An introduction

[Huntsman]

Hallo everybody,

My  name is Bernhard, I'm from Bonn/Germany. So far I've not really been interested in dinosaurs, but on  my  fare-well party  (I'm just retired) I got a stegosaur toy and a card "You're extinct". And so  it  began...

Meanwhile I own a dozen models  (don 't yet dare to call it a collection) and I intend to collect specimens of every family, maybe genus. Preferred schlecht will be  1:30 - 1:40.

Pictures will follow ...

Greetings,
Bernhard

[Lanthanotus]

Hello and welcome to the forum, Bernhard

Nice joke, your colleagues did on you and a nice starter for a collector's career,... may you share which stegosaur toy it was?

[PlesiosaurusNessy]

Hello and very welcome to the DTF, Bernhard!

A very cool and absolute extraordinary way to find an interest in dinosaurs and the foundation of a collection!
But, every collection starts with a few items, step by step growing!

Congrats to your pension time, a beginning of a new part of your life and to your new dinosaur hobby!
Have a nice time here under other dinosaur enthusiasts!

Happy dinosaur collecting!

Nice to see pictures here in future of your just started dino collection and the "foundation stegosaurus"!

[Patrx]

Welcome, Bernhard! Not to worry, the dinosaurs aren't actually extinct either (since there are still rather a lot of birds), so let's hope your retirement is, in similar fashion, the start of a new era

[Jose S.M.]

Hello and welcome to the forum! Can't wait to see your photos. We have to thank your colleagues for bringing a new member to our community.

[Huntsman]

Thanks for welcome 

@Lanthanotus:
Stego was made  bei Schleich- Conquering the Earth. And so I realized that they had nothing in common with those mono-colored rubbery abominations of my youth ...

@Patrx:
I  hope so, too. Well, I can't fly, but ostriches can't either ...

@all:
Mythos autofunction only speaks german, so of course I meant  "scale"   

[Nimravus]

Welcome to the Dinotoy forum!
Most part of the dino figures out there are in your preferred scale, at least the ones affordable!! 
You will enjoy the stay!

[DinoToyForum]

Welcome to the forum. You're lucky to have some good natural history museums on your doorstep (Museum Koenig, Goldfuß Museum).

Edit...for example:
https://youtu.be/5yeszv56xyY

[Halichoeres]

Welcome, Bernhard!

[Tylosaurus]

Welcome to the best Dinosaur Ty community on the web the Dinosaur Toy forum that is!
Enjoy your stay and I look forward seeing your Dino collections Topic

[IrritatorRaji]

Welcome to the forum, Bernhard! I look forward to seeing you around

[Libraraptor]

Hello and welcome to the forum !I am from Germany too,  around your corner so to speak.  I live in the Sauerland.