We've had fair few overview posts on these kids magazines over the years, and they are worth keeping an eye out for, because they often have useful stuff on them as part of the 'freebie' element, which is not really a freebie when you see the price of the magazine, which varies from two or three-quid for the simpler infant ones to five pounds or more for the more substantial ones such as these, although 'substantial' is a moot point, when you would learn more from two pages of World of Wonder or Look & Learn, that you get from all the info-panels in one of these.
These look familiar, but last time there were six & six, this time we get a pair of sevens, and having purchased a sample, I shelfied a second which serves to illustrate that the dinosaur models come in other colours.
The Parasaurolophus, solid and skeletal! Each of the fleshed models has a stripped version, although the anatomical correctness is probably something which would give a palaeontologist apoplexy! As last time, the 'living' dinosaurs are PVC, the bones a rigid polyethylene. A few weeks later I spotted this issue, with twelve dinosaur skeletons, and a quick look at the
Parasaurolophus (bottom left corner) reveals they are all new sculpts, I can't see much play value in these - and there are many of them - but I'm not six, or twelve, so what do I know? However, it seems to me they would make excellent additions to Fantasy war gaming/role-playing skeleton armies, which is one reason why I post them from time to time!
We looked at the 'chomper' before, years ago, and, as then, it went off to charity. These cover offers do tend to come around several times, as we found with the Dr. Who Adventures mag's before they disappeared, and I haven't seen this for a few weeks so it too, may have gone now, the 'churn' with modern kids mags is far greater than it seemed to be in my childhood.
The most recent one I've found, which was a while ago now, had three medium-sized vinyl types, and a pointless plastic box with a button that went straight in the recycling bin!
I think I've mentioned before - some supermarkets (and libraries?) now have collection bins for these carded giveaways, so if the kids show no interest, or are so young they're only being read the contents, the toys can be passed on to charity. And, there are lots of others we haven't looked at, cartoon puppies and kittens, farm and zoo, doll type stuff, Thomas, Paw Patrol &etc.
But the animals are perfectly reasonable, and, as I've mentioned before, when I sit down to make more sense of the many tubs and boxes of these, and all the loose ones, I'm sure we'll discover the monochrome chaps will be found to have decorated versions, under other branding, probably in a more dense material? As far as I know, these are all issued by
Kennedy Enterprises.
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