I've had quite a number of acquisitions since the last time I updated this, including Mattel Jurassic World (as always), and others.
Perhaps one the most interesting (and one of my most desired) and perhaps bittersweet recent acquisitions I've had is the Toyway Walking with Dinosaurs Allosaurus. It came among two ebay lots (same seller) that was split up between two other folks on instagram and me. When I caught wind of the post asking for help to purchase those lots, and that this figure was among them, and had yet to be claimed, I wasted no time in making the initiative to try to get it, and luckily I was able too. Other figures from those lots that I claimed (or was left with, as we decided to have the lots shipped to me, and I would ship their figures to them) include various Carnegie Collection figures, the Invicta (1975) Woolly Mammoth, some older Schleich, Safari Ltd, etc, and a Papo Velociraptor.
I grew up as a child watching WWD and it easily became some of my all time favorite (to this day) dinosaur stuff to watch. I definitely have good memories of watching the Big Al special (over and over), which helped Allosaurus become one of my all time favorite dinosaurs. I never knew of the Toyway toys as a child, but I am very grateful I got the opportunity to finally own this figure, which was based on something that was but one of the few good things I can look back on fondly during my rough childhood years. What makes this bittersweet for me personally is that this arrived shortly after my beloved cat, and best bud for 9 years, was put to sleep with his failing health, who I cannot unfortunately share with him (or at the very least showing it to him so he could smell and rub it, like he did for many of my other figures).
Here it is alongside my recently acquired Safari Ltd Postosuchus which also came from those lots (and alongside other models I've had for some time now, mostly Safari Ltd):
Here's the rest of that shelf for the curious (which is a part of the table my turtle's aquarium rests on), where my Skyrim pops, Amiibo, and a few other things are crammed alongside the prehistoric stuff:
Here are the rest of the figures I received from those lots (alongside my HTTYD Hidden World toys). Also if anyone is interested in any of the extra figures I was left with, message me please:
I've also since had several Mattel Jurassic World acquisitions since the last time I posted here, including the SDCC exclusive John Hammond (though I got mine from Entertainment Earth), the Indominus rex, the Amargasaurus, the Destruct-A-Saurs Helicopter Pteranodon set, the Battle Damage Baryonyx set, the Amber Collection Velociraptor and Malcolm, and from my pal in Germany, the Battle Damage Proceratosaurus, Monolophosaurus, and Herrerasaurus, and Savage Strike Plesiosaurus (which arrived on the same day those lots arrived interestingly enough). I'm still behind on the Mononykus (which I ordered from Amazon recently), and the Brachiosaurus which has been near impossible for me to find in stock so far in my area (central PA). I can keep on calling daily for the meantime, but it is rather unfortunate how poor my luck has been with finding this so far, because of being stocked poorly and/or being bought up quicker then I can get to it. I'm also still behind on those rare Legacy Collection sets that never came to Target, including the white JPIII female raptor (even if it is just an attack pack raptor repaint), and of course the Battle Damage Spinosaurus, which is finally showing up in stores near me (one I called today had it in stock, but I want to hold off a bit longer until I get it, as I want to be able to nail the Brachiosaurus if I can get lucky with catching it in stock from calling).
I've also since redone my display sections to make room for more figures and moved most of the figures on my bed elsewhere:
And this is where most of the larger figures have since been relocated (which is on a large Chewy box that is covering an old unused terrarium that was sitting in my room. It's not perfect but works well enough I guess. Also please forgive the messy state. I was in the midst of cleaning when I grabbed this pic):
My Legacy Collection John Hammond sits on top of my extra in box Mosasaurus that sits against one of my room's walls:
I haven't taken any pics of where I have displayed my Amber Collection stuff so here is an older pic of the two of them:
I also redid the top of my Beasts of the Mesozoic shelf with my Jurassic World figures:
Other pics:
I did this for my instagram account during the Beasts of the Mesozoic kickstarter campaign in an attempt to help it gain some traction during the final days. It is all my BotM figures together:
One of my families cat's (who we call Bob or Bobby) who felt the need to fall asleep on some of the carnegie rex figures the day I unboxed them, although that's nothing new with her (I mean sleeping on different objects such as phones, socks, etc):
And this last one isn't part of my figure collection, but is a blanket I had put together recently of images of my cat Stinky, who was my best friend for these long 9 years (from when I got him as a kitten in August 2010, until the very day he passed away), who as I mentioned earlier, was put to sleep recently (October 16, 2019). You might notice in one of the pictures many of my figures and plushies surrounding him. These were not only some of my favorite figures, but one's Stinky seemed to be interested in as well, always smelling and rubbing against, or sometimes sleeping with (which two of the pics on the blanket show as well). This blanket sits on the wall above my bed, and above my JW:FK wall stickers, and above my Mosasaurus, etc.
