It sounds to me like you were just too lazy lol
Why not just leave the mouth open and place a 'onplayertouch' sequence to the tongue so that the mouth would close and kill the player on it's own?
So make it an automatic nutcracker. The video would've been a lot more amusing had Cone just climbed in and it crushed him. It sounds to me like you were just too lazy lol
it takes the fun out of it if you can't manually crush your victims in between blunt nutcracker teeth