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Does the Jurassic Park Rex style turn you off? The pics below show the Hammond Collection Rex and is my favorite Rex toy of all time, can't recommend this guy enough. Mattel has the Jurassic Park license, and they're cranking out the best dinosaur toys available. You can get this Rex below from Target today for $50 MSRP, or with Target's current promotions he's on sale for 25% off plus you get a $10 gift certificate. He's about 24" long and 8" to 12" tall depending upon what angle you pose the body at. https://www.target.com/p/jurassic-world-hammond-collection-tyrannosaurus-rex-figure/-/A-84794347 First pic shows the 1:12 scale Super Colossal Rex on the left and the 1:18 Hammond Collection Rex on the right, and the second pic shows the Hammond Collection Rex eating a 6-inch Marvel Legends Happy Hogan figure. MSRP on both is around $50 with the Super Colossal Rex being that price because he's barely articulated, although he has a fun feature where you can shove action figures down his throat and poop them out of his back side. Most 6-inch figures fit down his throat fine, and his stomach is big enough to store at least half a dozen figures of that size. He's about 42 inches long and 12 to 18 inches tall depending upon the angle you pose the body at. The thing I particularly love about Mattel's 1:18 scale Hammond Collection line is they just started it this year and they're cranking out TONS of dinosaur types that scale well together, are fully articulated, and relatively cheap. So far they have a velociraptor, dilophosaurus, parasaurophalus, triceratops, gallimimus, Rex, baryonyx, ceratosaurus, and various human figures in 1:18 scale from the Jurassic Park movies with lots more on the way. I have all of the figures from that line, and they're absolutely great, love them all. I particularly love the paint job on the Hammond Collection Rex, it's really good. The feet on all of those figures are oversized relative to how big they'd be on the real animals so that the figures are easier to stand up, so they're not the best with scientific accuracy both due to the big feet and the liberties the Jurassic Park franchise has taken to make species more impressive on film than the real animals were.

I received my Haslab Galactus a few days ago. Probably the best twelfth scale action figure ever made. Love pretty much everything about Galactus aside from his articulation, but it's more than good enough given the usual ways you'd want to pose him. He came with three heralds--Silver Surfer, Nova (Frankie Raye), and Morg, with Morg being the best-executed of the three. The only weak point is they used a really bad grade of plastic for Nova, so most people's figures have one or more joints that are stuck shut, particularly the neck which is also stuck on mine. Haven't fully tested his articulation yet, but here are a few quick shots. The Rex in the second shot is the Mattel Super Colossal T-Rex, which is the only Rex I know of that's approximately twelfth scale like Galactus is, so the scale on both figures is roughly the same and that's about how big a Rex should be next to Galactus. Galactus is about 32" tall, and the Rex is about 42" long.

What scale, and what exact style are you looking for? Finding one that looks exactly like that one in the art you linked could be tough. The best 1:18 scale Rex I know of is the recent Mattel Hammond Collection T-Rex; it's the first fully-articulated Rex in that scale that's ever been sold. Creative Beast is also about to release a fully-articulated 1:18 scale Rex that's more scientifically accurate, but at $225 it's also far more expensive than the $50 Mattel Rex. I was going to get the Creative Beast Rex, but once the Mattel Rex was announced earlier this year that's now my favorite one. The best 1:12 scale Rex I know of is the Mattel Super Colossal Rex. I have that one too. The closest Rex to the style in that Batman art you posted that exhibits the traits paleontologists used to think applied to Rex that we now know is inaccurate I've seen is an older non-articulated Rex from a company called Papo, but that's really more of a statue than a toy figure and the scale wouldn't match most action figures if you want to display a Rex with other toys.

I like this wave, particularly Maggott. I wasn't familiar with him but the figure is the best-executed of the wave besides Bonebreaker and that awesome new Vulcan sculpt that they're planning to use as their mainstream male body from now on.

I bought this a few weeks ago and love it. Takes up a bit too much room and is minimally useful for the superhero displays I typically do, but my main use for it was to have someone like Magneto or Colossus toss it around a battlefield display anyway so it's great for that. The only issue is it's more of a 1:10 scale car, so it's slightly big for 1:12 scale figures. But not so big that it doesn't work if you ignore something like She-Hulk looking comfortable in it when in reality she should be super-cramped up in that car.

Slightly off-topic, but hey, incest is heavily featured in all of Martin's works and was a big part of European royal history, so maybe it IS on-topic--isn't incest more of a long-term problem and not a high risk of problems with any given kid? I thought the reason incest is problematic is that any undesirable traits in your family's DNA--say a history of cancer, or Alzheimer's, or heart disease, or whatever--just stays in the line and doesn't get bred out, so mixing in DNA from different families without those issues makes the line stronger. So unless Targaryens are particularly prone to cancer or something there shouldn't be much issue with incest, and certainly no higher chance of death in childbirth unless that itself were hypothetically a Targaryen genetic trait.

Having Rhaenyra agonizingly pinch out a stillborn baby and pick it up was definitely more than I wanted to see. My main problem with the childbirth episodes was that the show makes it look like there's a 50/50 chance a mother would die in childbirth in this era without modern medicine when the historical rate from the 19th century and before is currently thought to be under 1%. Not only did Aemma and Laena die but Aemma says "the child bed is our battlefield" which seems exaggerated given the real rate of death by childbirth.

not her decision to make, and by not doing that she showed her loyalty to the Queen. I can think of a better way to show her loyalty to the Queen--have Meleys cough up the heads of Alicent, Otto, Aemond, and Daeron at Rhaenyra's feet like a cat coughing up hairballs. But I guess that avoids the Dance of the Dragons and makes the next few seasons moot, so can't do that.

Judging from Aemond and Lucerys' comments, interesting that they don't seem to have full control of the dragons. They also set that up to happen earlier in the episode by alluding to the fact that nobody alive had used dragons in warfare, and that they only had history to consult for the best way to leverage them. So the subtleties of dragons making their own decisions in combat when their own lives were in danger wasn't something that generation of Targaryens had apparently thought of until then.

Awesome episode, I'm all in now. Still not sure I get Rhaenys not devouring all of the Hightowers in episode 9. I get that it would have been politically messy as she alluded to, but it would have avoided war.

The Haslab Galactus is now shipping to the US. I have a FedEx tracking number, but judging by how that went with the Haslab Sentinel it could take up to 8 or more weeks for it to go from "Label Created" to actually being in FedEx's hands. Galactus is looking absolutely spectacular from the early reviews on Youtube.

Why was Alicent playing along with him fapping to her feet? Definitely one of the weirdest moments I've seen in television.

Do we have any real idea how long they're planning to spend on Dance of the Dragons in the show? Hopefully it's far longer than the two episodes left in this season.

We'll probably know for sure if Alicent is confused by what Viserys said because if that's the case the show should be showing her claiming that Viserys named a new heir on his deathbed pretty early next episode.

Here's the text of that last conversation between Viserys and Alicent: In the moment I thought Viserys was talking about his son Aegon II, but now I see he's talking about his ancestor Aegon the Conqueror. My first thought while watching was that he changed his mind about Rhaenyra taking the throne, but I immediately dismissed that because his explanation about Aegon II protecting the realm makes no sense given that he doesn't even want the throne. But here's an article that has a compelling explanation that explains my confusion about which Aegon he was talking about: https://nerdist.com/article/house-of-the-dragon-deathbed-confusion-alicent-viserys-vision-confession-aegon-storytelling-nightmare/ And suggests Alicent will be confused in the same way I saw and think that Viserys was talking about their son, not their ancestor. So her appearing to understand what he was saying was her possibly believing that Viserys had a change of heart about Rhaenyra taking the throne and choosing their son instead, when that's not at all what he was saying because he thought he was talking to Rhaenyra, not Alicent--which Alicent had no way of knowing because she wasn't a part of the conversation Viserys and Rhaenyra had earlier in the episode that he's mistakenly asking Alicent to remember.

So what was that last conversation in episode 8 between Viserys and Alicent about? For a while I thought Viserys was babbling incoherently due to his mental state, but she seemed to understand what he meant. Something about Aegon and a dream, and he wanted Alicent to do something but I don't know what.

I'll likely go for the Indy line. Just wish LucasFilm hadn't continued to dictate those single-joined arms and legs for the line like they do with Star Wars.

Why does Attuma have a hammerhead shark skull on his head in the trailer? On the one hand it would seem to be a pretty cool idea, but on the other hand sharks don't have bones so it doesn't make any sense. I guess we have to assume it's not real bones but something that was made from something solid to look like shark cartilage?

Phase 4 is definitely the worst phase yet with Phase 2 on its heels. If you discount No Way Home Phase 2 blows Phase 4 away because Guardians of the Galaxy and Winter Soldier are really, really good, but if you include No Way Home it's close since that film is better than Phase 2's best. Although I can definitely see controversy on what's better when comparing Winter Soldier and No Way Home. No Way Home is better, but if you're not a fan of the Sony films, multiverse stories, or you prefer well-written political intrigue worthy of Tom Clancy's best work as is present in Winter Soldier then I can absolutely see you preferring that film. I was NOT looking forward to No Way Home because I generally disliked multiverse stories, but that film flipped me on them. Now I'm pretty much all in on multiverses.

They got ruined by what Wandavision actually was once it was fully released. Which is not to single that show out from the others. EVERY Disney Plus show has been "meh" as compared to the movies.

I really love dinosaurs and have wanted articulated ones for a REALLY long time. This week I learned Mattel has been creating highly-articulated 1:18 scale dinosaurs for most of 2022 under a line they call "The Hammond Collection," and within the last few months they released most articulated dinosaur fans' holy grail of a highly-articulated Tyrannosaurus Rex. I'm all in on 1:12 scale, so I was immediately disappointed to learn that the first articulated Rex was in a different scale. But I bought one today anyway since they're currently in almost every Target in America. Still trying to decide if I like the 1:18 scale, but I certainly get why they did it. Creating dinos in twelfth scale is both expensive and a HUGE space hog once you get to the larger dinos, so the 1:18 scale just makes more sense for them in the same way that it makes more sense for Star Wars and the bigger GI Joe vehicles. Still need more time to play with the articulation range and absorb how good this new Mattel Rex is, but while I'm unsatisfied with multiple aspects of the articulation I definitely love him already and he does seem to be the best-articulated Rex to date. Here he is below with a few 1:12 scale figures and Mattel's previous barely-articulated Colossal T-Rex. If you're unfamiliar with the Colossal Rex he's the only one I'm aware of that's in something close to twelfth scale, although he's slightly large for that and is more in the 1:10 or 1:11 scale.

They were successful in making her appear younger they could have easily made her appear mid 20's. I'm guessing the thought process was "let's cast Milly because she looks so young!" And correspondingly--"she looks so young we can't cast her in her late twenties!" Alcock reminds me of Steph Curry in looking a decade or more younger than she actually is. And she looks even younger than she really is than Curry does, so I generally get why they thought they couldn't cast her as older.

How lovely that can be depends upon whose wrist he goes off on. I want to watch that series, but I wish it weren't a ten-episode series of almost-an-hour-long shows. That's a REALLY long period of time to spend with that guy. But I'm generally interested in understanding the motives of serial killers and I definitely like Evan Peters, so I'll probably end up descending into Dahmer's extreme darkness.

ok so the princess was supposed to be what, 16? so now she'd be 26. milly alcock can certainly pass for that. she's 22 or 23 in real life. I tend to agree. That was particularly important given how strikingly unique Milly Alcock's facial features are; I found getting used to the new Rhaenyra really distracting in this episode. Alcock was also 21 when they filmed the show so they didn't have far to age her up, although she does look exceptionally young for her age so it may have been a challenge.

Ser Cristen was in his mid-twenties, so now he's in his mid-thirties. Those two ages don't look all that different so I bought him looking the same.