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Post by DinoLord on May 13, 2010 2:17:19 GMT
And having a milk mustache doesn't help much either.
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Post by brontodocus on May 13, 2010 8:35:34 GMT
You need to switch the "on button" to "full play" mode... That's how it will work! Yeah, there's a switch on the bottom that goes from 'On' to 'Try Me' to 'Off' and is on 'Try Me' by default. By the way I was enough of a sucker to buy mine for £50. That's 50 GBP. Outrageous, but I just couldn't live without one anymore... Yes, the shame I feel is frequent. But I had put the button to "on", not to "try me" but it still doesn't work. Maybe the function is defective?  Not that I would ask for a replacement, it was too annoying to get it out of the box and straighten the tail. I thought that the £50 would be about what the figure would cost on the average. Okay, it's a lot of money for sure but still a giant Tyrannosaurus figure. BTW I find it very odd that the left leg inserts approx. 5 cm farther forward than the right one. Looks okay from the side but weird from above. And the human figure that comes with it is no good at all. Okay, I know he's there just for being eaten I suppose. Oh, and considering the new WS Mosasaurus: What I find most disturbing is that the upper jaw curves downward which looks awkward and reminds me a little of Gonzo the Great. |
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Post by Horridus on May 13, 2010 18:35:38 GMT
On mine the legs actually move in and out slightly. Just try giving the errant leg a bit of a push. I managed to equalise mine. As for the stomping, does it really matter? I mean, when are you going to be thumping it up and down on a surface anyway? I suppose it's nice for it just to, you know, BE there....
Oh, and I junked the human figure. To hell with human action figures, I didn't sign up for that!
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on May 13, 2010 22:06:26 GMT
And having a milk mustache doesn't help much either. Mine doesn't have a "mustache". At the back of the mouth around the muscle/connective tissue between the jaws there is some white, but I'd hardly call that a "mustache". |
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Post by postsaurischian on May 13, 2010 22:16:52 GMT
Toothpaste ;D
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Post by brontodocus on May 13, 2010 22:33:27 GMT
The legs can move in and out on the JP T-rex?  I'll have to check that. The joints are quite stiff, anyway, it took some time before the legs were moveable. Maybe that's the solution. No, I won't bother if the stomping sound does not work but I'm just interested how it is. |
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Post by foxilized on May 13, 2010 23:29:51 GMT
I think only the JP2K9 has movile legs..................... isn't it?
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Post by Horridus on May 13, 2010 23:36:36 GMT
I think only the JP2K9 has movile legs..................... isn't it? The big JP T. rexes made in the Kenner era all had immobile legs, including the original 'Bull Rex' on which the new one is based. However the legs on the new one are indeed articulated, as are the ankles. This means it can adopt different poses and be taller than the original, making it the BIGGEST JP TOY, LIKE, EVERRR. |
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Post by Gorgonopsid on May 15, 2010 1:07:56 GMT
Just bought a Dinosaurs of North America T shirt and a .25 cent dinosaur.  ;D |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on May 15, 2010 2:09:37 GMT
I think only the JP2K9 has movile legs..................... isn't it? The big JP T. rexes made in the Kenner era all had immobile legs, including the original 'Bull Rex' on which the new one is based. However the legs on the new one are indeed articulated, as are the ankles. This means it can adopt different poses and be taller than the original, making it the BIGGEST JP TOY, LIKE, EVERRR. Nope, the thrasher Trex had movable legs. |
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Post by Horridus on May 15, 2010 2:23:50 GMT
The big JP T. rexes made in the Kenner era all had immobile legs, including the original 'Bull Rex' on which the new one is based. However the legs on the new one are indeed articulated, as are the ankles. This means it can adopt different poses and be taller than the original, making it the BIGGEST JP TOY, LIKE, EVERRR. Nope, the thrasher Trex had movable legs. Oh yes, so it did...you'd think I'd remember that, given that I, er, own one.... Guess I'm too much in love with the Red Rex. |
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Post by fossil on May 15, 2010 18:40:19 GMT
Cordy, In re yours of May 5th, thanks for the extra 30 years (hope so, anyway). The dinosaurs of today have it all over those available in my youth. We were dirt-poor, so toys were an almost unheard-of luxury when I was growing up. Nor was there any sense in pleading; dad was impatient of contradiction. The rod was not spared among us kids. I recall being given a quarter and sent to the corner butcher's to buy 25 cents worth of dog scraps (that's scraps for (not of) dogs), and being embarrassed whenever his son was in the shop because he and I were schoolmates and he knew we didn't have a dog. We used the scraps for making lentil (the cheapest legume) soup, and made it stretch for several days by adding successively more water. I do recollect slavering over the SRG dinosaurs on our rare museum excursions, though only the small versions were ever on display. We also had the Nabisco Wheat and Rice Honeys small prehistoric premiums, but as all we ever had was oatmeal, I missed out on those, as well. I never knew about the send-off-for-it wheel and kit of prehistorics, nor about the later mammals, so I never missed them, but I felt bad about losing out on the Nabiscos. There was a set of cardboard two-dimentional prehistorics which one of my friends had. I coveted those, as well. It wasn't until I turned 12 or 13 that I got my first and only Marx set. It was the first issue with the vacuformed tricolored base. Man, how I loved those! The individual pieces were supposedly on sale in bins at five-and-dime stores, but I never saw any. Somewhat later I got several of the Millers. I still retain the cavewoman, but the others perished in a huge home-made tar-pit we constructed behind the barn. A year or so later still (when I was making my own money) I began purchasing the Otto bronzes from the Los Angeles Museum of N.H. and its sister institution, the Hancock Museum at Rancho La Brea. I managed by perseverence to acquire all of them (I thought), until I read in a recent issue of "Prehistoric Times" that there was a Bobcat. I never saw or heard of the Bobcat prior to reading that article, and it has zoomed to the top of my most-wanted list. I still have my Ottos, but -- save for that Miller cavewoman -- those are the only ones I retain from childhood. The short answer to your questions is as follows: I wish we had had today's toy dinosaurs when I was a child, but I would have been no better monied to acquire them; today's beat yerteryear's into a cocked hat; I would always choose the toys of my childhood over those of today, never-the-less, because of the unbelivably powerful ties of nostalgia they exert over me. The real collecting for me started when I was in college, and -- except for a fire in which they were all destroyed (other than those few still stored in my parent's house, such as the solitary Miller and the Ottos -- it continues to this day.
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Post by rugops on May 15, 2010 20:02:13 GMT
My dad has some of his old 60s dinosaur toys(only three or four) some where. I can't find them.  |
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Post by DinoLord on May 15, 2010 23:13:19 GMT
I just won a Battat Ouranosaurus on eBay for $17.50! When there were 4 seconds left, one of the previous bidders almost outbid me but I beat his bid with a single second to spare!
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Post by Mauro "Raptor86" on May 15, 2010 23:25:13 GMT
Collecta:
Orolotitan
Archelousaurus
Baby Stegosaurus!
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Post by mightyjptrex on May 15, 2010 23:52:40 GMT
Brach  Awesome summit stego  summit trex  |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on May 16, 2010 3:35:34 GMT
I just won a Battat Ouranosaurus on eBay for $17.50! When there were 4 seconds left, one of the previous bidders almost outbid me but I beat his bid with a single second to spare! Yeah, ourano isn't one of the rarer ones. |
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Post by Gorgonopsid on May 16, 2010 3:39:16 GMT
I just won a Battat Ouranosaurus on eBay for $17.50! When there were 4 seconds left, one of the previous bidders almost outbid me but I beat his bid with a single second to spare! Congrats. I am never that lucky in bidding. |
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on May 16, 2010 3:40:03 GMT
I just won a Battat Ouranosaurus on eBay for $17.50! When there were 4 seconds left, one of the previous bidders almost outbid me but I beat his bid with a single second to spare! Congrats. I am never that lucky in bidding. You're too cheap! ;D |
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Post by Gorgonopsid on May 16, 2010 3:46:19 GMT
Congrats. I am never that lucky in bidding. You're too cheap! ;D Yeah true. lol ;D Also I can be winning and someone will out bid me last second. On a side note I can't wait for this month to end so I can dino shop! ;D |
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Not that I would ask for a replacement, it was too annoying to get it out of the box and straighten the tail. I thought that the £50 would be about what the figure would cost on the average. Okay, it's a lot of money for sure but still a giant Tyrannosaurus figure. BTW I find it very odd that the left leg inserts approx. 5 cm farther forward than the right one. Looks okay from the side but weird from above. And the human figure that comes with it is no good at all. Okay, I know he's there just for being eaten I suppose.
I'll have to check that. The joints are quite stiff, anyway, it took some time before the legs were moveable. Maybe that's the solution. No, I won't bother if the stomping sound does not work but I'm just interested how it is.
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