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Post by gigano on Jan 31, 2008 21:29:28 GMT
What was your first dinosaur (replica/model kit/toy) as for me i've had little hollow plastic dinosaurs as far back as i can remember but the one that stands out to me was one i got at a garage sale it was the origional Green T rex by carnegie actually it might have been the remake as it was released in 1994 and i got this one from a garage sale in 1996 but i don't remember as i lost it some time while moving  in like 1997 it got me started in collecting dinosaur replicas because as i got older i went to see if i could find the T rex again but any way what was your first dinosaur |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jan 31, 2008 22:20:06 GMT
Oh man, thats a really difficult question, I'm not sure I can remember that far back! Hmmmm - let me think... As you say, I had plenty of those hollow beasties. The stegosaurs with sharp teeth and a red paintbrush stroke for a tongue, etc. but the first one? I really can't recall the first one ever. I remember also a grey Allosaurus (?) - that was one certainly of my first - not sure who produced it. It's lost in the garden (that's back yard for american readers!) of my childhood house. I will google for it...I will recognise it when I see it. One of the feet is splayed out... *EDIT* It was like this (see what I mean abou the foot!) but grey and not quite as bad. Oh - memories.  |
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Post by jhudstone on Jan 31, 2008 22:34:41 GMT
I had virtually the entire Marx set (who knows where those are now...) but my best memory is of a 6ft styrofoam t-rex skeleton by Kenner. The mouth opened and closed. Later I had meticulously collected the entire Aurora snap together prehistoric line, which I left behind when i went to college and my mother dumped. That would be worth about a quadzillion dollars on Ebay.  |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jan 31, 2008 22:44:32 GMT
[quote author=jhudstone board=toys thread=1201814968 post=1201818881i went to college and my mother dumped. That would be worth about a quadzillion dollars on Ebay. [/quote] aggg! Mothers - they just don't understand.  I had the Dinoriders T.rex with all the armour. My mum convinced* me to sell it ages ago to make space in my room *read 'forced' |
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Post by piltdown on Feb 1, 2008 1:18:35 GMT
I'm not sure what my first dinosaur was--probably the Lost World Carnotaurus of all things (which I gave to my godson, a mistake that my Paypal account deeply mourns) , then the Lost World Stegosaurus (I threw away the gear *slaps head*, though amazingly the Dino Damage wound cover is still around), then the Safari "Dinosaurs of China" Velociraptor.
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 1, 2008 1:24:53 GMT
My mom contributed to my cancerous growth of dinosaurs. Half of them
(That's 350 dinosaurs) were presents from her.
This is not going to change.
My first dinosaur was the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park. The spitter.
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Post by tomhet on Feb 1, 2008 4:46:59 GMT
My very first dino was a yellow Chinasaur, an anonymous sauropod that vaguely resembled a Diplodocus. It was love at first sight. That was 18 years ago (!). I kind of forgot dinosaurs when I was 15 or so (right after the JP frenzy settled down). When I entered college, I found the 4-D Fame Master Acrocanthosaurus, and oh boy, my heart melted, I fell in love all over again ;D
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 1, 2008 7:55:53 GMT
Excellent, Tomhet. All my friends stopped being friends with me when they discovered my loyalty was to dinosauria, and not to ridiculous risk behaviors.
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Post by piltdown on Feb 1, 2008 10:28:47 GMT
When I entered college, I found the 4-D Fame Master Acrocanthosaurus, and oh boy, my heart melted, I fell in love all over again ;D  De gustibus non est disputandum, I suppose, but . . .  ;D {j/k} |
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Post by nobs on Feb 1, 2008 18:49:02 GMT
Fun topic. I dont know if a remember my FIRST dinosaur ever. But my first carnegie dinosaur was the parasorallolphus (spelling I know) My first JP dinos were the Young T-Rex, Alan grant, and electronic Dilo got them all at the same time. Before that it gets really hazy, but I remember getting a brown ankylosaurus as a prize in a box of flintstones cereal, and the blue "brontosaurus" in a wendys kids meal (those wendys kids meal prizes were freakin awsome by todays standard) also the obigatory Marx dinosaurs.
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Post by tomhet on Feb 1, 2008 19:39:54 GMT
When I entered college, I found the 4-D Fame Master Acrocanthosaurus, and oh boy, my heart melted, I fell in love all over again ;D , I suppose, but . . . ;D {j/k} Yeah, I have pretty weird fetishes. Me and the dinos get together and we uncover our feelings to each other  |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Feb 1, 2008 19:52:56 GMT
you worry me Tomhet!
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 1, 2008 21:57:11 GMT
Lol I do the same thing all the time to compensate for my lack of female presence in my personal life.
No wait *just asked a girl out over msn* Never mind.
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Post by tomhet on Feb 1, 2008 23:48:52 GMT
In my case, we include my gf, of course, just to make it kinkier Back on topic, I have seen my friends freak out when they find out that I collect plastic dinosaurs Actually my gf likes them dinos, so I guess I just don't care what other people think ;D |
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Post by piltdown on Feb 2, 2008 2:47:22 GMT
aggg! Mothers - they just don't understand. I had the Dinoriders T.rex with all the armour. My mum convinced* me to sell it ages ago to make space in my room *read 'forced' Hmm, I just happen to have come into possession of a Dinoriders tyrannosaurus with gear and part of the box (?!) , which I could offer to a certain plesiosaurologist forum admin, but only if he abjures his belief (and "belief" is le mot juste ;D ) in fuzzy raptors ;D |
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 2, 2008 3:31:22 GMT
I'll take it. I absolutely abhor feathered raptors. They're ugly and non-classical.
You got an edmontonia? I'll abhor dinosaurs whose poses aren't kangaroo poses.
And if you have a Dinoriders Saurolophus, I'll start treating JP as my official dino bible.
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Post by piltdown on Feb 2, 2008 7:17:30 GMT
Sorry, no saurolophus or edmontonia, I sold them a while back. Though I do have the diplodocus ;D
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 2, 2008 8:50:34 GMT
I cry...I cry...
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Feb 2, 2008 16:15:14 GMT
aggg! Mothers - they just don't understand. I had the Dinoriders T.rex with all the armour. My mum convinced* me to sell it ages ago to make space in my room *read 'forced' Hmm, I just happen to have come into possession of a Dinoriders tyrannosaurus with gear and part of the box (?!) , which I could offer to a certain plesiosaurologist forum admin, but only if he abjures his belief (and "belief" is le mot juste ;D ) in fuzzy raptors ;D Well thanks for thinking of me, but I'm more annoyed that I lost one, than I am wishing that I had one  Re: my 'belief' in feathered dinosaurs - you sound like a Christian parent bribing their kid into the religion with the offer of Christmas presents. ;D |
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Post by itstwentybelow on Feb 7, 2008 4:27:26 GMT
The first really good quality dinosaur I ever got was the Carnegie parasaurolophus (my FAVORITE dinosaur) way back in the early ninties. They still haven't come out with a new mold!
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in like 1997 it got me started in collecting dinosaur replicas because as i got older i went to see if i could find the T rex again but any way what was your first dinosaur
I had the Dinoriders T.rex with all the armour. My mum convinced* me to sell it ages ago to make space in my room 
De gustibus non est disputandum, I suppose, but . . . 
;D {j/k}
