Show us your plastic dinosaur

[Bobby Rico]

 

4 hours ago, Nimravis said:

Bobby, I am out furniture shopping with the wife and thought of you.

 

Thanks for thinking of me. Nice T.rex did you give him a home.?

[Bobby Rico]

3 hours ago, Innocentx said:

Library toss out with a bit on Mary Anning. 1960

 

That is a cool book. Love the illustrations.

[Walt]

51 minutes ago, Innocentx said:

Brown's shoe store. You could put your feet in the x-ray machine and see your bones while getting an unknown dose of radiation. Fun times.

Haha.  Radiation and no seat belt laws!  Life on the edge

[GeschWhat]

2 hours ago, Innocentx said:

Brown's shoe store. You could put your feet in the x-ray machine and see your bones while getting an unknown dose of radiation. Fun times.

Wow...we didn't have that! Probably a good thing... 

[Innocentx]

2 hours ago, GeschWhat said:

Wow...we didn't have that!

It looked similar to this one:

 

 

I'm beginning to feel unimaginably old.

[Monica]

Hi all!

 

Yesterday I went to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto with my husband and kids, and while the kids were playing in the "Discovery Zone" I noticed that there was a hard plastic trilobite available for them to play with along with another weird invert (I pointed this out to my kids and they then somehow incorporated these creatures into their imaginative play - I never thought that these animals would have a place in the Medieval period but apparently I was wrong! ).  Anyway, this triggered my memory of something I saw here on TFF about a Burgess Shale set of toys so when we visited the gift shop before leaving, I asked a worker if they sold such a set and he showed me that they did, so guess what I brought home?!?!?!

 

 

The set includes, from left to right:

 

Olenoides serratus (a trilobite)

Opabinia regalis (a dinocarid)

Wiwaxia corrugata (a mollusc-like organism)

Pikaia gracilens (a probable chordate)

Laggania cambria (a dinocarid)

 

I'm so happy. 

 

Monica

[Walt]

That is awesome!  Especially the trilobite.  You know how hard it is to find a cute and cuddly trilobite at Walmart?

 

Monica to guests:  "Oh, let me get the children's toys out of your way"

Children:  "But mommy, you said those were your toys and not to touch them!"

[Monica]

1 minute ago, Walt said:

That is awesome!  Especially the trilobite.  You know how hard it is to find a cute and cuddly trilobite at Walmart?

 

Monica to guests:  "Oh, let me get the children's toys out of your way"

Children:  "But mommy, you said those were your toys and not to touch them!"

 

I have already told William and Viola that these toys are off-limits - they will eventually make it into my fossil display case 

[Walt]

I've always said you shouldn't give the really cool toys to kids....they don't know how to appreciate them!

[Innocentx]

@Monica Very neat set. I would play with those!

[Peat Burns]

16 hours ago, Monica said:

saw here on TFF about a Burgess Shale set of toys

I think that was my kit you saw (I had to have two of them!).  Glad you got one!  Now they need a green river kit, an ediacaran kit, a silica shale kit, a Penn Dixie kit...  

 

And I'm still waiting on the brachiopod action figures to come out....

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 8/30/2018 at 6:22 AM, Peat Burns said:

I think that was my kit you saw (I had to have two of them!).  Glad you got one!  Now they need a green river kit, an ediacaran kit, a silica shale kit, a Penn Dixie kit...  

 

And I'm still waiting on the brachiopod action figures to come out....

I'd buy one. 

[DPS Ammonite]

I am waiting for the stromatolite super heroes set that comes with an electron microscope so that you can see them fight off enemies and reproduce. They will be a bargain at only $29.99 each. 

[Peat Burns]

6 minutes ago, DPS Ammonite said:

I am waiting for the stromatolite super heroes set that comes with an electron microscope so that you can see them fight off enemies and reproduce. They will be a bargain at only $29.99 each. 

Lmaoooooooo!

[Tidgy's Dad]

And the Transformerinifera Special Edition Set. 

Microbes in Disguise! 

[Peat Burns]

24 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

And the Transformerinifera Special Edition Set. 

Microbes in Disguise! 

Lolololololol

[caldigger]

On 8/29/2018 at 5:16 AM, Monica said:

 

I have already told William and Viola that these toys are off-limits - they will eventually make it into my fossil display case 

The surest way to get a kid to handle your prize possessions is to tell them not to.

Better lock the case! 

[Nimravis]

Bobby I am still out furniture shopping today and look what I came across-

 

[Peat Burns]

Here's my triceratops bobblehead 

 

Keeping your thread alive, Bobby 

[Walt]

Just now, Peat Burns said:

Here's my triceratops bobblehead

[Tidgy's Dad]

Bobby is a little bit poorly. 

Hope you don't mind me telling everyone, Bobby.

Hopefully, he'll be well again and back with this marvelous thread very soon. 

[Walt]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

Bobby is a little bit poorly. 

Hope you don't mind me telling everyone, Bobby.

Hopefully, he'll be well again and back with this marvelous thread very soon. 

Hope it is nothing serious, @Bobby Rico.  Get well soon! (get well dance  )

[fifbrindacier]

During my holidays i visited a dinosaur park in Mèze near Sète, South of France.

[fifbrindacier]

Here is a mould made with the skull of Stan

[fifbrindacier]