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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:22:01 PM EDT
 My wife found this as a birthday present for a child my son knows, I don't really know the parents but she asked me about it. The dinosaur on the back roars and his eyes flash. You shoot the dinosaur with the truck mounted spears and if you hit the dinosaur in the chest (there's a section of it's chest that looks like it's spring loaded so it pokes in when the spear hits it) the dinosaur will fall over on his face. If you hit the dinosaur somewhere else it roars and the eyes flash red. While Rusted Ace's daughter is probably shooting alligators right now with a suppressed Kriss, my kid has kid of been "Meh, no thanks" on some of the Batman and Star Wars stuff he has gotten as birthday presents. He's just kind of starting to understand 'scary"; like he likes some very childlike stories about ghosts (he does not understand they are supposed to be dead people haunting the living), but some pretty nonoffensive cartoons he has thought were too scary. He also has started hiding and leaping out at me and yelling 'Boo!" (jesus christ that kid could hide silently in a shoe box for hours, he's going to give me a stroke) We talked one night and he talked about how at night he thinks things move around in his room and that some of his toys seem scary in the dark. (yeah yeah my kid's a chicken and your parents made you kill a bear with a spork in pre school blah blah). I don't want to give this kid a toy that he's going to be peeking out of the covers at the next night , waiting for it to run over and bite him. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:23:31 PM EDT
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http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/tru_prod_images/Matchbox-Dino-Trapper-Trailer--pTRU1-21596922dt.jpg My wife found this as a birthday present for a child my son knows, I don't really know the parents but she asked me about it. The dinosaur on the back roars and his eyes flash. You shoot the dinosaur with the truck mounted spears and if you hit the dinosaur in the chest (there's a section of it's chest that looks like it's spring loaded so it pokes in when the spear hits it) the dinosaur will fall over on his face. If you hit the dinosaur somewhere else it roars and the eyes flash red. While Rusted Ace's daughter is probably shooting alligators right now with a suppressed Kriss, my kid has kid of been "Meh, no thanks" on some of the Batman and Star Wars stuff he has gotten as birthday presents. He's just kind of starting to understand 'scary"; like he likes some very childlike stories about ghosts (he does not understand they are supposed to be dead people haunting the living), but some pretty nonoffensive cartoons he has thought were too scary. He also has started hiding and leaping out at me and yelling 'Boo!" (jesus christ that kid could hide silently in a shoe box for hours, he's going to give me a stroke) We talked one night and he talked about how at night he thinks things move around in his room and that some of his toys seem scary in the dark. (yeah yeah my kid's a chicken and your parents made you kill a bear with a spork in pre school blah blah). I don't want to give this kid a toy that he's going to be peeking out of the covers at the next night , waiting for it to run over and bite him. Maybe get him some testosterone too? some kids just like that stuff. My oldest still isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:24:31 PM EDT
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Says "3+" on the box, does it not?
A.W.D. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:24:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:24:50 PM EDT
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i think it'd be fine.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:26:58 PM EDT
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It looks fun.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:27:53 PM EDT
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Just looking at that toy triggered my PTSD
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:28:03 PM EDT
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My daughter was playing with stuff like that at 2-3. She went through a big dinosaur phase.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:28:08 PM EDT
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Nah, Vampires are
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:28:59 PM EDT
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It's up to the kid if it scares him. I wouldn't think twice about giving that to a little boy myself.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:29:11 PM EDT
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No...my kid played with dinos at that age. Made the mistake of taking him to see Jurassic Park. After that he was not so into dinos.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:30:22 PM EDT
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every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do
My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son 
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:30:57 PM EDT
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At 3-4 my grand son would have loved it and he would have the truck smashing the dino to bits in the first few hours!
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:31:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:31:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe get him some testosterone too? some kids just like that stuff. My oldest still isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe get him some testosterone too? some kids just like that stuff. My oldest still isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. I mentioned this to a friend and he told me that his son was kind of a "momma's boy" as a kid but he went on to play high school and college hockey and then enlisted in the Army. I think he's in a Ranger battalion but hasn't completed Ranger training? Anyway pretty tough kid. The one time I baby sat him as a pre schooler he punched me in the balls |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:32:35 PM EDT
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It looks fun. This, but it also looks like a first run re-branded Jurassic Park toy. Maybe show the kid the first movie, and see if that spins any sparks of interest. Aimless, also try a couple small Lego sets, and see how that goes. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:32:40 PM EDT
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Just put a Hay-Suess doll on it with a cross blazoned saddle blanket and you'll be GTG.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:32:42 PM EDT
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This
was one of my son's favorite toys from the time he was given it at four up until around six |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:33:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son there is another one that comes with a helicopter and a jeep along with the dinosaur |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:33:26 PM EDT
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I don't care about your dilemma because I hate kids, but here's an anecdote from my childhood:
When I was a kid, I really wanted a My Buddy. I asked for one and received it for Christmas. The only problem was... my dad thought it would be fine to let me watch Child's Play about a month before Christmas. As we all know, the Chucky character was based on the My Buddy line of dolls. The only time I got near that fucking doll was to smash it with blunt objects and I buried it under all the shit in my closet. I would lay awake at night staring at the closet door fearing that the little bastard was going to come to life. Thanks a lot, dad. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:34:29 PM EDT
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Buy it. Then get him a Guide Gun.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:34:32 PM EDT
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I wouldn't give it to my 3 year old yet, I prefer to give him "fun" toys at this point. I just installed some Amazon LED multicolor rolled lighting in his "fort" under his loft bed, it's remote controlled so he's been playing with that for hours now. I have a nice bright Lightning McQueen night light in his room, and I don't plan on scaring him unnecessarily any sooner than I have to. My older brothers delighted in scaring the shit out of me when I was a toddler and young kid on the farm, I was scared of the dark for years. Assholes.
I spend as much time as I can playing Legos and reading and having him "help" me with little projects in the house and garage, why the hell would I want to teach him about scary stuff while I can still shield him from it? Life will come along and start to kick his ass soon enough. Parents try to grow their kids up so fast these days, not realizing that once you're here you can't go back. This is a great, carefree time in his life. Let the little guy enjoy it! |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:35:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:36:23 PM EDT
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https://www.amazon.com/Matchbox-CDC71-Dino-Trapper-Trailer/dp/B00T03UJYK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477326754&sr=8-1&keywords=matchbox+dino+trapper there is another one that comes with a helicopter and a jeep along with the dinosaur Quote HistoryQuoted:
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every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son there is another one that comes with a helicopter and a jeep along with the dinosaur this is frequently bought together with the dino https://www.amazon.com/Barbie-Birthday-Wishes-2016-Blonde/dp/B014DEIJOM/ref=pd_bxgy_21_img_2?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B014DEIJOM&pd_rd_r=588GX2RATWPBK3S8ZZ0F&pd_rd_w=K5tCR&pd_rd_wg=mmtnR&psc=1&refRID=588GX2RATWPBK3S8ZZ0F so maybe give the dino to your daughter and the barbie to your son?
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:37:23 PM EDT
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Get him a clown doll. Kids love clowns
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:37:47 PM EDT
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he's a chip off the old block
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:39:13 PM EDT
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I need to send my kid to your house for the weekend. We made a jack o lantern last weekend and I told him to reach in and pull out the seeds and stuff inside the pumpkin, "Yick!"
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every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son
does he go to daycare and play with other boys? every kid is different. Sometimes my son acts like a delicate little flower but I figured that was just him being an emotional toddler, normally he wants to wrestle, fight, play with nerf guns and play in the mud |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:40:34 PM EDT
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Get him a clown doll. Kids love clowns http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e394/erikhamel/poltergeist-clown_zpsm01arg4e.jpg first time I watched that movie I was like what kind of psycho would buy that for a kid? |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:41:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: does he go to daycare and play with other boys? every kid is different. Sometimes my son acts like a delicate little flower but I figured that was just him being an emotional toddler, normally he wants to wrestle, fight, play with nerf guns and play in the mud Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son does he go to daycare and play with other boys? every kid is different. Sometimes my son acts like a delicate little flower but I figured that was just him being an emotional toddler, normally he wants to wrestle, fight, play with nerf guns and play in the mud |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:43:30 PM EDT
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Aimless, you need to buy your son a machine gun and a copy of How To Kill Commies by Douglas MacArthur.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:43:57 PM EDT
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What matters at that age is context. Without context ( a movie, theme park, etc) the toy T-Rex is just that.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:44:12 PM EDT
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yeah my son is in daycare with a bunch of other boys, has nerf guns, plays kiddie basketball at the Y etc Quote HistoryQuoted:
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every kid is different, you obviously know yours better than we do My son is 3 1/2 and loves dinosaurs, robots, star wars, marvel and right now transformers is his favorite. Post the link to that toy so I can buy it for my son
does he go to daycare and play with other boys? every kid is different. Sometimes my son acts like a delicate little flower but I figured that was just him being an emotional toddler, normally he wants to wrestle, fight, play with nerf guns and play in the mud in the amazon review there is a video that shows the dinos eyes lighting up red in the dark and growling. Might not want to get him that
My son was given this weird cookie monster kitchen set thing that would randomly turn on in the night, after doing it on and off for two weeks I got tired of hearing "mmm nom nom nom cookies!!!" at 3am, so buck ass naked I opened the front door and threw it outside, fuck you ghosts! |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:44:30 PM EDT
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As a father of two boys. (11, 7)
Hell no!! |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:44:38 PM EDT
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It's certainly better than this one:
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:46:00 PM EDT
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Really?
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:47:58 PM EDT
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Maybe get him some testosterone too? some kids just like that stuff. My oldest still isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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http://www.toysrus.com/graphics/tru_prod_images/Matchbox-Dino-Trapper-Trailer--pTRU1-21596922dt.jpg My wife found this as a birthday present for a child my son knows, I don't really know the parents but she asked me about it. The dinosaur on the back roars and his eyes flash. You shoot the dinosaur with the truck mounted spears and if you hit the dinosaur in the chest (there's a section of it's chest that looks like it's spring loaded so it pokes in when the spear hits it) the dinosaur will fall over on his face. If you hit the dinosaur somewhere else it roars and the eyes flash red. While Rusted Ace's daughter is probably shooting alligators right now with a suppressed Kriss, my kid has kid of been "Meh, no thanks" on some of the Batman and Star Wars stuff he has gotten as birthday presents. He's just kind of starting to understand 'scary"; like he likes some very childlike stories about ghosts (he does not understand they are supposed to be dead people haunting the living), but some pretty nonoffensive cartoons he has thought were too scary. He also has started hiding and leaping out at me and yelling 'Boo!" (jesus christ that kid could hide silently in a shoe box for hours, he's going to give me a stroke) We talked one night and he talked about how at night he thinks things move around in his room and that some of his toys seem scary in the dark. (yeah yeah my kid's a chicken and your parents made you kill a bear with a spork in pre school blah blah). I don't want to give this kid a toy that he's going to be peeking out of the covers at the next night , waiting for it to run over and bite him. Maybe get him some testosterone too? some kids just like that stuff. My oldest still isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. My 1.5 yr old....loves guns: 
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:48:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: in the amazon review there is a video that shows the dinos eyes lighting up red in the dark and growling. Might not want to get him that My son was given this weird cookie monster kitchen set thing that would randomly turn on in the night, after doing it on and off for two weeks I got tired of hearing "mmm nom nom nom cookies!!!" at 3am, so buck ass naked I opened the front door and threw it outside, fuck you ghosts! Quote HistoryQuoted: in the amazon review there is a video that shows the dinos eyes lighting up red in the dark and growling. Might not want to get him that My son was given this weird cookie monster kitchen set thing that would randomly turn on in the night, after doing it on and off for two weeks I got tired of hearing "mmm nom nom nom cookies!!!" at 3am, so buck ass naked I opened the front door and threw it outside, fuck you ghosts! |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:48:49 PM EDT
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IMO: It's very difficult to determine what a small child will decide is scary. The toy may not even try to be scary, but it may remind them of a scary commercial or something like that. It's their imaginations that make things scary or not. My son loved dinosaurs when he was little, but we had a picture of a painting of a cheetah in the living room we had to remove because it was scary to him and he thought about it at night. I suspect that since that toy looks like a toy it will not be scary.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:49:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: ill isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands. My 1.5 yr old....loves guns: http://i68.tinypic.com/2ii9x1e.jpg  |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 12:52:33 PM EDT
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if i posted that I'd have the cops at my door
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ill isn't into anything I deem to be worthwhile, my 7 year old was practically born with a gun in his hands.
My 1.5 yr old....loves guns: http://i68.tinypic.com/2ii9x1e.jpg
Lol, his first teether was a p-mag. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:08:10 PM EDT
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Every kid is different, and they're often unpredictable. Son#1 would've been fascinated with it. Son#2 would've had nightmares about it. Son#3 would've gotten bored after discovering he couldn't eat it.
I say trust your judgment and be ready to make amends just in case.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:12:08 PM EDT
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My 3yo son wants that.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:16:39 PM EDT
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Quote Historyah, the Dickasaurus |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:20:07 PM EDT
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I loved stuff like that when I was that age. My 4 year old nephew and 3 year old niece love that stuff today.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:21:56 PM EDT
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Just looking at that toy triggered my PTSD Yep. Pulling up memories of that life or death battle with a T. Rex really got to me, too. I just got down out of the tree and put up the BK2. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:43:35 PM EDT
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I don't think the dinosaur is too scary but I can see some mom getting triggered by the hunting aspect of killing the dinosaur.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:47:00 PM EDT
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My son is almost four. He'd love a toy like that. He plays with Batman and Star Wars toys quite a bit.
He watched Jurassic World with me and his big sister. He got bored with it but liked it when the worker fell in the raptor pen. |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:50:29 PM EDT
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not scary enough
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:53:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/24/2016 1:54:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: not scary enough |
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Posted: 10/24/2016 2:02:20 PM EDT
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Dildosaurus. |
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