There’s no palookas on this bout, people, solely two younger fighters thirsting for glory! On the left, weighing in at 4,435 lbs, the Spiked Smasher, Cuff! And on the correct, weighing in at 4,501 lbs, the Destroyer of the Dunes, Clout! Who will emerge victorious?
Now the opponents are circling one another and growling. No love misplaced between these two! Clout delivers a tough proper to Cuff’s flank, however Cuff responds with a left to Clout’s shoulder. They’re on the transfer now, they’re shuffling throughout the dunes aspect by aspect, and so they’re exchanging blows as they go. That is so thrilling! Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards they go, each making an attempt to outpace the opposite! Wait a minute, wait a minute, Cuff pulls barely forward of Clout, Cuff winds again, Cuff swings, and growth! Direct shot proper to Clout’s noggin, proper above the attention, and a magnificence! Clout is reeling a bit now, Clout stops, and maintain on, sure, Clout is veering away! Clout is quitting this match, people! And that implies that our winner is Cuff! Give him an enormous hand, people, he’s earned his victory!
Saichania, the “lovely one,” is certainly one of Asia’s most well-known ankylosaurs and the one with the most toys to its name. The holotype specimen was found in Mongolia through the Nineteen Seventies and consisted of the cranium and an honest portion of the entrance a part of the skeleton, and largely articulated at that. Furthermore, the bones have been significantly well-preserved, therefore the genus title. Saichania is estimated to have been 5 to 7 metres lengthy and weighed 1.5 to 2.2 tons. It lived round 73 million years in the past alongside different ankylosaurs like Tarchia and Zaraapelta in addition to its primary enemy, Tarbosaurus.
Right here we’ll be inspecting Haolonggood’s “Zhu Gui” model of Saichania, the opposite being “Zhu Fu.” I name him Cuff. At solely 15 cm in size, he’s the smallest ankylosaur they’ve made to this point. He’s sculpted in a strolling pose along with his proper entrance leg in mid step and his left hind leg prolonged again. His tail is swinging to the correct and his head is raised and cocked to the left. Not like the Gastonia, he doesn’t seem like equipped for fight in any respect; he seems to be relaxed and informal. One can simply envision him marching slowly and steadily throughout the desert dunes, on his approach to a distant oasis.
Additionally in contrast to the Gastonia, Cuff’s paint job is decidedly drab. His primary color is medium gray with a unclean beige underbelly. His again options black stripes and really darkish gray scutes. Medium brown is utilized to his tail membership, to the highest of his head, his beak, and his toes. His claws are black and his eyes are yellow. Once more, it’s drab, but it surely additionally seems to be very believable. Sadly, not all the scutes on Cuff’s again have been painted correctly, significantly on his left aspect. Which really is just like the Gastonia!
Like every good ankylosaurid, the highest of Cuff’s wedge-shaped cranium is roofed in protecting plates. The squamosal horns, the quadratojugal horns, and the anterior and posterior supraorbitals are all clearly seen and look to be right. The nuchal crest, nonetheless, should be bigger, as proven on specimens D and E in this diagram, and the beak ought to look pointier in profile. On the plus aspect, Saichania possessed significantly massive and complicated nasal cavities, that are thought to have been particular diversifications for residing in a sizzling and dry desert surroundings, and these are correctly mirrored on Cuff.
Cuff’s neck is accurately coated by two cervical rings every made up of six thick, keeled plates, with the biggest ones on the sides, and his stout entrance limbs are coated in small osteoderms. His again and his flanks are awash in rows of keeled osteoderms. A sequence of huge, flattened, and blade-like spikes jut out sideways round his vast hip area, making it tough and harmful for predators to chunk at his unarmoured hind limbs. His lengthy tail is ringed with additional osteoderms and, in fact, terminates in a large oval-shaped membership with a pitted texture. All of it seems to be consistent with present restorations of Saichania‘s armour.
Heaps and many small rounded scales have been meticulously sculpted between all of the osteoderms, and on Cuff’s limbs and underbelly. Thick wrinkles are additionally seen on his neck and at his joints. He’s a most muricate monster certainly, to the purpose the place it hurts to squeeze him too onerous in your hand. It could take fairly a robust and decided Tarbosaurus to beat these defenses!
Haolonggood’s Saichania will not be devoid of flaws, however they’re fairly minor ones. It is a lovely, beautiful toy general, and arms down the perfect illustration of the genus at present accessible available on the market. I’m very completely satisfied to have it in my assortment and I can’t wait to see what different ankylosaurs the corporate has in retailer for this yr. Tarchia would in all probability be on the high of my choice checklist, however Ziapelta, Scolosaurus, and Anodontosaurus would even be incredible.
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