P is for Poundland's Prehistoric Plastic II, not!

I don't know if we've had that title before, but in case we have I added the 'II, not' just to be sure, it seems a little obvious as titles go? Anyway, despite the best efforts of SARS-COV II Covid 19 to keep us from the shops for half of last year and the first quarter of this, my vape-habit meant I had occasionally to take my face-mask for a walk to Poundland, where I kept a look out for the Series II dinosaurs, of the Series I we saw here a while ago; still no dice, but they did have these as a sort of consolation!

The TXA is backed-up by a "Produced by PLOZ" of Walsall (West Midlands), so still a phantom brand or brand-mark, but for Poundland. These are larger than the pairs, still also carrying the Prehisterror line-title and only one per card and this time they didn't even have the "...rainbow-mauve Per'Terry-dactill!" I reported passing on back in November, but they did have the other four, so I grabbed them!

You can see why I passed on it, it was leerier than the image and far from being either a Velociraptor or a Per'Terry-dactill is more of a Foh-een-ix! I am reminded of the B-Movie about the big . . . dino-bird (?) hiding in the roof of the Chrysler Building and eating sun-bathers for breakfast - can't remember the name of it?

But these are OK for a pound-a-piece, the blue eyes are a bit zombie-like, but that's the thing with cheapies - the paints always a bit simple!

That's it, box ticked, they're out there, now, for a quid!

TXA is for Madeupname Prehisterror!

Shelled out the princely sum of three quid in Poundland the other day; we buy this shite so you can too - they're really rather good and at two for a pound, worth a punt if you collect dinosaurs.

There are three pairs in what would appear to be an initial tranche (note the 'Series 01' in the bottom right-hand corner of the pack) from 'Total Extreme Action', certainly a phantom-brand; sharing a postcode with many other Poundland-exclusive 'brands'!

A medium small size of toy dinosaur and well decorated in at least four colours, some five, and - like pretty much all sets of dinosaurs - box-scale rather than a constant scale. The animals are moulded in a reasonably dense PVC-alike material.

There is no 'naming of the parts' so you have to guess the species, from top left to bottom right we seem to have a large raptor, tyrannosaur, generic kerthunkersaurus, dipp'y or bront', triceratops and spinosaur. And you can see the rule here is mouth open = five colours; mouth closed = four colours!

In-scale group-shot; these are nice models and four the money, you can't go wrong, although prehistoric-purists may want to tone-down the triceratops; that green makes him look more like an iced birthday-cake!