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[Underseen]

Which book had Jake and/or Marco get caught in the Burger King bathroom morphing bird

[RYTX]

#20 The Discovery
Marco was morphing, in preparation to get the blue box from David's house with Rachel. Jake was there to collect his clothes

[Blazing Angel]

My question: Did the animorphs ever go on summer break?

This would fall somewhere around "simple RAF questions" but as there is no topic based on that:

What was the pootang incident?
What is the pootang?
Why does it enjoy eating horse so much?

1) I'm fuzzy as well
2) The baby of two RAF members who got married in real life.
3)No particular reason.

[Underseen]

My question: Did the animorphs ever go on summer break?

does Megamorphs 1 count

[RYTX]

Keep in mind MM1 took place over three days, between the destruction of the kandrona (book 7) and it's replacement three weeks later (at the end or shortly after book both books where they were in school.

If that is a summer break, it implies they are at school year round, since most summer vacations are 2-2.5 months, or that they lied about times of the school year throughout the series

The only extended time in the books where I can't recall school being attended is around 37-39, and prephaps 41-44. but the length of time occupied between any given books is often left open


In short: they must have sometime, more than once over 3 years, but when is ambiguous

[yunyun]

This would fall somewhere around "simple RAF questions" but as there is no topic based on that:

What was the pootang incident?
What is the pootang?
Why does it enjoy eating horse so much?

Here:

Poontang was the RAFchild of the first married RAFcouple Anna and Ken both of which are responsible for taking my brainchild 'RAFcrush' and turning it into the phenom it is today. 

As things of RAF are, it was a crazy murderer evil thing that was basically a scourge.  Of course it wasn't a real member or even a boy or a girl, a few members claimed to BE Poontang but none really are.  I'm not really sure of what it looked like or what kind of powers it had but there were RAFchats and threads that might have focused on the topic at some time. 

This was a time I consider the golden age of RAF.  A lot of our popular threads and memes were being extremely popularized at this time,  it was also right when skype was getting big and most RAFians made the transition into using that program to communicate outside of the forum instead of pure message based programs and web based video/voice chat.

[StellaCross]

Hi, I cant remember which Animorphs book this is:
1. Jake sees an old lady get a Yeerk in her head
2. I think it is some sort of alternate reality, maybe the Back to Before book, but I havent been able to find and confirm
3. Tobias, Jake or someone morphs into a giraffe OR/AND a German Shephard

HELP PLEASE

[Chad32]

The giraffe and german shepherd are in the alternamorphs books. I don't know about the old lady.

[Stephquiem]

Tobias morphs a German Shepherd in #49.

Not sure otherwise.

[Blazing Angel]

The last two are definitely alternamorphs.

[IxchelSirnight]

Hm. I figure here would be the best place to ask. It's been a curiosity eating at me for a few years.

Has anyone ever brought the whole "backwards knees" thing to K.A.A's attention? I don't remember seeing it on KASU lists. Plus I see fans using the same terms, so I sort of fear for the updated series. (Although I admit it's a bit late to be bringing it up...)

It's just... really annoying. To hear that apparently a lot of research went into the anatomy of different morphs but throughout the entire series, everything digitigrade or ungulate had "backwards knees". Especially when it's so simple to realise that those are the ankles when looking at any mammal skeleton.

I thought it was common knowledge to most adults? Surely they must occasionally look at their pet dogs or cats and see their actual knees bending as they walk or sit? I'm confused as to how it even eluded editors.

 

[RYTX]

I don't know if it was ever said to her but it's come up on the forums before.

I don't know if it's common knowledge: I certainly didn't know it till probably college, and sinse must people aren't versed in anatomy they make the comparison to human: whatever's on the ground is the foot, the next big joint is the knee etc. Because actual knees are close to the body line, and fairly hard to discern, very different than people, they assume. And don't really care, so they don't consider it.

It shouldn't have gotten through research and editing, if I had to justify it:
As I recall, it must it wasn't described that the creature had back-bending knees (Hork-Bajir the exception, and they are written to have either way at different times). Mostly it was written that in the process of a morph, one's knees changed direction.
Well no one ever said morphing is conservative. There's not reason that knee couldn't become the animals ankle, the bones of the lower leg than becoming parts of the foot, and other bones rearranging or just being newly generated.

Personally I was always annoyed that their arms always became wings, and no one ever just lost the arms and grew wings from the back. Morphings not evolution: it doesn't HAVE to build on existing structures. Just seemed to do that alot

[IxchelSirnight]

I know I had the same train of thought when I was a very young child. I saw their "foot" then saw that the next joint was "the wrong way" and concluded the same thing, that they have backwards knees. Soon after though, I saw that they had an "extra" joint at the thigh. I then quickly realized the truth on my own by comparing joints starting at the top.

I may have just assumed it's common knowledge because I've always been into animals. Whenever I look at them, even as a child, I study their anatomy just because I found it so interesting how every animal could be so different. So I always looked for things that matched and things that didn't.
Especially when you take into consideration animals like rabbits (maybe even kangaroos?) who are frequently said to have long feet, yet you see them in a digitigrade stance when hopping. I guess it's one of those things people don't think of and slips by, then leaves you facepalming later.

Have the Hork-Bajir really had different descriptions? I only remember the constant "backwards knees with blades on them". It's sorta the reason I ask. I want to draw them but the description leaves me wondering where exactly to put the blades...
And yeah, I sorta told myself that too to justify it. But when I saw the Hork-Bajir description it became apparent that there was some misinformation here.

And really? It's never bothered me. I guess it makes more sense for it to build on existing structures. The Andalites are so stuck up about their supposedly high-techness. So I'd assume they'd at least try and make the morph quicker and build off of analogous structures. Building wings off of the back would be odd though. Since they connect to chest muscles to be supported.

[RYTX]

Have the Hork-Bajir really had different descriptions?

Hmm, maybe not.
If not stated outright, I seem to recall a fight scene at least once where, given how the knee blade was used, it would have to bend forward. But I can't recall where that scene is. Or maybe I'm mixing what's in writing with cover drawings where the knees bend forward.

Building wings off of the back would be odd though. Since they connect to chest muscles to be supported.

Hah, true enough. (Can take whole classes on flight and anatomy and still not remember that stuff.) I just wanted Cassie to do a real angel, not feather armed person.

[IxchelSirnight]

Hmm I think I remember that scene you're talking about. I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to reread the Hork-Bajir chronicles heh.

As for a real angel, I'm sure Cassie could pull it off if she tried hard enough. I think I remember some morphs where new parts jutted out before disappearing. I mean, the wings would likely be too weak to do much besides maybe pose, but if she pulled off that gliding whale thing...