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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom LEGO Sets Announced!

Hot off the press following last week’s Toy Fair news (Read more here: ) we have news today from Universal and LEGO regarding their LEGO offerings for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Anyone who knows me will know I do a lot of LEGO photography, so for me, this is incredibly exciting to finally have official images of a sample of the LEGO sets released. Without any further ado, let’s jump into the news:

"We are thrilled to be expanding on our long-standing partnership with Universal in 2018. This year will bring a wide assortment of LEGO construction sets, collectables, licensed apparel and animated content, all based on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” said Jill Wilfert, Vice President of Inbound Licensing and Entertainment for the LEGO Group. “Jurassic World is an iconic property that appeals to both adults who grew up with the property and to their kids who have embraced this world with the new films. The team at Universal has a strong long-term plan in place that will continue to build the property globally, and we are excited to give LEGO builders of all ages even more options when it comes to playing with Owen, Claire and the iconic dinosaurs like Blue in LEGO form." -- LEGO Announcement

Our first offering in the Fallen Kingdom line is 10758 T-Rex Breakout– featuring the iconic T-Rex we all know and fondly call Rexy. This set is a Juniors set, meaning that it is traditionally a simpler-style LEGO set released for younger fans. The T-Rex in this set, whilst identical to the one included in the 75918 T-Rex Tracker set from the Jurassic World line, is a nice opportunity for fans who missed out on those sets to get the iconic star in a set for 2018. I also love the fact that LEGO opted to include Rexy in a Juniors set – leaving room for other dinosaurs whom we could potentially see in the main line. This set also includes Claire, an ACU Mercenary, and a figure which looks like Lowery. Whilst I can appreciate the nod to Lowery, the lookalike would have been so much better being a fully committed Lowery – using the Jurassic Park T-Shirt torso which we all loved the character for. This is one of my few gripes with the line – they missed a chance to include a wonderful tribute to Jurassic Park. The new Claire figure, however, looks fantastic. The little lab build here is nice – with incubators and a small pen for a baby dinosaur which would look great built into a larger scene – just like that stickered screen with a map of Isla Nublar. The smaller baby dinosaurs are one of my favorite components of the new line, and I am delighted that LEGO introduced them. The eggs included here look nice here too – and they seem to be consistent as both this set and the Helicopter set revealed include them. Is this possibly foreshadowing a Fallen Kingdom plot point? The rest of the builds, whilst simple, look nice – although the gate suffers from using the standard piece found in all LEGO Juniors sets of this scale. Whilst it would certainly look better at its full scale, this set is a great set for children – and a nice opportunity for fans wanting the T-Rex from the JW line.

Following on from this, we have 75928 – Blue’s Helicopter Pursuit. This set features a predominantly large helicopter, which looks like many LEGO builds we have seen in recent memory. However, it looks good in Jurassic livery, and has the potential to be rather spacious – something which is exiting as we may be able to get a bunch of mini-figures on-board this vehicle. Here we also get a small quad-bike in a dark red colour which looks like a rather nice build – making use of LEGO’s new front tow-bar piece to good effect. We also get Owen here, featuring a brand-new hairpiece, face print and costume. The face print, whilst slightly off, is a nice distinction from the one seen in the Jurassic World line – and I appreciate it a lot. We also see what appears to be a mercenary sporting flight goggles and a different ethnicity, which is always nice. Lastly, we get Ted Levine’s character of Ken Wheatley, who looks good here. He doesn’t feature any leg print, but his torso looks accurate to what we have seen from his character, and the face sculpt here looks good. We also have a nicely detailed cage trap which looks really nicely-built and has some cool habitat-style elements built into it, and lastly, Blue the Velociraptor. Blue’s colour scheme here is vastly different to the one included in 75917 Raptor Rampage, and for me personally, I prefer the original one. This one just feels a little too extreme to me – but it is nice to see LEGO trying new things with the dinosaurs. A fun thing to note here is the back of the box – showing us what appears to be a Carnotaurus, the rumored Indoraptor, Blue, a Stygimoloch, a Pteradon and the baby dinosaur. This is a nice tease as to the other dinosaurs we can expect to see in the line, so I cannot wait to see them revealed in their entirety.

Lastly, we have 10880 – T Rex Tower – LEGO’s first venture into the Duplo line for even younger children. Here we get simplified builds at only 22 pieces, but the Owen figure still has his charm. The jeep is nice with its printed components, and the T-Rex whilst not fully accurate, is bound to be popular with younger children. It is wonderful to see LEGO reaching out to younger children, as childhood is really the age where a fascination with dinosaurs can begin. It’s also cool to see that this is a Jurassic World set – NOT a Fallen Kingdom set. This gives me hope that perhaps, in the future, we may see sets based upon the past films too. Those were the three sets shared in LEGO’s PR brief at International Toyfair with Comingsoon.net – what do you think? I think we have lots of wonderful components here, and I really like the box-art we are getting with these new sets. Especially the core-line sets, which feel very visually appealing and capture the colour scheme of Fallen Kingdom well. It is also interesting to note we get 13 sets this time around with 2 retailer’s exclusives – dwarfing the offerings we saw for Jurassic World. Now the success of the line is assured, could we see even more in the future? Only time will tell.

Are you excited for the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom sets? Or are you waiting for other products to be revealed? Comment below, and stay tuned for all things Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Source: ComingSoon.net

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The Science of Jurassic Park & More: Part Three

In today’s article, we will be continuing the final part of our deep-dive into the world of palaeontology with Doctor David Button from London’s Natural History Museum.

In Part Two, David talked about his favourite dinosaurs, whether we are still discovering new dinosaurs, and much more. If you missed it, click here to take a read.

Many of the images in the article ahead are also courtesy of our friends at Jurassic Vault – so go show them some love if you haven’t already!

Without any further ado, let’s kick off our final part to this series by talking about the accuracy of the fan favourite Spinosaurus!

Image from Jurassic Park Wiki.

How accurate was the Spinosaurus we saw in Jurassic Park 3 (2001) at the time of release?

The Spinosaurus of Jurassic Park III was actually reasonably accurate at the time of release, as it was not well known at the time. Its main problem was the orientation of the hands – as with most of the other theropods in the franchise, it was depicted with permanently pronated “bunny hands”, even though theropods were unable to pronate their hands into such a position.

How do you see/research intelligence of extinct animals that died millions of years ago?

We can get an idea of the cognition of an extinct animal by taking a cast of the interior surfaces of the braincase – producing what is known as an endocast. This used to be performed by injecting latex into a dinosaur braincase and then cutting it open. Fortunately, however, these days we are able to produce these digitally by CT-scanning dinosaur braincases. The endocast gives us a replica of the shape of the brain and surround soft tissues.

From this, we can examine the shape of the brain and its constituent lobes to get an idea of the sensory abilities of an animal, and from the dimensions of the inner ear we can even calculate the range of sounds an animal could hear. The overall size and shape of the brain also give us a rough idea of the animal’s intelligence relative to that of other creatures. We can then also compare this with other evidence of dinosaur behaviours, such as associations of skeletons and footprints, to get an idea of their cognition and behavioural complexity. However, it should be stated that brain size does not necessarily correlate tightly with intelligence, and certainly many animals with small brains are still capable of complex cognition and behaviours. Consequently, we can only get a vague impression of just how smart dinosaurs may have been.

Would a Mosasaurus have slept in the same way a Whale sleeps?

Sleeping poses a problem for marine animals that need to come up for air, but cannot haul out onto land. Whales have solved this by only putting part of the brain to sleep at a time, still allowing them to surface. Sea turtles, however, have different solutions. Sometimes they sleep floating at the surface. Otherwise, however, sea turtles are able to exploit their low metabolisms. They slow their metabolic rate and oxygen use so as to not require another breath for hours, allowing them to sleep for that time under the surface.

It is difficult to say for sure Mosasaurs would have slept. However, there is evidence that Mosasaurs were warm-blooded, with a relatively high metabolic rate. Consequently, I think they would have been more likely to sleep like a whale than like a turtle.

Stiggy.....is it a growth phase of the pachycephalosaur?

Stygimoloch, Dacrorex and Pachycephalosaurus are differently-sized genera of pachycephalosaur, all known from the same time and place. Work on the bone histology of the animals has shown that the known specimen of Dacrorex is an infant, Stygimoloch a juvenile, and Pachycephalosaurus an adult. This suggests that they may all be growth phases in the life of a single animal. However, it may equally mean that they are three different animals that just happen to be known from different life stages. Unfortunately, pachycephalosaur remains are generally rare, and with such small sample sizes it is difficult to satisfactorily prove this problem one way or the other.

However, that being said, it seems more likely to me that these dinosaurs are all different life stages of the same animal than that there were three very similar pachycephalosaurs living in the same time and place. Hence, I think it is best to assume this option, until more specimens let us test this more thoroughly. I do admit that this is disappointing, though, as Stygimoloch was one of my favourite dinosaurs.

Is it true that we don’t know what Carnotaurus’ feet look like? And it’s tail?

It is true that specimens of Carnotaurus that we do have do not preserve these parts of the skeleton, so we do not know exactly what they looked like. However, Carnotaurus was an Abelisaurid, and these parts of the skeleton are known from other Abelisaurs, such as Majungasaurus, allowing us to fill them in with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This suggests that the tail of Carnotaurus would have been rather unremarkable. The hind legs would have been quite stocky, but what we do have from Carnotaurus indicates that its legs would have been relatively longer than those of Majungasaurus, and so Carnotaurus would have been a more competent pursuit predator.

The question I always wanted to ask is. How come they decided to go for reptiles instead of birds for their Jurassic Park films and why are the raptors are bigger than their real-life counterpart?

Jurassic Park originally used reptiles as a model for dinosaurs partially as this was the prevailing view when the book was first written, and also as that was the public expectation of dinosaurs. Nonetheless, the book and first movie movie did draw heavily on birds for some of the depicted behaviours, so that each were quite radical when they came out. Since then, however, the Jurassic Park franchise has stuck with more reptilian dinosaurs despite the science leaving that far behind. This is probably partially to preserve continuity, and partially because the public still, unfortunately, expects and prefers their dinosaurs to be as reptilian as possible when watching movies.

Velociraptor was originally scaled-up to more resemble the size of Deinonychus by Michael Crichton when he was writing Jurassic Park. This partially followed the unusual classification of Dromaeosaurids by the palaeontologist Greg Paul, who considered Velociraptor mongoliensis and Deinonychus antirrhopus to both belong to the same genus. Jurassic Park followed this, featuring Deinonychus, but calling it Velociraptor Antirrhopus. This also explains why the featured Velociraptor skeleton was discovered by Grant in the USA, as opposed to Mongolia, where Velociraptor actually lived. However, no other palaeontologists agree with this classification, not the least because the two animals lived on separate continents, 30 million years apart! Nonetheless, Crichton decided to stick with the name Velociraptor, because he considered it more dramatic.

When it came to adapting Jurassic Park for film, the raptors were increased in size again. This was due partially to Spielberg, reportedly, being unimpressed with the size of Deinonychus. However, it was also due to the discovery of Utahraptor at around the same time – it had not yet been described and named, but there were reports of large raptor bones being found at the time that inspired the production crew of the movie.

If an eccentric millionaire was able to bring back dinosaurs and make a Jurassic Park, what is the probability of them breaking out and creating all the chaos seen in the films?

That’s a big if! However, if they did, I am sure that dinosaurs would break out every so often. How much chaos were then able to cause would be directly down to how well-prepared the millionaire had been. If they had stringent systems in place, an escaped dinosaur should be quickly containable – although their large size and strength would pose significant challenges, they would not be any more vicious or intelligent than other zoo animals. However, if they had under prepared with inadequate staff, and over reliance on untested automated systems and untrustworthy employees, then, well…

Considering how obvious this is, and I've asked this before, does the don't move thing for Tyrannosaurus sound ridiculous and is 12.5 meters the plausible maximum for the king of the Cretaceous? If a Rex went 32 mph, would it trip over?

You are correct in that vision-based eyesight for a large predator like Tyrannosaurus makes no sense at all. I am glad the series has been downplaying this since Jurassic Park.

How quickly Tyrannosaurus could run remains a strong point of contention within palaeontology. Still, most estimates do hover around the region of a running speed of 11-13 metres per second (~25 mph) – this seems sensible to me. At higher speeds the problem is not that Tyrannosaurus would necessarily fall over, but that if it did happen to trip, the head would hit the ground with such momentum that it would be fatal. Hence, it is possible that it could have briefly used such a burst of speed when closing in on prey, but it would not have used such speeds during normal locomotion or pursuit.

Are Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus considered Allosaurid or Allosauroid? And if suddenly someone brings dinosaurs to life through their original DNA, would you use frog or bird DNA, to make them as accurate as possible? And is the Jurassic Park T-Rex a bit shoehorned and shrinkwrapped?

Carcharodontosaurids such as Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus itself are Allosauroids. However, they are not also Allosaurids, but are instead more closely related to Neovenatorids: these two groups together form the Carcharodontosauria.

Were it possible to extract DNA from dinosaur fossils to revive them, I would certainly use bird DNA to plug the gaps. This would both make the resulting dinosaurs more accurate and also, due to using a more closely related animal, make it more likely that the created embryos would be viable in the first place. Unfortunately, though, it does not appear possible for DNA to survive for that long in fossils.

‘Shrink-wrapping’ is a term used to describe palaeoart that does not put enough flesh and other soft tissues on a dinosaur’s bones. As you say, the Tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park has suffered a little bit of shrinkwrapping – the spine, shoulder blade, ribs and hips are very obvious, as are some of the edges of the skull. However, overall, most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are not too bad for shrinkwrapping – the Tyrannosaurus, for example, just looks underfed – this may be as the need to create a moving 3D model means the animators will get some kind of feel for the volumes of muscle that should be present. Still, most of the dinosaurs should have lips, and the Pterosaurs in Jurassic World were shrinkwrapped to a horrifying degree, as were the heads of the Apatosaurs in the same movie.

And which parts of the Jurassic Park T-Rex would you rather fix to give nod to accuracy?

I would draw upon evidence of the integument of tyrannosaurs to make it both more accurate, but also more visually interesting. Although we know that Tyrannosaurus was mostly covered in scales, we also know that it had some regions of naked skin (and, possibly, some feathers). Furthermore, we know that Tyrannosaurus’ face was armoured by large, overlapping scales – it would be nice to include these. Despite this, I do also think that Theropods such as Tyrannosaurus would have had lips, and so would include those. The ridges on Tyrannosaurus’ head were probably for display, and it would have had good colour vision, so brightly colouring those seems both plausible and visually interesting.

In addition, drawing on the above discussion about ‘shrinkwrapping’, I would beef Tyrannosaurus up a bit, especially around the legs and tail (both related to the leg muscles, but also likely fat stores in the tail as seen in modern reptiles). I tend to like my dinosaurs to be bulky, as we tend to estimate volumes of soft tissue in animals in general from their skeletons.

How much can you rely on fused bone sutures to understand a dinosaur’s growth stage? For example, why does a juvenile T. rex have fused sutures but appears to be young when looking at its histology?

The degree of sutural fusion in a dinosaur is often used to get a rough idea of life stage although, as you say, there are many caveats. In tyrannosaurs, for example, sutures in the axial and appendicular regions of the skeleton fused very early during growth, whereas many of those in the skull never fused, even in adulthood. The fusion of sutures between bones is governed, in part, on the forces acting upon them. Consequently, the stresses place on the tyrannosaur’s back and limbs could cause them to fuse early. By contrast, the open sutures between tyrannosaur facial bones served to help absorb and redistribute shocks encountered during feeding.

With those caveats in mind, bone histology remains the best tool to understand whether a dinosaur had reached adulthood. Still, unfused sutures in certain bones are still useful in showing us whether a dinosaur was still a juvenile, even if their fusion may not necessarily indicate that they were yet an adult. For example, the unfused scapulacoracoid of the mounted skeleton of Giraffatitan means that we know it was still growing, and was not fully adult.

Even though modern evidence suggests that adult tyrannosaurs probably had no feathers, does evidence suggest that young ones may have had feathers — possibly to help regulate heat?

We know that ancestral Tyrannosauroids – such as Dilong and Yutyrannus had feathers, and so they were secondarily lost in Tyrannosaurids, perhaps due to their large size obviating the need for insulation (which, indeed, would have caused heat stress in such large animals). Consequently, I think it is very plausible that tyrannosaur chicks would have had some kind of down-like coat to help keep them warm, especially in more northerly regions of tyrannosaur habitat. Indeed, it seems probable that the small, polar Tyrannosaurid Nanuqsaurus would have retained a feathery coat in adulthood, to help it last the cold winters.

It should also be noted that, although preserved skin impressions show that Tyrannosaurids such as Tyrannosaurus and Albertosaurus were predominately scaly, we still cannot rule out the presence of small regions of feathers, whether they were relicts of their evolutionary history or growth, or even for display.

What do we know of the lifespan of dinosaurs? Elephants have a gestational period of two years. Do we know anything about length of egg carrying or incubating time? Massive dinosaurs (Titanosaurs: how long until they reach adulthood? Would it be safe to assume they lived a long time?

We can get an idea of the age of a dinosaur specimen from looking at sections of its bones, especially the long bones of the limbs. In many cases, the bones of dinosaurs bones show growth rings – like those of trees – which can be counted to establish an age. Unfortunately, some dinosaurs – especially whilst young – grew too quickly to leave rings. In other cases, remodeling of bone structure after reaching adulthood also overpinted the rings. However, even then, the texture of bone indicates how rapidly the animal was growing when it died. Comparing these between differently-sized individuals of a dinosaur species allows us to establish growth curves. This, in turn, helps to establish when a dinosaur reached sexual maturity – as indicated by a slowdown in growth as resources are diverted for reproduction – and also the age at which maximum body size was achieved.

These results show that most dinosaurs grew fast – even large dinosaurs reached sexual maturity in their teens, and maximum body size in their twenties. Maximum lifespan is harder to establish, though, as it is impossible to verify whether any particular dinosaur died of old age. However, we know of some individuals that were at least 38 years old. However, it should be noted that very few dinosaurs would have reached old age, or even full body size – most would have died relatively young, due to their violent lifestyles. Once reaching full body size, however, they would be relatively safe from attack, and maximum lifespans of 50 years or more for large dinosaurs would seem likely.

Incubation times of dinosaur eggs can be calculated by counting growth rings in the teeth of dinosaur embryos. These indicate that incubation times in dinosaurs were variable. Most dinosaur eggs probably incubated for similar timescales to those seen in modern reptiles, taking from between 3-6 months to hatch. However, those of more birdlike dinosaurs, such as Troodon, hatched more quickly (but still more slowly than in modern birds), after only ~70 days.

Even though this means Titanosaur eggs may have taken several months of burial to hatch, the low investment a mother would have to put into each egg means that she would be able to lay multiple clutches per year, each containing as many as 30 eggs, for an annual total of perhaps as many as 200 eggs in the largest species. This is a much higher reproductive rate than a modern elephant, which has to invest 22 months of pregnancy, followed by 3-5 years of devoted parental care in a single calf. The lesser pressures of egg-laying relative to pregnancy are one reason why dinosaurs were able to reach much larger sizes than mammals such as elephants.

If the Baryonyx was around today would we see them in the swamps of Florida and or Louisiana?

Evidence from the isotopic composition of the bones of Spinosaurids such as Baryonyx, as well as from fish scales preserved in the animal’s stomach, indicate that it mostly ate fish and spent a large amount of its time in or around water. The warm, swampy environment of the Everglades would seem like ideal habitat for Baryonyx – and, indeed, is not too far from the wet environment of the Wealden Formation from which it is known. No Spinosaurids are currently known from North America, but that does not mean that Baryonyx would not be able to thrive were it somehow introduced there!

We really hope you found this three-piece series interesting! Make sure you also check out Part One and Part Two.

A massive thank you, again, to David for working on this series with us. We’ve found it incredibly interesting – and we hope you have too! Make sure to follow David on Twitter if you aren’t already, and stay tuned to The Jurassic Park Podcast for all the latest Jurassic Park news!

Written by: Tom Fishenden

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London Toy Fair 2018 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Reveals & More!

The Toy Fair – a time for retailers to come together and show their latest offerings to the press, public and to potential investors! I remember this time of year fondly from my years growing up as a fan of various collectibles. Online statements such as ‘Did you hear about that Doctor Who reveal at Toy Fair’ or ‘Did you hear about what Character Options showed’ were common parts of my childhood – so to now be attending London Toy Fair as an adult representing The Jurassic Park Podcast was a pretty special experience.

I went on the hunt for everything Jurassic-related. And I found some pretty cool stuff on the show floor. Let’s start with a couple of the Jurassic-adjacent brands we all know. Schleich and Papo. Schleich had an assortment of awesome dinosaurs on show – many of which have already been released and can be found at your local retailers. These included the iconic T-Rex, the beautiful Triceratops, and of course a new fan-favorite for Fallen Kingdom – the Carnotaurus. These figurines look beautiful – and I’d highly recommend them to any Jurassic fan out there. Schleich also had a variety of playsets on show – including some volcanic black rocks which looked interesting and a massive volcano playset. We don’t yet know full details of the Mattel Jurassic line, but Schleich’s beautiful playsets and diorama pieces may merge together with the upcoming Jurassic toys we are looking forward to.

Papo also had a variety of similar dinosaurs on display – many with incredibly intricate and beautiful details and colors used to create collectibles which really feel high-quality for their price point. Papo had less in the way of playsets, focusing purely on their dinosaurs. They had a Raptor, a T-Rex, a Triceratops and more on show – including a beautiful rendition of the Spinosaurus, which many Jurassic fans love to hate. For me personally – I loved this dinosaur. It looks beautiful. And do you want to know the best part? Many of both Schleich and Papo’s products are on shelves RIGHT NOW!!! I can’t recommend you pick them up enough. Friend of the Podcast, Jurassic Collectables, has also done reviews on some of the very dinosaurs featured within this article – so make sure to check them out when you get the time.

Now, moving on to the more Jurassic-related details. There was some Jurassic merchandise on show – but the clear majority is most likely not ready to be revealed just yet. However, I was lucky enough to speak with a couple of companies – and learn a bit more about what their plans for the license were. Firstly, I got to pop in and talk to Posh Paws – who had some Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom plushies on show. Whilst I wasn’t allowed to take any photographs of these, they looked adorable – and I absolutely fell in love with the artwork on their packaging too! Posh Paws plan to release their products in April to coincide with the mass release of Jurassic licenses – so we can’t wait to learn more about their plushies, and the dinosaurs they intend to bring to us in cuddly form!

I also had the chance to speak briefly to Funko – and although they didn’t have their Jurassic Park Pops! on show, it was exciting to see just how passionate about the franchise they are! It sounds as if these guys are excited to have Jurassic as their next movie license – and I was promised that we can expect to see more in the way of store exclusives down the line. I didn’t have the chance to ask about Fallen Kingdom, or the other Jurassic films, but I have faith in Funko and their team. They are passionate about the source material – and I hope that means we will see a lot more from them in the future.

Lastly, we have the highlight of Toy Fair – and a company I wasn’t expecting to meet. Clementoni are a company who make educational, and scientific-based toys which are designed to merge play with learning for children. Before meeting them at Toy Fair, I had never heard of their line – but it looks wonderful. Here you can see we get several ‘Excavation’ style toys in the Fallen Kingdom line – including the Velociraptor, the T-Rex, and a 3-In-1 T-Rex, Triceratops and Pteranodon pack. I asked if Clementoni made the Tyrannosaurus excavation kit, but they didn’t – so it is exciting to have a brand-new company joining the lineup for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The representative I spoke to acknowledged that the products on show were quite last-minute mockups – so it is incredibly exciting to see what the final products will look like!

Not only do we have these excavation kits from Celementoni – we also have some Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Puzzles! We have an adult puzzle, and some smaller puzzles, in addition to a Panoramic Puzzle and these look beautiful. The Panoramic shot of Owen, Rexy and the Gyrosphere would make for a beautiful puzzle – so I hope that this remains consistent in the final product. You will also see some similar dinosaur items which Clementoni release – so you will be able to get your hands on them as well! Clementoni’s smallest items retail for £8.99. The Raptor will then retail for £14.99, and the standalone T-Rex for £24.99. The 3-In-1 Kit will then be £29.99, with the Adult Puzzles coming in at £14.99. Not bad value for sets which look incredibly scientifically accurate. Clementoni aim to release their products at the end of April, or in early May if April is not possible. I think it is wonderful seeing Universal giving the license to a franchise who clearly care about education – as Jurassic Park and the Jurassic franchise have historically got children across the globe fascinated in the science behind Paleontology. Now, they can get toys to encourage that interest even further.

That wraps up my re-account from Toy Fair. I was super-excited to stumble upon Clementoni’s offerings, and I was also delighted to get the chance to talk to so many companies passionate about the Jurassic franchise. Everyone I spoke to was buzzing about this big release that Universal have planned in April – and it sounds as if it is going to be a swarm of Jurassic merchandise hitting shops EVERYWHERE. We cannot wait to see what other toys and merchandise goodies Universal have up their sleeve. It sounds as if the launch this time around will be a lot greater than the launch for Jurassic World – with more franchises and more products than ever before. All in all, it sounds like a great time to be a Jurassic fan!

Lastly, I’d like to say thank you to Lauren, Paul, Eva and Charlotte for all their help today. You guys were amazing, and I appreciate you making this article possible.

Check out the links below to view more from the companies we’ve mentioned and see more images below:

Clementoni | Funko | Posh Paws | Schleich | Papo

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