Dino
They still make them, you know.
Some guy
In a moderately sized town
Long forgotten in the Midwest
He’s still making those hard plastic Dinosaurs
Heavy like an Oldsmobile
They have always been old, even when we were kids in the 1980’s
In the 1900s
Some guy still makes them.
Casting molds out of ancient molten plastic
The crude oil remains of Dinos.
Real to life as we imagine them. Green and brown, and all leathery like lizards.
Now updated for the year 2000 with one moving part: jaws for the carnivores.
How does one play Dinos without pondering the existential dread of extinction?
Only kids can do so. That’s why adults give up fascination with Dinos.
Dinos ruling the earth one day just to lose it all to rats hits too close to home.
Remember when you were young, ruling the world with nothing more than a cheap Mercury, CD player cranked up as high as your lizard brain could endure?
We’re already ancient.
There is no guy in the Midwest still making the old school plastic Dinos of our youth.
The guy is extinct.
These Dinos come from
XIN GUANG LE TOYS FACTORY
GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA
The box includes:
Evil T-Rex
Forward Pentaceratops
With Wings Pterosaurs
A long neck Brachiosaurus
Swimming Mosasaurus
And warns, “Please have the kid use this product under direct supervision of adults.”
The kid loves Dinos.
The kid is wild.
The kid does what she wants.
The box instructs, “Play exciting movie scenes over and over again with the Extreme Chompin’ Tyrannosaurus Rex!”
The kid does not need a movie to show her what Dinos are. The kid already knows, some Dinos are nice Dinos. These Dinos are friends. And she whispers under her breath that she hopes the baby brother in her mother’s tummy is a Dino she can hold.
She smiles dreamily as she says it.
Life is hard. She knows it already, I think.
As the box reads, “When you catch your prey, this incredible creature is exposed to her huge teeth, protruding tongue and huge bite marks!” She knows you best hold your nice Dinos close, before life takes a huge bite out of you.
Before the good times go extinct.
This Dad prays she has the hugest teeth of all, and may she remember me as a friend Dino, long after I’m extinct.
"He’s still making those hard plastic Dinosaurs." This is so sad! I'm in China at the moment and all the toys are soft, they only send the hard ones out to America
I've been painting some dino-miniatures. Adults can still play with Dinos, we just change the parameters of the game.