That era of render quality… yikes.

@MCLegoboy said:
"I'm not saying you wouldn't need something like this to pull a cage with a dinosaur inside, but it was much more fitting with the big gun on it. Doesn't really make it any easier to move the body afterward, but I suppose if you got the right shot, it would make a bunch of much more easily portable chunks than a live body flailing about.
'MURICA!
Shoot shoot shoot bullet bullet gun!"

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I think the Beatles said it best. Happiness....
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So they took the gun off 7476 and added a transport cage so they could release this. No wonder the cage looks so incomplete compared to the rest.
As a Dinosaur fan, and owner of almost all of the post 2012 dinosaurs (All moulds and colours, I just need 6 more.) I don't know if I want to add these dinosaurs to my collection.

This was such a weird theme. I remember kind of liking it at the time, but wishing for a proper Jurassic Park type license, since they’d had it before (but I’d missed out).

I didn’t have to wait too long!

@B_Space_Man said:
"That era of render quality… yikes. "

TBH its still better than the renders on the overwatch boxes

@Miyakan:
The heck? I clicked the link for the five sets in this wave, and saw three RSotD. So I closed the year limiter, got the parachute to show up, and saw four. The parachute was number four. Randomness also saw four. Now there’s only three, and the parachute isn’t one of them.

@Jesse_S_T:
It wasn’t replaced. They ran concurrently. It was decided that the weapons weren’t suitable for the British market, so they got this. We got weaponized versions of the same sets, like 7476. Same vehicle, but with a giant rail gun on a turret instead of a cage.

Is this the only time there’s been a variant on a theme for different markets?

The tan/red/trans neon green colour scheme is criminally underrated. Never had any of these sets but the combination is so so good.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Miyakan:
The heck? I clicked the link for the five sets in this wave, and saw three RSotD. So I closed the year limiter, got the parachute to show up, and saw four. The parachute was number four. Randomness also saw four. Now there’s only three, and the parachute isn’t one of them."

Not a clue. It shows Four for me. Only 7294 hasn't been RSotD so far.

Incredible how this set is better than most of the Jurassic World/Park sets released since 2015.

@chrisaw said:
"Is this the only time there’s been a variant on a theme for different markets?"

In the late 70s a number of the early town sets contained a US flag in North America, and a generic flag in Europe. I’m sure a reddish-blue bloke will be along in a minute to tell us which ones.

Yuk... A toy dinosaur with a bit of unrelated Lego!

@Randomness said:
"There were only ever six Dino 2010 sets, but this is already the fourth to be RSotD. I guess this has been going on for a few years, but still. Strange."

To be fair, the American version of this theme also has very few sets yet most of them have also cropped up as RSotD. Huwbot just loves dinosaurs I guess

I remember finding those treads in a bulk box of Lego and thinking, 'this can't be Lego?'

Dude! The eyes actually 'light up'?! That's pretty cool.

That T-Rex is a loser

What is Jurassic World anyway?

@Kynareth said:
" @chrisaw said:
"Is this the only time there’s been a variant on a theme for different markets?"

In the late 70s a number of the early town sets contained a US flag in North America, and a generic flag in Europe. I’m sure a reddish-blue bloke will be along in a minute to tell us which ones."

I believe all early US pirate cannons couldn't shoot while in europa we could fire at will.

@jkb a movie that suffers from being 4th in a franchise, so we all know the dino's will escape and the kids will survive.
The lovebirds story is crappy, and the use dino's in military idea is insane but it looks cool.

I bought this set while in Legoland Billund over a decade ago now, one of the few non Star Wars sets I bought during my dark ages. It has always felt weird to me, like something was off. And guess what, there was :p the replacement of the massive (and really cool) cannon on the back for a flimsy cage never made sense to me honestly. Not a bad set though, and the big dino still draws attention whenever I have it on display

Having only known the Dino 2010 theme until years later, the international versions still look more 'right' to me personally. The box art looks more vibrant and the posing of the dinosaurs looks less weirdly contorted. And it makes more visual sense to have stuff to interact with the mutants instead of just having them as target practice.

Of course, I since learned that these came after. It's quite bizarre how these could be so different.

A few years ago I got all but the smallest one from someone to sell. The 4WD and Buggy were Dino 2010, but this one and the helicopter were from Dino Attack (he has American family). They were absolutely massive, but for all their guns they were surprisingly empty.
The color scheme also struck me as strangely drab.

You will probably need something a bit faster than a tracked vehicle to escape a dinosaur, but appreciate the change of build from all the usual jeeps and does look like a lot of fun for kids to play with until they find out that their older cousin lost the big gun.

@watcher21 said:
" @Kynareth said:
" @chrisaw said:
"Is this the only time there’s been a variant on a theme for different markets?"

In the late 70s a number of the early town sets contained a US flag in North America, and a generic flag in Europe. I’m sure a reddish-blue bloke will be along in a minute to tell us which ones."

I believe all early US pirate cannons couldn't shoot while in europa we could fire at will.

@jkb a movie that suffers from being 4th in a franchise, so we all know the dino's will escape and the kids will survive.
The lovebirds story is crappy, and the use dino's in military idea is insane but it looks cool."

I think this is the only example where there is a completely different version of the same theme. Which unlike posted earlier I believe was available in the whole of Europe, certainly also in the Netherlands.

There are a early town examples that were different: 374 vs 590-1 and 377-1 vs 6375-2 vs 6371

There have been US-only themes: Unitron (except the mono-rail), and Roboforce

@Miyakan said:
"So they took the gun off 7476 and added a transport cage so they could release this. No wonder the cage looks so incomplete compared to the rest."

More cockpit space for minifigures in comparison, though, which was something that I definitely appreciated when playing with this set as a teen. The American version looks so cramped to me... although I do absolutely agree that the cage felt like an awkward afterthought.

Other changes I notice between the Attack and 2010 versions based on the box-art alone: the small gun / camera / whatever has changed sides; the steering wheel is set in the middle of the vehicle here instead of on the right in the Attack version (right-hand drive in an American set??); rocket engine at the top of the front instead of the (tiny) windscreen; the tubes enclosing the cockpit area; and that all four tooth pieces are mounted on the rear wedge parts instead of two on the back ones, two on the front.

Also, on the box art, the minifigures are shown to have switched around their outfits from their US counterparts - the instructions, however, still show to assemble them with the same torsos as their respective American versions. This is most obvious with Digger, whose torso on the European box-art wasn't even included in this set...

I stand by a variant of what I said when 7474 was RSotD: This and Dino Attack were actually Jurassic World lines. Those weren't mutant dinosaurs that somehow didn't go extinct, Dr. Wu's hybrid experiments just got out of hand and needed to be reined in. With both guns and capture equipment.

@Jesse_S_T:
I know the US got Dino Attack, and the UK got this. What Europe, Canada, and the rest of the world got, I don’t know. But the “no weapons” thing has always been framed in terms of the UK market, where they once had a show called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, because the word “ninja” was banned for sounding too scary.

@chrisaw said:
"Is this the only time there’s been a variant on a theme for different markets?"
Um…all those airline-variant passenger planes people keep counting off when they appear as RSotD? I know the Galaxy Explorer set had two different builds, and I believe at the time every set had different EU/NA set numbers. Bionicle mask packs carried on this tradition, but the EU version was bagged while the US version was boxed, and EU copies shipped early enough that some production errors were only available there. Kabaya has had a lot of true exclusives, but even when those sets appear elsewhere, the standard polybags get overpacked with candy or gum in a Japanese-exclusive box.

@Miyakan:
Now I’m seeing four, with 7294 being the only one that’s not. I didn’t note which ones were not, but I’m really curious why I was only seeing three at times last night.

@watcher21:
My first cannon was the firing variant, but with no spring installed. This was likely a last-minute change made due to Lucasfilm being sued after a kid choked on a firing missile from a Battlestar Galactica toy (this also resulted in Kenner scrapping plans for an advertised “rocket-firing Boba Fett” before it had actually shipped). I didn’t get that cannon until Christmas, so I’m not sure if any fully-functional cannons made it to our shores before this change was implemented.

And JW wasn’t nearly as bad as ending JW2 with, “save the dinos from poison gas by setting them loose on the continent, instead of just opening all the exterior doors so the poison can dissipate.”

@ambr:
There’s a tracked vehicle called the Ripsaw, which comes in a civilian version. The prototype model had a max speed of 65mph (105km/h). I know there was also one light tank in WWII that was able to move faster than Allied tanks could track with their turrets. Just because it has tracks doesn’t mean it has to move slow. Shed enough weight, and beef up the power train and engine, and you can make anything move fast…even if you probably shouldn’t (I’m looking at you, people who race beer coolers).

This vehicle sits very low, has a wide base with lots of ground contact on what may be a 4-track drive, and apparently has a jet engine. I would not want to be standing in front of it when it starts moving.

@StyleCounselor said:
"I remember finding those treads in a bulk box of Lego and thinking, 'this can't be Lego?'

Dude! The eyes actually 'light up'?! That's pretty cool. "

Yes, but unfurtunattely you cann't change the battery. No none found any way to tear down without destruction. But this this mutant "t-rex" is ridiculsy big and one of the biggest lego creatures ever. Only some dragon with wings are in same volume of stuff tier. But they are all much more expensive.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Oh, right. This theme was called "Dino Eagle Freedom Explosion Assault Shooty Parade" or something similar in America, wasn't it?

Fantasy-assault, of course. Nothing realistic. Never realistic. Fantasy gatling goes brrrrr."

I always find it ironic that someone inevitably mocks the United States as a whole when the Dino 2010/Dino Attack line is featured here because it was designed by a Danish company for US and UK toys markets, not some rednecks in Alabama.

I have this electronic dino and he is spectacular. =-)

@graymattr said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"Oh, right. This theme was called "Dino Eagle Freedom Explosion Assault Shooty Parade" or something similar in America, wasn't it?

Fantasy-assault, of course. Nothing realistic. Never realistic. Fantasy gatling goes brrrrr."

I always find it ironic that someone inevitably mocks the United States as a whole when the Dino 2010/Dino Attack line is featured here because it was designed by a Danish company for US and UK toys markets, not some rednecks in Alabama.

I have this electronic dino and he is spectacular. =-)"

I think that comment would work better if I hadn't been empirically correct. It's not my fault the Danes know their target audience.

Shooting the messenger goes brrrrr.