Re: Dino toys and mistakes

[Derek Tearne <derek@nezsdc.fujitsu.co.nz>]

> 
> The recent postings about dino models and toys moves me to relate a recent
> occurence. A grandmother drove her grandson forty miles to the Natural
> Science Center on a mission. The boy's teacher had given him a small plastic
> dinosaur and instructed him to do a report on it. 
> This thing was a ceratopsian with a prominent nose horn and a single long
> brow horn between its eyes. The kid was panicked because he couldn't find it
> in any book. I swore to the grandmother I would call that evening with info
> on the dino, but couldn't find a thing!

I have, on my desk, a set of plastic dinosaur stamps (the kind which 
come with an ink pad).  Among them is a ceratopsian with a prominent nose 
horn and a single horn between it's eyes.  

If you ink the stamp part of the toy (or can read backwards) the resulting 
image reads 'Triceratops' and has two ridge horns.

All I can say is, it's very difficult to make a really cheap dinosaur 
mould in two halves with two horns pointing more or less forwards.

Sad but true.

Stegy, the really innacurate toy on top of my monitor, was manufacture 
from two four part moulds.

Derek Tearne.   --   derek@fujitsu.co.nz   --    Fujitsu New Zealand   --
Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.