Dino-Riders,anyone?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:17 pm

It's the only toyline I collect other then Transformers. They are the best and most life-like Dinosaur toys I have ever seen...

Anyone else collects them?

wideload · Post by **wideload** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:03 pm

I remember those. I still have a couple at my parents house.

They were some of the best toys that the 80s had to offer. Durable too.

You can find these on ebay for relatively cheap. A bargain for a high quality vintage toy.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:56 pm

wideload wrote:...vintage...

We just keep getting older every day, don't we?

god · Post by **god** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:24 pm

i still have 3 MIB, but in process of selling them, they were cool yes, but i'm outa room

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:28 pm

Alway willing to trade, I am...

wideload · Post by **wideload** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:41 am

Señior's Covenant wrote:
wideload wrote:...vintage...
We just keep getting older every day, don't we?

No doubt. Next year I have to fill in the 25-35 box.....

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:57 am

Heh, I already do that since 2 years... Man, I'm getting too old for this.

Anyway, I have a Monoclonius and two Deinonychuses (dino only), plus a lots of harness, seats, lasers, weapons, two-pack figures, etc. to trade for other DR stuff, if anyone interested.

god, which ones do you own?

I have the Dimetrodon, Pterodactyl, Monoclonius, Deinonychus (good guy version) and the Rulon Quetzalcoatlus (kinda rare, I heard). Plus a few two-packs.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:17 pm

What, no T-rex?

Yes Dinoriders was pretty leet.

I believe that they had been working with real arkeologists (or whatever) to make the models correct. They were shiznit when they came all right. The cartoon was very good too, the animation might even measure up to todays standards.

However, the dinosaur models became outdated when the Jurassic Park toys came,

cause those were really accurate, being based on the movie-models and all.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:13 pm

Predabot wrote:real arkeologists (or whatever)

Palaeontologists.

Damn, I'm turning into Ross.

Predabot wrote:However, the dinosaur models became outdated when the Jurassic Park toys came, cause those were really accurate, being based on the movie-models and all.

Actually they changed quite a few of the dinos for the movie. The "spitter", for example, was based on a Dilophosaurus, which in reality was a lot bigger than shown in the movie. The neck-frill and the spitting are pure Hollywood invention.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjec ... urus.shtml

For reference.

Chosen · Post by **Chosen** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:10 am

Only Dino-Riders figures I own are the "museum" versions, the ones that were stripped of all the weapons and anything sci-fi, just sold as the dino itself.

My collection only has the Monoclonius and Kentrosaurus. I'd love to pick up some of the real Dino-Riders sometime, and the T. rex was always a childhood Holy Grail for me.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:22 am

I have two loose Deinonychuses and a Monoclonius (sans weapons) Sadly a common problem with the DEinos is that the end of their tails is broken off...

I don't have the Rex, sadly... First of all, DRs were never avaliable in Hungary, I got all of them in Austria when we visited there, and the Rex cost fortunes. I remember my jaw dropping when I saw the size of the Brontosaur's box, though...

I also have lots of equipment, Pteranodon gear and cannons, Quatzalcoatlus (Dinorider one) harness, guns, hypno-helms, etc.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:01 am

Metal Vendetta wrote: Palaeontologists.

I forgot their name.

Thanks for refreshing me.

(I have no idea how I could acctually forget that.)

Actually they changed quite a few of the dinos for the movie. The "spitter", for example, was based on a Dilophosaurus, which in reality was a lot bigger than shown in the movie. The neck-frill and the spitting are pure Hollywood invention.

Acctually, I knew that one.

It was pretty friggin huge in reality, and in the book it lifts a guy in his head.

I believe that they also acctually chose the Velociraptor-design from a completely different Raptor?

But the toys had such detail.

I think they were more accurate in Jurassic Park3 with the dinos tho?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjec ... urus.shtml

I'm gonna click that link, and surf it. Cause that site seems really cool.