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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.