March 31, 2025 • 35 mins
On this episode we get to talk about the King of dinosaurs in the gorgeous model of the mighty T-Rex.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shut up and welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where
I'm gonna bend hear hear about Lego, review those amazing
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bricks of plastic and discuss what is new and up
and coming around the Lego world. I'm your Minnifig host Matt.
Let's beout on it. Welcome man, everybody. How are we
doing today? Hopefully you're doing quite lovely, quite well, no
matter where you are around the world, no matter what
time of day it may be. And today we are
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going to talk about something that is dead, something that's
been dead a long time, something that is kind of bony,
kind of well he and I guess, I guess we'll
talk about a dinosaur that seems it seems fitting, so
we can go ahead and do that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
One of the coolest models I think I have built
in I was trying to go back through recent memory
and not so much recency bias or anything like that,
but over the last ten years things that I've built
and just kind of like, what is something that really
kind of matches my excitement or enthusiasm with how it
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turned out, Maybe not so much just the build process,
but more so how it turned out in the end,
and I'm really having a hard time. I really had
a hard time trying to figure it out. So maybe
by the end of this maybe there's something you can
be like, Hey, Matt, did you think about such and such?
So let's go ahead and crack into this puppy. So
what we're talking about is the dinosaur fossils, trannosaurs, tres.
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It falls under the Jurassic World umbrella. We've seen some
skeletons before, some skulls done before, Triceratops, the t rex.
This we get a whole big old model and it
falls under the Drastic Park, well under Drassic World, but
it is strictly meant to be a Jurassic Park t Rex.
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And we get some minifigs to prove that as well.
And the minifigs are even better than what I originally
thought they were going to be. So let's get to
the details on this set.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What do you need to know?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, the set number is seven six nine six eight,
comes with the two minifigs. As I had mentioned, it's
three one hundred and forty five pieces, and it retails
for two hundred and fifty bucks. Two hundred and fifty
euros pretty decent price if you ask me. Really, uh,
I know a lot of people are gonna be like, mah,
that's just it seems like a lot for just like
a model of a flossil.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I get it, I get it, I get it, you know,
I can. I can see that. But it's a really
cool model, and it's really really big. This thing actually
measures I.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Think it's like forty two inches forty three inches in length,
and it's thirteen inches high. It's not super wide, but
you're not really looking at it so much from the front,
although it does look really good from the front. There
are some bugaboos with it, and we can talk about those,
but they're probably going to be the usual contenders for.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Things that I've I guess if you will, griped about
in the past.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So AnyWho, the model itself a big, all chunky model.
There's actually and here's here's something that I have been
a big fan of since they've started doing it in
instructions with some big models, whether it be this, whether
it be a building of some kind. They did it
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with oh my goodness, my goodness, they did it with
was it Lord of the Rings? I think they did
it with one of the Lord of the Ring sets
a way to carry it, the proper way to carry something,
to transport it, to move it without it breaking into
a bajillionbajillion pieces. And they've really done a good job
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with that in their instructions, and they do it straight
out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's one of the first pay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It gives you a little, you know, a little brief
history I guess of this set or or you know,
talking about the movie, but then it gets straight into
it so that you know, hey, pick it up by this.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So this is a t Rex model in motion.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It does come with a black frame of it as
you would see it maybe in a museum, and then
it has a really really solid base, but it's not
a it's not a really thick, chunky bass. I'm really
impressed with the way that was done. And it actually
you don't really notice it that much at all. The
more you look at this, you don't even really so
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much notice the black frame pieces to be able to
connect the model down to the base itself. It just
kind of it just kind of goes invisible. You kind
of gloss through it, you know, you don't really see
too much of it just goes invisible. You know, it's
like one of those three D drawings. Right in this
case or in that case, you kind of stare through
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it to be able to see the picture. Here you
kind of stare at it, stare through it, and you
don't see it. So it's, I guess, kind of a
reverse model or a reverse idea, whatever you gonna call it. Anyway,
enough of that crap. The model itself, it's huge, it's beautiful,
the tail is fully articulated.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's just it's something exquisite.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Before we get to the overall model itself, I wanted
to talk about one of the things.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Have a big old placard down here, and it is printed,
of course, and it looks really really good, but it
gives some details about the t Rex and such on
the if you're looking at it from the front of
the model on the left side. And it was such
a cool idea when I was building it. They take
the idea of the t rex skeleton and stuff like that,
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and they give you a printed tile that is on
the side of this rock formation which is supposed to
be the base, and it pops off so that you
can This is one of those things that nobody would
know it was there unless they build it, or you
told them about it, or they happened to see a
video or hear about it or something like that. It's
a really cool homage to you know, the t Rex
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and stuff like that, and kind of the film and
stuff like that. I'm a fan of how it was done,
just kind of tucked away in there. It's just it's
it's just sharp. You know, it's just a four by six.
I believe that's in there, or I think maybe maybe
the piece is only like a four by four anyway,
but it's a nice little tucked away, silent, little cool,
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cute little piece that just it just to adds something extra. Now,
I know, I know what you were going to say.
A lot of you were going to say what I
probably was thinking at parts when I was going through this.
What about the bluish gray dark bluish gray ball joints,
the gray ball joints, What about those?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
What about them?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Those are here sad to say, I know, but they
use very few of them. They use them for points
of articulation, for to kind of get the I guess,
the breast bone of the rib cage, if you will,
to be able to get that, and then the articulation
for the hands, the tiny little t rex hands so
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not horrible, and we'll talk about that here in a
little bit, but I want to start here with the head.
The head is it's just absolutely phenomenal. The head can
be ever so slightly moved. You can probably hear that
clicking through. So it is on some click joints, So
it does have that's behind the head on the neck,
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so it does have an opportunity to be able to
be click joined around and give you that opportunity to
be able to move it and you know, kind of
enjoy it to a certain degree. I guess maybe pose it,
you know, in a little bit of a different position upright, downright, whatever,
but really not a whole lot of to the to
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the side. You can angle its head as you guys
can hear. There's there's some heavy clicking that is going
on here, but you can't you can't turn its side
to side. I've messed about with that. There's unfortunately in
no way to do that, which I think that is okay.
I think if they allowed you allowed us to have
that opportunity, I think it probably would have came out
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pretty crappy. I hate to say that, but no doubt
that probably would have created a problem. So I am
gonna turn this little puppy around here. And the reason
I say that is because it is it is long.
It takes up a big chunk of my desk. I mean,
like I said, it's forty something inches long. It's it's
really big. The cavities of the upper part of the skull,
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I think they did a really good job of just
kind of getting that feel there. A lot of unique
piece usage. Sorry, I'm tripping over my tongue. It's been
a long day at this point, but a lot of
really cool parts usage here with some tiles and just
even some studded pieces, just to kind of be able
to get that feel, that rugged feel at the same
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time feeling like it's kind of smooth like like kind
of like a fossil is supposed to be. And then
you know, getting the cavities in there as well, so
the bridge of the nose actually lifts up because that
is on a is just clipped into place there, so
it is meant to get that angle. So not like
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you're going to be holding it up to be kind
of funky or anything, just but that is how they
did it. They just kind of clip it into place
right there, but back here where your eyes are supposed
to be the eyes are supposed to be. Like how
it is done kind of around that position. Just it
just gives a good little feel the jaw. Your bottom
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jaw does open, and it opens completely. You can hyper
extend that thing and absolutely wreck your jaw line. Mister
t Rex, I ad you not to do it. But
it is just held into place by friction. It is
not locked in. It is not clipped in. You could
actually bite to the side left or right if you want.
You can't really get an underbyte or an overbite that
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doesn't move that way. But the teeth, the teeth are
teeth are interesting. And I say that just because you
have some big old chompers in the front, and then
you have some smaller ones along the sides towards the rear,
now the upper jaw. You have four smaller ones that
are in the front. Then you have three down each side,
so a total of six of the bigger teeth slash fangs,
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whatever you want to call those pieces. And then these
smaller teeth pieces that run down the side as well,
four on each side, just like on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The head was.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
A It was a fun little build, a lot of
different ways of adding things on the final connection of
how this is put on looks nothing like you would
expect when you are initially going through the build process,
And I think that is one of those things that
people like to see, right, You like to see a
different kind of idea when you're building something versus what
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it looks like at the end. You want to experience
how to learn something, how to build a certain thing,
and in the future, if you want to build another
dinosaur skull, now you have a rough idea of how
you can go about doing so if you already didn't
know how to do it, which again, you know it's
steel sharp and steel kind of thing, right, I want
to learn how to do this, I'm gonna I want
to learn from building the kit, talking to whoever that
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really went through the process here and kind of glean
some of the things that were done to put them
on my future potential build if I'm going to ever
build a dinosaur or you know, a fossil skull of
anything like that in the future. So behind the head,
like I said, that's where we have a good chunk
of some gray back here. But you have those some
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pieces here that allow you to, like I said, move
it up, move it down, turn it to the left,
turn it to the right, kind of get him in
that weird pose however you want, or you could just
have him right on like I do. It just seems
like a you know, eighth grade kind of model looking
you know, fossil slat model looking straight on.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
One of the things behind the back of the skull,
on the between the upper and lower portion of the jaw,
that is the connection point here. And there are some big,
old black technic pieces that are back here. Not the
biggest fan, but again not something you're really going to
be seeing a bunch of moving forward. What I want
to move to next is this idea of where his
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forearms are attached. You have two claws on each little
hand here. On each each little hand you have a
ball joint for that clause obviously move but you have
a ball joint just for like the wrist. And then
you have a ball joint which I guess you could
consider that like the shoulder slash elbow where it's kind
of tucked back in. Now you have a bunch of
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these other ball joints that are attached to kind of
make up this breastbone, this little chest area of him.
And that is done just simply because you've got to
be able to get that angle that kind of rounds
out across it. Now it does attach to the rib
section a little bit further back. It's kind of funky
in the way that it's done. It is one of
those things that I think, if I think, I think
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somebody could probably go back and look at this and
say what else can I do? What else could I
do to maybe make this look a little better than
what it does, and they could probably make it look
a little bit better. It is just kind of a
little bit funky. Like I said, you look at it
from the front, it kind of looks off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Like it's not tapered enough.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But then if you taper it too much, then his
little Paul's claws hands kind of go in this weird
position and it definitely doesn't look right in its own right.
So it's it's a really tricky, really tricky point to
be able to get that look, that shape, that idea,
that feel without comprom some other things. So unfortunately, that
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is the way that is probably in my opinion, it
is the ugliest part of the model.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But it is not.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It is not something to get upset about and be
like this sucks, I hate it. Definitely not the case.
So moving behind the head here, we have the neck
just above where we talk about where that breastplate is,
and we've got the very very beginning of all the
little rib pieces. Usually these pieces are for smaller ribs.
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They are built in an assortment of different lengths to
be able to get different feels for the ribs. As
you know, the chest widens, the chest narrows back through
the bottom or back end of the rib cage, all
kinds of stuff anyway, So you've got a bunch of
those right here, and those are just kind of tucked
in now. I will say, I initially thought this is
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gonna suck putting all of these together. And you're only
doing like two at a time. You're doing two at
a time, you're doing three to time on each side
because you're going with different lengths, you're going with different pieces,
you're going with slightly turned this way or slightly turned
that way.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So it kind of covers everything.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It gives you that illusion of where the chest should
be obviously with the rib cage, so it's not torturous.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's not tedious. It wasn't what I expected.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I was expecting it to be, like, Oh, this is
going to be the worst part of this, this is
gonna suck, it's going to be completely boring. But I
didn't feel that at all, which is which is always
a great thing. Alrighty folks, we've got to take a
quick break. We'll be back in a moment. Well, anyway,
so that goes back through the neck portion. You got
some tiles that come down the side of this, and
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then you've got the cheese wedge cheese slope pieces that
are across the top here for I guess what's supposed
to be the vertebrae, the whole way down from the
back of the neck, the whole way to the back
of the tail, which is really cool. And again, different
contours going to be built up different ways. Sometimes you
add a stud on top of a slope and then
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a cheese wedge piece. Sometimes there's just a plate and
a slope and a cheese wedge piece. Sometimes it's you know,
it's a different assortment, a different variation each way. As
you make your way down the model to be able
to get that size, that look, that feel, that different
part of the body, different bone.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So that is nice to be done that way.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So as we move back through here, it's really cool
because if you're a tactile person, you.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Kind of can run your hand like you would on the.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Back of a cat or a dog or any kind
of other animal that has a vertebrae, and you just
kind of feel it's kind of cool looking. It's really
kind of it's really kind of funky, but it's almost
like your your petting, your your little t rex. Here.
I was thinking to myself after I had built it,
I was like, this is almost like a clumpsug nathis,
you know, the compies. I was like, I can imagine
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the Compi's kind of being roughly this size. I think
they're a little bit smaller in this, but again, you know,
like the movie, the book, and you know they's supposed
to be like the size of a chicken. It's kind
of what it feels like here. I almost feel like
I've got a little baby copy here. It's kind of
kind of neat in the in the way that it
is done as well. So again the rib cage, as
we move back gets a little bit fatter, and then
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it's gettings up narrows up as we move further towards
the back. That brings us to roughly about the hip
joint area. And we've got some plate assemblies that are
just clipped into place that are on the upper portion,
top portion along the ridge line here the back ridge
line just above where the hip joints are. The leg
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joints are here for your t rex. Nice little idea
here and kind of cover some of the funky stuff,
but at the same time getting that idea of what
this bone looks like. Where this bone should be on
your if you're looking at it from the front side,
your leg that is on the left side, on the
far side of the model, based on where the little
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information plate is in your minifigs are that leg is
further forward and the other leg is further backward. The
one that is closest well on the right side, if
you're looking at it from the front, is further backward.
So it's nice to be able to see the way
that is done. The legs are actually kind of fun
to build. Yes, you're building your frame kind of on
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the inside, but it wasn't just a frame and let's
slap on some some pretty pieces on the outside. Everything
is built into it so that it does have that
structure rigidity in there, but also that kind of that
feel of it looking like it should be as a fossil,
and also at the same time not looking just like
a shell. Everything is connected and almost like interwoven to
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create this one solid unit versus just like, oh, here,
we're going to take some technic pins and you're going
to slap these plates on on the outside just to
cover it up. It doesn't feel like it got skinned,
if that makes any sense to you. So yeah, But
down below where the hip joints are and the hip
joints are in place, they are locked into place because
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the feet are locked into place. The feet are pinned
into place in a final resting place for each side
that you do. But down below, you've got that little weird,
kind of funky patch, you know, that little rounded part
for the dinosaur down underneath there, I guess their private
area or whatever. I honestly don't know what that is
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supposed to be in a dinosaur. And I guarantee you
there dinosaur fanatics out there that are absolutely laughing at me.
I take pleasure in you laughing at me, But if
you wouldn't mind shooting me a message and be like, hey,
you know what this is for? I can I can
imagine Tom Jurassic right now screaming saying what the hell
is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But anyway, we've got that in here, and that just
kind of is locked in a position and actually can
kind of flap down at the very bottom of it,
can just kind of move back and forth, just ever
so slightly, not anything wild crazy. But the legs are
slightly I don't want to say they're built slightly differently.
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They are built a little bit differently, just based on
how they are functioning here. But they are attached by
ball joints into the hip joint socket. But like I said,
there's no function, flapping movement of anything there because everything
is locked in a position.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now, I wanted to bring your.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Attention down to the feet because when you get down
to the feed here, the toes actually do move. They
are on ball joints and they look pretty good. You
can kind of position them to the left, to the right.
They're all differently ball jointed in all three toes, so
you can kind of move them up or down or
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move them to the side, you know, do whatever you
want to for posability reasons.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I don't know why. I'm just letting you know you can.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But you got to three claws down there, the same
pieces that are used for the big fangs and the teeth.
And then you also have your rear claw that is
hanging out back here as well on each foot. You know,
use it. Think of it as like a do claw
on an animal. So you do have that. We're gonna
move back to the top here where we've got the
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hip joint, and we're gonna go back through the tail.
There are multiple sections of the tail. There are four
sections that are posable, one that is not. The one
that is not is directly attached to the back end
of the hips, and it is directly supporting the rear
support stand, the black little stand I had mentioned, directly
supporting that, so that cannot move. You don't want that
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thing to move. That's probably not a good idea for
it to move. So it is not movable at all.
But this is where we see again, you know, all
the little plating and stuff like that, all the vertebrae
showing and stuff like that. So you have slopes that
are on the side, just like along the ribcage as well,
but they're more pronounced.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You also have some more sloping and these are these
are clipped into place along the bottom end of the tail.
Onto to three are actually on all four different sections.
They're just done slightly different. But again, all the final
four sections of the tail can be posed. There's not
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a ton of ability to like whip the tail back
around towards the.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Front or anything like that. The most you can do is.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Get about a ninety degree angle where the tip of
the tail is sticking out to the side. That's about it.
But they are all able to be posed there. They
just have a pin going through each of those sections
to be able to move it around anyway. Moving to
the end of the tail, you have a very long,
skinny slope one by I'm not exactly sure how long
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that is, but that's what you've got back there for
the very end. The interesting thing here in another I
don't want to say issue so much. When you go
ahead and you're putting this thing together. The pieces that
are on the bottom here, they're supposed to be the
bottom end of the tail, right the sections, and they
are click jointed clipped into place. That's how they move,
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but they are attached via studs on the underside of
the tail sections. When you go to move these, if
you were to, you know, for whatever reason, repose these
click joint pieces, they do have a tendency.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They can come loose and fall off. I had it happen.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It wasn't anything that I couldn't fix easily, but it
is something that did happen. There's not a whole lot
of ability there to be able to you know, the
clutch power is there, but you just don't have near
as much as you probably think that you do, especially
when it comes down to clickjoints, if you're talking about
just a clickjoint versus just clutch power, especially like this,
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I'm gonna go the way of the clickjoint nine times
out of ten just because it just seems to have
more ability to yank away. Plus, those those studs are
open hold studs, and that definitely, I don't care what
anybody says, I I swear, I swear up a down
that open studs have a harder time with clutch than
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the solid studs. You can you can take me to
battle on that one. To take me to task on
it whatever anyway, So that is your back end of
this thing. AnyWho, Uh, down on the base. Let's talk
about the base a little bit. We have a bunch
of geode pieces in here. I was really kind of
blown away by how many were actually involved in this.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's kind of cool. I like it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, you would find I guess that kind of
stuff around fossils, around dinosaur bones maybe, but that's kind
of cool. But a different a bunch of different colors here.
We have some of the lighter green that is down
in here. I guess it's not I don't think it's
saying green anyway, but you kind of have like almost
like a limish type green. The my goodness, the all
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of olive green, that's what I'm looking for here. And
then we have the darker bluish gray and you know,
you're lighter gray and stuff like that. A bunch of
different shapes and sizes and colors. You know, you've got
next all night shields in here. You've got different slopes
that are in here. You've even got some greenery pieces,
some flower type pieces, the green flower pieces. You've got
dark green leaves that are in here as well, and
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those go for on each side in the front, and
then on the rear as well, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Back along the feet, back along the feet.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Obviously, when you get to an opportunity and you can
put this thing together, what you were going to notice is, Okay,
the foot goes into position, I can pin it, and
then I stack different plates or building materials around it
so that it hides that unsightly stuff and also kind
of solidifies it to a certain degree, gives it a
little bit more detail. But along the back of the
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feet again, more plant pieces, more slope pieces, different colors
at olive green, in the two different colors of gray
that we have in this model. Something like, yes, you
could say unsightly. They've done a pretty good job overall
on the model where you don't see the underside of plates.
The only time that I've really noticed it or it's
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really abundantly clear of what it is, is on the
very back of the legs, just above where the feet are,
where they attach some big old plates that are sticking
out back here. I really wish there was a way
they could have softened that up a little bit, you know,
using some of those like little bows that they go across.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I would have taken anything, just kind of softened that
up a little bit. Not the biggest fan of the
way that that looks. Alrighty, folks, We've got to take
a quick break. We'll be back in a moment. Minifigs.
Let's get down to the minifigs, because that is the
last part here. Your minifigs actually are sitting right next
to your sign, and they've got their little piece that
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they're standing on that is built up just for them.
They have a little focil that is in here. It's
like a little seaweed type piece in the color of
the fossil bones and stuff. And you get Ellie and
you get Grant again. But we get Ellie and we
get Grant with sunglass faces and normal faces. Grant has
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his typical hair, but his sunglass face I just I
absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think it is so cool. I think it is
so sharp.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Ellie has it as well, and they have a different
reflection in each of their glasses, so that is that
is kind of cool. He is wearing a you know,
his shirt from the film, the kind of the plaid
color here plaid printed on the arms as well, which
again nice, thank you. I will take that on the
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front and the back as well, and and he's got
some printing for kind of like the little belt or
pouch or whatever they he's got hanging on during the
movie as well.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
He comes with a little bone claw.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'm sure that has to do with a not a
tea red a velosc raptor claw. Ellie comes with a shovel,
because you know that's one big pile of uh, you know,
do doo. No, it's not do do. This is not
as easily now blur. This is at their their dig site.
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So Ellie comes with her blonde hair again. Like I said,
she's got her face where she's normal face, and she's
got her face with her sunglasses and she's her mouth
is a gape. She's kind of blown away. So you
can imagine them being at the park and bang. You
know this is what's going on. You know that that amazement,
that blown away, you know, taking the sunglasses off because
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they're so blown away. But she comes with the dark
blue pants and the up top is lighter blue. She
has some printing on her arms for the short sleeves,
and then the printing of her shirt with all the
buttons and stuff like that, and then along the back
her little satchel that she has. So they just have
a little spot that they stand on right there, and
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they they're good to go. So you have some more
minifigs to pose and to be able to use for
this model, which I think is very important. So let's
talk about the model itself. Let's talk about it in
the sense of scores. Should we do that? Let's do
Let's break it down as far as score. The model itself,
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I think is gorgeous. It's going to look really good
on a tabletop. It's gonna look good in a cabinet.
It's going to look good on a display stand. It's
gonna look good on a desk. It's gonna look good
on a shelf. It's gonna look good no matter where
you put it. That reason alone, I think it's probably
a good eight eight and a half. It's not getting
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nine for me. I already told you the problems that
I see in it, and problems I use that term loosely.
I'm not trying to throw shade at the design team
by any means. I'm simply saying, look, hey, we've got
this thing that's a little insightly. As far as Lego fans,
you know, with the plates in the back, with the
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ball joints. I know, I know people are gonna be like,
shut up about the ball joints. They're not gonna do
anything about it, I know, but it does become a
little annoying. The breastplate section is a little wonky again.
I think maybe a little bit more beefing there that
would make it look a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The skull.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I'm blown away by the skull. I think the skull
was really well done. I like the ability to be
able to turn it to the left or to the right,
put its head up, put its head down if that's
what you want to do, no side to side, which
I don't think you would really do that so much
with a with a with a fossil. Obviously, the tail
sections it's a little bit easier to do as far
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as when they actually display a fossil, you know, at
a museum or anything like that. Again, with that in mind,
I'd say probably about a good eight and a half.
I love the minifig inclusion here, the big old printed
plate tile here that says Jurassic Park t rex gives
all the all the stats for it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I think that is really cool.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It says specimen and it's got the specimen number and
it says l I H two three dash five nine
eight seven. Not really sure what that's supposed to be.
There are so many hidden things in Lego language that
most of us don't understand. Designers that have their own
little flags that they throw in different little numbers that
mean different things to them, so many odd little things.
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And I'm curious to know. I without a doubt that's
got to have something or that is something on one
of the vials or something like that that I'm completely
missing from the movie, the very first movie. So a
good eight and a half. I think the build was.
I thought the build was fun. It's twenty three twenty
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four bags. The last bag is just your your your
kind of minifigs, stand in your minifigs and stuff like that.
But the build was fun was I thoroughly enjoyed it
from the very beginning to the end. I just enjoyed
learning different techniques as far as attaching different things, getting
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different ideas of how could you accomplish ribs in this way?
How could you accomplish this The solid nature of the
way that the legs were built and designed and created
instead of just slapping on, like I said, just kind
of like some skinning of this thing. You're not really
putting a skin on. I really liked the way that
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was done, so that works really well for me. I'm
a fan of the way that was done. I think
the tail, the being able instead of just sticking straight out.
That would be so dumb. I'm glad that they put
it on pins to be able to move it just
ever so slightly. All of that gives me a good
eight and a half. I think the value is there
at two hundred and fifty. It's a big model. I mean,
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if we're talking you know, parts and stuff like that,
three thirty one hundred pieces, and I know there's gonna
be a lot of people. Oh, there are a lot
of tiny little things like cheese wedged pieces, cheese los.
I get it. I know, I see you, I hear you.
But there's a lot here and it's a really fun build.
I definitely think if you're a Jurassic fan in any way,
shape or form, this definitely has to go to the
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top of your wish list for twenty twenty five, you know,
early twenty twenty five, Christmas twenty twenty five, and then
even moving into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You know, we've got the new movie coming out in June.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I think this is this would be a perfect model
for you to be able to pick up build, buy build,
and then you know, display it somewhere and then go
watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I think that would be really really cool to be
able to have as well. Obviously this Jurassic Park, but
you get what I'm saying, right, So anyway, I think
the model was really good, minifigs was really good, and overall,
I just I just had fun building it. I'm a
big dinosaur freak, believe it or not. With new career
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path that I have, getting to see fossils is more
of more of a common thing, and my goddam, I'm
enamored every single time that I come across one. So
that's a maybe a story for another day, maybe not,
But any human model is great.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I would add it to my list.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh and before we get out of here, remember I
did say I was trying to find something else to
compare this to build wise, size wise, I just don't know.
Over the last ten years, I really can't think of
anything this kind of size, this kind of type of
model to really compare it to you to be like
this kind of correlates with this price price aside. I'm
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just talking about build and size. I really don't know,
and and not like, oh, well the Titanic was this
long or whatever, and that's that's not what I mean.
I'm talking about something kind of a little bit more
obscure or something like that, where you're like, you know what,
this was a really fun build. This is not really
in my wheelhouse, but I really had kind of a
lot of fun building it. I don't know, maybe you
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have an idea. If you have an idea, maybe you
can think of something You're like, you know what, there
was this this set that came out, this this version
of this that came out, or it was something else.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'd love to hear it. I would really love to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You just have to let me know. So I have
rambled on enough. I appreciate you being here with us today, tonight, tomorrow, whatever,
whatever time of the day it is. I really appreciate
you being here and taken in the the t Rex model.
That's gonna wrap up this episode. I hope you enjoyed it.
Until we meet again, your arm and if it else, Matt,
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Let's build on it,
Shut up and welcome to the Bricks King Podcast, where
I'm gonna bend hear hear about Lego, review those amazing
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bricks of plastic and discuss what is new and up
and coming around the Lego world. I'm your Minnifig host Matt.
Let's beout on it. Welcome man, everybody. How are we
doing today? Hopefully you're doing quite lovely, quite well, no
matter where you are around the world, no matter what
time of day it may be. And today we are
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going to talk about something that is dead, something that's
been dead a long time, something that is kind of bony,
kind of well he and I guess, I guess we'll
talk about a dinosaur that seems it seems fitting, so
we can go ahead and do that.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
One of the coolest models I think I have built
in I was trying to go back through recent memory
and not so much recency bias or anything like that,
but over the last ten years things that I've built
and just kind of like, what is something that really
kind of matches my excitement or enthusiasm with how it
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turned out, Maybe not so much just the build process,
but more so how it turned out in the end,
and I'm really having a hard time. I really had
a hard time trying to figure it out. So maybe
by the end of this maybe there's something you can
be like, Hey, Matt, did you think about such and such?
So let's go ahead and crack into this puppy. So
what we're talking about is the dinosaur fossils, trannosaurs, tres.
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It falls under the Jurassic World umbrella. We've seen some
skeletons before, some skulls done before, Triceratops, the t rex.
This we get a whole big old model and it
falls under the Drastic Park, well under Drassic World, but
it is strictly meant to be a Jurassic Park t Rex.
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And we get some minifigs to prove that as well.
And the minifigs are even better than what I originally
thought they were going to be. So let's get to
the details on this set.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What do you need to know?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, the set number is seven six nine six eight,
comes with the two minifigs. As I had mentioned, it's
three one hundred and forty five pieces, and it retails
for two hundred and fifty bucks. Two hundred and fifty
euros pretty decent price if you ask me. Really, uh,
I know a lot of people are gonna be like, mah,
that's just it seems like a lot for just like
a model of a flossil.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I get it, I get it, I get it, you know,
I can. I can see that. But it's a really
cool model, and it's really really big. This thing actually
measures I.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Think it's like forty two inches forty three inches in length,
and it's thirteen inches high. It's not super wide, but
you're not really looking at it so much from the front,
although it does look really good from the front. There
are some bugaboos with it, and we can talk about those,
but they're probably going to be the usual contenders for.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Things that I've I guess if you will, griped about
in the past.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So AnyWho, the model itself a big, all chunky model.
There's actually and here's here's something that I have been
a big fan of since they've started doing it in
instructions with some big models, whether it be this, whether
it be a building of some kind. They did it
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with oh my goodness, my goodness, they did it with
was it Lord of the Rings? I think they did
it with one of the Lord of the Ring sets
a way to carry it, the proper way to carry something,
to transport it, to move it without it breaking into
a bajillionbajillion pieces. And they've really done a good job
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with that in their instructions, and they do it straight
out of the gate.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's one of the first pay.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It gives you a little, you know, a little brief
history I guess of this set or or you know,
talking about the movie, but then it gets straight into
it so that you know, hey, pick it up by this.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So this is a t Rex model in motion.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It does come with a black frame of it as
you would see it maybe in a museum, and then
it has a really really solid base, but it's not
a it's not a really thick, chunky bass. I'm really
impressed with the way that was done. And it actually
you don't really notice it that much at all. The
more you look at this, you don't even really so
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much notice the black frame pieces to be able to
connect the model down to the base itself. It just
kind of it just kind of goes invisible. You kind
of gloss through it, you know, you don't really see
too much of it just goes invisible. You know, it's
like one of those three D drawings. Right in this
case or in that case, you kind of stare through
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it to be able to see the picture. Here you
kind of stare at it, stare through it, and you
don't see it. So it's, I guess, kind of a
reverse model or a reverse idea, whatever you gonna call it. Anyway,
enough of that crap. The model itself, it's huge, it's beautiful,
the tail is fully articulated.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's just it's something exquisite.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Before we get to the overall model itself, I wanted
to talk about one of the things.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Have a big old placard down here, and it is printed,
of course, and it looks really really good, but it
gives some details about the t Rex and such on
the if you're looking at it from the front of
the model on the left side. And it was such
a cool idea when I was building it. They take
the idea of the t rex skeleton and stuff like that,
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and they give you a printed tile that is on
the side of this rock formation which is supposed to
be the base, and it pops off so that you
can This is one of those things that nobody would
know it was there unless they build it, or you
told them about it, or they happened to see a
video or hear about it or something like that. It's
a really cool homage to you know, the t Rex
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and stuff like that, and kind of the film and
stuff like that. I'm a fan of how it was done,
just kind of tucked away in there. It's just it's
it's just sharp. You know, it's just a four by six.
I believe that's in there, or I think maybe maybe
the piece is only like a four by four anyway,
but it's a nice little tucked away, silent, little cool,
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cute little piece that just it just to adds something extra. Now,
I know, I know what you were going to say.
A lot of you were going to say what I
probably was thinking at parts when I was going through this.
What about the bluish gray dark bluish gray ball joints,
the gray ball joints, What about those?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
What about them?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Those are here sad to say, I know, but they
use very few of them. They use them for points
of articulation, for to kind of get the I guess,
the breast bone of the rib cage, if you will,
to be able to get that, and then the articulation
for the hands, the tiny little t rex hands so
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not horrible, and we'll talk about that here in a
little bit, but I want to start here with the head.
The head is it's just absolutely phenomenal. The head can
be ever so slightly moved. You can probably hear that
clicking through. So it is on some click joints, So
it does have that's behind the head on the neck,
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so it does have an opportunity to be able to
be click joined around and give you that opportunity to
be able to move it and you know, kind of
enjoy it to a certain degree. I guess maybe pose it,
you know, in a little bit of a different position upright, downright, whatever,
but really not a whole lot of to the to
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the side. You can angle its head as you guys
can hear. There's there's some heavy clicking that is going
on here, but you can't you can't turn its side
to side. I've messed about with that. There's unfortunately in
no way to do that, which I think that is okay.
I think if they allowed you allowed us to have
that opportunity, I think it probably would have came out
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pretty crappy. I hate to say that, but no doubt
that probably would have created a problem. So I am
gonna turn this little puppy around here. And the reason
I say that is because it is it is long.
It takes up a big chunk of my desk. I mean,
like I said, it's forty something inches long. It's it's
really big. The cavities of the upper part of the skull,
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I think they did a really good job of just
kind of getting that feel there. A lot of unique
piece usage. Sorry, I'm tripping over my tongue. It's been
a long day at this point, but a lot of
really cool parts usage here with some tiles and just
even some studded pieces, just to kind of be able
to get that feel, that rugged feel at the same
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time feeling like it's kind of smooth like like kind
of like a fossil is supposed to be. And then
you know, getting the cavities in there as well, so
the bridge of the nose actually lifts up because that
is on a is just clipped into place there, so
it is meant to get that angle. So not like
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you're going to be holding it up to be kind
of funky or anything, just but that is how they
did it. They just kind of clip it into place
right there, but back here where your eyes are supposed
to be the eyes are supposed to be. Like how
it is done kind of around that position. Just it
just gives a good little feel the jaw. Your bottom
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jaw does open, and it opens completely. You can hyper
extend that thing and absolutely wreck your jaw line. Mister
t Rex, I ad you not to do it. But
it is just held into place by friction. It is
not locked in. It is not clipped in. You could
actually bite to the side left or right if you want.
You can't really get an underbyte or an overbite that
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doesn't move that way. But the teeth, the teeth are
teeth are interesting. And I say that just because you
have some big old chompers in the front, and then
you have some smaller ones along the sides towards the rear,
now the upper jaw. You have four smaller ones that
are in the front. Then you have three down each side,
so a total of six of the bigger teeth slash fangs,
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whatever you want to call those pieces. And then these
smaller teeth pieces that run down the side as well,
four on each side, just like on the bottom.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The head was.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
A It was a fun little build, a lot of
different ways of adding things on the final connection of
how this is put on looks nothing like you would
expect when you are initially going through the build process,
And I think that is one of those things that
people like to see, right, You like to see a
different kind of idea when you're building something versus what
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it looks like at the end. You want to experience
how to learn something, how to build a certain thing,
and in the future, if you want to build another
dinosaur skull, now you have a rough idea of how
you can go about doing so if you already didn't
know how to do it, which again, you know it's
steel sharp and steel kind of thing, right, I want
to learn how to do this, I'm gonna I want
to learn from building the kit, talking to whoever that
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really went through the process here and kind of glean
some of the things that were done to put them
on my future potential build if I'm going to ever
build a dinosaur or you know, a fossil skull of
anything like that in the future. So behind the head,
like I said, that's where we have a good chunk
of some gray back here. But you have those some
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pieces here that allow you to, like I said, move
it up, move it down, turn it to the left,
turn it to the right, kind of get him in
that weird pose however you want, or you could just
have him right on like I do. It just seems
like a you know, eighth grade kind of model looking
you know, fossil slat model looking straight on.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
One of the things behind the back of the skull,
on the between the upper and lower portion of the jaw,
that is the connection point here. And there are some big,
old black technic pieces that are back here. Not the
biggest fan, but again not something you're really going to
be seeing a bunch of moving forward. What I want
to move to next is this idea of where his
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forearms are attached. You have two claws on each little
hand here. On each each little hand you have a
ball joint for that clause obviously move but you have
a ball joint just for like the wrist. And then
you have a ball joint which I guess you could
consider that like the shoulder slash elbow where it's kind
of tucked back in. Now you have a bunch of
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these other ball joints that are attached to kind of
make up this breastbone, this little chest area of him.
And that is done just simply because you've got to
be able to get that angle that kind of rounds
out across it. Now it does attach to the rib
section a little bit further back. It's kind of funky
in the way that it's done. It is one of
those things that I think, if I think, I think
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somebody could probably go back and look at this and
say what else can I do? What else could I
do to maybe make this look a little better than
what it does, and they could probably make it look
a little bit better. It is just kind of a
little bit funky. Like I said, you look at it
from the front, it kind of looks off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Like it's not tapered enough.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But then if you taper it too much, then his
little Paul's claws hands kind of go in this weird
position and it definitely doesn't look right in its own right.
So it's it's a really tricky, really tricky point to
be able to get that look, that shape, that idea,
that feel without comprom some other things. So unfortunately, that
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is the way that is probably in my opinion, it
is the ugliest part of the model.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But it is not.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It is not something to get upset about and be
like this sucks, I hate it. Definitely not the case.
So moving behind the head here, we have the neck
just above where we talk about where that breastplate is,
and we've got the very very beginning of all the
little rib pieces. Usually these pieces are for smaller ribs.
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They are built in an assortment of different lengths to
be able to get different feels for the ribs. As
you know, the chest widens, the chest narrows back through
the bottom or back end of the rib cage, all
kinds of stuff anyway, So you've got a bunch of
those right here, and those are just kind of tucked
in now. I will say, I initially thought this is
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gonna suck putting all of these together. And you're only
doing like two at a time. You're doing two at
a time, you're doing three to time on each side
because you're going with different lengths, you're going with different pieces,
you're going with slightly turned this way or slightly turned
that way.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So it kind of covers everything.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
It gives you that illusion of where the chest should
be obviously with the rib cage, so it's not torturous.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's not tedious. It wasn't what I expected.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I was expecting it to be, like, Oh, this is
going to be the worst part of this, this is
gonna suck, it's going to be completely boring. But I
didn't feel that at all, which is which is always
a great thing. Alrighty folks, we've got to take a
quick break. We'll be back in a moment. Well, anyway,
so that goes back through the neck portion. You got
some tiles that come down the side of this, and
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then you've got the cheese wedge cheese slope pieces that
are across the top here for I guess what's supposed
to be the vertebrae, the whole way down from the
back of the neck, the whole way to the back
of the tail, which is really cool. And again, different
contours going to be built up different ways. Sometimes you
add a stud on top of a slope and then
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a cheese wedge piece. Sometimes there's just a plate and
a slope and a cheese wedge piece. Sometimes it's you know,
it's a different assortment, a different variation each way. As
you make your way down the model to be able
to get that size, that look, that feel, that different
part of the body, different bone.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So that is nice to be done that way.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So as we move back through here, it's really cool
because if you're a tactile person, you.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Kind of can run your hand like you would on the.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Back of a cat or a dog or any kind
of other animal that has a vertebrae, and you just
kind of feel it's kind of cool looking. It's really
kind of it's really kind of funky, but it's almost
like your your petting, your your little t rex. Here.
I was thinking to myself after I had built it,
I was like, this is almost like a clumpsug nathis,
you know, the compies. I was like, I can imagine
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the Compi's kind of being roughly this size. I think
they're a little bit smaller in this, but again, you know,
like the movie, the book, and you know they's supposed
to be like the size of a chicken. It's kind
of what it feels like here. I almost feel like
I've got a little baby copy here. It's kind of
kind of neat in the in the way that it
is done as well. So again the rib cage, as
we move back gets a little bit fatter, and then
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it's gettings up narrows up as we move further towards
the back. That brings us to roughly about the hip
joint area. And we've got some plate assemblies that are
just clipped into place that are on the upper portion,
top portion along the ridge line here the back ridge
line just above where the hip joints are. The leg
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joints are here for your t rex. Nice little idea
here and kind of cover some of the funky stuff,
but at the same time getting that idea of what
this bone looks like. Where this bone should be on
your if you're looking at it from the front side,
your leg that is on the left side, on the
far side of the model, based on where the little
(18:00):
information plate is in your minifigs are that leg is
further forward and the other leg is further backward. The
one that is closest well on the right side, if
you're looking at it from the front, is further backward.
So it's nice to be able to see the way
that is done. The legs are actually kind of fun
to build. Yes, you're building your frame kind of on
(18:20):
the inside, but it wasn't just a frame and let's
slap on some some pretty pieces on the outside. Everything
is built into it so that it does have that
structure rigidity in there, but also that kind of that
feel of it looking like it should be as a fossil,
and also at the same time not looking just like
a shell. Everything is connected and almost like interwoven to
(18:43):
create this one solid unit versus just like, oh, here,
we're going to take some technic pins and you're going
to slap these plates on on the outside just to
cover it up. It doesn't feel like it got skinned,
if that makes any sense to you. So yeah, But
down below where the hip joints are and the hip
joints are in place, they are locked into place because
(19:03):
the feet are locked into place. The feet are pinned
into place in a final resting place for each side
that you do. But down below, you've got that little weird,
kind of funky patch, you know, that little rounded part
for the dinosaur down underneath there, I guess their private
area or whatever. I honestly don't know what that is
(19:24):
supposed to be in a dinosaur. And I guarantee you
there dinosaur fanatics out there that are absolutely laughing at me.
I take pleasure in you laughing at me, But if
you wouldn't mind shooting me a message and be like, hey,
you know what this is for? I can I can
imagine Tom Jurassic right now screaming saying what the hell
is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Man?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But anyway, we've got that in here, and that just
kind of is locked in a position and actually can
kind of flap down at the very bottom of it,
can just kind of move back and forth, just ever
so slightly, not anything wild crazy. But the legs are
slightly I don't want to say they're built slightly differently.
(20:02):
They are built a little bit differently, just based on
how they are functioning here. But they are attached by
ball joints into the hip joint socket. But like I said,
there's no function, flapping movement of anything there because everything
is locked in a position.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Now, I wanted to bring your.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Attention down to the feet because when you get down
to the feed here, the toes actually do move. They
are on ball joints and they look pretty good. You
can kind of position them to the left, to the right.
They're all differently ball jointed in all three toes, so
you can kind of move them up or down or
(20:41):
move them to the side, you know, do whatever you
want to for posability reasons.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I don't know why. I'm just letting you know you can.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But you got to three claws down there, the same
pieces that are used for the big fangs and the teeth.
And then you also have your rear claw that is
hanging out back here as well on each foot. You know,
use it. Think of it as like a do claw
on an animal. So you do have that. We're gonna
move back to the top here where we've got the
(21:10):
hip joint, and we're gonna go back through the tail.
There are multiple sections of the tail. There are four
sections that are posable, one that is not. The one
that is not is directly attached to the back end
of the hips, and it is directly supporting the rear
support stand, the black little stand I had mentioned, directly
supporting that, so that cannot move. You don't want that
(21:33):
thing to move. That's probably not a good idea for
it to move. So it is not movable at all.
But this is where we see again, you know, all
the little plating and stuff like that, all the vertebrae
showing and stuff like that. So you have slopes that
are on the side, just like along the ribcage as well,
but they're more pronounced.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You also have some more sloping and these are these
are clipped into place along the bottom end of the tail.
Onto to three are actually on all four different sections.
They're just done slightly different. But again, all the final
four sections of the tail can be posed. There's not
(22:13):
a ton of ability to like whip the tail back
around towards the.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Front or anything like that. The most you can do is.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Get about a ninety degree angle where the tip of
the tail is sticking out to the side. That's about it.
But they are all able to be posed there. They
just have a pin going through each of those sections
to be able to move it around anyway. Moving to
the end of the tail, you have a very long,
skinny slope one by I'm not exactly sure how long
(22:42):
that is, but that's what you've got back there for
the very end. The interesting thing here in another I
don't want to say issue so much. When you go
ahead and you're putting this thing together. The pieces that
are on the bottom here, they're supposed to be the
bottom end of the tail, right the sections, and they
are click jointed clipped into place. That's how they move,
(23:07):
but they are attached via studs on the underside of
the tail sections. When you go to move these, if
you were to, you know, for whatever reason, repose these
click joint pieces, they do have a tendency.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
They can come loose and fall off. I had it happen.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It wasn't anything that I couldn't fix easily, but it
is something that did happen. There's not a whole lot
of ability there to be able to you know, the
clutch power is there, but you just don't have near
as much as you probably think that you do, especially
when it comes down to clickjoints, if you're talking about
just a clickjoint versus just clutch power, especially like this,
(23:48):
I'm gonna go the way of the clickjoint nine times
out of ten just because it just seems to have
more ability to yank away. Plus, those those studs are
open hold studs, and that definitely, I don't care what
anybody says, I I swear, I swear up a down
that open studs have a harder time with clutch than
(24:11):
the solid studs. You can you can take me to
battle on that one. To take me to task on
it whatever anyway, So that is your back end of
this thing. AnyWho, Uh, down on the base. Let's talk
about the base a little bit. We have a bunch
of geode pieces in here. I was really kind of
blown away by how many were actually involved in this.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's kind of cool. I like it.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, you would find I guess that kind of
stuff around fossils, around dinosaur bones maybe, but that's kind
of cool. But a different a bunch of different colors here.
We have some of the lighter green that is down
in here. I guess it's not I don't think it's
saying green anyway, but you kind of have like almost
like a limish type green. The my goodness, the all
(24:57):
of olive green, that's what I'm looking for here. And
then we have the darker bluish gray and you know,
you're lighter gray and stuff like that. A bunch of
different shapes and sizes and colors. You know, you've got
next all night shields in here. You've got different slopes
that are in here. You've even got some greenery pieces,
some flower type pieces, the green flower pieces. You've got
dark green leaves that are in here as well, and
(25:20):
those go for on each side in the front, and
then on the rear as well, and then.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Back along the feet, back along the feet.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Obviously, when you get to an opportunity and you can
put this thing together, what you were going to notice is, Okay,
the foot goes into position, I can pin it, and
then I stack different plates or building materials around it
so that it hides that unsightly stuff and also kind
of solidifies it to a certain degree, gives it a
little bit more detail. But along the back of the
(25:49):
feet again, more plant pieces, more slope pieces, different colors
at olive green, in the two different colors of gray
that we have in this model. Something like, yes, you
could say unsightly. They've done a pretty good job overall
on the model where you don't see the underside of plates.
The only time that I've really noticed it or it's
(26:11):
really abundantly clear of what it is, is on the
very back of the legs, just above where the feet are,
where they attach some big old plates that are sticking
out back here. I really wish there was a way
they could have softened that up a little bit, you know,
using some of those like little bows that they go across.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I would have taken anything, just kind of softened that
up a little bit. Not the biggest fan of the
way that that looks. Alrighty, folks, We've got to take
a quick break. We'll be back in a moment. Minifigs.
Let's get down to the minifigs, because that is the
last part here. Your minifigs actually are sitting right next
to your sign, and they've got their little piece that
(26:54):
they're standing on that is built up just for them.
They have a little focil that is in here. It's
like a little seaweed type piece in the color of
the fossil bones and stuff. And you get Ellie and
you get Grant again. But we get Ellie and we
get Grant with sunglass faces and normal faces. Grant has
(27:16):
his typical hair, but his sunglass face I just I
absolutely love.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think it is so cool. I think it is
so sharp.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Ellie has it as well, and they have a different
reflection in each of their glasses, so that is that
is kind of cool. He is wearing a you know,
his shirt from the film, the kind of the plaid
color here plaid printed on the arms as well, which
again nice, thank you. I will take that on the
(27:45):
front and the back as well, and and he's got
some printing for kind of like the little belt or
pouch or whatever they he's got hanging on during the
movie as well.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
He comes with a little bone claw.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I'm sure that has to do with a not a
tea red a velosc raptor claw. Ellie comes with a shovel,
because you know that's one big pile of uh, you know,
do doo. No, it's not do do. This is not
as easily now blur. This is at their their dig site.
(28:16):
So Ellie comes with her blonde hair again. Like I said,
she's got her face where she's normal face, and she's
got her face with her sunglasses and she's her mouth
is a gape. She's kind of blown away. So you
can imagine them being at the park and bang. You
know this is what's going on. You know that that amazement,
that blown away, you know, taking the sunglasses off because
(28:37):
they're so blown away. But she comes with the dark
blue pants and the up top is lighter blue. She
has some printing on her arms for the short sleeves,
and then the printing of her shirt with all the
buttons and stuff like that, and then along the back
her little satchel that she has. So they just have
a little spot that they stand on right there, and
(28:59):
they they're good to go. So you have some more
minifigs to pose and to be able to use for
this model, which I think is very important. So let's
talk about the model itself. Let's talk about it in
the sense of scores. Should we do that? Let's do
Let's break it down as far as score. The model itself,
(29:20):
I think is gorgeous. It's going to look really good
on a tabletop. It's gonna look good in a cabinet.
It's going to look good on a display stand. It's
gonna look good on a desk. It's gonna look good
on a shelf. It's gonna look good no matter where
you put it. That reason alone, I think it's probably
a good eight eight and a half. It's not getting
(29:43):
nine for me. I already told you the problems that
I see in it, and problems I use that term loosely.
I'm not trying to throw shade at the design team
by any means. I'm simply saying, look, hey, we've got
this thing that's a little insightly. As far as Lego fans,
you know, with the plates in the back, with the
(30:04):
ball joints. I know, I know people are gonna be like,
shut up about the ball joints. They're not gonna do
anything about it, I know, but it does become a
little annoying. The breastplate section is a little wonky again.
I think maybe a little bit more beefing there that
would make it look a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The skull.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I'm blown away by the skull. I think the skull
was really well done. I like the ability to be
able to turn it to the left or to the right,
put its head up, put its head down if that's
what you want to do, no side to side, which
I don't think you would really do that so much
with a with a with a fossil. Obviously, the tail
sections it's a little bit easier to do as far
(30:45):
as when they actually display a fossil, you know, at
a museum or anything like that. Again, with that in mind,
I'd say probably about a good eight and a half.
I love the minifig inclusion here, the big old printed
plate tile here that says Jurassic Park t rex gives
all the all the stats for it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I think that is really cool.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It says specimen and it's got the specimen number and
it says l I H two three dash five nine
eight seven. Not really sure what that's supposed to be.
There are so many hidden things in Lego language that
most of us don't understand. Designers that have their own
little flags that they throw in different little numbers that
mean different things to them, so many odd little things.
(31:34):
And I'm curious to know. I without a doubt that's
got to have something or that is something on one
of the vials or something like that that I'm completely
missing from the movie, the very first movie. So a
good eight and a half. I think the build was.
I thought the build was fun. It's twenty three twenty
(31:56):
four bags. The last bag is just your your your
kind of minifigs, stand in your minifigs and stuff like that.
But the build was fun was I thoroughly enjoyed it
from the very beginning to the end. I just enjoyed
learning different techniques as far as attaching different things, getting
(32:17):
different ideas of how could you accomplish ribs in this way?
How could you accomplish this The solid nature of the
way that the legs were built and designed and created
instead of just slapping on, like I said, just kind
of like some skinning of this thing. You're not really
putting a skin on. I really liked the way that
(32:37):
was done, so that works really well for me. I'm
a fan of the way that was done. I think
the tail, the being able instead of just sticking straight out.
That would be so dumb. I'm glad that they put
it on pins to be able to move it just
ever so slightly. All of that gives me a good
eight and a half. I think the value is there
at two hundred and fifty. It's a big model. I mean,
(33:00):
if we're talking you know, parts and stuff like that,
three thirty one hundred pieces, and I know there's gonna
be a lot of people. Oh, there are a lot
of tiny little things like cheese wedged pieces, cheese los.
I get it. I know, I see you, I hear you.
But there's a lot here and it's a really fun build.
I definitely think if you're a Jurassic fan in any way,
shape or form, this definitely has to go to the
(33:22):
top of your wish list for twenty twenty five, you know,
early twenty twenty five, Christmas twenty twenty five, and then
even moving into twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You know, we've got the new movie coming out in June.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I think this is this would be a perfect model
for you to be able to pick up build, buy build,
and then you know, display it somewhere and then go
watch the movie.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
I think that would be really really cool to be
able to have as well. Obviously this Jurassic Park, but
you get what I'm saying, right, So anyway, I think
the model was really good, minifigs was really good, and overall,
I just I just had fun building it. I'm a
big dinosaur freak, believe it or not. With new career
(34:07):
path that I have, getting to see fossils is more
of more of a common thing, and my goddam, I'm
enamored every single time that I come across one. So
that's a maybe a story for another day, maybe not,
But any human model is great.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I would add it to my list.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh and before we get out of here, remember I
did say I was trying to find something else to
compare this to build wise, size wise, I just don't know.
Over the last ten years, I really can't think of
anything this kind of size, this kind of type of
model to really compare it to you to be like
this kind of correlates with this price price aside. I'm
(34:46):
just talking about build and size. I really don't know,
and and not like, oh, well the Titanic was this
long or whatever, and that's that's not what I mean.
I'm talking about something kind of a little bit more
obscure or something like that, where you're like, you know what,
this was a really fun build. This is not really
in my wheelhouse, but I really had kind of a
lot of fun building it. I don't know, maybe you
(35:09):
have an idea. If you have an idea, maybe you
can think of something You're like, you know what, there
was this this set that came out, this this version
of this that came out, or it was something else.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I'd love to hear it. I would really love to
hear it.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You just have to let me know. So I have
rambled on enough. I appreciate you being here with us today, tonight, tomorrow, whatever,
whatever time of the day it is. I really appreciate
you being here and taken in the the t Rex model.
That's gonna wrap up this episode. I hope you enjoyed it.
Until we meet again, your arm and if it else, Matt,
(35:44):
Let's build on it,
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