 great product |
| Review Date: December 13, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Z, Lakeland, FL |
| very detailed, cool pose, nice moveable jaw. i really liked it. too bad they dont make em bigger tho. |
The best Raptor available!!
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| Review Date: August 12, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Colin M. Maguire, Seattle, WA |
| Well, this is a special find. I obsess on dinos here and again, and always like toys to look at to help me imagine the dinos more thoroughly. I also like to display toys of current interests - monsters and the such. Finding a good, realistic dino is hard to come by!! I tried doing a few models, but am not the modeling type - - so when I stumbled across the Papo dinosaurs, it was like a gift!! These are sturdy, durable, extremely realistic toys - and my first one was the lovely Velociraptor. It's great! A realistic, mature depiction of what a real Raptor might look like - and the working jaw is nice, but it's a display toy; meant more for office spaces at work, or a desktop (for an adult) than it is for a kid. It's nice to not have them so articulated, as it adds to the realism of the creature and pose. The JPark toys were horrible, and not very good representations of realistic dinos. The Papo creatures are just right if you want a good, adult dino to spark your imagination. Great, great toys - you can't get 'em any better than this!! |
Big Bite in a Little Package
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| Review Date: July 26, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Benjamin Dickens, |
This is a great figure. Highly detailed and accurate (very Jurassic park Lost World-ish).
It would be nice if it was larger, but this still a great figure and a must have for any dinosaur fanatic.
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It may not be 100% accurate, but that doesn't stop it from being awesome!
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| Review Date: July 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Waylon Piercy, Petal, MS United States |
Papo's Velociraptor is another exquisite entry in their series of dinosaur figures. As the title says, it is not 100% accurate. It does not have the feathers now associated with the raptors, but, as the figure is clearly inspired by the Velociraptors in "Jurassic Park," this is acceptable. and with such wonderful sculpted details, who can complain too much about that?
The other big inaccuracy is the positioning of the hands. As sculpted, they with the palms facing the body. Velociraptors could not actually turn their hands this way; they were fixed in position with the palms facing each other, as if the raptor was about to put his hands together and pray. Still, most of us are not so uptight about a few inaccuracies as to let it ruin an otherwise fantastic figure. As with Allosaurus, the interior of the moth is painted with a glossy paint, giving it a lifelike moist appearance. The hinged jaw will hold any position perfectly(personally, I prefer keeping it nearly closed, with a bit of the teeth visible). The combination of the sculpt and paint give this raptor's eyes an intelligent look that is a bit unsettling; he appears to be dissecting you with his eyes! This is excellent work by Papo.
At about 4" tall, it is not in scale with other Papo products, such as Allosaurus, but it's perfectly in scale with any 12th-scale action figures you may have. As with other Papo figures, some of the claws have pretty sharp points, so I wouldn't recommend this figure for young children. (Or at least filing the points down a bit if you child wants it that much!) |
JP Pinball Mod
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| Review Date: January 14, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Peter G. Evans, USA |
I have a JP pinball machine and I bought this velociraptor to add to the machine. For those of you familiar with the machine, this mounts right over the raptor pit with some floral wire and a screw.
I also bought a Triceratops and mounted it over the ball diverter on the ramp.
It really looks neat, and it balances out the Pteranodons that the machine came with. |
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