We have looked at this in passing once I
think, we'd already had them in a small container from The Works, when I saw them carded for the same pound, but with two
duplicate poses for a six-count in Poundland
back in the autumn . . . I got one!
These two are unmarked, but look to have a
degree of vintage about them, found in the bottom of Peter Evan's January donations-to-the-blog
bag; they are a good colour for dinosaurs, but possibly not for selling to
little-ones as pencil rubbers? They are an older, solid/heavy 'rubbery' rubber
too!
I liked them so much I shot them twice but
didn't find this earlier shot until after I'd done the previous one! It's a
better shot too, gets the texture of the animals very well. Cheers Peter!
This [the above] post was going to be it .
. . a third - short - post of the day, and a bit thin on blurb; but there's not
much to add to eraser dinosaurs when you're visiting them for the umpteenth
time, then, this afternoon (Tuesday) I dug some more out of the garage . . .
. . . where they've been sitting, hiding,
since their release from storage. I didn't actually have many dino's of any
kind in storage, mostly mini-types, but I'd got these while searching for Diener'saurs! Geddit? Diener Industries . . . ohh, never mind!
The 'T-Rex' (which from my limited
knowledge of skulls is more like an Allosaur) has lost his tail's tip and need
to be replaced one day. They are marked CHINA in largish letter stamps, they
weren't Diener (but are similar-to
and based-on) and stayed as some of my larger dino's for some time, not in the
Dinoraser zone, there wasn't one . . . but there is now!
Colour study of the sauropods; are they dip'ies
or bront'ies?
The reason I've grown this collection so
fast (other than the likes of Brian Berke sending us mini-micro ones!) is that
there is a very real charm to them, which hits the nostalgia button in several
ways, and in less than three years we've gone from these - hiding in storage -
to a whole box of multicoloured, multi-specie prehistoric animals, in mostly
bright, primary or 'neon' colours, reminding us of the sort of stuff we used to
get in our stockings on Christmas morning, or as a treat on the way home from
the dentist, or sellotape'd to our
favourite comic!
I wasn't only seekeing Diener'saurs, I was (still am) also looking for the dino's given
away by a petrol company (Esso I
think) in the 1970's which weren’t really erasers, being made of a silicon-rubber,
but they were simplified sculpts and slightly cartoonish, so look a lot like
these Dinorasers, in the course of which I picked up this chap (left, blue) who is a
copy of the previous set, or for another contract (but his trunk's much
heavier-moulded).
The yellow spiny 'kerthunkersaur' came in
recently (Jim or Chris Smith - thanks to both!), and may or may not have been
seen here, or was waiting for a follow-up but got missed when I wrote the short
version above!
Luckily I found him while marrying all the
others up in the new box and he has the same block 'CHINA' mark. This new pose
suggests a set of ten in either set? So I'm still looking . . .
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