{"id":34092,"date":"2021-03-31T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=34092"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:39:28","slug":"dino-dudes-series-1-glow-in-the-dark-set-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/03\/dino-dudes-series-1-glow-in-the-dark-set-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Dudes: Series 1 Glow-in-the-Dark set review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Dino Dudes<\/i> Kickstarter<\/a> was not very clearly worded, so when I pledged for five complete figures, I was pledging for the five Fossil Edition dinos<\/a>. But when the Backerkit surveys went out, it turned out you could only get those as an add-on, not by themselves, so I needed to pick something else to be the base of my order. Out of the six color options available (Reddish Brown, Green, Dark Tan, Sand Blue, Purple, and Glow-in-the-Dark), the GitD seemed like it would go best with the bony bodies. So take a look at how they blend, and maybe the clash between the solid bodies and the glowing suits will help make it apparent how the builds work.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see how the brachiosaurus needs two pairs of legs for the suit to be fully filled. The arms do stand out a bit, though.
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This should clarify how the Tyrannosaurus' big hips work on the minifigure body.
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This not-evil stegosaurus has a single line of armed plates running along his back. The other suits get some patterning on the skin, but the paint here was saved for the spine.
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Here you can see how the triceratops' lower jaw (part of the body, rather than the head) works when there's some color involved instead of just bones.
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This angle shows how the \"Crazy Arms\" work - every pterodactyl includes one set of Crazy Arms in a matching color, but you need to buy a second set to have two straight arms. And since I was only getting the glow-in-the-dark set as a bonus to my fossils, I didn't care too much about that. (The Kickstarter listing originally said the pterodactyl would include two straight Crazy Arms, but that was something else that got changed along the way.)<\/p>\n

If the Fossil Edition Dino Dudes<\/i> had been available the way it seemed they were, I never would have gotten this GitD set, but being able to show them off two ways really is a lot of fun. Crazy Bricks did look into making the bones on the Fossils glow as well, but that would have been prohibitively expensive at this juncture. Maybe another time.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>