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Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Brought the Movie to Life in the Bedroom and the Backyard
The first Jurassic Park movie in 1993 began a Dinosaur Toys marketing bonanza. The Jurassic Park Dinosaurs were initially introduced with the opening of each movie and usually based on the Dinosaurs that made their appearance in the relevant film. Since that time new dinosaur toys have been introduced on a yearly basis, flooding a somewhat saturated market.  The first series of these Dinosaur toys was introduced in 1993, made by Kenner, and (several) were both quite large in size and covered with what was described as "realistic Dinosaur skin." These are among the very best of the Dinosaur toys...ever.

These beautiful toys were both nearly indestructible and yet child-safe. Their bodies are soft and forgiving of falls while being effectively unbreakable. Two important factors in a toy.
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The following listing will be presented by year of production and "series" through 1997. At that point production sort of got out of hand and after which the list will be simply alphabetical with year of production in parentheses. The list will be added to as I discover (with your help) new (to me) figures. I kind of lost interest in these with the plethora of hard plastic, battery operated and often weird Dinosaur toys that inundated the market.As usual- by clicking on the highlighted Dinosaur name you will get the page describing the Dinosaur toy. 1993 JP.01 Dimetrodon JP.02 Dilophosaurus Spitter JP.04 Coelophysis JP.06 Young T-Rex (light brown) JP.07 Stegosaurus JP.08 Triceratops (1993)
JP.09 Tyrannosaurus Rex (Big Red - electronic(!?!) JP.11 Dilophosaurus (electronic) 1994) JP.02 Dilophosaurus (re-issue of Spitter) JP.06 Young T-Rex (dark green) JP.19 Carnotaurus ("Demon") 1997 Series 1 JP.19 Parasaurolophus JP.29 Tyrannosaurus Rex - Thrasher 
Here we see the Thrasher T-Rex attacking the Triceratops from an earlier production run. The Jurassic Period saw some very well known Dinosaurs. The Jurassic Park Dinosaurs cover the Permian through the end of The Cretaceous Period and are not limited to any one period. The best thing about them is that they are meant to be played with and not put up on a shelf to be admired. For additional information on these Dinosaur Toys check out this site,
JP Toys,
where you can see lots of pictures and find out more company and product information. I love these Dinosaur toys and you will see that as you go through the site. Especially "Rexford", the JP.09, who has many adventures as he travels about the countryside.
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