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Weta Builds Mermaid Suit For Amputee

Posted by samzenpus on from the warming-the-icy-cockles-of-my-heart dept.

Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee due to illness when she was young. When asked what happened by a child, she responded that she was a mermaid. The mermaid idea stuck in her head, so she wrote to Weta Workshop and asked if they could make her a mermaid tail. To her surprise, they said they'd do it and two years later she has a realistic-looking mermaid tail with an attached suit.

2 comments

  1. IGI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    oh - Weta. I thought you meant a member of the insect family endemic to the New Zealand archipelago. That would have been so much more impressive than a bit of CGI.

  2. Fantastic by omris · · Score: 1

    If I cut my legs off or bind my feet or something, can I have one? Having a mermaid suit results in something like what you'd get if you bred a selkie with a mermaid.