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[DinoToyForum]

Dinowaurs may have been blind bags, but that wouldn't stop a particularly motivated, patient, and shameless person from systematically feeling through the bags in search of the marine reptiles. 100% success, no mistakes.

[Crackington]

@DinoToyForum I remember doing that with the WWD movie blind bag figures looking for the pterosaur! I told the shop assistant what I was doing and he didn't mind, bit of a slow day I think. This is what you would have been fondling 



@BlueKrono - not Shane Foulkes level but here's the Dinowaurs Keratocephalus and the Mosasaurus, also hard to get:



I recently splashed out a bit and got them from the late Anthony Beeson collection.

I've also got the Gigantoraptor somewhere but can't find it (hope it didn't meet the hoover!).

[Crackington]

It's been a while since my last update, but I recently got a joblot of vintage figures from eBay and thought they were worth a showing:



The group included some Inpros - the Saltoposuchus caught my eye - Diener copies, Weetos rubber early 90s cereal premiums, Timmee Toys, JP small Dilophosaurus and a Monsters in My Pocket trio.

I'll show off the rubber dinos a bit more on the Dieners, Rubbers and Others thread and show some more detailed snaps of the critters here too. Here's another angle snap of the haul in the meantime:

[Crackington]

I found the Timmee toys from this haul quite interesting. These are, I believe, the Mark 4 range of the toys produced first in the 1970s and 80s:




The greys and browns are more reminiscent of Marx though. Timmees are usually found as very colourful toys like MPC, and indeed are still being produced that way today:

https://timmeeusa.com/products/timmee-prehistoric-primary

I like these less colourful toys though as to me it brings out the sculpts more. I like the Stegosaurus group, inspired I suspect, by the paleoart of Knight and Burian.