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Post by roselaar on Mar 5, 2012 19:21:29 GMT
Thanks for removing the post Simon. No problem. Trying to inject a little humor once in a while is often a thankless task.  You just don't get it, do you...?  Oh, well, at least it's gone now and you'll know better than to repeat this mistake... Case closed then. |
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Post by simon on Mar 5, 2012 21:59:10 GMT
Some people just won't stop until they have the last word will they? Can we PLEASE talk about recent acquisitions instead of this non-sense? If you guys want to continue perhaps take it to private messages so I don't have to read it while searching for as the thread suggests...recent acquisitions? In fact, why doesn't a moderator just delete all the posts pertaining to this issue? I second that motion. A word about polite discourse might also be warranted. |
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Post by Himmapaan on Mar 5, 2012 22:11:17 GMT
In fact, why doesn't a moderator just delete all the posts pertaining to this issue? Because we had hoped that the matter has concluded and been moved away from now that Simon has deleted his own posts. We were rather depending upon the grace and understanding of members to let matters rest without our having to be censorius and arbitrary. These old posts can often serve as salutory lessons in what is unwise, which is why they sometimes ought to remain. We do indeed advise manners and restraint when addressing each other, please, gentlemen. Now if we can truly wave farewell to this subject and continue with discussing dinosaurs toys, that would make my evening! ;D |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Mar 5, 2012 22:13:26 GMT
Please, no more off topic posts in this thread. No more last words. And please do not respond to this message. Thanks.
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Post by simon on Mar 5, 2012 22:20:16 GMT
Just got notice that I've got the DinoExpo 2009 Gigantoraptor and Sega Shinzen TRex waiting for me at the Post Office.
Will try to post a photo later today, after I finish doing my little victory jig - I've been looking for these two figures for about 3 years (longer in the case of the TRex) ...
;D
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Post by Libraraptor on Mar 5, 2012 22:28:48 GMT
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 5, 2012 22:33:36 GMT
How could I possibly forget - I just bought this nice cardboard model ( again):  It's actually the second time I bought it, I built this in about 1998 or 1999 with the wrong glue and without any cardboard modelling experience but hey, there's always a second chance at least when the kit is still available... When completed it has a wing span of approx. 1 m. |
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Post by Himmapaan on Mar 5, 2012 22:37:03 GMT
When completed it has a wing span of approx. 1 m. Our hobby is a terrible tax on space as much as anything else! |
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Post by simon on Mar 5, 2012 22:40:30 GMT
When completed it has a wing span of approx. 1 m. Our hobby is a terrible tax on space as much as anything else! Well, at least you can hang it from the ceiling ... but then it would have to be at an angle so you can see the top coloring ... better have high ceilings! |
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Post by brontodocus on Mar 5, 2012 22:50:12 GMT
Unfortunately I have to live with modestly high ceilings (2.5 m) coloured in ordinary white. And there are already these Birdmobile cardboard models limiting space... at least the big osprey.
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Post by gwangi on Mar 5, 2012 23:05:25 GMT
I used to have something like that. Mine had a weight that dangled below it so when you pulled on it the thing would flap up and down. I loved that pterosaur, some day I'll have to get another. EDIT: My latest aquisition and second Kaiyodo. Made sure to put him on the proper shelf.  |
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Post by Horridus on Mar 6, 2012 19:09:35 GMT
Does the T. rex have red eyes...? |
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Post by lio99 on Mar 6, 2012 21:13:42 GMT
Does the T. rex have red eyes...? looks like it does |
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Mar 6, 2012 23:26:16 GMT
Stumbled across some CollectA figures in my local Sainsbury's supermarket!
I bought the new version of the standard size Brachiosaurus, which I'm sure I'll review on the blog soon.
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Post by Himmapaan on Mar 6, 2012 23:56:30 GMT
Of all places to find them! But that is excellent. I desperately wish more stores stocked anything besides Schleich. I've said it before (please forgive the repetition, but it beggars belief to me), even Hamleys and Harrods have no other major reputable manufacturer besides them. It's maddening!
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Post by DinoLord on Mar 7, 2012 0:08:39 GMT
I thought that Harrods had everything!
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Post by lio99 on Mar 7, 2012 0:21:54 GMT
Stumbled across some CollectA figures in my local Sainsbury's supermarket! I bought the new version of the standard size Brachiosaurus, which I'm sure I'll review on the blog soon. Should I get the collectA brachiosaurus or the wild safari one? |
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Post by takama on Mar 7, 2012 2:45:45 GMT
Stumbled across some CollectA figures in my local Sainsbury's supermarket! I bought the new version of the standard size Brachiosaurus, which I'm sure I'll review on the blog soon. Should I get the collectA brachiosaurus or the wild safari one? Safari one |
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Post by stoneage on Mar 7, 2012 3:22:59 GMT
Stumbled across some CollectA figures in my local Sainsbury's supermarket! I bought the new version of the standard size Brachiosaurus, which I'm sure I'll review on the blog soon. Should I get the collectA brachiosaurus or the wild safari one? ;D Papo!!! |
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Post by brontozaurus on Mar 7, 2012 4:52:40 GMT
Two yowies were waiting in the postbox for me when I got home: the Australian Allosaurid and the Ducabrook Rhizodont.
I never got either of them when yowies were actually on sale, so it's interesting to get them now. The allosaur is the best of the two, even if it does have four fingers and a paint application that suggests it has five toes. The pose is pretty cool (it's roaring at the sky, and it has such fluidity to its movement), and it's certainly the only orange and blue allosaur I've ever seen. The rhizodont is not quite as good. In fact I'd call it the weakest yowie of the entire line. It's all good until you get to the head end with its bug eyes and weird mouth.
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