Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A Ranger's Nightmare

I used the sandbox in JWE to make myself a little obstacle course (/excuse to take spooky screenshots).

I'm just a humble park ranger at a dinosaur zoo that houses several kinds of Velociraptors, all of which have been set loose by unfortunate circumstances, of course. Some of the dinos' movement has been restricted by fences left intact (and a bit of invisible fence so I don't meet too soon the fun surprise also roaming the park), but they should be pretty free to run into our team in the dark of night, after a storm tore through a bunch of fences and some malfunction, perhaps even sabotage, left open gates that shouldn't be left open. We also can't close any gates we open along the way. Everything will be resolved somehow once I get to the Innovation Center (maybe that's where they keep the push to close button that will put us back in business), but it's at the other side of the park, and vehicle aggression is on. Good luck.

Well, that's not a good sign...

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Wingdominus rex

Check out this bootleg LEGO Indominus I found at the fleamarket!

She has wings?? And lasers? And a lady riding her?
What more could you want! :D
As it is a bootleg product, unsurprisingly the cover is not entirely truthful about the contents. No lady, no lasers, but the wings were included and I managed to attach them, even though I couldn't find all the parts the assembly guide that was also in the box showed I should use. They have articulation, too. I assume the wings are copied from some other LEGO set, probably involving dragons. To whoever had the idea to put them on a dinosaur: thank you. I mean winged dinosaurs are a thing in real life and nothing new, yes, but not with this kind of wings.

Indominus - or "tame Tyrannosaurus" - is missing a few paint details seen on the cover (that's fine, I have paints), and also doesn't have thumbs, which may be a result of how the arms were cast in a way that uses less material, or maybe for dodging copyright infringement purposes like the name. The packaging just straight up uses the Jurassic Park 3 logo with just a different text, though, so nice try.

The back of the box tells me this PRCK (which I'm choosing to pronounce as "prick") Dinosaur World line includes three other figures: a Velociraptor, a Dilophosaurus, and a... purple Indominus, I think. All with wings, naturally.

Well, the one I have seems to hold together pretty well and has working articulation in all joints, and I suspect would be compatible with real LEGO sets (I don't own any to check). She's also the first Indominus rex figure I have, so I guess she's my official Indominus rex now. Welcome to the raptor shelf.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Wednesday, November 9, 2022