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Revell-Germany
1992-200?
There is a ton about this
period that I have no clue about.
All I know is that they show up in the 1992
catalog, the boxes say 1993 and
the instruction sheets all say either 1992 or
1993.
Though they seemed to be readily available well
into the 2000s.
I know I bought some new in like 2002, or 2003
from an online hobby store.
And sometime around 2005-2006 the ones with glow
paint started turning up on ebay regularly.
I am still trying to track down
Revell-Germany catalogs to try and
piece together what kits were available when.
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They issued all 8 kits that have
seen reissues.
| KIT |
# |
(click image to go to page with
details on each kit) |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex |
6470 |
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| Triceratops |
6471
6478
glow |
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| Styracosaurus |
6472
6479
glow |
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| Dimetrodon |
6473
6480
glow |
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| Allosaurus |
6474 |
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| Pteranodon |
6475 |
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| Mammoth |
6476 |
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| Ankylosaurus |
6477 |
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As
mentioned above, one of the variations was with
glow paint.
The only difference in the packaging was the
addition of a sticker on the corner of the box.
Which also changed the kit #
 
The only read difference, was the
addition of glow paint, and a paintbrush.
 
The only one that I have owned, also had the
parts molded in black.
I haven't seen any others opened up to know if
the rest were also done in black.Given that
the numbers jump by 7 on the glow kits, I am
assuming
that the tyrannosaurus was not planned to be
issued with glow paint.
I have only seen catalog listings for 3 of the
kits with glow paint so far.
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Then we get
into the different plastic colors used.
 
As you can see one is much brighter than the
other.
The rex also exhibits the same color
fluctuations.
 
Also note that some versions had white
teeth/claws/eyes, while others had green.
Now,
it could just be variations in batches of color
that caused this.
But I have seen so many different shades with
these (coupled with other things)
that leads me to believe that there were several
different runs of kits.
All using the same exact packaging though, so it
is really hard to know what was produced when.
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Now, for
some of the odd quirks about these editions.
They seemed to have mixed parts for no reason.Some runs of the Armored Dinosaur
came with parts that originally came with the
Sailback Reptile.
They were the clear-green parts that have never
been issued with the sailback since Aurora
produced it.
Here is a picture showing the parts from the RG
armored dinosaur and one of the original aurora
pieces.
As you can see, they are darker and opaque.
Note, in the picture above, you can see that the
sprue still says Aurora.
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A Revell-Germany allosaurus with a sailback base.
The allosaurus has never had it's own base
reissued.
Some issues of the sailback have both base
halves, some only have the rocky portion of the
base.
Not sure why some allosaurus kits would have the
other sailback base, especially since it wouldn't
fit on it.
But, as you can see, all the molds exist to
reissue a complete sailback kit,
But no one has done it yet.
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Another annoying
thing about this series. Inconsistent titling.
Six of them say Dinosaurus in
big bold letters at the top of the box. While the
other two do not.
Pteranodon - Pterosaurus
Mammoth - Prehistorian
I mean, yeah, the six are actually dinosaurs,
while the other two aren't. But you would think
they
would like to keep some consistency across the
line.
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