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Post by 0VerSus1 on Apr 19, 2011 20:40:53 GMT
In what follows I present you a part of my prehistoric figurines collection, the one that resides on my desktop ;D It's a small part, or rather it's about recent acquisitions (most of them, the small reddish green T.Rex and the Aztec warrior are "old acquaintances" from years ago), the ones that I mentioned in my New Members topic ( dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=new&action=display&thread=4121&page=1) - the Papo figurines and some Mega Bloks Plasma Dinosaurs (and dragons  ): My work desktop and its "inhabitants" ;D  Close-up on the " dinamic duo of late Jurassic" and " the improbable meeting of a Velociraptor with a Neanderthal man, a sea turtle a tiny Rex and one short Aztec warrior on top of a subwoofer"   Close-CLOSE-up on the " improbable meeting"  " Plasma Lineup Party" on a mineralogy compendium.. and a Triceratops skeleton pickled in a tube (right corner)  Close-up on the " Plasma Party"  Yet again another " improbable meeting of North Africa's Cenomanian stage with North America's Late Jurassic, PVC style!" on my box of minerals ;D  My first Papo dinosaurs and the awakening kick of a dormant passions   This is it for the moment being. I will be back with pictures of my old dinosaur collection, but right now our Christmas tree sits nonchalantly in its pot, gaoler at the cabinet's door where my toys are 'imprisoned'  |
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Post by Libraraptor on Apr 19, 2011 20:59:44 GMT
Cool! Both a collection and behind-the-scenes picture And you even opened the right homepage What exactly do you need the microscope for? And you really still have a christmas tree? |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Apr 19, 2011 21:22:06 GMT
For now I don't really need the microscope. It's an acquisition from my first year of faculty (biochemistry), so it had a purpose back then. Meanwhile the lamp burned and is now unusable. But I want to use it for micro photos, details of observed minerals or smears (frottis) of different liquids, that creates abstract images with artistic potential.
My Christmas tree is still in house because it is rooted in a pot - I bought it with roots to be able to plant it in springtime; but, as the weather is still cold even now, the middle of April, I can only keep it inside. Otherwise it would wither if planted.
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Post by mihnea on Apr 20, 2011 11:11:45 GMT
Student la medicina,super.Ambii mei parinti sunt medici! Oricum,frumos inceput.E bine sa mai vezi romani prin forumuri.  |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Apr 20, 2011 13:57:18 GMT
Student la medicina,super.Ambii mei parinti sunt medici! Oricum,frumos inceput.E bine sa mai vezi romani prin forumuri. Nu chiar medicina, Mihnea..ci biochimie la Facultatea de Biologie din cadrul Universitatii Bucuresti. Din pacate nu am profesat si nici nu m-a prea interesat dupa anul doi, cand am vazut cam cum statea treaba cu dotarea laboratoarelor (din cate stiu eu sunt 5 grade de apreciere internationale, iar ce avem noi, mai ales in Panduri, la Facultatea de Chimie, nici macar nu intra pe scala internationala); dar si cu interesul/atitudinea profesorilor. Asta se intampla in 2003-2005. Acum poate s-au mai imbunatatit lucrurile. Sau nu. Asta e. Depinzand de partea baricadei de unde privesti sunt un esec al sistemului romanesc..sau un succes personal (relativ multumit de cultura generala, cu o constanta 'foame epistemica' si o slujba chiar f.ok ce-mi permite lucrul de acasa cu remuneratie cu mult peste cat as fi putut castiga pe un post de biochimist sau biolog). ____________________________ Translation from romanian: Medical student, cool.Both my parents are doctors! Anyway, nice beginning [description in the beginning]. It's good to see [active] Romanians on [foreign] forums. Not quite Medicine, Mihnea..but biochemistry at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest. Unfortunately I have not worked in that field of science and, after second year of study, I started to lose my interest, especially after we saw how it's been with laboratory equipment and such stuff (there are, from what I know, 5 levels of international assessment over lab standards, and what we have, especially in Panduri, at the Faculty of Chemistry, not even enters the international scale); but neither the teachers interest or attitude towards students stood no better. This was going on in 2003-2005. Now things may have improved. Or not. That's it. Depending on which part of the fence you stand I'm a failure of the Romanian system..or a personal (self-taught) success (relatively satisfied with my general knowledge, with a constant 'epistemical hunger' and a really nice job that allows me to work from homeand pays way much more I could win in a biochemist or biologist position). PS: I apologize for my criticism and lack of "on topic". I promise to make it up for it, dino pictures style |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 8, 2011 20:59:00 GMT
Yesterday I did a "clean up review" on the cabinet where all my old toys were/are (the one to which I referred in my previous post). There are years since I last took a "trip on the memory lane". At the end of cleaning and sorting (critically analyzing this time) I was surprised to find that I have just a hand of my previous collection (I do not have duplicates anymore), and that most of my figurines are Russian, Ukrainian, or, yes, Chinese, representative for the '70 and '80. So I decided to do a little history lesson by locating from cultural view point my old dinosaurs and the like. First of all, my country is an ex USSR political satellite and communism was strongly rooted in everyday life, feeling it mostly by prohibitions; socio-economical relations with Western countries, outside the USSR, were forbidden, but the Soviet regime made imitations of most Western things in a "red manner" - thus the following "specimens"; after the '89 revolution and the fall of Romanian communism, although commercial traffic was, in theory, free, most products came still from Russia and its satellites, Ukraine, Hungary and Turkey (although it was not an Russian satellite, was heavily involved in political and economic relations with the former USSR). But enough with history. I present you the Russian version of Western dinosaur figurines that I have in my possession: 1. The Turkish " Jurasic Parki"/Jurassic Park models (the only common thing with the homonym series is.. their name ;D - in fact there are just some random prehistoric animals that broadly respect scientific rigor, made from really fragile translucent plastic, in various colors) - this figurines came in small cardboard boxes (with chewing gums), like the one in the back (JP logo on front and various prehistoric artwork themes on the back side): The above figures are from the start to the middle '90 (roughly 1991 to 1996). |
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Post by sbell on May 8, 2011 21:10:20 GMT
Those are great--those appear to be copies of the Shreddies (?) or margarine premiums that were available in western Europe!
Except that the colours--translucent coloured plastic--are in some ways more interesting than the flat white or beige of the Shreddies ones!
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 8, 2011 21:25:35 GMT
Those are great--those appear to be copies of the Shreddies (?) or margarine premiums that were available in western Europe! Except that the colours--translucent coloured plastic--are in some ways more interesting than the flat white or beige of the Shreddies ones! Thanks you, sbell, I finally found out and what exactly they were imitating - the Shreddies dinosaurs, like the ones below: |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 8, 2011 22:29:34 GMT
2. Among the first Western food brands/firms that reached Romania (via Hungary), after the fall of communist regime, was Spanish energy chocolate drink Cola Cao. Besides nice taste, Cola Cao boxes came with cute paleontological surprises: erasers in form of dinosaur figurines with cardboard cards art and specs that provide information about the dino specie inside. Below are 5 examples that I collected (I think there were 6 in total, but I only managed to get 5 and some inherent duplicates in various colors): The above figures are from the middle-end '90 (1995 to 1997 I think).
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 10, 2011 21:23:59 GMT
3. In the same period as Cola Cao eraser dinos it began to appear on the Romanian market the Eastern version of Italian's Kinder Surprise eggs: same packaging - tinfoil coatings - wrapping around the thin layer of chocolate (very good taste for those standards, from back then), in turn covering a plastic capsule; and in that capsule, you guessed it! - there was an plastic-rubber dinosaur; 3 or 4 centimeter / 1.2 or 1.6 inches long, mostly in earthy colors (very few exceptions - the T.rex and Velociraptor). I do not remember what was drawn on the tinfoil packaging, but I know they were clearly green leaves, actually lush ferns, and that I was very excited with each egg bought and its surprise. I really don't know their manufacturer (not even the egg's series name), but I think it was Russian (although it is likely to be the first such products to be brought from West). Below you can see some copies that I have left from then (I do not know what happened with the others, I think I gave some to friends and relatives children). From left to right: an "unidentified crypto-some creature" (one bipedal scutosaur I presume ), the old version (Marsh's fat and " tail dragged on the ground") Brontosaurus/ Apatosaurus, Triceratops, an woolly mammoth[/i], Pteranodon[/i] (on one of my fossils), one orange T.rex[/i] and an green Velociraptor[/i] (they tried to do the characteristic claw of dromaeosaurides, but back then the plumage concept was not around), old Iguanadon[/i] in the back, Protoceratops[/i], some kind of Lambeosaurus[/i] (also with " tail dragged on the ground") and an little Stegosaurus[/i] (the "lichens bushes" are from another set-stuff). These figures date from the middle-end '90 (1996 to 1997).
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Post by Horridus on May 10, 2011 21:32:24 GMT
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 10, 2011 22:44:37 GMT
Thank you very much, Horridus! I would pretty much like to trace back to their origins (for all the items - and I have more: figurines, artwork, media), all that stuff which marked my childhood and my passion for prehistory and their repercussions on my views on life. I would ask (with gratitude) all members who reach this page and have some details about the original sources of what they see in my "historical research on Eastern imitation of Western dino models (both artwork and figurines )" to let me know with a post. Thanks in advance! PS: I'll continue tomorrow with section 4 from my so called review of Romanian "DinoCulture" in the '90, exemplified by my small but relatively diversified collection |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 11, 2011 9:37:54 GMT
I can't see the image...  |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 11, 2011 10:05:54 GMT
I can't see the image... It's about this picture: |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 11, 2011 10:38:54 GMT
Ah, thank you. |
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Post by 0VerSus1 on May 11, 2011 13:37:21 GMT
4. In a small timeframe when the dino-surprise eggs from above were on the verge to "get into extinction" from Romanian market, some dinosaur tubes began to appear; not actually on sale in shops, but traded between children. The little beasties were made in China and, most certainly, were imitating dinosaur tubes that appeared in England and America. Actually, if I think better, there is a high possibility that even the dino eggs were Chinese too, shipped to Russia and Hungary (from those kind of markets we received most of imported products). Merchants who went abroad (Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey) brought them for their children or relatives established in the near West, who came in Romania for hollydays, were buying them for kids. So it is that, with help from acquaintances (various exchanges, drawings made as payment for figurines and the like), I managed to get into possession of some of the usual dinosaurs which circulated through the neighborhood, from child to child. Below are the little few of those figurines which I managed to gather back then. From left to right: a bluish Pachycephalosaurus, a Ceratosaurus[/i], one really wrong-made and fat Spinosaurus[/i] ;D (or other carnivore with sail), " the king of the hill" (on my fossil) the blue T.rex[/i], one other ' uncertain what it is' theropod, beside him, in the back, a bluish and light green Brachiosaurus[/i], yet another " fat/bulk and slugish" Apatosaurus[/i] and, in front, one blue and brown Parasaurolophus[/i]. Figurines from 1996-1997. One more and final global view of the Egg-Surprise Dinosaurs plus 'pseudo-tube' Dinos: 
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 9, 2011 16:12:22 GMT
Back again with some new stuff. Well, not actually new (have them for about one month or so), but I've decided to post some photos now, when the last shipment (and, also, my first PayPal transaction abroad) from USA arrived (thanks to DinoLord), with the Kaiyodo Dinotales figurines Acrocanthosaurus (skeleton and reconstitution) plus T.rex (skeleton) - see below; besides these 'lil dinos I've got the Papo's T.rex and Pachyrhinosaurus[/i], plus Schleich's Brachiosaurus 1:40[/i] and Parasaurolophus[/i] from local vendors - all of them excellent models (except for minor - or major, in the Papo's rex posture - inaccuracies). Here they are, all of them:  Detail on the 3 Kaiyodo models, plus Pachyrhinosaurus and Parasaurolophus:  Further more details on Dinotales dinos (with my black subwoofer for contrast):   I really like these Kaiyodo figurines (thanks, again, DinoLord) - very nice details on them with surprising scientific accuracy - and I think I'll search for some other ones, especially from Series 1: the Apatosaurus, Tylosaurus and Styracosaurus. |
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Post by DinoLord on Jul 9, 2011 18:22:50 GMT
Your collection is shaping quite nicely. Enjoy the figures!
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Post by gwangi on Jul 9, 2011 20:48:17 GMT
Great collection you've got going and thanks for sharing those older toys with us, I enjoyed reading about them.
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 10, 2011 11:03:54 GMT
Thank you, gwangi!
When I'll have a 'lil free time, I'll put pictures for the rest of my so called "retro Middle East '90s" dino figures (plus descriptions). Until now I've posted about half of what I have from my childhood.
As for future acquisitions, I'm about to make my second "over the seas" order: the (what I consider) best figures from Safari, Bullyland and CollectA (that interest me). I'll post them here when they arrive.
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