Well the Japanese word for rabbit is "usagi" (兎) whereas the word for hare is "nousagi"(野兎) which just means wild or feral rabbit. What we call the Year of the Pig is technically the Year of the Boar, or "Inoshishidoshi" (猪年) - because if you want to say "Year of the Pig" then it'd be "Butadoshi" (豚年), but no-one ever calls it that.Originally Posted by Hursticon
Well, that's good enough convincing for me.
Indeed, the figure's proportions do look more like a Hare but if he was intended to be a Rabbit, has Rabbit written in an encyclopaedia and had it written on his box - Then he must be a Rabbit.
The sculpt is grossly inaccurate. The proportions are incorrect, the body is too short, he's crouching when he shouldn't be, has bat-like ears, the face is more doglike with a big black nose and also has a doglike open lower jaw. Snarl has a closer resemblance to a dunnart or spotted quoll rather than a real Tasmanian Devil. One possibility is that the toy is based on the cartoon character "Taz" rather than an actual Tassie Devil (the colours are more like Taz).I've always thought Snarl was a Tasmanian Devil, sure the colours are way off and the tail resembles that of a Poodle - But the sculpt is pretty close IMO.
Anyway, I got one of those kikki.K calendars where you're meant to draw a picture each month yourself - and here's my drawing for February:
Also, I've been talking about the Year of the Rabbit with some of my students this week, and during a Year 12 class, with 2 minutes left of the lesson to go, I showed them a YouTube clip of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. Most of the kids in the class had never seen it and were rofl'd heaps.
"He's got huge sharp.....He can leap about.....LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" - Tim the Enchanter
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