Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7333961-20130429160230

Warning: very long thread ahead

A lot of Ben's aliens' anatomy don't make much sense,but the weirdest in my opinion is Terraspin. This is my most likely false hypophysis on his internal structure.

The shell and the flippers

It's obvious that this guy doesn't fly by holding out his flippers and spinning him self like a top. I think the most likely design is that while in "fan mode" the skeleton of his flippers form a propeller shape inside,which will take up some room in the front,this,and the fact that the "belly" side of his shell has huge holes,would possibly imply that Terraspin's shell is more of a really hard husk/exoskeleton, and that his guts won't be laid out inside.

So where are his guts?

Because of the usual placement of his head(front) it's unlikely that the guts will be in the back of the shell and the tiny area available in the front won't be able to contain the insides of such a large creature. My opinion is that his intestines cluster into a "wall of guts"that separates the two halves. Also,from the scene from "Escape from Aggregor" with the creatures sucking in "grass" to eat,it could be that the "mouth" is actually inside,amongst the tangle of guts!

I will write Pt2 in the very near future,until then,feel free to express your ideas :) And please read the whole thing.

 