The Tyrannosaurus Off-road Tracker Pack represents the final set launched within the short-lived Jurassic Park 93’ Basic line, which was changed final 12 months by the (thus far) inferior Jurassic World Reimagined line. I suppose it is smart that the road wouldn’t final too far previous the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park however I believe your entire vary of toys launched underneath it are a few of Mattel’s greatest and most enjoyable.
This set features a Kenner impressed younger Tyrannosaurus, seize gear, Jeep, and Ray Arnold determine. Though this weblog completely options dinosaurs and different prehistoric animals, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say a couple of issues in regards to the different toys within the set.
Testing the packaging first, what we get here’s a presentation that mimics the Kenner packaging of outdated. You’ve received a black, pink, and yellow colour scheme total with palm timber silhouetted in opposition to an Isla Nublar sundown. The Jurassic Park emblem, JP emblem, and 93’ Basic emblem are all there and the toys may be seen behind a plastic window. The again of the packaging options the toys in a diorama setting. I’ve all the time beloved this throwback packaging and together with the Hammond Assortment and large sauropod containers they’re the one Mattel containers I’ve retained.
The automobile is a variation of the Jurassic Park Jeep that mixes options of the Kenner Bush Tracker Jeep and the unreleased Bush Satan Tracker, with coloration resembling the previous and a sample resembling the latter. It’s tremendously dialed again nevertheless, with out the bells and whistles of the unique Bush Tracker. The Jurassic Park emblem may be seen on the hood over high of a spattering of pink and the quantity 27 is printed on the edges, the identical quantity we see on the unique Bush Tracker. Your entire automobile is painted pink, tan, and black. Your entire inside is black apart from the yellow steering wheel. The automobile’s lights and mirrors are stickers. Pegs within the mattress of the Jeep enable a human determine to be positioned there. A golden spear/electrical prod is included as effectively and may be both held by Ray Arnold or affixed to the aspect of the Jeep.
The Ray Arnold motion determine appears precisely how you’d count on him to look…if he walked out of a 90’s Jurassic Park cartoon sequence. He wears a removeable inexperienced chest plate with a stylized dinosaur cranium molded on the entrance. He additionally wears removeable glasses, and a headset is molded onto this head. Ray is articled on the neck, shoulders, elbows, waist, hips, and knees. The small print of his face embrace properly textured hair, attribute bald spot, and painted eyes and facial hair. His shirt is grey, gloves and belt are pink, and pants and boots are drab inexperienced. It’s good to see Ray Arnold get some love from Mattel, as a result of Kenner by no means made a toy of him. That is Mattel’s 3rd Ray Arnold!
Now onto the toy that almost all of us are right here for, the dinosaur! This T. rex stands about 6.5” (16.51 cm) tall on the hip and measures 19” (48.26) lengthy. It’s articulated in two spots on the neck, shoulders, hips, ankles, and base of the tail. A button on the nape opens the mouth. Though lots of people dislike the turtle-neck look of the double-articulated neck it does enable for some respectable poses.
The physique of this toy is similar precise one used for the Excessive Chompin’ T. rex, solely the top is new. The Excessive Chompin T. rex is one among Mattel’s oldest figures and so which means you’re getting a low degree of element, with many of the physique coated in wrinkles as an alternative of scales. The toes are additionally absurdly outsized.
The top carefully mimics the top of Kenner’s younger T. rex, and it does loads to raise the enchantment of this toy. It’s good seeing a T. rex visage that isn’t Rexy’s. The top features a effective bumpy texture and enormous scales working up and over the forehead, down behind the eyes, and down behind the place the ears could be. The tooth are rubbery inserts that seem sharp and refined. Grooves are sculpted into the roof of the mouth and the tongue has a tough texture and a few scars on its floor.
The toy is painted black and yellow, making it appear to be the re-painted Kenner younger T. rex launched as a part of sequence 2. I’m glad that Mattel went with this colour as an alternative of the brown of the unique younger T. rex. We don’t want extra brown T. rex toys, and a black and yellow colour combo is all the time nice. The black alongside the again bleeds down over the yellow that dominates the top and continues down the underside of the toy. The black coloration even continues down the tail however stops about midway down its size. I want Mattel would have continued right down to the tail tip, however I suppose I must be pleased that there’s paint on the tail in any respect. The fingernails are unpainted however the claws on the toes are darkish black and glossy. The tooth are white, the within of the mouth is pink, and the eyes are yellow with black pupils.
Seize gear comes within the type of shackles for the legs and a muzzle for the top. It’s all a uniform silver colour. I don’t look after seize gear myself, and don’t show my toys with it, however I do know it’s very talked-about with most Jurassic Park collectors.
On account of its distinctive head sculpt and vibrant paintjob, this younger T. rex stands out amongst Mattel’s different Tyrannosaurus toys, and that makes it price in search of out. It’s disappointing that Mattel didn’t use a brand new physique although. The incredible head sculpt is considerably mismatched with the physique of a toy that preceded it by 6 years. This additionally ought to have been an actual really feel toy, like the unique younger T. rex and Mattel’s 93’ Basic pink T. rex. As for the remainder of the set, the automobile appears nice however might have used a couple of motion options and seeing Ray Arnold upgraded from an engineer to an motion hero is numerous enjoyable. Total, the set might have been higher, nevertheless it’s nonetheless fairly darn cool, and I’m saddened to see the 93’ Basic line come to an finish.
This Tyrannosaurus Off-road Tracker Pack has been out there for a very long time as Mattel toys go and might nonetheless be discovered on Goal’s web site. It retails for $50 however I believe that’s a bit steep and waited for it to go on sale, as these items all the time do. There are three different 93’ Basic units that haven’t been reviewed but, however you may count on that to be remedied shortly and I look ahead to sharing them.
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