Epic Win: Playskool Definitely Dinosaurs
Submitted and Written by Matt L, sharptooth
Wow! My first introduction to the vast world of dinosaur collectibles was the Playskool triceratops. Each of the deluxe dinosaurs came with your dino, at least one caveman, a saddle of some manner, and a book that usually depicted a story of how the dino and human met. Even the smaller dinosaurs at least came with a story book inside. There were dozens of these things by the end of their run and, indeed, you could play with them real rough!
Dinosaurs + toys = epic win. Duh. Though the presence of humans is deeply disconcerting.
What do you mean “the presence of humans is deeply disconcerting”? The dinosaurs have to eat something!
Scientific accuracy is not stressed in toys.
They would have been more accurate if they came with Jesus action figures!
Those things were neat. My brother and I had countless dinosaur battles with these.
omg XD We STILL have two of the ones with the spines on their backs! Those were freakin’ awesome <3
Oh my gosh! I remember those! My brother had that yellow one with the spine that’s in the video! It came with that green riding contraption and that blue toga dude on the left.
I had a blue brontosaurus and a little blond guy, I kept that little storybook for a long time.
I could give you a transcript of my thoughts as I saw this commercial as a seven-year-old:
“Dinosaurs? My antennae is up!”
“OMG WTF HOLY CRAP these are FULLY ARTICULATED Dinosaur toys!!! WANT WANT WANT!!!!!!”
(And then I noticed the cavemen.)
“WHY CAN’T WE HAVE NICE THINGS???” <:(
Ha… Me too.
Except I was a little older but hadn’t yet learned the phrase “WTF.”
“I think we should call it…your grave!”
“Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
(Come on, someone had to say it.)
Serenity FTW!!!
Golly, I miss them – Wash, dinosaurs (I had the parasauralophus), and good sci-fi. *sigh* Time to break out the ol’ DVDs.
LOL you read my mind
I just tossed the humans out when I had those things. I didn’t need no pesky humans, I just wanted the kickass dinosaurs.
I’m pretty sure I still have the one on the left of the screenshot. Last I knew it was in a drawer full of dinosaur toys in my basement.
I made my dinosaurs massacre the humans even the gentel brontosaurus was a cold blooded killer in my childish eyes