"PIRANHADONS???" Topic

Cool little critter . . .

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Makes me want to take a quick vacation to one of the islands!

CC

I would love to know what waterline aquatic criters are out there . . .

QUESTION:

Who makes waterline versions of sea snakes, big fish and other giant sea/lake creatures?

CC

There's Dragonblood's waterline Mosasaur: link

Wow, jpattern2. What a beautiful piece! I must, must have one of those.

Any others you guys can think of.

Thanks so much.

CC
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Flagship Games had/has some.

Steve Barber does a waterline Megalodon in their 25mm/28mm Prehistoric Settlement range: link

Michaels has a selection of cheap plastic sea creatures and dinasaurs that can be easily converted to a waterline model with a bit of hacksaw work. Check out safariltd.com for some ideas.

Check out this beastie for a piranahdon

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Here is a waterline squid-beast…

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That World of King Kong movie book is fabulous – inspirational.

Chuck05, nice find!

Alxbates, I'll second that. I picked up a copy on sale a few months after the Kong DVD dropped. It's a treasure trove for Kong or other Lost World-type scenarios.

Just as long as they don't evolve into Pirahnakeets…

chuck that was a perfect match for the form..and in general, nice one…one of my favorite creatures ever

I'm pretty sure it was Sonic drive-ins in the US that had a series of trash-themed toys in kids meals a couple of years ago. There was a pirhana with an intact head and bare bones body that would make a good waterline emerging head several inches high. They still show up in thrift shops and garage sales.

The James Rollins book Amazonia featured pirahnafrogs which I'd love to spring on players in a pulp game. Now just need suitable figures. Per the book, they are small (1 ft long)swarm creatures and can survive for a limited time out of the water.

Piranhafrogs? Piranhadons? Oh, Hell CC, just come up to Frisco, TX some time; they're native to the area, don't you know…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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"The James Rollins book Amazonia featured pirahnafrogs which I'd love to spring on players in a pulp game. Now just need suitable figures. Per the book, they are small (1 ft long)swarm creatures and can survive for a limited time out of the water."

I think the MegaMinis "Frog Swarm" are appropriately toothy, though they are a bit larger than 1ft long in 28mm scale.

Evil genius Dr Katanna (and Pulp enthusiast Jeffrey Scott Jones)invented the terrible cross-species Flying Fish Piranha for our Rugged Adventures games. Kurt Hummitzsch wrote rules for them. They can be found on the Downloads page of the Pulp Figures site in the 'Tools of the Trade' chapter.

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Bob Murch
pulpfigures.com

Leland: I happen to know that you guys up in the frozen tundra of Frisco have to import your piranhafrogs from down in my neck of the woods. Heck, we can only send the little ones up there. Teh big ones are too mean and no one will accept them for shipment unless they are suitably 'quiet' – as in 'dead quiet.'

JWOMACK94,

OK, I'll bite; then how do you explain what our Yorkshire Terrier cornered in our backyard this morning:

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And yes, the USPS are a bunch of whimps; I tried to ship a brace of "piglets" across town last week, and was forced to go to DHL 'cause the postal workers couldn't handle the contents of the crate trying to eat them every 30 seconds or so… at least DHL didn't whimp out on me despite the loss of a couple of hands in the receiving dock… I *did* make the crate "Hazerdous! Handle With Steel Gloves!" after all, but I guess they weren't paying close enough attention…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Piranhafrogs?

One of the figures in this site looks like it should be called a piranhafrog:

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CC

I'd buy multiples of *all* of those fish-things. Beautiful!

Who needs a fictional fish when there's this swimming around you:

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I think the teeth on that thing are proportionally bigger than those on a Piranhadon:

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CC

Q: What do you call Hollywood visitors to Skull Island?
A: Fish bait

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CC

CC,

reminds me of when I used to go fishing on the Yuba River with my Dada when I was a wee lad… those Helgramites made great live bait!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

Watching Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" (which starts tonight) has me thinking about getting back to the fantastic ideas on this thread.

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I'm thinking of getting one of these Shark Toobs and, after cutting a few to a waterline level, add GreenStuff tentacles, spines and other alien-looking bits to them:

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The Sealife Mega Toob has lots more goodies that could become the starting point for fantastic creatures:

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Maybe take a lobster and try to turn it into one of these sea scorpions:

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CC

Imagine this little fella (18.5cm) swimming around in the waters:

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Dan

I've used a dunkleosteus figure in an underwater Giant Monster Rampage game as well as a Cracked Aquarium game.

Its an intimidating looking fish.

-Ken
Radioactive Press

My favorite big fish…armored, mouth/jaw that could shear steel, big, strong, tough, and if I could pick one critter to still be alive today from then…my Devo choice would be Dunky!

was this your toy? picture

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crazy book with all kinds of big swimming monster madness link

That looks like the one, we don't have it or any of our dino figures anymore.

It was actually my son's back when he was really into prehistoric animals. His new thing is robotic type things. He is particularly fond of my Daleks.

-Ken
Radioactive