What is your luckiest toy find

[CarnegieCollector]

I just found a discontinued safari ltd Utahraptor on Amazon for $8 and free shipping.  I call this a "lucky find"!

What's your luckiest dinosaur find?

[sauroid]

i think there's already a thread about this topic.

[CarnegieCollector]

i think there's already a thread about this topic.

Oh, I didn't know.

[sauroid]

it's a dead thread so this one would be a good way to revive the topic.

[CarnegieCollector]

it's a dead thread so this one would be a good way to revive the topic.

Oh ok! Yay!

[sauroid]

oh the old topic is "your proudest catch" so different topic altogether.
http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1182.0

[Pachyallosaurus]

I have 2, and both are eBay unboxings. One of which had a Carnegie deinonychus, 2 protoceratops, a dimetrodon, a mosasaurus, an apatosaurus baby, and a WS 1996 allosaurus. All for only $11. The other one I got for my birthday, which had the Carnegie corythosaurus, parasaurolophus, iguanodon, a second maiasaura with nest, and a Safari DoC therizinosaurus.

[Libraraptor]

What's so bad about threads that already exist.  I prefer that to new threads popping up everyday about age old topics. And proudest catch is close enough to fuse the threads.

[Roselaar]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

[ceratopsian]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts.....

That really made my jaw drop!  Very well done!

[CityRaptor]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

The Netherlands are a marvelous place.

[BlueKrono]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

Got any spares?

[Roselaar]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

Got any spares?

Yes, lots of Eryops and Peltobatrachus. But none of the others. I'll forever kick myself for not buying as much complete sets as I could when first I found them. I could have supplied half the members of these boards with a full set of eight...

The Battat Utahraptor was as lucky as I ever got. Never saw any original Battatsaurs in the Netherlands before, and never again.

Or how about seven Invicta Troodons for 2 euros each? By the time that news reached me, there was only one left. Obviously I bought it.

[Shonisaurus]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

Got any spares?

Yes, lots of Eryops and Peltobatrachus. But none of the others. I'll forever kick myself for not buying as much complete sets as I could when first I found them. I could have supplied half the members of these boards with a full set of eight...

The Battat Utahraptor was as lucky as I ever got. Never saw any original Battatsaurs in the Netherlands before, and never again.

Or how about seven Invicta Troodons for 2 euros each? By the time that news reached me, there was only one left. Obviously I bought it.

My last finds of which I am proud are the following:

Bullyland's ankylosaurus (second-hand) on ebay was a lost case and two months ago I found it.

Other figures that I feel lucky is the oviraptor hierarchy of Carnegie Safari 2005 (new) that a member of the forum got me Dinolord if I remember correctly and to which I am eternally grateful before Christmas

On the other hand ebay found the protoceratops with Carnegie Safari with label tag (new) and allosaurus Carnegie Safari of 1988 (new) a month ago.

Also by an ebay provider I found the procynosuchus of Bullyland

For now they have been my most exciting finds.

[BlueKrono]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

Got any spares?

Yes, lots of Eryops and Peltobatrachus. But none of the others. I'll forever kick myself for not buying as much complete sets as I could when first I found them. I could have supplied half the members of these boards with a full set of eight...

The Battat Utahraptor was as lucky as I ever got. Never saw any original Battatsaurs in the Netherlands before, and never again.

Or how about seven Invicta Troodons for 2 euros each? By the time that news reached me, there was only one left. Obviously I bought it.

Ah well. That means there's that many out there somewhere, right?

[PaleoMatt]

Probably the Carnegie Dilophosaurus pair. I found them on eBay for relativley cheap. Or, does me getting all of the Battat Terra set on EverythingDinosaur when they were released on site with a great discount, count.

[Flaffy]

9 carnegie australopithecus for $3.5 is by far the best deal I found, the shop owner clearly didn't know it's worth

[Roselaar]

Battat Utahraptor for 50 cts. Or lots of Play Vision amphibians for 50 cts each.

Got any spares?

Yes, lots of Eryops and Peltobatrachus. But none of the others. I'll forever kick myself for not buying as much complete sets as I could when first I found them. I could have supplied half the members of these boards with a full set of eight...

The Battat Utahraptor was as lucky as I ever got. Never saw any original Battatsaurs in the Netherlands before, and never again.

Or how about seven Invicta Troodons for 2 euros each? By the time that news reached me, there was only one left. Obviously I bought it.

Ah well. That means there's that many out there somewhere, right?

Yeah, distributed all over the Netherlands by little kids who don't know what treasure they have, most likely. They could be chewed on by dogs for all we know...

Another figure I once found for 50 cts at a flea market was the Schleich Desmatosuchus, that's also not unlucky a find.

[CityRaptor]

People not knowing about their treasures can be good ( you get it cheap ) or bad ( they did not take good care of it ).

[Lanthanotus]

My luckiest find is still the Bullyland Edaphosaurus in a BIN lot of other rare Bullylands, all with their tags.

But more recently I came across a bucket load of Kaiyodos for a very fair price (would have cost me four or five times at least if all bought seperatly) - unfortunately I had to learn that German customs is a ripper though :/

In case of totally unsuspected surprises my luckiest find was the Invicta Dimorphodon within the envelope containing my last year's diorama contest prize (the very good and recommendable book "Tyrannosaurus Chronicles" by David Hone)