D is for Dinopost

Which was the title of the folder I chucked the images in, and it seemed to be an appt-enough title so I kept it! You were going to get this morning's LB (LP) post a couple of days ago, but Brian sent these late on the weekend, so I pushed the other post back by a day to get this edited and in shape, only for Brian to send more on Monday, so it all got another delay, and we can have Dino-Day today - which would have been a good title too!

Brian has a young grandson for whom he has been out and about buying dinosaurs . . . start 'em young, and all that! To which end he went to Dollar General and purchased their current range of medium-large models for a single greenback apiece (about 80p?).

Now dinosaurs are funny things to scale as the new-born's of many species would have been no bigger than a cat or dog, but a 80/100-year old adult might be half the size of our street! And my sizing isn't terribly accurate, but these are clearly useful with 'toy soldiers', whilst being maybe half their scale, as intended?

Branded to Dolencorp (who did some of the skeleton/mummy stuff a year or two ago I think? Phantom brand of Dollar General?) and the models are exactly what's written on the tag!

Brian found five different animals in total and while the slaes tags don't give names, what we seem to have here is a Stegosaurus (used as a sizer), a Triceratops, a meat eater who is probably an Allosaur' or Gigantisaur' rather than a 'T'; T-Rex - if modelled well - has larger concave 'dimples at the backs of the cheeks, roughly where our ears would be.

Finally a veggie sauropod, who's clearly a smaller scale (box or 'unit price' scale!) as is often the way with these and would go better with HO/OO type figures, but if you're 2 or 3-years old, you're not worried about scale, you just want to see how many things that go "ROAR!" there are in your granddad's toy box!

Thanks to Brian for this rack-toy update, and there's more to come, later, from Dollar Tree!

Later the same day/Early the next day!...

Further to the comments on the post after/above this one (newer post) I asked Brian for the names printed on the bellies and he sent some more shots WITH the names (which was very kind) and which I've placed under each animal.

No surprises but what I called the Triceratops is actually a Styracosaurus (which is a mistake I often make) and I would argue the T-Rex is anatomically incorrect (which is a mistake Chinasaur designers often make), but hay . . . it's a vicious meat-eater, right? Thanks again Brian!

BRACHIOSAURUS

PARASAUROPHUS

STEGOSAURUS

STYRACOSAURUS

TYRANOSAURUS REX