SHoW Us YoUR TaiLS THReAd!!!

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My MerNation Tail, after hosing it down this morning! The weather in SoCal has been staying hot for so long, hopefully I'll be able to go diving with her soon! Shoutout to Michael, Lauren, and Erin :) Can't wait to write a review.

Oooooh I like this new fluke shape! :D

It's gorgeous!

Congrats! Big step up from your first silicone tail :)

Very awesome. Kind of awesome how we both went to Mernation after being cheated. Love your new tail! It reminds me of think of this story book fish. Attachment 33175

Ashton those pics are GREAT! Congrats on the cover!!!! :D

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Very awesome. Kind of awesome how we both went to Mernation after being cheated. Love your new tail! It reminds me of think of this story book fish. Attachment 33175

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I saw the Marlin tail they made and automatically thought of you! At least we both got the tail we deserved, and I'd love to see pictures of you in yours!

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Still wish that I had gone to Catalina with you guys!! And that sounded so fun, being put on the fish weighing station, lol! You deserved that cover on the newspaper :)

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I'm sure we will do it next year, we had a good turn out this year, and hopefully it will grow every year!


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OH WOW! loving the tails! I guess i should put my mermaid on and find a way to get a picture in the bedroom of my patients house with only me and my little cell..... might have to edit them all together for the full look without the wig of course.

Nice tails
Here are the 5 tails I have
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My MerNation Tail, after hosing it down this morning! The weather in SoCal has been staying hot for so long, hopefully I'll be able to go diving with her soon! Shoutout to Michael, Lauren, and Erin :) Can't wait to write a review.

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This is lovely. MerNation is getting better and better. I love how colourful it is.

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I am so happy for you! :mermaid kiss: That is beautiful and adorable and cute and a possible Splash! reference; during filming they shrink-wrapped Daryl Hannah's legs in her tail to avoid those infamous wrinkles and thus she often found herself stuck in her tail in the water during lunch breaks, at which point the cast and crew would feed her French fries as one would any other form of domesticated(ish) sea life!

(French fries are also popular with angels, if the underappreciated Splash!-inspired '80s comedy Date With An Angel is anything by which to go....)

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That's not accurate...they didn't shrink wrap her legs. Bob Short used a honeycomb-like urethane foam inside the tail to minimize the wrinkles and bones. They DID glue the tail shut with superglue once she was in it, and they swiped a lounge chair from the hotel and made her a makeshift lift with it to get her in and out of the water, like transporting a dolphin.

The french fries part is true, though! ;)

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Here are the 5 tails I have
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I like the ruffled dorsals! Did you make them all?

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My MerNation Tail, after hosing it down this morning! The weather in SoCal has been staying hot for so long, hopefully I'll be able to go diving with her soon! Shoutout to Michael, Lauren, and Erin :) Can't wait to write a review.

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:jawdrop: I hadn't even realized that was a MerNation tail! Their paint jobs just keep getting better and better!

Woah Mernation have been improving! :jawdrop:

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That's not accurate...they didn't shrink wrap her legs. Bob Short used a honeycomb-like urethane foam inside the tail to minimize the wrinkles and bones. They DID glue the tail shut with superglue once she was in it, and they swiped a lounge chair from the hotel and made her a makeshift lift with it to get her in and out of the water, like transporting a dolphin.

The french fries part is true, though! ;)

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I would very much like to see the source of this information, not because I doubt its veracity, but because I have been fascinated by the process involved in Splash! since I was a little...whatever. :thinks::cthulhu: I always found the statement that Hannah's legs were "shrink-wrapped" highly questionable (and likewise that that was/is also true of the Mako merfolk of H20 and it's spin-offs), yet went with it as that was the term used by Tom Hanks in the DVD Making-Of featurette. What you describe seems a more reasonable way of producing the desired results, however, and super-gluing the tail would have been necessary for full realism in the days before Raven and her blended waists! :mermaid kiss:

Introverting, your rainbow tail is dazzling! :rainbow::mermaid kiss:

Well, the source of the information was from extended conversations I had with Bob and Barbara Short at Merfest this past January, and I think some of the information was also covered in his presentation there, as well.

As for super gluing her in, there was a problem with the original tail (urethane rubber, not as stretchy or durable as dragonskin - which hadn't been invented at that point) and it got ripped. Being on a boat with limited supplies, they went with the Crazy Glue and it worked...she just had to stay in the tail!

And while Tom Hanks is a talented guy, I would tend to believe the guy who made the tail over the guy who acted with the actress who wore the tail.

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No, i didn't make them. 2 tails were from fin fun and 3 tails are from a tail maker named grow a tail.

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who knew ruffles look good on tails. ive been seeing more and more ruffles and with your tail it looks great!

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who knew ruffles look good on tails. ive been seeing more and more ruffles and with your tail it looks great!

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Thank you. I have used the tail with the ruffle fin quite a bit. But the one I used is very stretched so it doesn't look good when swimming.

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Well, the source of the information was from extended conversations I had with Bob and Barbara Short at Merfest this past January, and I think some of the information was also covered in his presentation there, as well.

As for super gluing her in, there was a problem with the original tail (urethane rubber, not as stretchy or durable as dragonskin - which hadn't been invented at that point) and it got ripped. Being on a boat with limited supplies, they went with the Crazy Glue and it worked...she just had to stay in the tail!

And while Tom Hanks is a talented guy, I would tend to believe the guy who made the tail over the guy who acted with the actress who wore the tail.

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I suspected that the information came from Bob Short when you dropped his name, and I thank you for clarifying. Tom Hanks probably just didn't understand the details of the process, then. The material for the tail was more primitive that dragonskin and its make, while impressive for the time, has been improved upon considerably by Raven and her peers (one can easily spot the seam in the Splash!​ tail, for instance).

Harmony and I!


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