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krawdad · 4 months

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I get that they probably are trying to make the gigantic robot lizard as unscary as possible but who's idea was it to give the alligator fuzzy fleece skin

There isn't a closeup where it's still enough to be sure but that sure looks like puppet/mascot suit fleece to me.

Also since I'm here it looks cool without its skin

Imagineer for scale

#I'm finding out about princess and the frog ride stuff late #im not sure it's fleece but like. they made the crocodile guy fuzzy #it doesn't look like it's even stretching all that good its moving like it has a fabric skin #did the rubber they made ursula out of not age well or what #makes more sense to me to stamp scale texture into a rubber skin than to like. make it look like a giant stuffed animal.#plus it would like. bend and stretch in ways that fabric doesnt #like the way skin does #like the way the skin of the other characters they showed did #it's like. someone somewhere said 'make sure the animatronic looks exactly like the costume' so they had to commit to that #I'm impressed with literally every other part of this figure is why I'm so focused on the skin #would be nice if the eyebrow shapes on top of the eyes moved even a little bit but that's a nitpick all else considered #i will also say that i am impressed specifically by the hand poses they chose #i dont think this figure's fingers articulate at all but the pose they put it in makes it really difficult to tell as it moves and rotates #maybe they arent even final skins who knows #so much about this works so well its sort of weird to me how the skin stands out #i didn't mention the articulated stomach panel #i appreciate that they gave him dedicated gut motors to make squash and stretch happen #but it also makes me wonder why they didnt give that eyemask shape around his eyes any movement. the whole thing could squish up or down.#tons of expressive potential squandered

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