
The DinoToyBlog has developed over time, very like the prehistoric creatures we overview. Articles listed below are extra substantial now than ever earlier than. The common phrase rely has elevated, the variety of images has gone up, and the scientific rigour has shot by the roof. It’s improbable! However not each overview must be an essay. Certainly, not each determine deserves an essay. Generally a number of snaps and a quick overview is greater than passable, and that’s definitely true for the cartoon-like toys within the ‘Dinosaurs and Associates’ line by De Agostini. So, let’s preserve this Kronosaurus overview transient!

This Kronosaurus has the nickname ‘Kronos’ and is described as a daddy (there’s additionally a child within the line). This 15 cm lengthy mannequin has a cute aesthetic with a generic four-flippered pliosaur physique, stubby spherical flippers, and only a few simplified tooth. The tail is inexplicably massive and chunky, however not offensively so.

Somewhat extra irksome is the generic theropod-like head, with the nostrils positioned wrongly on the tip of the snout, and the eyes positioned manner too far to again on the cranium. Plesiosaurs, together with pliosaurs, are sometimes depicted with dinosaur heads by artists who don’t know any higher. I’m positive the toddlers taking part in with it received’t thoughts, however it could have been simple to get this appropriate. Kronos may properly be severely disfigured, however no less than he appears to be like blissful!

The chocolate brown base color is paying homage to some Marx toys, however it’s countershaded with a cream stomach. The tongue has been painted on so it appears to be like a bit just like the Chinasaur ‘screamers’ of the 70s and 80s. The outsides of the tooth have crude blobs of white, whereas the neatly painted eyes are ‘Disneyfied’.

The De Agostini figures are hole, in order that they’re very gentle, however they’re additionally stable and strong so the plastic have to be thick and good high quality – it doesn’t bend. It has no markings on the underside apart from the CE image, and just a little circle opening from the manufacturing course of.

This line was launched in affiliation with a youngsters’s story e-book collection, ‘Dinosaurs and Associates’, so the toys have been by no means initially offered individually. The Kronosaurus got here with situation 61. There are a great deal of species on this collection, together with some uncommon or fascinating decisions, and they’re simple to seek out on Ebay for reasonable (hyperlink beneath this overview). Nevertheless, we’ve solely featured a handful to date, so I’d wish to see extra of those toys featured on the DinoToyBlog sooner or later. They will not be utterly (and even remotely) correct, however they’re enjoyable!
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