The only paint on the rex was black dots for eyes. The carno had a light underbelly and dark along the back in addition to also having black dots for eyes.
I'm bad at remembering to take "before" photos, so the carno's claws are already painted here.
And the carno finished:
They're both pretty cute figures, but of course it's those arms whose tininess they have in common that are also inaccurate on both. Both have pronated wrists, and I'm sure it has come up more than a few times that theropod dinosaurs' palms faced each other, not down or back - "clappers, not slappers".
The arms' inaccuracy is kind of strange in both, too, as while Jurassic World may coast on the retrosaur aesthetic by choice, the rex isn't a JW figure, and the same set includes theropod figures with correctly positioned wrists (all raptors, so maybe tyrannosauroids hadn't gotten the memo yet - the Dilong in the set seems to also have pronated wrists... maybe, kind of borderline). The Safari set was released in 2009, so it's not the newest of the new, though.
The Carnotaurus' arms kind of bother me more, because while the pronated wrists are usually mentioned to make the forelimbs less functional, in this case they also managed to make the forelimbs too functional at the same time, lol. Abelisaurids like Carnotaurus had the real tiny, useless arms, while rexes' could still grasp onto things. The possibly entirely vestigial forelimbs were proportionally even smaller than this figure's, didn't really have much of an elbow joint, and were held flat against the body in a kind of perpetual Naruto run pose (though I've seen it suggested that the little articulation they might have still had could have been used in display behavior, and that's about all they would have been good for, too). Abelisaurids were wide mouths on fast legs, with not much need for arms or hands, and I love those weird critters for their weirdness.
The arms' inaccuracy is kind of strange in both, too, as while Jurassic World may coast on the retrosaur aesthetic by choice, the rex isn't a JW figure, and the same set includes theropod figures with correctly positioned wrists (all raptors, so maybe tyrannosauroids hadn't gotten the memo yet - the Dilong in the set seems to also have pronated wrists... maybe, kind of borderline). The Safari set was released in 2009, so it's not the newest of the new, though.
The Carnotaurus' arms kind of bother me more, because while the pronated wrists are usually mentioned to make the forelimbs less functional, in this case they also managed to make the forelimbs too functional at the same time, lol. Abelisaurids like Carnotaurus had the real tiny, useless arms, while rexes' could still grasp onto things. The possibly entirely vestigial forelimbs were proportionally even smaller than this figure's, didn't really have much of an elbow joint, and were held flat against the body in a kind of perpetual Naruto run pose (though I've seen it suggested that the little articulation they might have still had could have been used in display behavior, and that's about all they would have been good for, too). Abelisaurids were wide mouths on fast legs, with not much need for arms or hands, and I love those weird critters for their weirdness.
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