Jurassic Park is 20 years old, but it's going to look new again thanks to a 3D post-conversion. Jurassic Park 3D toys, on the other hand, do not look any newer just because you paint some neon blue across their backs. Same crappy JP tattoo, same silly "Dino-Damage" gimmick.
Ah, but Hasbro has a trick up their sleeves - these come with new, previously unused G.I. Joe figure sculpts, and to get those, you have to buy the crappy dinosaurs.
I would buy a G.I. Joe with Jeff Goldblum's head on it. Even this obvious opportunity has been missed.
The hell are you talking about? The human figures absolutely suck, the dinosaur sculptures are beautiful. The Chaos Effect line had absurd colors, these ones are more natural. The sculpts were also a canceled line way back during JP3, so it is nice to actually have them now.
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Actually, these are new dino sculpts with reused GI Joe molds. Not that your complaint would sound any less nonsensical and annoying for the correction.
Wow, between this and your hatred of Baby Sinclair, I'm starting to think you and I are very different people, Mr. Thompson. Those dinosaurs look pretty damn interesting to me, not least because Pachyrhinosaurus isn't a very common choice for dinosaur toys: usually only museum collections go for anything that isn't T-rex/Triceratops/Stegosaurus/Raptor/Spinosaurus. Yes, the JP tattoo is obnoxious and the Dino Damage I could take or leave, but really, where else are you going to get decent dinosaur toys with articulation?
Yeah, I don't see these selling to anyone but Joe collectors, and even then, most of the completists have at least one of these figures (the Arnold-looking guy with the face tat).
surprised hasbro did not just reuse the old jurassic park molds from the old toy line. for how is one suppose to have a toy be three d? at least they did not let some unused joe molds go to waste
Those hybrid ones were my favorites. I still have them...well, my little brother plays with them now. If they come out with those again, I want them.
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hideous? More like Hideously AWESOME!!!
They even still have the damaged areas like before. Ah, the memories...
http://i.imgur.com/eRAAB.jpg
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Toys are going to be 3D now? I grew up playing with those old fashioned 2D toys and of course I didn't know better, but it's great to know that the next generation will get the benefit of this breakthrough. Having to wear polarised specs to play with everything will be a small price to pay.
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"...you have to buy the crappy dinosaurs."
You're making my five-year-old cry. And by five-year-old, I mean me. My JP T. Rex is still one of my most cherished possessions, though he did have real-feel skin and a decent paint job, unlike Ms. Dayglow up there.
Better idea, Hasbro—just sculpt a cheapo saddle/bridle, and stick a Cobra cavalryman on the back of a raptor. Give 'im a little Samurai-banner and a lance, even. Done. It'll even keep consumer interest afloat while you put your next GI Joe outing on hiatus for months.
(And yes, IIRC, there actually was an ashcanned concept along those lines a couple of years back.)
These Joes are kitbashes based on previously released figures. Still pretty desireable, though.
And at a glance, I dig the dinos.
Some fools have being shelling out lotsa money for them on ebay thinking they'd be unproduced. Haw-haw!
@DinoDamage I was one of those fools...
... but I got it for $5, so it's not as though I was THAT foolish. There's been a steady supply of the guy with Resolute Roadblock's entrenching tool.
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'Jurassic Park' is 20 years old.
Who else felt their bones creak when they read that?
@skrag2112 I read the book a number of years before the movie came out - Crichton's work (done under his own name) is uniformly good aside from the horrible stuff he was commissioned to write (the Jurassic Park sequel)
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Genghis-Rex is offended by this.
http://www.podcastigation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/genghis-rex.jpg
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There is only one reaction to this...
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OuDqH88.gif[/IMG]
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@Gallen_Dugall Originally, it was to distinguish between official JP movie dinosaurs and bootlegs.
That they need to be distinguished in that way, rather than obvious quality - draw your own conclusions.
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@Gallen_Dugall @LYT My Little Raptor?
I feel like it should be subtitled "friendship is... clever girl."
or something.
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