Apr 27 2009Scary: These Crazy 'Animal Leg' Extensions
Personally, my regular legs are just fine. They reach the pedals in my car, walk me from said car into seedy strip joints, and kick the living shit out of oak trees. But for some people that's not enough, they want animal-like legs. These people are sickos.
These "digitigrade leg extensions" are the work of Seattle-based sculptor Kim Graham. Essentially a fancy pair of stilts, the legs mimic digitigrades (animals including horses that bear weight on their toes).
The video shows the legs in their natural, metallic finish, as well as dressed up in some fur. Which, I'll admit, was rather disturbing. Throw on a bearskin rug and TA-DA, you're that pedophilic creep Mr. Tumnus from that book about a talking panther in your closet.
Bionic Animal Legs Are Built For Theater and/or Enchanted Woodlands [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. dante - April 27, 2009 1:43 PM
jesus thats retarded.
2. Daisy - April 27, 2009 1:43 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was stuck on an island where the Dr. was performing animal experiments, and put a human ass on a monkey.
3. Jesus - April 27, 2009 1:44 PM
Yes, my son that is retarded
4. naas - April 27, 2009 1:46 PM
http://www.mwctoys.com/images/review_lod_10.jpg
5. Watch - April 27, 2009 1:52 PM
stfu daisy. your a waist of space
6. catch22 - April 27, 2009 1:53 PM
believe it or not i actually tried on something lie that before... you can run bad fast but they give your calves and acl one hell of a workout...
and yes i felt like a total dork...and no id totally not buy a pair...the novelty wore off pretty quickly
7. AtomicSquid - April 27, 2009 1:56 PM
"sculptor" = unemployed and bored
8. GingerBanana - April 27, 2009 2:01 PM
Oh my holy Jesus.
9. wakenjake - April 27, 2009 2:09 PM
Part 2 with the furry legs reminded me of this chick I used bang in college.... or maybe I'm thinking of the time I was raped by a minotaur
10. Frank B. - April 27, 2009 2:15 PM
Wow. This is just wrong.
11. Angel Mass - April 27, 2009 2:25 PM
Scary? nope
Cool? HELL YES!!111
12. Fran - April 27, 2009 2:27 PM
El señor de la nocheee!!
13. Richard Nevsimal - April 27, 2009 2:46 PM
looks like draenei from WoW x)
14. amy - April 27, 2009 3:02 PM
Great. Just great. Something else for the furtards to beat off over.
15. Pew³ - April 27, 2009 3:07 PM
Look at me walking weeee.
Such an impressive video. How have we been getting around this whole time before?
I was really hoping to see something normal legs don't do, like jump high or run fast. Looking like a horse is not a selling point to me.
16. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 27, 2009 3:18 PM
Pffbbt, I dont need these, my legs go all the way up... nevermind...
17. STINK - April 27, 2009 3:20 PM
Bleh! I want Inspector Gadget cyborg spring legs NAO!
18. TallFace - April 27, 2009 3:29 PM
Nothing more attractive than a woman with horse legs. How YOU doin'?
19. Horsex - April 27, 2009 3:49 PM
YAY! My fantasies of being a centaur / faun
Can be true! Dibs to the first chick who does it centaur style!
20. I'm a Computer - April 27, 2009 3:55 PM
*clunk clunk clunk
(puts on a skirt and hairy legs)
*clunk clunk clunk
LOLL
21. Watch - April 27, 2009 4:02 PM
weird, 5 STOP STEALING MY NAME!!
22. Neato - April 27, 2009 4:05 PM
I have to say I actually think it's pretty cool that those actually function and support her weight. I hope she's doing more with them than just walking around and pretending to be a horse.
23. They Are Coming For Us! - April 27, 2009 4:25 PM
At first I thought these were attachable super robotic horse legs and I was scared. Then I saw they were just stupid attachable metal horse hooves and I was ashamed of my fear.
24. Me - April 27, 2009 5:18 PM
that'd be a bitchen halloween costume
25. J-rock - April 27, 2009 6:12 PM
why...... ill buy them when i can jump 60 feet in the air... no less. Eff walking i can do that on my own.
26. Gerinych - April 27, 2009 6:41 PM
The knees are backwards.
27. . - April 27, 2009 6:54 PM
it's a protoss zealot!
28. The real Watch - April 27, 2009 7:19 PM
I am the real watch all others are impostors!!
29. Chompsky Honk - April 27, 2009 8:25 PM
What doth life? Are we just fleshy blimps in some meaningless stew of cosmic oblivion, or is it vis-reversa?
30. eron - April 27, 2009 8:36 PM
RUN FORREST!!!!!
IT'S THE CHUPACABRAS!!!!!
31. the late stoner - April 27, 2009 8:46 PM
yo didnt darthmaul have some legs like that shit when he fought obi wan kenobi in old wounds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CyborgDarthMaul.jpg
32. Anexio - April 27, 2009 9:36 PM
Stupid, what I want are chainsaw legs.
Cool!!
I'd put the end of the chainsaw to the ground and crank that mother up. Then I'd zoom around the high school with my loud chainsaw legs. Chicks would dig it and the principal would hate me. Score!
33. m0nkey - April 27, 2009 10:04 PM
oh. i got all excited thinking the world might be a better place with those..like they were prosthetics. but i was mistaken.
the world is now a worse place.
34. whatdoestheGstandfor - April 28, 2009 1:52 AM
Great, now they're one step closer to building the Megadoomer from invader zim
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=TCH2H20D "(gasp) It's got chicken legs!"
Or the ED-209 from robocop.
Man I love living in the future.
35. Rhialto - April 28, 2009 3:05 AM
From which Narnia episode is this fragment from?
36. Galtacticus - April 28, 2009 3:10 AM
It looks pretty comfortable to walk on.Let's face it,horses are better in running than humans do.
37. Graf Zeppelin - April 28, 2009 5:13 AM
@27 chokolom
38. TE - April 28, 2009 12:23 PM
All she needs now is a snake arm.
39. amy - April 28, 2009 1:19 PM
Dude, am I the only one who wants to steal these, add a cardboard box and some plastic guns and walk around like an AT-ST?
40. Fors - April 28, 2009 2:14 PM
first thing I thought when I saw this was "PROTOSS!!!"
41. kelehendros - April 30, 2009 11:15 AM
horay now just make them robotic and replace your crappy flesh with robo legs horay for kid stealth legs.
42. Furry_Mercenary - April 30, 2009 8:43 PM
Nice, i hope those come in other types like wolf, fox, and cat. Oh and #14 F$#@ YOU! BEFORE YOU GO INSULTING OTHERS FOR WHAT THEY LIKE PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR GODDAMNED FACTS ARE CORRECT! NOT EVERYTHING FURRY IS SEXUAL AND IF YOU REFUSE TO DO THIS YOU SHOULD JUST DIE SINCE YOU ALREADY HAVE NO WORTH FOR LIFE ANYWAY! PWNd YOUR BITCH-ASS!!!
43. Ryan Beez - May 1, 2009 2:39 AM
I will take a pair of legs and a piccolo please.
Kinky sex here I come.
44. Val - May 2, 2009 12:19 PM
Now u know how Lord of the rings Horsemen get their props ! : P lol
45. ruhi-chan - May 3, 2009 3:52 PM
you people are retarded. They may seem stupid to you "normal" folk but this kind of stuff is gold for performers AND cosplayers. WoW's Dreinei race can finally be cospalyed right.
46. Draiden Gun Giest - May 3, 2009 10:32 PM
Bloody hell , do you people ever talk about what is posted ? This really looks interesting to me >.>
47. Mr. Mustachio :{O - May 4, 2009 3:35 AM
I think I've been there, looks a lot like Blackburn in England, but I don't remember the canal...I do remember three demolition machines that looked like excavators but had big claws instead to grip walls and tear them off, felt like "War of the Worlds" sounded like it too.
The legs are too big for goat legs, probably even for horse legs...
48. Furry - May 4, 2009 11:14 PM
YIFF YEAH!
49. Aids - May 6, 2009 9:13 PM
geeze whats next... better be real gundams
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
50. Captain - May 7, 2009 12:50 PM
Also see this:
http://captain-hash.mybrute.com
MUST SEE!!
51. Alessio - May 9, 2009 4:16 PM
Whats so wrong about it? Saying that 'these people are sickos' is rather pointless and quite retarded. Its just for fun and they are actually practical. They have many uses within the cosplay industry, uses for long distance runners, and possibly even medical uses. You might want to think about all the uses for a device before you call the devloper a 'sicko'. That same 'sicko' might be the one who allows you to walk if your legs are crushed by a tree (god forbid that ever happens ¬¬)
Its quite ironic that a site is trying to promote new things, and it is repulsed by someone trying to combine the old (nature) and the new (science)... God, the author of the small entry bellow the video would have a heart attack if they looked at steampunk... At least, I can hope so.
Nice project, and I think I might give it a go myself sometime.
52. frex - May 9, 2009 6:04 PM
its kinda cool.
I, personally, would never wear them, but for those who make movies, these would save money that would be wasted in CGI
53. Amanda - May 11, 2009 1:28 PM
#6 that's what I was thinking actually... it could be an unusual workout tool.
54. me - May 12, 2009 12:21 AM
looks like an elite. go halo!
55. Jonathanpbk - May 12, 2009 12:27 PM
cyberdemon.... without the fur she's a fookin cyberdemon. all she needs now is a rocket launcher arm... christ...
56. Johnny Mukilteo - May 19, 2009 3:42 AM
Just like #29 said, it's just like the titular character from Xavier: Renegade Angel!
57. laptop battery sell - January 4, 2010 2:33 AM
It's a good idea .Thank you.