While I had them in front of the camera I
sorted the Dino's into new boxes and took a couple of comparisons of the
existing eraserpods. At the same time I bought another quid's worth of
puzzel-ball eraser in Rymans which
has gone on the jig-toys page.
These are the newies, somewhere between the
minis and the 'standards' in size and some new colours with - from the left - a
sauropod, spinosaur, meat eater (fore-claws are too big for Tyrannosaurus) and
ceratopsian.
Here they are with the previous effort from
The Works we looked at a year or two
ago, the strangely fully-round 'flats'! You can see the new ones are quite a
bit smaller, but better sculpts, However; both these sets are at least original
designs, all the other dinosaur erasers we've seen here at small scale world
are from the same eight sculpts . . .
. . . as can be seen in this rubber
round-up.
Front left are the Imperial minis Mr. Berke kindly sent to the blog last year, with
the Wilco ones to the right.
Immediately behind them are the four new ones and then the four older ones from
The Works with a mix of WHSmith's (blue & red) and Paperchase's (orange & green) at the
back.
The thing is - all four of the WHSmith set are reproduced in the orange
quartet from Paperchase, whether this
means there is/was a second set of WHSmith
ones mirroring Paperchase's green
ones or not I don't know. Further to that though is that the later mini's are
also aping seven of Paperchase's
eight sculpts.
This also suggests that an eighth pose (spinosaur)
may be in some of the Imperial sets,
if not the Wilco ones, or, given the Wilco ones were paired more carefully
than the Imperial ones, that there
was a whole second assortment in the Wilco
eggs?
Hawkin's
Bazaar have some lovely, well detailed,
bi-coloured, puzzle-eraser dinosaurs at the moment, but they are not so cheap, so while I have looked upon
them with admiration - several times; I have yet to shell-out any shekels for
one!
I knocked this up at the end in case my
descriptive prose was more confusing than clarifying!
Comparison of the packaging - I stress
these are all contemporary or should at least still be findable, there are
older erasers in storage including some Dino's (I think) so a return to
wrangling rubber is inevitable!
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