So I got the new Studio Series #71 Dino tonight and after looking over the figure I notice that his chest piece is asymmetrical. Yeah. I have no idea why it is this way. I looked up the Movie scenes, Video Game, other Dino merch like Statues, Youtube videos of supposed render, and a MASSIVE Flickr file (TF3 DOTM Dino) of references (some I assume may be ILM renders), and I found some pretty interesting results. Now, I can't make any Goddamn sense of the actual film footage because he never really stands around straight-on forwards, so I can't discern what chest type he has in the film. BUT What I did notice is that some things use the Symmetrical chest design and other things don't. You'd think all the merchandise designs would be Symmetrical right? So why then does the Asymmetrical one even exist on the Studio Series figure? Why does it exist on the Hasbro toy itself and why does it exist on the picture on the box art and why does it exist on renders found on the internet that existed before Studio Series figure was even a thing? My only 2 conclusions is that either this Asymmetrical chest design is how it actually is on the ILM render that they provided to Hasbro -or- a Hasbro designer got lazy and based the chest on the one picture of Dino featured on the Studio Series packaging. It just strikes me as VERY ODD when everything else on his design and his toy design is symmetrical, why is this one little spot on his chest asymmetrical? There MUST be a valid reason for it existing. If anyone who worked/works at ILM or Hasbro and has access to his actual film render can chime in and tell us what the deal is then that'd be great and we can put this mystery to rest. Thanks. Here's what evidence I found for the 2 chest designs: Symmetrical Chest Design (both chest sides curve upwards to a point): -Boda Studio Dino Mirage (Is this an unofficial 3rd Party figure?) -Alien Attack Firage (Unofficial 3rd Party figure) -His DOTM Video Game Model @ 5:04 in (this is official) -https://www.flickr.com/photos/69016045@N00/30239750283/in/album-72157641739904755/ -https://www.flickr.com/photos/69016045@N00/30786817411/in/album-72157641739904755/ 2014-08-24 18.29.20 l32250-mirage-2286 2015-05-03 20.15.21 2015-05-03 20.15.24 206251-gta-sa-2014-08-17-23-25-24-28 Asymmetrical Chest Design (one side curves up, one side curves out): -This Youtube video of his CGI render (is this from ILM?) -Another Youtbe video from the same account. -Yet another Youtube video from that same account. -Where the render from the above 3 videos is from. -2nd source for the same Render. -Studio Series #71 Dino: (the official Hasbro/Takara toy) ---Example 1. (see what I mean? one side curves up, one side curves out) ------Example 2. (those chest shapes are based right off the packaging's picture) 20151130152800 27293897230_13bcdbefdb_o 20151130152838 201149p0t4tdll0aziin40 I can't tell which chest design is used here: -All DOTM Dino movie scenes -Matrix Studio Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Autobot Dino Statue
IIRC, Studio Series designers use the actual movie models to design the toys, so I'm guessing that asymmetry is a part of the movie model. It would be a pretty random detail for a toy recreating a movie model to come up with. I think it looks asymmetrical in the movie too:
I think it is asymmetrical. It's easier to see in motion, but the left boob definitely curves up a bit, while the right has a consistent curve. It is a weird design choice, but it definitely doesn't look like it's something the toy came up with. Which doesn't make any sense if you actually think about it. It wouldn't be lazy, it'd be extra effort, since you're just just flipping the detail. Plus what frame of mind would compel a sculptor to misconstrue two symmetrical pieces at an angle as two asymmetrical pieces, but not any other detail of his body that's likewise viewed from different angles and given a distorted shape? No, it stands to reason that the asymmetrical design is accurate, and that the designer either had access to movie renders or at least better pictures, and followed the on-screen shapes. Otherwise we'd have other SS figures with unintended asymmetry.
Yeah, it just SO WEIRD because everything else is symmetrical. Like, the Ferrari doesn't even have an asymmetrical section that those asymmetrical red sections would come from. Its just bizarre. I need to know why it is the way it is. Lol.
To be fair a lot of the movie designs have pieces whose colors imply they’d come from the painted part of the car, but they are shaped so specifically that there’s nothing they could be except for the part they form in robot mode.
That’s because the parts deform and bend. AOE Prime’s man titties? Those are his hood and doors. You can see the vents and handles, but they are completely deformed into boobies. (His first body did the same thing only less egregious) Most of the coloured parts likely are part of the car, just completely morphed.
