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[dinobrite1985]

time for a new boyfriend. i wouldnt buy u knock offs. u deserve better

Haha! Thanks. You made my day

[dinobrite1985]

I love this forum.

dinobrite, your little find here is awesome! I think finding information is going to be a bit more difficult if the figures were originally from France. Most of us being from the US, Canada and UK means that we don't all know quite as much about European-only stuff like this. If the seller was a collector himself and got them elsewhere, that's a different story. Have you asked the seller if he/she knew where they came from?

The one thing I can say offhand is this sort of thing reeks of Yolanda.

What or who is Yolanda?

So, the guy wrote this about the toys on the ebay listing (It's translated directly from the French, so the English isn't so great)


"Sell a lot of collectible dinosaur closely resembling dinosaurs brand PANOSH. Memory, we could have these as gifts dinos in supermarkets (Auchan I think). Obviously there were several models and several colors, like Monster In My Pocket, and other termitors Cosmix ... Good condition, there is just one who has his head blown off (And yes there are carnivores in the lot!) Ideal to complete your collection!"

So to be fair to the guy, he never actually called them mites or brites So he was perfectly legit. He just said "closely resembling" PANOSH dinosaurs.

Incidentally, the one dinosaur with his head blown off now resides in my car as our little mascot.

We call him Nogginless Neville.

[BaltanII]

Yolanda is a Spanish toy company that is infamous for making... well, very unique toys. You might in some cases call them garbage, but every once in a while you get something less godawful and simply eyecatching and unique instead. I don't think all of their toylines were unique or licensed in the case of properties like Toxic Crusaders or Dinosaucers, but I'm not entirely certain about those details. It's just the simplified bootleg nature of this toyline reminds me of their work, and Yolanda loved to do minifigure lines.

[bigburty]

Yolanda is a Spanish toy company that is infamous for making... well, very unique toys. You might in some cases call them garbage, but every once in a while you get something less godawful and simply eyecatching and unique instead. I don't think all of their toylines were unique or licensed in the case of properties like Toxic Crusaders or Dinosaucers, but I'm not entirely certain about those details. It's just the simplified bootleg nature of this toyline reminds me of their work, and Yolanda loved to do minifigure lines.

Interesting - do you know if they or any other company ever produced knock-off MIMP figures? Does anyone on here own any knock-off MIMP?

[ironmask]

Knock Off MIMP?


Preposterous!!

Toys have their own "Rule #34"... If a toy line exists, so do subsequent knock-offs.


***I have no idea why I wrote "Toys" as a singular-possesive, the first time around. Please, pardon my momentary stupidity.***

Edited by ironmask, 22 May 2012 - 12:08 PM.

[Luckyduck]

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[PimpNugget]

Those boot leg dinos look better than the original, imo.

[Aikola]

Those boot leg dinos look better than the original, imo.

To be honest its not that hard, ive shat things out that look better than Dino Brites.

[dinobrite1985]

To be honest its not that hard, ive shat things out that look better than Dino Brites.

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