rex (from 1960s-70s) with amazing misplaced bulging eyes and huge cheesy grin – at least his toes are almost pointing in the right direction! rex from the 1970sĮnglish toy company Timpo produced a T. The first toy dinosaurs I had included Imperial models from the 1970s which have an upright stance, splayed out legs and feet pointing sideways like Charlie Chaplin! The larger versions were even less anatomically correct and very frog-like. The choice of dinosaur toy available in the UK used to be somewhat limited: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus were the most common toys – along with some non-dinosaurs like the sail-backed Dimetrodon. This led to new insights about dinosaurs as more active animals, but it took a long time for this to be reflected in most dinosaur toys. However, evidence from fossils found in the 1960s - like that of Deinonychus (a larger relative of Velociraptor) - showed that many bipedal dinosaurs probably walked with their spine held in a more horizontal posture with the tail held up off the ground. Museum mounts using real fossils or plaster replicas are also very heavy, so mounting them in more active poses on heavy metal frames is also difficult. It was assumed that they had to balance on their tail which they would drag along the ground behind them. rex toys usually have an upright sloping posture this was how most bipedal (two legged) dinosaurs were originally reconstructed. Toy and model dinosaurs therefore tended to reflect this perception. Images of dinosaurs as doomed failures bound for extinction entered popular culture (though some Victorian images did show dinosaurs as active animals). rex the toy evolved over time? Sarah’s collection of Tyrannosaur toys dating from the 1970s onwardsįor the best part of the 20th Century, dinosaurs were considered to be slow, stupid swamp dwellers - and in the case of T. Perceptions of dinosaurs have changed over time as a result of new fossil discoveries and the continued study of museum collections. ![]() We’ve never seen a live Tyrannosaurus rex so all reconstructions of it are based on a mixture of examining the fossil evidence, intelligent guesswork from studying living animals, and a bit of imagination. ![]() My dinosaur phase has lasted a bit longer than most, so much so that my collection spans several decades of plastic and rubber dinosaurs – starting from the 1970s when I was barely ankle height to a T. Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most iconic dinosaurs and features in most toy collections as children go through the ‘dinosaur phase’.
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