An Indominus Rex in PVC

The Indominus Rex stands approximately 50mm tall by 70mm wide and is highly detailed. This specimine is one of three in this new mini Jurassic World collection which includes the Indominus Rex, 'Blue', and a T. Rex. Hopefully I will able to get back to the Dollar Tree and pick up the two miniatures.

"Oh, Indominus wasn't bred. She was designed. She will be fifty feet long when fully grown. Bigger than the T. rex." —Henry Wu

I count four colors being used for its body and the inside of its mouth. It eyes look convincing. Take notice of the very large hind legs. Should I paint its toes the same color as its front claws?

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New Crobuzon's Bonetown

"They were in Bonetown. They watched evening come in livid shades through the silhouettes of the Bonetown Claws and Ribs. The ancient bones that gave the area its name curved more than two hundred feet into the air, cracking, yellowed, mouldering at a geological pace, dwarfing the houses around them."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Disney Water Based Rides

Like many of Disney rides the Jurasic River Adventure, like Pirates of the Caribbean, and the only one I can say I experinced, the 20;000 Leagues Under the Sea were/are water based rides.

A Whole Village Lives in that Tree

A whole village lives in the ancient tree. The Villagers boats are winched up into the tree, in affect creating a crude lift.

Screen shots from Disneys Jungle Cruise

Africa’s Primeval Forests

“Africa is called the Dark Continent for one reason only: the vast equatorial rain forests of its central region. This is the drainage basin of the Congo River, one-tenth of the continent is given over to it—a million and half square miles of silent, damp, dark forest, a single uniform geographical feature nearly the size of the continental United States.

This primeval forest has stood, unchanged, for more than sixty million years. Enormous trees with trunks up to forty feet in diameter rise two-hundred feet overhead, where they spread their dense leafy canopy, blotting out the sky and perpetually dripping water to the ground below.”

Congo, Michael Crichton, 1980

The Beasts of Skull Island

King Kong-King Kong Delux and Extended Edition

You have to feel for the big guy. He really gets a raw deal. Any way how many King Kong movies are there now? Three, four? It seems like they keep on finding new speicies of creatures on the island. Not that I am complaining, I love all of them.

This is my first in a new series: Skull Island. Skull Island might be an interesting boardgame, if someone would take the time create one. Anyone want to collaborate on a project?

The Saber-Tooth Tiger

"The village held its breath. Zogar Sag stood still as a statue, his plumes trembling faintly about him. But suddenly the gate was no longer empty.

A shuddering gasp swept over the village and men crowded hastily back, jamming one another between the huts. Balthus felt the short hair stir on his scalp. The creature that stood in the gate was like the embodiment of nightmare legend. Its color was of a curious pale quality which made it seem ghostly and unreal in the dim light. But there was nothing unreal about the low-hung savage head, and the great curved fangs that glistened in the firelight. On noiseless padded feet it approached like a phantom out of the past. It was a survival of an older, grimmer age, the ogre of many an ancient legend—a saber-tooth tiger. No Hyborian hunter had looked upon one of those primordial brutes for centuries. Immemorial myths lent the creatures a supernatural quality, induced by their ghostly color and their fiendish ferocity."

Chapter 4 The Beasts of Zogar Sag, Beyond the Black River, Robert E. Howard.

Rainbow Dino’s

Out of three packages of dinosaurs that I have reviewed this collection is my least favorite. They are not the best sculpts, a lot of them will not stand on their own, and their uni-color do them no justice. The fact that there are twenty-five in the bag is one saving grace.

Dino World

This rack packaged collection includes nine different hand-painted, plastic, dinosaurs with a surprising amount of molded detail. Some of the included species are rarely seen in this type of packaging.

The largest in the package stands about 1-1/2 inches tall.

Miniature Stegosaurus

Fossil Excavation Kit

The miniature Stegosaurus, made from a dense plastic, stands approximately one inch tall. It came encased in a plaster egg. The package included two excavation tools that were supposed to allow you to dig through the plaster. I resorted to using a knife. I found the three Stegosaurus bones and once I cleaned the three components and I was able to snap the Stegosaurus together. The package also came with a black display stand in which the specimen snaps into. I found that a drop or two of super glue kept the miniature in place on its platform.

Mini Stegosaurus Ready for Display

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And the Eyes Have it

The combined crew from the Chinese junk and Black Pearl went ashore for water and found a dead giant sea monster that had been washed up on shore. See the reflection of the sailor in the creature’s eye.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

One of the first scenes from the fourth edition of Jurassic Park; a hatchling finding its way into its world.

The Indominus rex awaits its prey.

Another look from the hybrid Indominus rex. Another reflection in an eye. “Better to see you with, my dear.”

Jurassic Park 4

Terror from the Deep

Image from Wikimedia Commons

The image portrays two per-historic creatures battling to the death. According to Verne the battle is between an Ichthyosaurus or great fish lizard and an ancient sea crocodile or Plesiosaurus. One of the creatures had swept under our adventurers raft and nearly swamped their craft.

“We remain still and dumb from utter horror. They advance upon us, nearer and nearer. Our fate appears certain, fearful and terrible. On one side the mighty crocodile, on the other the great sea serpent. The rest of the fearful crowd of marine prodigies have plunged beneath the briny waves and disappeared!”

“Two liquid columns rose to a vast height above the level of the sea, into which they fell with a terrific crash, waking up the echoes of that awful place. We stood still—surprised, stupefied, terror-stricken at the sight of this group of fearful marine monsters, more hideous in the reality than in my dream. They were of supernatural dimensions; the very smallest of the whole party could with ease have crushed our raft and ourselves with a single bite.”

I am sure there are more adventures and discovery’s to be made in the upcoming chapters.

Quotes from Chapter 30: Terrific Saurian Combat-A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne

Fire Breathing Dragons

Are dragons real or just stuff of legends? Well according to the experts legends all have a bit of truth in them, otherwise where did the legend originate in the first place? However, you know how stories go; they have a tendency to become more elaborate as they are passed along. Whether dragons breathed fire or not, I cannot say, but I do believe that dragons did exist.

The first documentary,” Dragons or Dinosaurs - Real Truth”, through the use historical evidence alludes to their existence. Dinosaurs might have been called dragons at one point in time. The second documentary dramatizes the discovery of an intact, of what is thought to be, a fire breathing dragon and her hatchling. The Last Dragon gives some insight into their possible daily habits and their eventual demise.

• Dragons or Dinosaurs - Real Truth (Paranormal Documentary)
• The Last Dragon | A Fantasy Made Real

As far as dragon miniatures Reaper Miniatures has a nice collection of dragon miniatures. Are there any dragon lovers out there? Do you know of other sources for dragons? If you have watched the first video you can make mention of the traditional dragon as depicted by Reaper or the dinosaur, which might have been considered by the ancients as dragons.

The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World novel was on my winters reading list and was read on an Android tablet. The Lost World, a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first released in 1912, is a story about an expedition to an Amazonian plateau where prehistoric animals and other creatures somehow still survive. The novel provided a very spirited story, where four men battled ape like creatures and prehistoric animals to survive. The four were left to explore the plateau on their own after being double crossed by their native guides.

The four characters that were left to explore consisted of two professors, a big-game hunter, and a reporter.  The four captured by war like apes and are ultimately rescued by the help of a tribe of humans. Along the way the big-gamer hunter finds a location where diamonds are abundant and collects a small bag full of these stones.

Eventually the four find their way off the plateau through a series of tunnels and make it back to England where the two professors are reluctantly given credit for their discoveries.  It is not until the professor releases a Pterodactyl , creating quite a stir, where the scientific committee finely gives the professors the full acclaim they richly deserve.

I would greatly appreciate any help finding appropriate miniatures and game rules for this genre. I had found some miniatures that were created with this story in mind, but have since lost the link.