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General Collecting => Misc. non Star Wars => Topic started by: The Spectre on November 29, 2018, 08:25:42 AM
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NKOK is a companny known for making RC vehicles, but they have dabbled in articulated and battery operated dinosaur toys.
NKOK "Wow World" articulated mini dinosaur 6pk:
http://nkok.com/nkok_products/wow-world-19-3/#ad-image-1
NKOK "Wow World" mid sized articulated dinosaur 3pk:
http://nkok.com/nkok_products/wow-world-19-5/#ad-image-1
I picked up the mini 6pk and am quite happy with the quality. The paint apps are a bit sloppy but that is nothing I cannot fix.
The larger battery operated and RC dinosaurs are rather goofy looking and most feature rubber necks which will crack and degrade over time.
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I saw this on Facebook and posted it. Neat beasties.
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Cool dinosaurs! I gotta wonder how many do you even have in your collection? I follow your posts so I'm sure your overall collection of toys must be insanity! :o
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Cool dinosaurs! I gotta wonder how many do you even have in your collection? I follow your posts so I'm sure your overall collection of toys must be insanity! :o
As soon as I get another phone (mine is several years old and the camera on mine does not focus properly any longer), I will post some updated pics of my Hobby Room.
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I look forward to that. With all your dinos I bet you could shoot a miniature version of Jurassic World!
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I was killing some time in Paramus tonight waiting for my wife to get out of class and hit TJ Maxx on Rt17.
They had the Wow World large articulated dinosaur 3pks for $12.99. I had picked up the mini 6pks last year at Tuesday Morning but had never seen the large sets in person until tonight. I grabbed a set for myself.
Word of warning: check the stegasauruses closely as the back plates are a separate piece glued over a large gap in the body halves and are not exactly the right size. I found a set with only a miniscule gap left in the front and back which I will fill with contour putty before I repaint it, but all of the remaining sets had a sizable gap either in the front behind the neck or in the back before the tail.
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Spotted some new Dinosaur "action figures" at Marshalls tonight. I put action figures in quotes as they only have 1 point of articulation (jaws on the T-rex and Spino and head on the Pterodactyl), which makes them better than Hasbro's upcoming 0 POA "Star Wars" line.
They are on par with Safari Ltd. figurines as far as detail and paint and are pretty solid and hefty so they are not bad for the $7.99 pricepoint but I passed on them as I already have superior versions of all 3 species.
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The thing that ticks me off with the no movement line is the fact they are trying to do better sculpting on it it seems than their regular super arty line, if there is such a thing anymore.
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Spotted some brand new "Wow World" articulated dinosaurs (in 2 scales- $12.99 for the big ones and $9.99 for the small ones) at TJ Maxx tonight!
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There are 2 additional sets of the larger ones but the TJ Maxx I was at did not have them.
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Saw the other 2 new "Wow World" large dinosaur sets at TJ Maxx in Paramus!
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Cheap but awesome creature alert!
This vinyl Pteranodon can be found at Walmarts across the country in the wire bins full of cheap vinyl dinosaurs, insects, safari animals and sea life for $1 each.
Unlike the rest of the vinyl animals available in the bins, this one is solid vinyl. The rest are usually hollow, sonic welded vinyl halves that you can compress with your hand. These are solid, hefty and far above the quality of their binmates.
I actually prefer these vinyl pteranodons to just about any of Mattel's "Jurassic World" versions since they don't have that stupid midwing swivel. The sculpts are really nice but the paint is extremely basic as is befitting a dollar toy. Once they get a repaint, I believe they will look spectacular in dioramas. And with their low MSRP, you can acquire a flock of them inexpensively (however, this will take some time as they appear to be 1 per shipping container of 36 dinosaurs).
Seriously, I pick up every single one I find (I must have at least 3 dozen of them in a box in my crawlspace).
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Nice Dan. I will have to see if my stores carry them when we start going back into them.
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Wow World is now producing larger, electronic light and sound articulated dinosaurs. They measure about 12" in length and have light up mouths and make the stereotypical "Godzilla" roars when their feature is activated.
There are 4 dinosaurs in the assortment- Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Dilophasaurus(with "Jurassic Park" style neck frills) and Carnotaurus.
They retail for $7.99 each and were found at "Home Goods".
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There is a line of approximately 3"-4" long unarticulated vinyl dinosaurs showing up at Poundland stores in the UK called "Prehisterror" by a company called "TXA".
Four of the five available species are ones that are extremely common and offered by just about every company that has ever had or ever will make dinosaur toys, but the fifth species is this awesome looking and brightly colored Archaeopteryx!
I REALLY hope that this line makes it to the US as I want at least 6 of these!
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Pretty colorful. Hope you get your chance to snag one or ten.
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Robotic Dragons/Dinosaurs spotted at Burlington.
The sculpts are pretty cool but they are unarticulated.
There are 2 different sets available.
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New "Wow World" electronic battle damaged dinosaurs have been spotted at Marshalls!
They only had the one style on the shelves but the back of the package shows which other species are available in this assortment. They are all common species except for the Theriziniosaurus (which I will grab when I see one!).
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Pretty colorful. Hope you get your chance to snag one or ten.
I got hooked up by a friend in the UK!
They arrived today :)
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Very nice Dan.
I keep thinking you have enough Dinos now that you could do the opening scene to Jurassic Park and then some!
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Walmart is getting a pair of Zazu "Robo Alive" dinosaur bargain bundles for the holidays!
There is a 2pk of dinos with armor and a 3pk of dinos on their own. Each set retails for $20+tax.
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Marshalls score!
These dinos are from Kid Galaxy but are not the usual Lontic/Tedco/Happy Kin Toys molds. I'm not sure if this means that Kid Galaxy will not be distributing the dinos from that manufacturer or not. Hopefully, they do as there were 4 or 6 new molds introduced between 2020 and 2022 that we have not seen in the US yet.
The sculpts aside from the Stegosaurus (which is pretty basic) are quite nice, but the paint apps are terrible (not a problem for me as I will be repainting them anyway). The articulation is really basic, cut and swivel joints for the tails, legs and necks and there are hinges for the Carnotaurus' jaw and the Pteranodon's wings.
There is another set pictured on the back that contains some super common species, but I did not see that set today.
This 4pk was $12.99.
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These "Animal Kingdom" vinyl dinosaurs by Alliance Imports Inc. were $1.25 each at $ Zone and are bootlegs of Papo figurines. They are made of a rigid, yet hollow vinyl whereas the Papo originals are solid. They need repaints before they will join my display, but the molds themselves are great for the price!
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New Kid Galaxy "Dinosaurs Attack" 4pks have been spotted at the TJMaxx in Saddlebrook, NJ!
They are a mix of 4 previously released molds and 4 brand new molds.
The set in the first image has 3 re-released dinosaurs with only 1 new mold, the yellowish Dimetrodon on the far right.
The set in the second image only has 1 re-released dino (Dilophosaurus) and 3 brand new molds including a relative of the Ankylosaurs, my favorite dinosaur of all time.
Like the previous sets, the paint on these figures is REALLY rough. Paint is basically just splattered onto each figure rather sloppily, so collectors will need to repaint them before they are display worthy.
These sets retail for $12.99 each, making each individual dinosaur approximately $3.25 each, not a bad price for an articulated dinosaur action figure. I passed on them for now, but that Ankylo relative is really tempting...
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Off to share