Re: Looking for little plastic dinosaurs

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@infinet.com>]

At 01:13 AM 1/13/96 -0500, Steve Jackson wrote:
> . . . a bulk source, even (preferably!) a manufacturer. Not the big
>models, but the two-inch, brightly colored type you buy in a bag at the
>store.
>
>But I want to see if I can find a few that are not just laughably wrong,
>and that can be bought in bulk. For instance, thirty years ago, I played
>with a Brontosaurus (that's what it was then) that had a dragging, curled
>tail and was looking back over its shoulder. You can still buy that exact
>same toy in the stores today, along with its compatriots, including the
>wide-headed, tail-dragging, duck-footed T. rex, the butterball pterodactyl,
>and the Triceratops with the armor plates.
>
>What I'd *like* to find is a manufacturer who has at least four different
>species that are not alarmingly and obviously offensive to modern science.

   What is it, exactly, that you plan to do with them?  Sell them?  You've
got a hell of a lot of competition if that's what you plan to do.  I oughtta
know ... I sell 'em.

   If you plan on using them for some other purpose, be prepared to buy a
lot and pay a lot.  Manufacturers have minimum orders that you have to fulfill.

   That said, Safari makes three sets of small dinosaurs called Authentics,
with six different dinosaurs in each set.  The first set isn't that great
.. but I'm very impressed with the second and third set.  Very nicely
sculpted with exciting colors and excellent (handpainted!) paint jobs.

   I got 'em, 30% off right now ....

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