Dino Trackers Danger Pack Dakosaurus Yes flipper feet Jurassic World Dino Trackers Danger Pack Item No.: Asst. HLN49 No. HLN57 Manufacturer: Mattel Includes: n/a Action Feature: Pull tab to reveal app-scannable DNA Retail: $8.47 Availability: June 2023 Other: Big jaws
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I was out on a random Sunday and stumbled on this Dakosaurus at a Walmart in the wrong aisle. Oopsie to whoever stocked the shelves or was trying to hide it, because it's mine now. I haven't bought a lot of Jurassic World stuff - it's incredible, but it's a big collection and I get weird with completism, so I'm just buying very, very few toys. If I see one or two good ones previewed on JPToys.net, and I see them in the wild, sure, I'll buy it. Otherwise I'll probably keep it light because it's easy to get bogged down in a massive collection real quickly, so I've been going after the weird stuff. As a kid I was obsessed with the idea of aquatic dinosaurs in the great inland sea, and when I went to Kansas and saw a bunch of local water-dwelling dinosaur bones on display it was really something. Plus or minus the fact the ones I saw were replicas - hey, it still got the point across. It was hard to find aquatic dinosaur toys in the 1980s, so I had to buy the big Mosasaurus a few years ago and the much easier to play with Dakosaurus really got the job done. I'm not even going to make you wait, I'll just say "yeah you should get one." I'm still kicking myself for not buying the Plesiosaurus the one time I saw it.

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At about 7 1/2-inches long, it's the perfect size to torment your action figures. While this particular species was discovered in Europe, it's still the kind of thing to poke the imagination with its big finned flipper feet, massive jaws, and striking tail. I love the wrinkly skin with teh bumps, and the paint is pretty excellent. It seems to be printed on - you can see the tiny dots if you squint. Other than a SKU, the feet and tail are completely unpainted. The head has painted teeth, nice eye detail, some stripes, and a little pink on the tongue and the sides of the mouth. They did a real nice job here with the paint.

As toy dinosaurs go, it has good articulation - but not great. Each of the paddles are on swivel joints, so there's no lateral movement here. The tail also swivels, with a neck that goes up and down. You also get an opening jaw, which is the kind of luxury that I think kids of the 1980s only dreamed of on their dime store hand-me-down terrible lizards. Its coloring and general vibe stand apart from similarly sized marine or swampy creatures in Mattel's line, especially at this size, but I assume it'll be in short supply for that very reason. Two-legged carnivores are plenty common, but stuff like this doesn't come along all that much. Grab one if you see it, because what else are you going to do with that money? Eat? Not in this economy.

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