But that’s another story.įast forward to 1992 and the release of the first Jurassic Park movie, and I remember wondering through Toys R Us, feeling somewhat sad that there were so many dinosaur toys on the shelves. This obsession with dinosaurs probably lasted until Star Wars was released. I can’t find any images of it these days but 7-year-old me was really proud. My brother got a brontosaurus(as it was then called) and I picked up an ankylosaurus.Īfter putting it together and painting it, I glued it to a piece of wood, along with a few pieces of pine bark and a cardboard panel cut from the box, giving some of the animal’s vital statistics. Of course, these models were not readily available, and it was not until 1976, visiting Melbourne, that we found some plastic model kits. This book strongly recommended trying to get some dinosaur models or toys and building a diorama using chicken wire, papier mache and a few sticks.
Much of the included information is outdated or at least wildly inaccurate except, perhaps, for the fact that the Tyrannosaurus Rex ate meat.
Except, living in a rural town in Australia in the mid-1970s, the best I could hope for was my Ladybird book of Prehistoric Animals and Fossils. 6-7 year old me would not leave this book behind, ever!īack in the day, I was dead keen on Dinosaurs.
