Pipe cleaner/chenille Spyro

This pipe cleaner old-school Spyro will be up for sale </b>in the upcoming Finnish animecon held between 14th and 15th of July in Kuopio! The price for it will be 15 euros! SOLD!

Check the other photo I've uploaded over here [link]

Behold, my most complicated pipe cleaner model that I've ever made (so far)! This took AT LEAST 4-5 hours to make... And that doesn't even include the time I spent on the previous version which failed so badly that I had to take it apart and start from scratch :/. Note to self: always, always, ALWAYS use proper reference pictures to the point where you've at least placed the limbs correctly! Because that's what the problem was with the original Spyro: its body was way too long and its legs had too much space between them. So instead of using some random image from the instruction manual, I booted up my PS2 and took profile pictures of Spyro while playing Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (a.k.a Ripto's Rage). And boy did that make a difference!

As always, the majority of this model consists of pipe cleaners. The only parts that I've made from crafts felt are Spyro's eyes, the red parts on his wings and his striped underside. The rest is 100 % pipe cleaners. The stripes on his horns, tail and underside were drawn with a brown promarker.

Some of you may wonder about the back ridges, thinking "If this is supposed to be the original Spyro, how come it has ridges on its back? I never saw anything like that while playing the old PS1 games!" Here's the deal: if you study closely some of the older, official Spyro images (including those on the covers/pages of the Spyro 2 and 3 manuals) you' ll notice that they all depict Spyro with ridges on his back while they're clearly missing in Spyro 1-related pictures. My guess is that the guys at Insomniac either decided to add the ridges from Spyro 2 onwards but didn't want change the game model to have them as well OR they simply couldn't add them as they would have been too cumbersome. Remember, this is the PS1 we're talking about so I personally believe the latter option...

So why add them to this model anyway if they only exist in the manuals and images? Because the backside looked too empty, that's why! The problem here is that in order to attach them, I had to use some superglue which, unfortunately, decreases the mobility of the model considerably. One can't really change the pose of the main body but at least the limbs, head, wings and tail still have some mobility left, especially the legs and wings.

I've become quite attached to this little guy and it's probably going to be sad seeing him go . The somewhat high price despite its relatively small size (approx 17cm x 10 cm with the tail included) is due to fact that the material cost is at least 5-6 euros... and the fact I spent frikking' 4-5 hours while making this thing. But if that's too much for folks at animecon, then I might just keep him myself :3