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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 16, 2011 13:04:17 GMT
Continuing, as I've said, with my little " Eastern Europe cultural viewpoint of vintage dinosaurs models" that I have from my childhood: 5. " From Russia, with love" - this would be the best title for my next figures: most likely they date back to the middle-end of the nineties and were brought from Russia by Moldavian sellers. I do not actually know if these toys were made in Russia, or in other " Russian satellite" country, China or even from some Western countries. But in quality (as you can see) they are, indeed, Chinasaurus ;D: These little one are erasers and should depict (from left to right) one weird bipedal (yellow) carnivore, one (orange) baby Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus [/i] (apparently ..smiling ) and one (green) AnkylosauridAnother Ankylosaurid, this time an mechanical one (actually walks if you spin the rotor key from its right side - not seen in the picture) Two pencil sharpeners in form of an Ceratosaurus and Parasaurolophus (surprisingly, the cranial constitution of the last one is quite correct - even the ear canal, although not seen in picture because of the photo angle, is represented on the figure) [/center]
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 16, 2011 14:55:21 GMT
6. The next figure is my first (certified) dino toy from Western Europe, more accurate from Italy: Ceppi Ratti's Tecnodino - Triceratops; a mechanical dinosaur, probably desired in the Dino riders style, which the manufacturer describes it as, quote: " animali con corpo transparente, con occhi luminosi, con movimento" (" animals with transparent bodies, bright/shiny eyes and moving"). It has a ventral space for batteries and it's fun to watch when in On mode - kinda like a really fat drunken guy that wants to..move forward Otherwise an interesting "paleo-techno drive" figure to have as a collectable curiosity: This one, too, dates back to 1996-1998.
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 16, 2011 16:34:55 GMT
7. The next ones I sure know that, at least paleofreak and the Plasticosauria fans, would love them ;D What better name for them than " The Screaming Horrors" dinos?! Probably some of the best examples of " chinasaurus", the next two figures should have been one green Triceratops and one brownish Ankylosaurid. Should have.. Because ankylosaurs with sharp fangs and a mouth span bigger that its actual head triceratops..hmm - need I say more?! I don't know from where they are (China, rhetorical likely?!), but they date back, also, to the middle-end of the '90. Enjoy these dinosaurs.. screaming (at each other): And finally the last (but non the least ;D) vintage figures that I have " from long ago" - another " chinasaurus" Stegosaurus (why do you have such a big head, long teeth..and such blazing blue eyes, grandma'?! ), a " I don't know what...why?!" pterosaur (on one of my Mesozoic fossils) and an " so'n'so" Brachiosaurus (from McDonald's " Dinosaur" movie figures, I think): With this I've finished my " down on the vintageosaurus memory lane" marathon, if I may name so my "little" cultural inventory. Hope I have not bored you too much ;D I leave you with one last picture of (part of) old dinosaurs arrangement in " my childhood closet":
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Post by gwangi on Jul 16, 2011 17:28:17 GMT
I used to have those screaming dinosaurs as well as the stegosaurus below them. Great pictures and write ups.
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Jul 16, 2011 18:17:14 GMT
And speaking of fossils, here it is my small (but growing) collection of extinct organisms that I mentioned in the beginning: Global view (no, it's not some kind of " special edition" , that's just for my graphic tablet box used for contrast) Detail on the upper left corner: Trilobite (" la piece de resistance" of my fossils collection, I should say) Goniatite (species of extinct ammonoids) Triceratops bone sample Otodus obliquus - fossil shark tooth Otodus obliquus - more fossil shark teeth of various sizes Mammuthus primigenius - woolly mammoth tusk fragment Mammuthus primigenius - woolly mammoth bone fragment I have acquired these from a vendor on a Romanian site similar to eBay. The next ones I've collected from a rock formation not so far from my city (living in a mountain region, close to the geological space of the ex Tethys Sea, you can find quite a few fossils of Mesozoic to Cenozoic age): Jurassic (i think) marine fossils conglomerates Besides dinosaur replicas and fossils I'm also interested in minerals like the ones below (also purchased from the web) - from left to right - green quartz, orbicular rhyolite, pink agate, rhodochrosite, angelite, garnet pyrope and hemimorphite: When I will have some leisure and after I'll drastically catalog my minerals collection too, I'll post more pictures, with new additions for my figure and fossil collections (I already have some orders on the way). 'till then good luck with your own collections and thanks for reading/watching my posts here
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Sept 10, 2011 21:53:23 GMT
Hmm..how time flies by - already 2 months since my last post, I think. Anyhow here I am with new updates for my collection: as I've said between my last posts, I've ordered an Invicta Tyrannosaurus Rex from eBay (got it very cheap - 0.99 GBP ;D, more than a month ago), but from various reasons (work projects, lack of leisure, etc), I didn't post pictures of it when arrived. Meanwhile I've made another order (from TGF Toys) with what interested me earlier this summer in terms of prehistoric life ( Mesozoic and Paleozoic fauna, plus an australopithec and a Smilodon). And, after some weeks..almost 4/one month (LOL!), my TGF figurines arrived. So, without further ado, here are some pictures: The Invicta T.Rex (in old/" tail dragged on the ground" anatomical position - British Natural History museum, 1977) The TGF Toys figurines order - the whole lot ( Safari Ltd, Bullyland and CollectA): (sorry for the faulty perspective - Tylosaurus's body cover most figurines; I'll come back tomorrow morning with another set of picture for details)
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Post by gwangi on Sept 11, 2011 23:47:24 GMT
You've chosen some great models to boost your collection with. I love the Tylosaurus, I need to get one of those still.
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Post by sbell on Sept 12, 2011 1:08:17 GMT
You've chosen some great models to boost your collection with. I love the Tylosaurus, I need to get one of those still. How can you not have one? They have been around a few years now, and they are superb (sadly the tail is not correct, but that was discovered a couple years after the figure was sculpted).
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Post by bowheadwhale on Sept 13, 2011 19:59:15 GMT
WOW! So many lines I've never seen before! Especially those little translucid ones!
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Post by 0VerSus1 on Sept 24, 2011 9:07:18 GMT
Thanks you guys (or, actually, should I say guys and girl ), thank you for your interest in my little collection and for the feed-back! Sorry I haven't posted the rest of the pictures that I was talking about - again: two weeks passed and little free time for me to deal with post-processing the images (because the photos already are made and downloaded in my PC). But this afternoon, for sure, I'll do my time to deal with updating here the different angle-shots of my new figurines. Also I think I'll make another little order from my local vendors: this time with Safari's Apatosaurus, woolly mammoth[/i], wolf[/i] and Schleich's giant turtle[/i] (I'm not sure if I want the Safari's Dilophosaurus[/i] and Cuadipteryx[/i].. not sure about their quality of anatomical accuracy - what's your opinion on this, if you, the ones that read this post, have time to elaborate a 'lil answer? Thanks in advance .
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Sept 24, 2011 10:48:58 GMT
I had a similarly made transparent mechanical dinosaur done in that fashion back in 1992. Must have been my third dinosaur ever. Dunno what happened to it. From the ten first dinosaurs only six survive with me.
Also, in 1994 I purchased a wind up dinosaur a lot like your Ankylosaur. All that remains is its body. The head fell off a long time ago. It actually broke and I tried to tape the head and the body up together 'till I could find a permanent solution. Unfortunately the head disappeared. I remembered it was an almost Dino-Riders-Esque head with realistic bead eyes. It was really cool. I was very sad whenever a dinosaur of mine broke or whenever somebody broke them which...was the usual case. I also remembered acquiring these battery powered dinosaurs in that same year that would walk, roar and glow their eyes red. I still have the Brontosaurus and the Stegosaurus. They are both broken and thus have never been figured in my collection at large. Ever seen those? They were grey and dully colored, and had the Godzilla scream, but moved even more smoothly than any Zoid.
When I move into my new house, I'll fix them up really nice and figure them into the collection.
Except from your obvious chinasaurs, that trans-triceratops and the mechanical ankylosaur I have seen before...somewhere. They weren't part of a collection or anything (maybe), but they were nice and friendly dinosaur toys.
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Post by gwangi on Sept 24, 2011 12:28:25 GMT
You've chosen some great models to boost your collection with. I love the Tylosaurus, I need to get one of those still. How can you not have one? They have been around a few years now, and they are superb (sadly the tail is not correct, but that was discovered a couple years after the figure was sculpted). I don't know, the opportunity just hasn't presented itself yet. There are a lot of figures I still need to get.
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Post by bowheadwhale on Sept 24, 2011 18:31:45 GMT
Is your ammonite shy to have hidden behind Tylosaurus?
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