Vintage Figures

[JPuggy]

I'm a huge fan of vintage dinosaur figures. I'm not talking Battat or Carnegie. I love AAA, Imperial, Timmee, and Chinasaurs. I want to know if anyone else shares my opinions on these wonderful retro lines.

[Stegotyranno420]

while i will always prefer modern and realistic figures, i love vintage ones too.
They are really fun to play with.
Are you experienced with chinasaurs, i need your help to identify some.

[JPuggy]

Im experienced with most, but there is one Timmee knockoff I have never been able to identify

[JPuggy]

send me a pic and ill try to identify it

[Stegotyranno420]

alright but it will  be even harder since it got repainted, but the original colors were red with a slowly blended black top, and yellow eyes
Its an old repaint, so it will seem messed up and chipped, because when it was made i didn't know much about the paints
Is tomorrow fine?

[sauroid]

yes some of my cherished figures are vintage like U.K.R.D., Timmee, Invicta, 80s Carnegie, etc

[JPuggy]

I like UKRD too!

Also tomorrow works fine Stego!

[Gwangi]

Yup! I'm a big fan of the Invicta line, and recently started collecting Marx toys as well. I recently reviewed the re-issued Tim Mee toys for the blog and am now working on a few Marx reviews.

http://dinotoyblog.com/2021/02/16/dinosaurs-tim-mee-toys-by-j-lloyd-international-inc/

[JPuggy]

Nice! I've read a few of your reviews and you are really good at it! Keep up the great work!

[sauroid]

and its cool that youre 14 but appreciate the old school figures

[Justin_]

Does anyone know if the original Tim Mee figures were ever produced in a green similar to Marx? I'm trying to track down a brontosaurus figure I had at primary school back in the mid-70s. I'm just going by memory from a long time ago, but nothing I've seen online is quite right, and what I'm trying to track down was possibly available in the UK only. I think the pose was like the Tim Mee but with a head more like the Marx.

[Libraraptor]

I'm a huge fan of vintage dinosaur figures. I'm not talking Battat or Carnegie. I love AAA, Imperial, Timmee, and Chinasaurs. I want to know if anyone else shares my opinions on these wonderful retro lines.

I do.

[JPuggy]

So like a light or dark green?

[Gwangi]

Nice! I've read a few of your reviews and you are really good at it! Keep up the great work!

Thanks! Glad you've enjoyed them.

[Duna]

I do, too.  I have all the figures from UKRD (1991 to 1993), it's one of my favourite companies. Also I have some Spanish exclusive collections from that time (80-90s): Danone, Miniland, Yolanda, El Cigarral, Dunkin, Panini-Tombola. I have some Imperial in perfect condition but I won't keep them, they are all on sale.
I have 2 Invicta complete collections which I absolutely adore.
I like Marx, Inpro, Tim Mee and others, but I have only 3-4 figures, they are very difficult for me to get in my country.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Firstly, where does one draw the line at what counts as vintage?

Secondly, the Invicta figures will always have a place in my heart, I have the full set, plus a variant colour Stegosaurus. They are lovely to me.

I have some Carnegie but the older ones are mostly just placehodlders.

I don't know if you count Battat or not

[Crackington]

I've thought about this a bit, and also what would count as antique. The general consensus is that Vintage is over 20 years old, but antique over 100:

https://pediaa.com/difference-between-antique-and-vintage/

Hence there are loads of vintage figures out there, including some early Safaris, but very few figures  in our collections would be antique; even SRG, Marx etc have some way to go.

[SidB]

Well, that's encouraging - I'm vintage, but not antique!

[Crackington]

Me too 😀

[Stegotyranno420]

How about retro?