I’m reposting this from another forum. Apparently this is a photo of a prop that is currently located in a video store (Movie Madness in Portland, Oregon) The owners are trying to identify the source of the prop. The only information they have is that it is not from Jurassic Park or The Neverending Story.
The best guess anyone has come up with so far is Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend but that is still uncertain. I have no idea myself. So, let’s get the power of the Dope to solve this one for them.
It looks like one of the baby dragons from the 1981 flick Dragonslayer starring a fuzzy-headed Peter MacNicol in the title role. There is a brief scene in which a woman who sacrificed herself to the dragon is being eaten by its babies in its cave lair and they looked like they sort of had turtle-shaped heads.
I may be mistaken though because I thought the “beak” was pointier and I’m not sure the eyes were so big and “cute.” It’s been a couple decades since I saw the movie, but that’s what it made me think of.
Judging by the DVD cover and some stills I’ve found (on sites I can’t link to here), it doesn’t look like it. The face is shaped and colored differently.
It doesn’t look like Baby, as in the dinosaur character, but it could be from the movie. It could be one of those things you only see briefly.
Picture a generic fantasy establishing scene in which kids are on a boat, some wonderous creature, that’s too cute to be scary, raises its head out of the water, blinks its eyes, the kids go “Wow!” and try to pet its nose. Then Uncle Adventurer points to something else like a trail that goes to the Golden Dinosaur Temple or something. Creature doesn’t appear again.
Probably from some kind of “lost world” or “back in time” flick… Hm…
Is there any kind of underwater adventure movie that might have a giant turtle cameo?
And there’s only one dinosaur species in the movie, so it isn’t a throwaway one-shot creature. There’s absolutely no connection between the prop and Baby.
I think that;'s it. You can sorta see the head at the end of this YouTube clip:
A lot of people seem to remember this from the ABC TV Movie of the Week, but haven’t seen it since. If you search, you can find DVDs of it on the Internet.
Doesn’t strike a chord with me – I’ve never seen the film. But I think this is it.
ETA:
Good Og. There’s a petition to get it officially released on DVD:
I can’t watch the YouTube clip, but the still on that website doesn’t look anything like the prop. Plus, that prop doesn’t look like it could survive much aquatic action.
That depends what it;'s made of. If Papier-mache, then no. But if it’s foam or rubber, I could easily see it.
And Rankin-Bass made lots of rubberoid stuff for their more common animated features. It’s consistent.
The shots of the head are hard to see – deliberately, I think. There’s a brief close-up at 5:08 on that clip, but it’s hard to stop it right.
It’s really bad model work. Titanic this ain’t, even though they drop a necklace into the sea at the end.
