D is for Diminutive Dinky Dino's - Board Games II

So the second game today, and - possibly due to the infant nature of its graphics - it was only 50p. Can't say no to that, especially when it's a box-full of dinosaurs, if; rather small dinosaurs!

The box, all very exciting! From Paul Lamond here in the UK, but the dino's are base-marked RBS (for BS Randal) so under license or a repacking? Originally developed in 2001, it claims to be the 'Classic dinosaur board game' which is either hyperbole or points to an earlier version? I suspect the former!

The game is still in the 2018 PLG catalogue, coded - as per the image - 5780.

The board, it's already gone to recycling, and the light was wrong, so I've had to enhance/tweak it in Picasa, which has left it looking a bit waffted!

But the best bit - which you will already know if you've got the game for your kids or studied the first picture - it has 17 sculpts, each player gets four different dinosaurs and the 'chaser' gets a slightly larger T-Rex! That's value for money, think of Risk; three identical sculpts for 6 different armies and it's probably only accident that they've changed the designs every ten years or so, the AWI sculpts seem to have been recently replaced with new Napoleonics?

They are not as small as the eraser/egg animals we've looked at a couple of times now, but still small enough, while to prevent tears (when one's favourite dinosaur gets eaten by the tyrannosaur) they just go back and start again - the winner being the first to get all four past the patrolling 'Rex

The lower picture contains a few other mini-saurs which have come-in, with odd-lots in the last week or two. Two rubbery/PVC types with cartoony countenances and a nicer-sculpted polyethylene sort-of-raptor in purple! And I've placed them with physically similarly game-tokens, which also shows they aren’t particularly in-scale, with the two sauropods not even the biggest sculpts!

In the upper picture Number 1 is on the left (T-Rex) and 2-17 are from back blue to front yellow, moving down the rows toward the viewer, left to right;

Dino Line-up

1. Tyrannosaurus Rex ('T.Rex')

Age: 65 million years old

Size: 12 metres (40 feet) long

Weight: 8 tons

Diet: Carnivorous

Habitat: North America and Asia

2. Styracosaurus

Age: 70 million years old

Size: 5.2 metres (17 feet) long

Weight: 2.7 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America

3. Stegosaurus

Age: 150 million years Old

Size: 9 metres (30 feet) long

Weight: 2 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America

4. Giganotosaurus

Age: 100 million years old

Size: 12.5 metres (42 feet) long

Weight: 8 tons

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: South America

5. Deinonychus

Age: 110 million years old

Size: 2 metres (6.5 feet) tall

Weight: 80kg (176 pounds)

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: The American mid-west

6. Protoceratops

Age: 80 million years old

Size: 1.8 metres (6 feet) long

Weight: 400 kg (500 pounds)

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: Asia (Mongolia)

7. Oviraptor

Age: 80 million years old

Size: 1.8 metres (6 feet) long

Weight: 20 kg (44 pounds)

Diet: Omnivore

Habitat: Asia (Mongolia)

8. Ornithomimus

Age: 70 million years old

Size: 4 metres (13 feet) long

Weight: 150kg (331 pounds)

Diet: Omnivore

Habitat: North America

9. Diplodocus

Age: 150 million years old

Size: 27 metres (88 feet) long- tail bones are 14 metres (46 ft) long

Weight: 12 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America

10. Brachiosaurus

Age: 150 million Years old

Size: 30 metres (100 feet) long

Weight: 30-50 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America Africa

11. Rioiasaurus

Age: 220 million Years old

Size: 10 metres (33 feet) long

Weight: 1 ton

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: South America (Argentina)

12. Wannonasaurus

Age: 85 million years old

Size: 60 centimetres (24 inches) long

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: Asia

13. Velociraptor

Age: 80 million years old

Size: 1.8 metres (6 feet) long

Weight: 25 kg (55 pounds)

Diet: Carnivore

Habitat: Asia- Mongolia and China

14. Iguanodon

Age: 130 million years old

Size: 10 metres (33 feet) long

Weight: 5 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America, Britain & N. Europe

15. Minmi

Age: 115 million years old

Size: 3 metres (10 feet) long

Weight: 1 ton

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: Australia

16. Megalosaurus

Age: 170 million years old

Size: 9 metres (30 feet) long

Weight: 1 ton

Diet: Carnivore and Scavenger

Habitat: UK

17. Parasaurolophus

Age: 75 million years old

Size: 10 metres (33 feet) long

Weight: 3.5 tons

Diet: Herbivore

Habitat: North America