Because they were tatty and due to
ever-increasing space-restraints, I have de-carded them, the cards scanned and
sent to fire-lighting; at this time of year recycling drops-off here!
From the fact that stickers have been added
with an over-print for the consumer-information panel we can tell that these
were current-stock as Hasbro bought
the Tonka empire to which Kenner-Parker then belonged, and it also
enables the set codes to be worked out, the original (un-stickered) cards
having only a generic 61027 'assortment' code;
61028 - Brachiosaurus
& Velociraptor
61029 - Ceratosaurus
& Triceratops
61030 - Pteranodon
& Gallimimus
61031 - Ankylosaurus
& Hadrosaurus
61032 - Dilophosaurus
& Stegosaurus
61033 - Tyrannosaurus
& Dimetrodon
61034 - Plesiosaurus
& Iguanodon
You distract 'im Baz, and I'll 'ook 'is neck!
Matchbox were doing die-cast JP
things at about the same time, so whether it was a shared license, or just
a quality stipulation from the licence
issuer I don't know, but it's an odd co-incidence that two companies should be
making similar sets in an unusual material (for figurals) at the same time,
pertaining to the same movie?
Oooh . . . Me'favorite! Dimetrodon;
showing how you can display each model's card in the little slot shown on the
back of T-Rex's stand, also highlighting the gruesome fact that 'Rex is about
to chow-down on a rather old, sun-faded carcass . . . nom-nom-nomnivore!
A couple more JP dino's, we've seen one already and I may have some more in the
ex-storage pile, but the dinosaur box/boxes (can't remember) haven't surfaced
yet? Pretty standard PVC-type plastic and I used to think the mark was the
toymaker's, but believe it's actually a park-owner's tattoo found on the CGI'd
animals in . . . err . . . the second (?) movie? So these are probably Hasbro/Mattel too, but I don't know.
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