like them: link
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| Cacique Caribe | 14 Mar 2009 8:35 p.m. PST |
Mean creature. Tough pit to get out of: link
link Look 4:50 into this clip: link CC |
| Black Autumn Productions | 15 Mar 2009 5:52 a.m. PST |
CC you are 100% correct about 'Enemy Mine'. The human (Willus Davatch or as Jerry called him: Darwitch) fell into its pit as he chased a little turtel thing and Jerry blasted the monster with his lightening gun.
Later in the film the damn thing came up right into their tent, and Darwitch tossed some hot coals into its mouth. Good film…I love it.
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| Cacique Caribe | 15 Mar 2009 11:05 a.m. PST |
"Later in the film the damn thing came up right into their tent, and Darwitch tossed some hot coals into its mouth." This is that part: link And Willis Davidge picked up those coals with his bare hands too. CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 19 Mar 2009 2:40 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 02 Jan 2010 4:38 p.m. PST |
These new figures might work . . . TMP link Though I still love the idea of these waiting for you at the bottom of a funnel: picture
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picture Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 23 Mar 2010 9:44 a.m. PST |
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