The mysteries of the Final Evolution series, part 2: To pose ... or NOT to pose?

Finally, here is my follow up to the first part of 'The mysteries of the final evolution series'. And as promised posted in this very same millennium (it's better not to promise too much). 

Let's talk about ... posing. Or maybe rather ... no posing? 

Let me explain: In the Final Evolution brochure, the magic egg characters are all depicted in some quite dramatic poses, but the end result, the sculpts that ended up on the commercial market, have no posing at all, just plain dull "arms-down-the-sides-I'm-sick-of-my-life" boredom.  

But why? What exactly happened? The characters depicted in the brochure are definetely pictures of real sculpted figures, not just drawings, so logic would dictate that at least prototypes were made and photographed. But it seems that somewhere in the process Giochi decided to dull it down a bit. To save money? Maybe. Who knows! But let's have a look at the seven magic egg characters, how they were originally envisioned AND how they ended up. A sad story, actually, a tale of woe 😭

Here we have Storming Sand from the People of the Diamond! He wants to blast your face with a deadly sand storm ... or maybe not? In his final sculpt on the right it looks more like he needs to go to the potty. To shit diamond shards, perhaps?

Prepare to meet your fiery doom at the hands of THE MIGHTY OAKBEAST!! No, wait ... he changed his mind, he won't bother you ... as long as you leave him alone. He's having a private comtemplative moment.

Crushark, a really cool character, with or without the posing, I'll say. But still, on the left he looks like he's about to unleash some lethal tidal wave, crush you with bursts of water, but no ... he's apparently just waiting for the bus or something.

The "mystic" Mystic Moth. The difference is not that big here, but, still, on the left he looks like he's about to take off and on the right he looks more like he's resting. Here you could get the suspicion that Giochi were trying to make the characters smaller? A lot of the Magic egg characters are quite small, but since the magic egg itself is GIGANTIC I can't really imagine why. 

Forgius! This one is interesting. If you were THAT heavily armed, with a blaster on one arm and a spinning sawblade on the other, WHY on earth would you stand like that? Comatose, just waiting for some one to come and tip your sorry metallic bulk over.

Only a minor difference with Comet. His right arm is sligthly raised in the brochure and for some reason both arms are fused with the legs in the final sculpt.

Pretty much the same as with Comet. Arms a bit more down the sides in the final version. Like with all the others, a more dull, less dynamic, non-threatening look, basically. 

So there you have it. All seven of them dulled down. For some years I was keeping an eye out for the posing versions but now I seriously doubt they exist outside of the Final Evolution brochure. But well, who knows ... Just imagine the shock and excitement if one of them should turn up some day - as they were originally envisioned - posing, threatening ... bad-ass!