Flexi Articulated Spike Dragon

Ridged spines down the back, a horned head and a long tapering tail: this is the dragon at its most toy-like, an articulated creature that shifts and bends in the hand. Flexi dragons have become a genre of their own in 3D printing, and the spiked variety is the meanest-looking of the family — all points and ridges where a plain one would be smooth. It lands somewhere between a toy, a fidget object and a desk ornament. Children take to them instantly. So do adults who need something to occupy their hands through a long phone call, which is why so many of these end up living next to a monitor rather than in a toy box. It is also a reliable crowd-pleaser: a school fair table, a party bag, or the first thing you hand someone who has just bought a printer and wants to see what it can do.