1. I don't see any ocean.
2. What did the ocean do to you?

I like it but never netted it.

My absolutely favourite "Dino" set. The seaplane was cool as hell. I remember this wasn't available in shops, at the time, it was a Lego.com exclusive.

I do wish I had this set, but if I ever got it, I'd give it a proper horizontal stabilizer.

Intercepting the ocean seems like it would not go very well.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Intercepting the ocean seems like it would not go very well. "

At the very least, it'd be easy to find.

Dino was so cool bro. I wish we got cool, innovative themes like this again :(

@Anak said:
"LEGO Dino TV ad. is somehow one of my favorite of the Lego tv commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0CxqjpYFmg "

I remember that one!

Thought this was a recent set, assuming this can't be older than 10 years. It was. Looks good.

I suppose the ptera was the reason the PPP ratio is pretty poor. Were all the Dino sets like this?

I actually rebuilt this just over a year ago but in flame yellow, as a NINJAGO vehicle for Skylor. I did the little speedboat that drops out in purple, so that it could be for Chamille.

Hah! Our newest member just spent the last few months building the Sea Duck from Disney’s TaleSpin, and used four of the long wedge slopes from this set to make the twin booms:

https://imgur.com/a/oUOQ5ss

It’s currently on display at our Henry Ford Museum layout through the second Saturday in January, and has been deservedly getting a lot of positive comments.

@Crux:
Colombia? The South American nation? I think you either spelled Columbia a little bit wrong, or you absolutely butchered the spelling of Universal.

At first glance it reminded me of that Avatar 2 hunt scene...

I miss Dino. We've had Jurassic World for 7 continuous years now and in total it's yet another theme that's existed for 10 years recently. But it just doesn't have the charm of this more ephemeral, more freestanding theme. A plane is more memorable when it's the only one like it.

I love the jet scooter deployment feature. Stuff like that is always nice. That said, the long parts on the wing feel a bit weird when the wings aren't that wide. Still, this set was quite nice if you could find it, as it was another 'exclusive'.

I literally have never seen this set before, and I love the attack helicopter and the other dinosaurs from this theme!

@Crux said: "Kind of wish they'd do that more often, I do believe I'd be a lot more interested in "Stellar Conflict" or "Wizard Child Soldier Academy" than their original counterparts."

I'm almost certain that I've seen clone brand sets with those *exact* titles.

@Crux said:
"This and other similar themes kind of put me on the spot. This is one of many of Lego's in-house knock-offs of other, bigger IPs - the Dino-themes shamelessly rip off Jurassic Park. Johnny Thunder is Indiana Jones with the serial-numbers filed off, and the Monster Fighters are a mix of "We couldn't secure the license for Scooby Doo at the time" and "We have Colombia Movie Monsters at home".

Lego does that a lot, and I kind of love it. Even after TLG manages to secure the licensing-deals for the official, AAA-brand franchises, I think I prefer the charm of their official off-brands. Kind of wish they'd do that more often, I do believe I'd be a lot more interested in "Stellar Conflict" or "Wizard Child Soldier Academy" than their original counterparts."

I could be wrong, but I don’t think this was a knock-off of Jurassic Park, but rather a proof-of-concept by LEGO for Universal that they could produce really good dinosaur-themed play sets ahead of the release of Jurassic World, which had been in development at the time and released in 2015. In the end, I think that these are far superior to the Jurassic Park/World line.

I much prefer Island Hopper 5935 for my dinosaur / seaplane interactions.

@Murdoch17 said:
"I much prefer Island Hopper 5935 for my dinosaur / seaplane interactions."

What a coincidence, I just thought about this set! We've come a long way from our pterosaur spotting (or catching in this case) seaplanes. When I noticed the type of wings used under all the stuff on top it clicked for me. Indeed, I like the simplicity of the Island Hopper more. This one has a lot of extra stuff on top.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Crux:
Colombia? The South American nation? I think you either spelled Columbia a little bit wrong, or you absolutely butchered the spelling of Universal."

I don't think I'm going to take that from someone who 100% would prefer to spell that as "Niversal".

@Crux said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux:
Colombia? The South American nation? I think you either spelled Columbia a little bit wrong, or you absolutely butchered the spelling of Universal."

I don't think I'm going to take that from someone who 100% would prefer to spell that as "Niversal"."

Well, you're not taking it from this fictional person you've just invented in your brain. You're taking it from me.

Looks like the team from Dino 2010 were successful in un-mutating their dinosaur enemies, but not so good at keeping them contained in the long term, if only two years later a new team had to go out and re-capture all the now-non-mutant dinos like this!

Plus side, I guess at least this team definitively decided they're capturing the dinos this time, instead of only capturing the ones in Europe and then all-out BLOWING UP the ones in America with giant missiles like the Attack / 2010 team did...

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"Looks like the team from Dino 2010 were successful in un-mutating their dinosaur enemies, but not so good at keeping them contained in the long term, if only two years later a new team had to go out and re-capture all the now-non-mutant dinos like this!

Plus side, I guess at least this team definitively decided they're capturing the dinos this time, instead of only capturing the ones in Europe and then all-out BLOWING UP the ones in America with giant missiles like the Attack / 2010 team did..."

If JW2 taught me anything, it's that young people are going to overreact and set all the dinosaurs free in response to even the most basic "emergency".

There were dinosaur toys and films long before Jurassic Park. So TLG can do their own non-IP thing as well if the main interest is in the predator rather than the 'lunch on the go' actors.

@Murdoch17 said:
"I much prefer Island Hopper 5935 for my dinosaur / seaplane interactions."

Seconded, even if this one as the better pterosaur.

@maffyd said:
"I suppose the ptera was the reason the PPP ratio is pretty poor. Were all the Dino sets like this?"

Pretty much. It's also one of the main reasons that current Jurassic World sets are so overpriced.

@PurpleDave said: "If JW2 taught me anything, it's that young people are going to overreact and set all the dinosaurs free in response to even the most basic "emergency"."

There's a very important lesson, there, for the parents of small children.

Don't have any, they're annoying.

@Zordboy said:
" @PurpleDave said: "If JW2 taught me anything, it's that young people are going to overreact and set all the dinosaurs free in response to even the most basic "emergency"."

There's a very important lesson, there, for the parents of small children.

Don't have any, they're annoying. "

I mean, seriously, the barn's filling up with toxic gas? Open the doors! Let the gas disperse so it won't harm any of the precious dinosaurs, but keep the beasts safely locked up inside! JW2 had two "protagonists" who I kept hoping would die throughout the entire film, and they never do. I don't care about the family that got transplanted from JP1 to JW4. I just want those two "knowlier than thou" dinguses to die. Make a short film that shows them getting eaten by raptors or something. Have a large dino corpse being airlifted, and the cables break, and it falls and lands on them. Walk in front of a bus and the driver's distracted by a tiny little dino running around in the aisle. Anything. Just kill them off, so we know they'll never be able to come back.