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That would be nice! I like “organic” forms of unicorns as well so I wouldn’t be opposed at all to seeing a new sculpt with a curved or even a branched horn.
There are already too many that I like! But I would still love to see:
1. A winged serpent with feathered wings, something like Quetzalcoatl. I can hardly imagine all the pretty colors that could be painted in.
2. Foo dogs.
3. A coyote.
I know what a Foo dog looks like, but I don’t know anything about the story behind them. Are they supposed to be like dragons, or are they lions? They sometimes look like kirins or Singhas. Are they demons or guardians?
Chinese guardian lions, known as Shishi lions (Chinese: 石獅; pinyin: shĂshÄ«; literally “stone lion”) or Imperial guardian lion, and often incorrectly called “Foo Dogs” in the West, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China. They have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy, from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits. Pairs of guardian lions are still common decorative and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on each side of the entrance, in China and in other places around the world where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled, especially in local Chinatowns.
The lions are always created in pairs, with the male resting his paw upon the world and the female restraining a playful cub that is on its back. They occur in many types of Chinese pottery and in Western imitations.
Here is the link if you want to read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions
Got that out of wikipidia >.< A pair of these would be very cool!
I would LOVE to see a Foo Dog set! I have two shih tzu’s, so it would be pretty perfect!!! SQUEAK!
