How many Ceras do you think there are on this island?
Up next is the Triceratops, an adult and juvenile. The adult has a color scheme close to the first movie's version. While the juvenile I assume to just be the alternate color (so I think there had to be an adult that matched). Neat little figures, and if you can see it, on the hind leg of the infant the JP3 logo is actually stamped there! They really put effort into these paint apps! Some of the logos have worn off on these guys however, while the rest of their paint job remains fine. These are my favorite Triceratops from within the box.
One is the loneliest number...
This one is rather cool, its the only Chasmosaur I have too come to think of it. I like his color scheme and stripes. Though its not really practical. Would of loved to of seen a darker color alt though. Neat frill, good sculpt, what more can I say, other than I would like more of him?
Dat set of plates
Almost perfect! If it weren't for the oddly flat Thagomizer, this figure would be perfect! Unless I'm missing something here and its just fine. In which case, perfect! Best Stegosaur I own by far. Great detail, and the plates aren't symmetrical! So cool! Your brain would have to be the size of a walnut to disagree. See what I said there?
Of course. Of course...
How did they even get this DNA? I don't even... In extended Jurassic Park fiction you will find this a lot. Somehow they manage to obtain DNA almost everything remotely prehistoric. Including gigantic aquatic reptilian predators. Surprised there hasn't been a Jurassic Park novel, or comic or something that shows them having a private park somewhere on the Siberian tundra with Mammoths, Smilodon, and Megatherium. Know what, do it, I'd probably read it anyhow. Just don't have terror birds fill in for raptors. If you are just going to reskin raptors for "tension" don't bother. Try something fresh.
Because I'm back in black!
Since this is a JP3 line you were bound to see this one way or another. A male raptor based on the ones from the film. Overall, I actually don't mind this figure. Its pretty cool to have at least one Dromeosaur in black. Too bad I didn't get an albino one too.
King of Disappointment
Given all the other figures from this series, I am rather disappointed in the T.rex. He is just a solid color with some black spots painted on for good measure. The raptor is at least more convincing when it does basically the same thing. This guy... Just looks like he was splashed with a little paint after being freshly molded and they went with it. No idea how his alt was, I can only hope it was painted better.
Thats MUCH better!
Since I can't leave off on a disappointing Tyrannosaur, here is some from a different set of JP toys. These are from Kenner's Microverse line. Yet another Mighty Max style toy line. The large T.rex is from a set of dinosaurs, that included a Parasaurolphus (next week!), a Stegosaur, and a human. While the juveniles are from duplicate playsets. Cool figures with the adult having pose-able legs. Great figures, and yet another reason to miss Kenner.
Before I leave off, remember the teaser from last week? Well... Drum roll please....
This was what was inside that capsule. For 50 cents at a Wal-mart vending machine, this is a something known as GroBubbles a vending machine toy that is actually seeds you can grow within the capsule! Just add water! I will post progress pictures every week as these grow, hopefully I can actually get them to grow. Even I can't mess up "just add water". I think. This is definitely a first for vending machine toys. Hopefully we start seeing other cool new stuff in vending machines in the future. Imagine one filled with something that lets you grow brine shrimp or something. The possibilities are very neat here.
Catch you all next week! Phil, out!
Funny story: I recognized all these pictures. I have pretty much all of them. But when you were talking about Jurassic Park 3 having a line of these it didn't ring a bell (which is weird, because I definitely remember all the bigger toys that came out for that movie). I got mine at Six Flags! Can't remember which one (I've been to 2 or 3), but it was a big bag for like 10 bucks that had all of them inside. I had always wondered why Six Flags had such nicely molded dinosaur minis, and I guess this explains it! Although I also remember that in the packaging they came with they were all hilariously mislabeled.
ReplyDeleteAnd I LOVE the Micromachines ones (I would kill for that big T-rex you have)! I don't have many of them left (I think I was really to young to keep them safe, but I know I've still got the parasaurolophus), but I have many fond memories. I know the scales a bit off, but I got the Lost World playset with the pachycephalosaurs, and i would play with them all constantly.
Yeah, that is where they came from. I mostly found the packs at Rite-Aid. It sounds like you got a bulk pack of bootlegs. I have seen them on the net before, I was going to bring them up in this article, but the sites that sold them no longer stock them so I couldn't find/post a picture. They had weirder paint apps, mostly orange and other bright colors mixed with each other. Like the plastic they molded with was just multi-colored lol.
DeleteI'm surprised I kept so many safe myself lol.
Oh man, I was in love with those mini JP3 dinos, I collected them for as long as I could. There were many color variations besides these. There is indeed a darker Chasmosaurus- the black stripe pattern is the same, but it's a dark teal color instead. Both look very cool IMO. The baby Trike also came in light brown, and the alt of the adult was a vivid greenish-turquoise with a cream underbelly. The Dimetrodon also came in a greenish-brown color, and if I recall there were a few raptor colors. I remember at least one was brown... maybe the other was white, or JP3 colors? Can't recall. The adult rex also came in brown, and there were also a Juvenile T. rex, Spinosaurus, Pteranodon, Parasaurolophus, and Ankylosaurus. I was always hoping there was a Ceratosaurus figure too but to my knowledge there's not, which is uber lame.
ReplyDeleteI've got that Microverse rex too, he's pretty cool!
Awesome, it really is a DAMN shame that these didn't get a collectors box or something. It would be so freaking sweet and I'd buy it in a heartbeat lol.
DeleteIkr? One of my larger minis as well lol.
Hi do you sell one of those
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