[Deadops]

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Originally Posted by Optimus Neeson

Kwinn's shorts are too flared. I put a lot of thought into it.



That allosaur has pretty much perfect articulation. The neck and jaw are freaking ideal; and it has the perfect amount of leg articulation for its size - ankles and hips. But I really want a huge t-rex scaled for GI Joes with a lot of articulation like I described above. I wish they would stop with those stupid dinosaur injuries though. I've always hated that, even when I was small.

Yeah I hope we get that much articulation too with the later figures.(Hasbro DO NOT GIVE US IM3 style human figs) Notice the Dino has a button thing on him?
I can live with a roaring Allosaur.(need a Plesiosaur though)

[Deefuzz]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

FYI:
I was originally going to use this image for the news story.

why can't I mark posts as a "favorite"? WHY?

[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by webz

I was a dinosaur nut since I started reading at the age of 3. By 7 I was reading college-level books on dinosaurs, correcting my teachers and their 1960's view on dinosaurs, and was more knowledgeable in dinosaurs than 99.99% of the populace. In fact, as a teen, I went to the dinosaur quarry in Utah and corrected the tourguide. He wasn't thrilled, so he went to one of the paleontologists "on duty" and the paleontologist agreed with me. Tourguide apologized. So intelligence DOES happen in America.... we're just really good at hiding it behind Snookies and Charlie Sheens.

Correcting the tour guide. Awesome.
We have simular backgrounds, although I definately don't have any anicdotes like the tourguide.
The only dino related place I've gotten to go to were the tracks at Glenn Rose. I've never even gotten to go to any major museums.

[webz]

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Originally Posted by Deadops

Yeah I hope we get that much articulation too with the later figures.(Hasbro DO NOT GIVE US IM3 style human figs) Notice the Dino has a button thing on him?
I can live with a roaring Allosaur.(need a Plesiosaur though)

Not a button... that is the infamous "Dino damage" peel away to reveal a massive chunk of flesh torn out. Ruined otherwise decent looking dinosaur toys with a faulty gimmick (the plug would eventually always get loose and lost, I think because of the soft "skin" aging).

Papo dinosaurs are still the best. yeah, they don't have any articulation, but they look soooooooo pretty, compared to the sloppy paint jobs of Schleich and the Carnegie Collection.

There was a series of fully articulate carnivorous dinosaurs sold at TRU and Target back in 2003, 2004. Looked REALLY good and had over a dozen points of articulation. Don't remember what the series was, but it was one of the first to make a toy of Giganotosaurus.

[cobracobra]

Looking forward to the JP 3d figures hopefully they are recycled GI JOE figures we have all been seeing on the internet for the past 9 months. Actually since ROC came out in 2009 thats how long ago these figures have been getting pushed around.

[webz]

I personally don't care about the human characters. They refuse to make them look anything like the actors, so why bother? They are scientists, not musclebound jocks/jarheads. Dennis Nedry is a fat loser, not a slim scuzzy guy in a turtleneck sweater.
Hopefully we get some decent looking dinosaur toys. I already know they won't be accurate, but at LEAST be fun!

[JanSolo]

But the whole point of JP is dinosaurs living in the age of man, without people it's just dinosaur toys and not JP.

[webz]

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Originally Posted by JanSolo

But the whole point of JP is dinosaurs living in the age of man, without people it's just dinosaur toys and not JP.

yup. perfect. Expecially when the human characters look like CRAP. G.I. Joes should NOT be used for Jurassic Park.

[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by JanSolo

But the whole point of JP is dinosaurs living in the age of man, without people it's just dinosaur toys and not JP.

To me the whole point of a Jurassic Park toyline is to get kickass dinosaur actionfigures, not more humans. Most kids feel the same.
Good dinosaur toys that don't live up to stereotypes that were outmoded decades ago are impossibly rare. Humans are the most common actionfigures out there.
Hell, I still occasionally find Trachodon toys. The same ones I found in the 80's.

As I said before, I'd rather see them not waist money on guarenteed shelfwarmers. Instead use that money from the budget of the toyline to either improve the dinosaurs they will already make, or just make even more dinosaurs.

The point of Jurassic Park is to have a high budget dinosaur movie. No one goes to watch the humans. If the humans are enjoyable (As with the first movie) that's just icing on the cake. But all I need are well made dinosaurs running around on screen, and all I need are well made dinosaur toys.

High point of the year will be the bigscreen Walking with Dinosaurs remake this christmas.

[Deadops]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

High point of the year will be the bigscreen Walking with Dinosaurs remake this christmas.

Hmm Walking with Dinosaurs remake... interesting.

BTW what do you guys prefer roar button or damage peel away.I only think they should include peel away and roar in the big play-sets like some kind of battle set.

[redfox]

Well, I do hope we get some human figures from the first Jurassic Park. Figures of Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler would just make my year! Muldoon, Malcolm, Hammond, and the kids would just be icing on top!

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Originally Posted by JanSolo

But the whole point of JP is dinosaurs living in the age of man, without people it's just dinosaur toys and not JP.

I agree with you. Jurassic Park is about a lot more than just dinosaurs.

Since I was a little kid Jurassic Park has been my favorite movie, and now one of my favorite books. As a kid growing up after the original movie and toy line, I was always disappointed that I did not have any of the main characters, and that I could not create new stories and adventures for those characters.

[jjk1120]

Walking With Dinosaurs remake?!?

[Crazy Jetty]

Preferably neither peel away or roar. But if it HAS to be one, the roar. The T. Rex cow from the first movie line did it wonderfully (Including the impact stomps). But then large dinosaurs like that can take electronics without compromizing the toy.
No to battle damage of any kind, peel away or otherwise. All it does is ruin the look of the animal.

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Originally Posted by Deadops

Hmm Walking with Dinosaurs remake... interesting.

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Originally Posted by jjk1120

Walking With Dinosaurs remake?!?

Yep. Due out in december. I don't honestly know if it's a remake, or if it's the original, IMAXed up for a bigscreen showing. But the way it's been described sounds like a remake to me. Plus the original is fairly dated now.

[webz]

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Originally Posted by redfox

Well, I do hope we get some human figures from the first Jurassic Park. Figures of Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler would just make my year! Muldoon, Malcolm, Hammond, and the kids would just be icing on top!
... As a kid growing up after the original movie and toy line, I was always disappointed that I did not have any of the main characters, and that I could not create new stories and adventures for those characters.

Really? Then you never looked on ebay... True story: I was going thru the boxes of my childhood crap my mother kept after I moved out 15 years ago... Found a bunch of 1st and 2nd wave JP toys, including the giant bungalow playset with fences. 100% complete. Baby T-rex, Carnotaurus, "Spitter" (I refuse to call the abomination a dilophosaur), Stegosaur, and the Ford Explorer. Even had Malcolm, Grant, Sattler, Nedry, Muldoon... Sold it all on ebay for $150 about 8 months ago.

[Specter]

To me JP toys are
one part cool humans(Grant), one part cool dinosaurs with a cool vehicle or two thrown in.

If they do reuse Gi Joe stuff,

Come on Hasbro

[redfox]

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Originally Posted by webz

Really? Then you never looked on ebay...

Not sure if your being snarky or not.

As a child during the late 90's with no connection to the internet, I had no idea what ebay was. While as a kid, I couldn't care less about articulation, but I do now. Twenty year old toys with five points of articulation don't cut it for me.

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Originally Posted by Specter

To me JP toys are
one part cool humans(Grant), one part cool dinosaurs with a cool vehicle or two thrown in.

If they do reuse Gi Joe stuff,

Come on Hasbro

I agree, and that's a great Dr. Grant custom!

[Specter]

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Originally Posted by redfox

that's a great Dr. Grant custom!

I agree, I had to make my own as soon as I saw it.

[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by redfox

Not sure if your being snarky or not.

As a child during the late 90's with no connection to the internet, I had no idea what ebay was. While as a kid, I couldn't care less about articulation, but I do now. Twenty year old toys with five points of articulation don't cut it for me.

There was no ebay in the late ninties, so no one would have expected you to know about it back then.

But he wasn't being snarky. The way you wrote your post you made it sound like that you are presently unaware that the human characters ever existed in toyform at all. At no time did you make it clear that you were referring to a lack of knowledge back then, as opposed to now.
Hense the ebay comment.

[webz]

If we gotta have humans, can we at least have realistic looking ones? Even better than movie figures, would be a sub-line of figures based on the book. Alan Grant in his late 40's early 50's with a beard and khaki shorts and hawaiian shirt. Ellie is a muscular brunette in her 20s (no love issues with Grant), Muldoon is a fat brit with a moustache, Hammond is a skinny short old man with an elephant in a birdcage, and Nedry is still a fat tub of lard. Lex is 6 and Tim is 12. Oh, and Malcolm is a short, chubby, balding mathematician from Texas dressed in black.

[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by webz

If we gotta have humans, can we at least have realistic looking ones? Even better than movie figures, would be a sub-line of figures based on the book. Alan Grant in his late 40's early 50's with a beard and khaki shorts and hawaiian shirt. Ellie is a muscular brunette in her 20s (no love issues with Grant), Muldoon is a fat brit with a moustache, Hammond is a skinny short old man with an elephant in a birdcage, and Nedry is still a fat tub of lard. Lex is 6 and Tim is 12. Oh, and Malcolm is a short, chubby, balding mathematician from Texas dressed in black.

I would be surprisingly up for that, and here's why.

Movie Grant is based on Jack Horner. Book Grant is based on Bob Bakker.
Having both would be like having proxy action figures of the two most prominant paleontologists ever.
FUN!

[JanSolo]

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Originally Posted by Specter

To me JP toys are
one part cool humans(Grant), one part cool dinosaurs with a cool vehicle or two thrown in.

If they do reuse Gi Joe stuff,

Come on Hasbro

That's fantastic! You should make a spare head with a beard so you can have both movie and book versions.

[webz]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

I would be surprisingly up for that, and here's why.

Movie Grant is based on Jack Horner. Book Grant is based on Bob Bakker.
Having both would be like having proxy action figures of the two most prominant paleontologists ever.
FUN!

Book Grant is an amalgamation of several paleontologists: 95% Jack Horner (also bearded and bespectacled), and subtle influences by Bob Bakker, John Ostrom, and "enthusiast" Gregory Paul.

Book version of Alan Grant is primarily a Hadrosaur specialist, and was credited for many discoveries and theories attributed to Horner. Bakker gets a nod here and there for some of the T. rex theories, and Ostrom and Paul's influence comes shining through when the focus on Velociraptors happen at the end of the book, but all of the nesting, and social aspects of dinosaurs is ALL 100% Horner stuff back in the late 80's when Crichton was doing his research.

[JanSolo]

Can I just say how happy it makes me that so many Arkers are not just JP movie fans, but of the books as well. I like the 1st and 3rd movies, but love the books. Which is one of the reasons I really liked 3 because even though not based on one it felt closer to the books than the first two films did. Does anyone else think that 20 years is long enough of a time for a true to the books remake? I'd gladly take a 4th JP film if it weren't like 2, but really think remake is the way to do it.

Anyway back to the toys right? How many compies do you think should be sold in a pack together? I'd say 10-20 or maybe one human and 5 compies something like that.

[trebleshot]

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Originally Posted by Joe Moore

FYI:
I was originally going to use this image for the news story.

I don't see a difference. They both have that "come hither" look.

[cobracobra]

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Originally Posted by JanSolo

Anyway back to the toys right? How many compies do you think should be sold in a pack together? I'd say 10-20 or maybe one human and 5 compies something like that.

I think 5 Compies would be a good amount. I thought the JP1 versions were a little big. I just want them to get to the Chaos Effect colors already!!