![]() ![]() And on ‘Action!’ everybody grabbed a tentacle and ran with it. "We mounted the dog there, we wrapped him up in tentacles, and just K-Y’d the heck out of him," he told us over Zoom. RELATED: 'The Thing' at 40: The cast & crew's definitive history of John Carpenter's masterpiece ![]() Speaking with SYFY WIRE last year in honor of The Thing's 40th anniversary, Von Babasin (a member of Bottin's team on the film) recalled how the kennel sequence was filmed using a combination of reverse photography and an ungodly amount of K-Y Jelly. While a 23-year-old Rob Bottin is rightly credited with bringing the movie's groundbreaking (and completely practical!) visual effects to life, it was actually the late Stan Winston who created the dog-Thing puppet while a beleaguered Bottin (he ended up in the hospital with a serious case of exhaustion) occupied himself with other aspects of the labor-intensive project. NECA The Thing 7″ Scale Action Figure – Deluxe Ultimate Dog Creature "Comes in collector-friendly 5-panel packaging with opening front flap." Check out NECA's new Dog Creature figure from John Carpenter's The Thing: "This fully articulated deluxe figure includes more than 25 interchangeable pieces to customize your Dog Creature for maximum horror," reads the official product description. RELATED: 'The Mist' at 15: Greg Nicotero compares Stephen King adaptation to John Carpenter's 'The Thing'Įxpected to go on sale in September or October, the 7-inch collectible depicts the various stages of the sled dog's gruesome transformation within the Outpost 31 kennel as it reveals its true nature, absorbing the other canines and morphing into a terrifying abomination of terrestrial and extraterrestrial body parts before it's burned to a crisp by a flamethrower-wielding Childs (Keith David). ![]() The iconic and wonderfully grotesque dog creature from John Carpenter's The Thing will receive the action figure treatment this fall from National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA), the company announced last week. "I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off - whatever it is." ![]()
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