Orangutan

After watching the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, I knew I needed to make a poseable LEGO ape, and I ended up settling on an orangutan. Clearly, it has more human proportions than the real thing, but I am happy with the shape overall. The knees are quite involved, for I hid the joint using a sliding technic liftarm that telescopes into the thigh when the knee is extended. Also, the elbows are actually double jointed, and the shoulders, ankles, hips, head, hands, toes, and fingers move. Really, the only point of articulation this model is missing is a jaw, but I loved the look of the saddle piece for the mouth so much that I did not want to redesign it. Overall, I am tremendously happy with the finished result here.