"Do your dinosaurs still drag their tails?" Topic

It turns out most people, when asked to draw a dinosaur, still draw them with their tails dragging behind him. link

I'm a bit curious: Which do you prefer as a gamer? The tail-dragging behemoths of yesteryear or the modern, more active creatures of today, feathers and all?

I admit I like dinosaurs as we now know them. Put feathers on those raptors and keep the tails above the ground. Still, I can see the charm of the old way of thinking. I grew up with Valley of Gwangi after all. But I always like to imagine the shock of some early 20th century paleontologist stumbling upon a lost world and finding that the dinosaurs are not the drab, swamp-bound monsters science at the time thought they were.

I like the more modern representation of dinosaurs. But if someone plops a rubber tail-dragger onto the table, I'm still going to have fun.

Feathers and parallel to the ground stance, pain in the tuckus that it may be to arrange:

TMP link

But science didn't always consider dinosaurs slow and clumsy:

"Leaping Laelaps" by Charles R. Knight, 1897

I also appreciate the old school dino, in fact I wish someone would do models of the Crystal Palace dinos.

I'm a bit curious: Which do you prefer as a gamer? The tail-dragging behemoths of yesteryear or the modern, more active creatures of today, feathers and all?

A bit of both. That way I can, to use an analogy have elephants and wildebeest and lions and cheetahs.

Tails in the air, but I also appreciate that having the tail tip touch the ground might be necessary for support.

And I do still love my old Marx Tyrannosaur, dragging tail and all (not my photo):

He still sits in a place of honor on my shelf.

I've been called a dinosaur and I sometimes drag mine.

While I grew up with the old style dinos and still love the old stop motion films with the tail draggers, I am fully devoted to the faster moving warm blooded creatures that currently appear to be more accurate. Of course, I have gone mostly with the high quality "toy" dinos by companies such as Papo, CollectA, and Wild Safari for my games. Now of course these figures compared to my 28mm figures are on the much larger size than the "real" thing would be but I figure, what the heck! The models look good and I did not have to paint them.

I also prefer the more accurate dinosaur stance. I loved Marx dinosaurs as a kid and they happily battled Airfix figures, but now no tail-draggers.

A bit of both.

I just remembered, the recent King Kong remake aimed for the best of both worlds. The T. rexes had three fingers and crocodile-like skin, but still walked with their tails above the ground. It also had Charles Knight-esque brontosaurs. A tie-in book about the ecology of Skull Island gave some hand-waving explanation about how dinosaurs had evolved in the 65 million years after the rest of them died out.