thagomizer, Battat stego model

[Mike Bonham <bonham@jade.ab.ca>]

> Battat has a Stegosaurus, Styracosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Triceratops,
> Gallimimus, Tyrannosaurus, a Diplodocus in the high-rearing tripod position,
> and what look like, in the picture on the attached dog-tag blurb, Polacanthus,
> Maiasaura, Megalosaurus and that spiny-necked African(?) sauropod.

I forgot to mention the Deinonychus or large velociraptorid, which is
coloured like a cheetah.  The Calgary Zoo shop did not have representatives
of all models, so I have to guess from the picture.

I sure hope the Tyrrell Museum gift shop starts stocking this line of dinos.
They used to have the British museum models which were pretty good, if a bit
dated, but their current ones are really pathetic (chunky no-name models,
brightly painted but anatomically bogus).

In defense of the RTMP, perhaps it's hard to get a secure supply of the
good models, and they ordered the bogus ones to at least have something.
I would rather they maintained a higher standard!

Mike Bonham        bonham@jade.ab.ca      Jade Simulations International
``Organization is the enemy of improvisation.'' -- Beaverbrook