D is for Dinky Dino Egg

Under their Dinosaur Adventures label comes this third (?) offering from The Works, a quite large capsule egg, filled with quite small Dino's! Contents are nothing remarkable but they're fun for kids and more models for dinosaur collectors!

Typically the bottom unscrewed first, but with no clue as to which is the right end, you go with the flow until you realise both ends come off, but only the pointy-one is actually open!

A dead dinosaur is a bit macabre, I guess the toy-maker was thinking along the lines of "It's a fossil", but is a tub of 'live' dinosaurs; it's just a picked-clean dead one, isn't it? Also of interest is the triple palm-tree in the common/current style of the typical pair in front.

You can see from my pointing finger how small these are, not the teeny-size of those micro erasersaurs which were around a year or two ago, but small enough!

Most of the favorites are there, but no Dimetrodon (fussa-russa!) and two of them are bigger and may have been seen before in other sets, probably as generics? Note also how the larger pair are up-scales of; or down-scaled to; their smaller clone, suggesting all are out there somewhere in both sizes, possibly as part of a bigger pose-range?

D is for Dinosaurs Again

I still have a bunch of Dinosaur posts in their section of the queue (year 2028 in Picasa!), and since trying to clear them back at the start of the year have added several more posts, this among them, I even shot some capsule dino's yesterday which I will try to get out before the end of RTM, which started well but has slowed . . . too much real life and two days without Internet (BT claim it's nothing to do with them but the fact that the 'signal' was off from midnight Friday to midnight last night suggests something deliberate and scheduled!), anyway, these are still in The Works;

Dinosaur Adventures; a bit pricey at three-quid really, but, well . . . "Cost of living crisis" and all that, and they seem to be re-moulds from ancient, 1970's, 'gape mouth', chinasaur tools, and it's the second current set of such we've looked at recently - Third image down - so clearly demand for cheap dino's from little people is driving a search through the old tool-banks in the old colony's older makers!

Of course my favorite is the Dimetrodon, while the kerthunkersaurus is the weakest by a country-mile! Any or all previous markings have been removed from the tool with a grinder, and a new, neat 'China' has been added to the resulting smooth patch.

That's them, six cheapo' chinasaurs, in a stable PVC-replacement polymer, for three of your Earth pounds, that's fifty-pee each and a free bag! Out there now - The Works!