M is for Massive Mammals and Megasaurs

Brian actually sent me the Rhinoceros (further down) as a follow-up to the lazy-post the other day, while he then sent me the bagged dino' the same day I took the shelfies, so we can throw them all together in one post, as I realise it's more of a box-ticker, likely to be of little interest to most of you, but it has its own validity and despite their size, they are still small-scale as far as the world is concerned!

These are currently in TK Maxx, they (or similar) have previously been seen in both The Works and Wilkinson's/Wilko, and there is a - limited - selection of Dinosaurs, Big Game and Monsters, or at least; a monster!

Close-ups of a kind of spinosaur and a rather leery-coloured triceratops, like everything else in this post they are hollow, softish, PVC-like plastic, and - basically - are squeaky-toys without the squeak!

The other dinosaur is a bit boring, but the turquoise, two-headed, 'Cerberus' dragon is a lot of fun, and would make an excellent foe for a whole bag of M-Toys barbarians; indeed you could stuff about six in his mouths - three in each! Nom-nom-nomnivore!

Brian sent this at the same time, and it appears to be from the same source as the others - back in China. I can't make out the maker or (more likely) importer on the card back, but it looks a bit like some of the Greenbrier/DTSC labels?

Big game; lions, an elephant and a rhino were on show, but I think I've previously seen a larger giraffe of similar design. The TK Maxx stuff is credited to NBC Apparel, but I think you'll agree that's looking more and more like their in-house 'phantom' brand.

This is more cartoony and may well be from an alternate source and it could be an infant toy, or a dog toy . . . just get the squeak re-installed! Also; he looks like he's in the mood to errr . . . 'recycle' a Land Rover.

Various methods of getting across the size have been employed from the Berserker to my hand, via a real Chihuahua! Zazie (the Chihuahua) doesn't look wholly au fait with the situation?

Note that the feet/toenails on the US-purchased Brontosaur are decorated the same way as the TK Maxx examples seen in Basingrad, hence the likelihood they all come from the same place, and at that size he's pretty-much in scale for 54mm figures - that would make for an interesting 'garden game' down the Padre's place; 'The Lost World' . . . throw a double six and you get squashed-flat by a big-footed herbivore, throw a double one and your whole team get ripped to shreds by a T-Rex and it's back to the Nautilus for a new team, after tea!