These are an example of animal-like leg construction called digitigrade legs. Apparently, you can actually order a pair, although there’s currently a two month wait. And now for more:
Here’s these guy’s website.
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More interesting are the similar prosthetic legs so effective that amputees using them have been banned from athletic competition as having an unfair advantage.
Progress is being made===though not yet time to cut off your legs and install, that day is a few years off.
Resistance is futile.
Ugh. Don’t encourage the furries.
Haven’t drywall installers and circus performers been using something similar for years? I think they’re called stilts.
I believe the military is looking at systems like this for infantry, to allow them to travel faster by foot (hoofin’ it, as it were
:)) carry more of a load and be all-terrain. Interesting combat potentials.
Video 1: Hairy legs. How European.
The first video makes me think of Satyrs… which would be one heck of a costume.
J/P=?
The satyr look. Very nice.
so you wasted a whole article on places I can buy movie props and watch people who made their own? Brilliant.
This video demonstrates the military applications.
#9: All those bits and bytes wasted that we can never get back. And what about the ones you wasted with your comment? Do as I say, not as I do, eh?
Ray Harryhausen.
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I would expect that if you are using these and you try to run, it would be difficult to not trip and fall!
I always wanted to be a satyr!
I’m sure my (or your) legs would feel just fine after walking around in these stupid things all day long. Yea. Right. Plus, that chick looks really attractive as a fucking donkey.
Those taller ones would be great for commuters, imgaginge how much faster you could walk 🙂
I always thought JCD was a horses a$$, now he can have the legs to go with it…
Sorry, the furries are probably spooging themselves, drooling over those prosthetics. Whatever you do, like #3 said, do not encourage the furries, they’re fucked up enough as it is.