CollectA 2014: DINOSAURS - Quetzalcoatlus with Prey (88655)

Hi everyone

Please find attached a photograph of this new dinosaur due for release at the start of 2014:

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 Wouldn't wanna be his lunch. Are they announcing it all today?

Amazing! Though I don't collect Prehistoric, I love this figurine very much!
More???

Too crazy for me But well, probably possible vision

Awesome! 

Great figurine too:-)

Just crazy enough for me !!!   

SUSANNE wrote:

Just crazy enough for me !!!   

   

ken yeo wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Just crazy enough for me !!!   

   

The same here  

Looks ok, but the wings seem to be to small. And the prey isn't really realistic. A fish would be better.

schleichsammler2008 wrote:

Looks ok, but the wings seem to be to small. And the prey isn't really realistic. A fish would be better.

From wikipedia but of course there are other interresting sources   :

There have been a number of different ideas proposed about the lifestyle of Quetzalcoatlus. Because the area of the fossil site was four hundred kilometers removed from the coastline and there were no indications of large rivers or deep lakes nearby at the end of the Cretaceous, Lawson in 1975 rejected a fish-eating lifestyle, instead suggesting that Quetzalcoatlus scavenged like the Marabou Stork, but then on the carcasses of titanosaur sauropods such as Alamosaurus. Lawson had found the remains of the giant pterosaur while searching for the bones of this dinosaur, which formed an important part of its ecosystem.

In 1996, Thomas Lehman and Langston rejected the scavenging hypothesis, pointing out that the lower jaw bent so strongly downwards that even when it closed completely a gap of over five centimeters remained between it and the upper jaw, very different from the hooked beaks of specialized scavenging birds. They suggested that with its long neck vertebrae and long toothless jaws Quetzalcoatlus fed like modern-day skimmers, catching fish during flight while cleaving the waves with its beak.[13] While this skim-feeding view became widely accepted, it was not subjected to scientific research until 2007 when a study showed that for such large pterosaurs it was not a viable method because the energy costs would be too high due to excessive drag. In 2008 pterosaur workers Mark Paul Witton and Darren Naish published an examination of possible feeding habits and ecology of azhdarchids. Witton and Naish noted that most azhdarchid remains are found in inland deposits far from seas or other large bodies of water required for skimming. Additionally, the beak, jaw, and neck anatomy are unlike those of any known skimming animal. Rather, they concluded that azhdarchids were more likely terrestrial stalkers, similar to modern storks, and probably hunted small vertebrates on land or in small streams. Though Quetzalcoatlus, like other pterosaurs, was a quadruped when on the ground, Quetzalcoatlus and other azhdarchids have fore and hind limb proportions more similar to modern running ungulate mammals than to their smaller cousins, implying that they were uniquely suited to a terrestrial lifestyle.

Nice to read all this topic, I know these creatures are huge but I didn't know these babies were so small knowing how large these sauropods can grow! :)
I find the figure very scenic and with a good decorative potential. Also it has some realism, more the predator than the prey but result is quite interesting. I particulary find this one more promising than T-rex with prey.