Kenner Jurassic Park Chaos Effect Amargospinus Kenner, 1998
Day #533: November 19, 2012
Amargospinus Amargosaurus + Spinosaurus
Jurassic Park Chaos Effect Carded Dinosaurs Asst. 71135 No. 71148 Manufacturer: Kenner Includes: n/a Action Feature: Attack Jaws & Ultra-Defense Neck Spikes Retail: $5.99 Availability: 1998 Other: One of three new carded dinosaur molds for Chaos Effect
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Amargospinus is one of those weird toys clearly meant for kids that, as a young college student, I saw and said "Yeah, let me get a few of these." After all, when money is super-tight, one needs this bizarre red, black, and yellow dinosaur action figure. The gimmick here is that Kenner made up new dinosaurs with gene splicing, a conceit whose satirical content was best exploited via Gremlins 2: The New Batch roughly 10 years earlier. In the case of this toy, they mixed the Spinosaurus with the Amargosaurus, the latter of which I had no concept of when I saw this toy. Basically, it's sort of like an Apatosaurus with some spines or a frill on its neck, and this one adds bigger, meaner teeth and more spikes and plates. It's goofy but totally lovable.
As a big fan of Kenner-style toys, especially for their simplicity and weirdness, this is a favorite. I'm a little disappointed that they came out so long after I was, uh, too old for toys but that's never really stopped me. I have a feeling a few kids out there got and adored these, or maybe were just driven batty by their lack of scientific accuracy. This line was sort of a last hurrah for The Lost World as a movie, Kenner more or less stopped new development on this line and dropped some fun line extensions after this line, I guess, failed to do whatever it was they wanted. A ton of glow-in-the-dark figures were to have been next, and I've always been a little upset we never got the ridiculous "Night Hunter Series" sub-line.
--Adam Pawlus
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