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    Predators Just Want to Have Fun - A Cosplay Gallery

    Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness

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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/19/09

    In reply to Predators Just Want to Have Fun - A Cosplay Gallery
    I just see #8s as being pot head Preditors. And #10 has a real preditor in it down near the bottom. These are all pretty good. Better then I could do.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/19/09

    In reply to Predators Just Want to Have Fun - A Cosplay Gallery
    what is it with cosplayers and sticking giant mammary glands on things that are obviously not mammals?
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    Image of veeerules veeerules
    11/19/09

    @tetracycloide: Well, some of us can't really stick them anywhere else...
    And No. 16 is kind of working it...
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/19/09

    @tetracycloide: Shut up, that's what.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/19/09

    @Smeagol92055: i think you're missing the point. all the females cosplaying predators could just as easily take the mask off and deem it a cosplay of kerrigan. that's what i'd call a win/win.
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/19/09

    @tetracycloide: I just assumed female predators collected different "trophies" than male predators.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/19/09

    @veeerules: Exactly. I say: All hail the mammaried Predators!
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    11/20/09

    @tetracycloide: Keep in mind that we have a very limited knowledge of predator biology. It's not as if anyone ever sat down with a predator and a questionnaire. For all we know, they might nurse their young. I would even be willing to bet that a sufficiently dedicated google search would allow one to find a great deal of theoretical case-studies and anatomical diagrams trying to make a case for predator mammaries, but I will leave that as an exercise for the reader.

    From the photographic evidence we are presented with, we would have more luck determining which outfits are meant as ceremonial garb, and which are designed for functional use. My theory would be that while the outfit in image 21 is quite likely practical attire, the outfits in 6a and 16 are almost certainly not intended for any sort of active use, simply due to the noticable lack of support.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/20/09

    @Briareosdx: If Predators nurse, I'd hate to see the nipples, just look at that mouth!
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    11/20/09

    @Hamslicer: It all depends on when their teeth grow in. For all we know, they may not grow their adult teeth until after they stop nursing. We just have little information on their childhood development, and likely never will until someone greenlights "Predator vs. Kindergarten Cop".
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    11/20/09

    @Hamslicer: Predator babies learn from a young age that life is nothing without the hunt! They are required to wrestle their mothers' writhing breasts straight out of the womb in a fight for dominance that ends in one of two ways: a well-fed child, or the mother reabsorbing the babe as nutrients to ensure her own survival and the strength of the species!

    ...least that's how it should be.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    11/21/09

    @DraconisXC: sounds messy

    #calendar
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/19/09

    In reply to Predators Just Want to Have Fun - A Cosplay Gallery
    You know #15 is doing it right just from the kid's reaction
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/19/09

    In reply to Predators Just Want to Have Fun - A Cosplay Gallery
    those are amazing. I can't believe the accuracy of the faces.

    Personally, I'd do a Predator / Batz Maru hybrid, with plushy fur.
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    11/20/09

    @BadUncle: OMG kawaiiiiiiii!!!

    *wrist blade*
    *gurgle*
    *blood*
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    Image of erzwatts erzwatts
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    Loved mountains of madness. And with global warming and ice shelves falling off of Antartica, you could make it modern and plausable. Off falls an ice shelf, oh look theres an ancient city!

    Hollywood would botch it unless the right director did it as a pet project though.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/13/09

    @erzwatts: Erm... last I heard, Guillermo Del Toro was going to make it when he finished 2 or 3 movies he had on queue
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    Not bad. But I have seen better. Alex CF for example.

    [alexcf.com] All handmade even the text!
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/12/09


    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.:
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    That stuff looks really cool except that the patch looks too modern. But then, I haven't seen any authentic expedition patches from that era to compare it to.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    No blind albino penguins? FAIL.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    We really need Hollywood to use their brains and make us a great lovecraft set in the 1920's - 30's.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    10/12/09

    @gorehound: Copy that. The period setting, to me, helped make "The Call of Cthulhu" by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society much more enjoyable.
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    Image of Lightice Lightice
    10/12/09

    @gorehound: Well, Guillermo del Toro has for a long time wanted to make At the Mountains of Madness movie in big budget, but the execs have been uncertain due to the lack of romance and happy ending, but after he's finished with the Hobbit, I'd wager he gets to do whatever he wants, so I think your wish may come true in a few years time...
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    Image of Isernbreegen Isernbreegen
    10/12/09

    @Lightice: the execs have been uncertain due to the lack of romance and happy ending

    Who are those execs and how can I punch them in the face?
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    10/13/09

    @Isernbreegen: The Mist didn't have any of those, and the ending was the most awesome one I've seen since, precisely because of it.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    I'm frightened.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/12/09

    @Rasselas: I'm pleased.
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    Go 'Pods.
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    Image of Isernbreegen Isernbreegen
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    It's ... beautiful ...

    I am actually in awe.
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    Image of Bhockzer Bhockzer
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    Only comment, and it's more of a nit-pick really, all of the text in those field journals would be serif fonts, no san-serif.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    10/12/09

    @Bhockzer: Good eye. I live to nit pick. Well, figuratively speaking of course.
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    Image of ingenieur ingenieur
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    Mountains Of Madness didn't blow me away, but after seeing that behemoth in The Mist, I really want to see Lovecraft on the big screen.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/12/09

    In reply to Terrifying Souvenirs from the Mountains of Madness
    .................... I need to sit down for a moment.
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