Dinosaurs!

[BlackLagoon]

Brian that T-Rex and Tri-tops are awesome!

I've never seen them before--very cool!

[packy120353]

A related link I like - http://www.dinosaur-toys-collectors-guide.com/index.html

[packy120353]

Speaking of, I have some Prehistoric Mammals that were a cereal premium - I remember either Rice Krinkles or Rice Honeys...but does anyone know who made these for Nabisco or Post - are they MPC? Lido? Ajax? Do we have a plastic toy expert around that recognizes these? I'd like to say they're 1:32 scale but who knows with Prehistorics! Marx made up a scale of it's own - they are relative to each other kinda but it's hard to capture the size variation in plastic dinos! So - who knows who made them (there were only so many big plastic toy makers in the 60s)

[packy120353]

I may have posted some of these before, but here are all I have for dinos right now. The lizard with big teeth is Imperial. The others I have no idea. But I think I need to start collecting the Marx line one by one - anyone have any they want to unload?

Dimetrodon eating a Union Soldier


Bayonet vs T Rex!


Did somebody say this might be a Tootsie Toy Steg?


Oh what the heck might as well show you my Moldarama collection:

[Sean]

The old Aurora Styracosaurus model (my favorite dinosaur), and the re-bought tootsie toys. Took forever to track down a white Triceratops, like the one Dogzilla chewed up decades ago.

Creepy, I had the blue dinosaur you have pictured as well as a red Stegosaurus and a white T-Rex from that series.

[Sean]

I had the Aurora Allosaurus, Pterodactyl, Cave Bear & Sabre Tooth Cat (Tiger) and Wooly Mammoth.

[Sean]

I also had the styrofoam T-Rex skeleton as a kid that you assembled.  It was like 4-5 feet tall or something.  Awesome.

[CreepysFan]

Creepy, I had the blue dinosaur you have pictured as well as a red Stegosaurus and a white T-Rex from that series.

I still have to track down a blue T-rex and a red Stegosaurus to have all the ones I had as a little monster.

[Monster Kid]

Hey, LundyAfterMidnight, that is cool that your dad is a geologist!  I work occasionally with geologists on projects in my work, the environmental field.  These are the guys who do the hazmat studies.

I love dinosaurs.  I read every book I could get my hands on in elementary school that dealt with the subject.   Since I wanted to know more I delved into paleontology and learned how fossils are formed, and about the different eras of earth history, plate tectonics, etc.  Endlessly fascinating stuff.   I am forever flabbergasted that the "man on the street" is not interested in this vitally important subject.   But I will bet a dollar to a donut that if you ask the average person what they like about geology they will say they have little interest and know very little.

[Unknown Primate]

I'm sure someone here had the same dinosaur book I had as a child.  I've never forgotten the first line, though this might not be exact:  " A long time ago, in the days before men, huge creatures called dinosaurs ruled the earth! "  Haven't seen that book in 45 years!  But I sure remember it...

[Therin of Andor]

Ballandean Triceratops by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Jack meets the Ballandean Triceratops, near Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia (2001).


Ploddy the diplodicus by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Eric Worrell's Australian Reptile Park, Somersby, on the Central Coast (1968). The huge concrete diplodicus was probably New South Wales' first "Big Thing" and has since been moved closer to the main road.


Stegosaurus under Wollemi Pine by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Stegosaurus under rare Aussie Wollemi Pine


Tyrannosaurus Rex meets Jack by Therin of Andor, on Flickr


Howl like a dinosaur by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[Dr. Madd]

I was just before entering Kindergarten, age 5 when my brother recieved a Dinosaur playset, and I was hooked, and have been ever since. I was into Dinosaurs LONG before even monsters.. My classmates called me "Dinosaur Danny" in fact. I got my first Marx copy playset, with the Mammoth, Sloth, Sabertooth, and the Cavemen, with the cool rock natural bridge and all the Dinosaurs! My first speech given at 4-H was about Dinosaurs.

[Hepcat]

Some of the earliest toys I can remember were the Marx dinosaurs....I still have the Marx toys .... and recently I rebought four of the large Tootsie Toy blow-mold dinosaurs.

1. Do you have all 23 of the different dinosaurs Marx evidently produced over the years?

2. Do you if each of these was available in multiple colours? Do you have multiple colours of each?

3. What are Tootsie Toy blow-mold dinosaurs? How were they sold? How do they compare with the Marx dinosaurs?

[Therin of Andor]

Ballandean Triceratops by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Jack meets the Ballandean Triceratops, near Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia (2001).

I'd forgotten I also had this:


3D Triceratops by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

Originally part of the Sinclair DInosaur Pavilion at the New York World's Fair of 1964, this triceratops model stands outside in the snowy courtyard of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC . I visited him in January 1984 (hence the 2D scan of my Nimslo 3D pic) and I'm sure he was still there in January 1991. This dinosaur is the namesake of "Uncle Beasley" from the classic children's picture book, "The enormous egg" (1956).


New York World's Fair, 1964 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

[BlackLagoon]

I forgot about this thread!

I'll tell ya what--gone are the days when you could find those bins in on the bottom shelf of a toy aisle filled to the brim with classic, hard plastic, oddly colored Imperial dinosaurs. Now they have these squishy things.

Even as a child of the 80's with Nintendo and action figures galore, I loved my Imperial dinosaurs. When I woke up Christmas morning it was always a mad dash to get the dinos.......I've been complaining about my mom not putting them under her tree anymore.....and I'm 35