okay so today I'm continuing my series on toys that teach and today we
have the Jurassic world Mosasaurus this thing is huge
28 inches long it comes in six pieces and you have to put it together part of
the Jurassic world movie series but it's also educational and this has real feel
skin so it's soft to the touch kids can push it says it's for ages 3
and up we'll talk about the details we'll take it out I'm going to show you
everything and we'll discuss a few facts about the mosasaur in the first place
what is it where do they live what they do this is not a friendly little reptile
here this comes unassembled and we'll go over how to put it together and here's
the Jurassic world logo of course great film by the way completely enjoyed it
look at the great white shark there in the mouth that is disproportionate the
real mosasaur was only about 52 48 feet maybe 52 feet so it's exaggerated in the
movie no great surprise about a hundred feet maybe in the film there are apps
here's the website for Jurassic world com you can go there and learn more
about the different dinosaurs and reptiles that were shown in the film and
this is the back of the box very dramatic representation very cool this
is a marine reptile and it was treacherous this is the first part this
comes assembled this way and we have the openings for the forelimbs and hindlimbs
and the mouth opens and closes the back of this thing looks really alligator
like I don't know if that's accurate but it's pretty cool nonetheless the eye is
a little simple I would like to see that a little more complicated there here's
the tail end where the tail is going to connect and of course it has that long
powerful fin that it swam with and here is where the side pieces connect this is
pretty foolproof each piece is marked RF right front LF 4 left front and so on
right rear RR left rear LR and once you plug them in
they snap in place nice confirmed click there you really can't mess it up see
the little R in there and once you push it in these still twist and move around
a little bit so you can get some realistic poses out of it these are the
fore limbs I'm sorry they referred to as their like flipper like
paddles and they're not fins they're just paddles and they of course replace
legs that would normally be on lizards like Komodo dragons and things like that
and here's the tail piece that goes in once that clicks in it doesn't turn
anymore there's no other positions you can put it in and that's it simple to
put together this is what it looks like this thing is impressive
so if your child likes they have things on their shelf that look awesome but you
can still play with them this is a fantastic representation of the mosasaur
28 inches long again and there's that tail raised high and you can move those
fore and hind paddles there so you can position it these are some details and
close-ups of that texture that they put into the original carving that they made
this from very impressive the coloration could be widely varied
but that's interesting too let's take a close look at this mouth they did a
great job on this if you know anything about reptiles like some of the new
world snakes like boa constrictors they have two sets of teeth and the roof of
the mouth there look at this just inside that front row teeth there's a secondary
row that's a very cool representation of what the the mosasaurus actually had
it would get a hold of its food and then the secondary teeth would connect
in and help swallow it to make sure it couldn't get away
remember this thing's aquatic it probably sat in tide zones and was in
brackish water where it could catch animals and fish coming and going and it
basically ate everything I'm not sure if the actual teeth were this dull looking
but they are for this toy so this is cool you can see the molding line down
under the chin there and again close-up of some of the features textures and
colors here's a pose you can put it in probably if you saw Jurassic world you
saw this thing rise up out of its tank and look at the underbelly those folds
and creases and contours are very realistic and very cool-looking so you
could imagine this thing rising up out of the water and ambush attacking
something that it was going to eat it is a reptile so it had to go to the surface
to breathe much like turtles do today so even though it's probably an ambush
hunter under the water in the ocean brackish and in some cases
even up freshwater rivers this thing would lunge out and get ahold of you not
a great experience now of course the underside here those hind limbs there's
markings about the manufacturer there's embossing there look at the back this
thing is very realistic I'm very impressed
and as I said before your child can play with it but it has enough realism that
it's a great display piece too and the size makes an impressive little children
like my grandson are very impressed by things as big as this and because the
plastic is soft if they bop each other with it or something nobody's getting
hurt something this size you really don't want it to be hard plastic because
kids have a tendency to bang it against things and little boys like to bang them
against each other look at this long tail this fin was used to propel it
forward through the water and those other limbs the paddles here would have
folded flat against its body if you've ever seen an alligator swim they let
their legs fold back against the body so they're more streamlined as they swim
through and we're showing the joint here so there are several conspicuous joints
that you can see there later on I'm going to be doing a Photoshop sample of
this and we're going to put it in a picture and make it look life-size and
if you want to see that you want to subscribe and continue watching my
channel because that'll be coming up soon information about the manufacture
there's a serial number there and then this embossed print under that hind
paddle there look at the underside with these details this thing is great you
can get these on Amazon I'll put a link down in the video description so you can
get one for yourself or for one of the children that you think
is learning about this age the Cretaceous period is where it comes from
and at the end of the Cretaceous period this thing was alive and that's when it
suffered that great destruction event of a lot of reptiles there it is full-length
arched up the way I imagine it you know how bears will sit in rivers and places
and it just rise up and catch things going through that's what I imagined it
doing thanks for watching the review I hope you enjoyed it get one of these
they're really fantastic