Dinosaurs

Adventurers  Dinosaurs Adult Young Jurassic Park III Creator	The Dinosaurs are now available from Lego Shop@Home and first sets in the Dinosaurs series has just been released in Denmark too. There are four adult and four young prehistoric creatures (in all six dinosaurs and two other prehistoric reptiles). The adult and young animals are somewhat different. There are at least 14 new elements and some existing elements comes in new colors. Half of the animals are sand green and the other half are dust blue.   Some of the new elements are attached by a technic pin system. This of course work very well. But others are attached by a simple peg. This is not quite as good. One example is that the head on my Baby Iguanodon keeps falling off because the peg is already too loose! I wonder why they didn't use the well known wheel holder system just modified to have friction.
Adult Dinosaurs These are mainly made from specialized elements around the same body. The bodies are actually made from six (three times two identical) elements. There are only two ordinary bricks in each set. From each sets three other animals can be made by using the extra elements that comes with the sets. The challenge must be to make dinosaur bodies from ordinary bricks to use the extra heads, tails, limbs and fins. The bodies, legs and the large heads are decorated. These animals have a fair degree of articulation. This makes these Dinosaurs more realistic than those from the Dino Island subtheme. They come in Slizer/Throwbot/Bionicle style cans where the lid doubles as a display stand.
	6719 Brachiosaurus 25 Elements, Released 2001
	6720 Tyrannosaurus Rex 23 Elements, Released 2001
	6721 Mosasaurus 26 Elements, Released 2001
	6722 Styracosaurus 19 Elements, Released 2001
Young Dinosaurs These are made from a combination of ordinary bricks and specialized elements. The ordinary bricks are used for the bodies. The heads and tails are made from the specialized elements. This makes them look a bit awkward. None of these dinosaurs are decorated. The challenge with these sets is to make more realistic dinosaurs by combining the sets. They come in the usual promotion size boxes but with an unusual feature: they don't have any set numbers outside! And as usual there are four in all. The back of the packages show how to combine the sets two and two to make "monstersaurs".
	7000/5950 Baby Ankylosaurus 37 Elements, Released 2001
	7001/5951 Baby Iguanodon 23 Elements, Released 2001
	7002/5952 Baby Brachiosaurus 31 Elements, Released 2001
	7003/5953 Baby Dimetrodon 20 Elements, Released 2001
Jurassic Park III Dinosaurs This Studio subtheme has a number of sets with dinosaurs. Most are of the "Young" type, but there is also an "Adult" type and even a Baby T-Rex from the Dino Island subtheme.
	1370 Raptor Rumble Studio 154 Elements, 3 Figures, Released 2001 This set contains two black raptors and a huge dark grey pterosaur.
	1371 Spinosaurus Attack Studio 178 Elements, 2 Figures, Released 2001 This Spinosaurus is dark grey and the dorsal fin and slopes are decorated, but the shape is identical to the alternative model in 6720.
	4076 Pteranodon 16 Elements, Released 2001 Part of a Coca Cola promotion in Japan
	4077 Plesiosaur 13 Elements, Released 2001 Part of a Coca Cola promotion in Japan
	4078 Tyrannosaurus 18 Elements, Released 2001 Part of a Coca Cola promotion in Japan
	4079 Mini REX 4 Elements, Released 2001 Part of a Coca Cola promotion in Japan
Creator Dinosaurs There are 3 promotional dinosaur sets from the Kabaya candy company. True to the Designer concept, all are of the "Young" type.
	4507 Prehistoric Creatures 719 Elements, Released 2004
	4892 Prehistoric Power 380 Elements, Released 2006
	7209 Pterosaur 28 Elements, Released 2004 Part of a Kabaya promotion in Japan
	7210 Apatosaurus 33 Elements, Released 2004 Part of a Kabaya promotion in Japan
	7219 Tyrannosaurus Rex 34 Elements, Released 2004 Part of a Kabaya promotion in Japan
	7604 Triceratops 34 Elements, Released 2006
	7605 Stegosaurus 47 Elements, Released 2006