Re: Where to buy fossil skull replicas - Any suggestions?

["Bruce E Shillinglaw" <SHILLINGLAWB@prodigy.net>]

Hi, Larry, All!
    A.N.T.S. made one, of *Allosaurus fragilis* - I don't know if they still
do. Trouble was, the thing was a lot more expensive than your average 1/32
scale jet-fighter kit. Especially the bronze version... The last web addy I
had for them was

www.inhandmuseum.com

I got it from the package of my Ants replica of the holotype of
*Velociraptor mongoliensis*. Kewl cast, $27.00 from the AMNH gift shop. They
also have small ( 1/10 scale ) models of other dinosaur skulls. Nicely done,
and the *Triceratops* will fit rather comfortably on your mantel, rather
than becoming the focus of your home (and your spouse's venom...).
    FWIW
        Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Febo" <larryf@capital.net>
To: <Danvarner@aol.com>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Where to buy fossil skull replicas - Any suggestions?


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danvarner@aol.com <Danvarner@aol.com>
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Where to buy fossil skull replicas - Any suggestions?
>
>
> >In a message dated 12/4/01 7:43:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> >rpavley@hotmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> ><< My wife is looking to buy me a replica fossil skull for the holidays.
> >Does
> >anyone have a favorite place (store/web site) that has a selection in the
> >$100 - $200 range (I do not have space for a 72" Triceratops let alone
the
> >budget)? >>
> >
> >
> >       This brought back memories. Back in Minneapolis in the 50's of the
> >last century there was a local Saturday morning kid's TV program called
> >"Hobby Showcase". A feature of the show had a line of kids showing off
> their
> >model-making projects. The winner would get a supply of the powerful "10
> >Minute Glue". One Saturday I'm watching and some kid shows up with a
> >Triceratops skeleton about a foot long. Of course, my six-year-old brains
> >fell out and I became almost comatose. I had my mom call Woodcraft Hobby
> >store (who sponsored the show) to find out how I could get one. It turned
> out
> >the damn kid was one of those creative types and had actually carved the
> >thing out of wood. There was no kit. Fast-forward a year or two and now I
> >have the beautiful Tyrannosaurus skeleton made by Ideal Toys. It's a
> beauty.
> >On the side panel of the box it came in are pictures of models that will
> >appear in stores soon. Triceratops is coming! Year after year I plague
the
> >hobby shops. Brontosaurus comes out followed by Neanderthal man both as a
> >skeleton and a fleshed-out restoration. Stegosaurus, too. But never, ever
> >Triceratops. They lied to me!
> >       There could be a happy ending to this lengthy Christmas story.
Ralph
> >Chapman and the folks at the Smithsonian could go into the model business
> and
> >mass produce an affordable version of their digital Triceratops--my
> Christmas
> >wish. I held the little version of the skull at SVP and it was quite the
> >miracle. Here's a shot of a somewhat larger scale: DV
> >       http://muweb.millersville.edu/~dinosaur/g28.jpg
> >       and
> >       http://muweb.millersville.edu/~dinosaur/g43.jpg
> >
>
> Just a thought, (that occurred to me whilst pondering a Christmas gift for
a
> talented youngster.I was, at the time in one of those "Nature-Science"
> stores in a mall that featured those wooden dinosaur models),..... Why
don`t
> they make scale models that are fairly accurate in the depiction of
Dinosaur
> skeletons??? After all, they can be fairly precise when it comes to Cars,
> Battleships or planes. Why can`t they mold hollow plastic bones that can
be
> strung together with wires, and posed in  lifelike positions? Those wooden
> models seem appropriate for pre-teens perhaps, but wouldn`t there be a
> market for more precise models? They certainly would be more educational.
>
> (By the way, I wound up purchasing an F-16 model fighter jet , at
Wallmart,
> for this particular youngster)!
>