Random set of the day: Baby Dimetrodon
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7003 Baby Dimetrodon, released in 2001. It's one of 12 Dinosaurs sets produced that year. It contains 20 pieces, and its retail price was US$3/£2.99.
It's owned by 934 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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It’s weird how all of these smaller dinosaurs have no necks so they’re permanently looking down.
Heh, kind of cute.
That Dino needs a chiropractor...
I just find this one weird because he looks like a baby Spinosaurus with a growth impediment. A Dimetrodon was a four-legged animal, it didn't have the forearms that this model seems to imply.
Say what you will, but I loved these Dinosaurs (well, the big ones in canisters anyway).
Wow, dragon arms for front legs...not LEGO's finest hour design-wise...
Looks like something from the Upside Down.
There are some sets that I don't regret not having. This is one of them.
@chrisaw said:
"Say what you will, but I loved these Dinosaurs (well, the big ones in canisters anyway)."
A Dinosaur! Wait, is that what it is?
As much as they just seem to be an excuse to use leftover parts, these baby versions all have a certain quaint charm to them
Dimetrodon wasn't even a dinosaur, it's closer to proto-mammals :o)
Cute little dino hid into the box!
@Targellian said:
"Dimetrodon wasn't even a dinosaur, it's closer to proto-mammals :o)"
Most important comment here! Love a bit of prehistoric pedantry :)
So, the comments are more forgiving than the last time one of these mini dinos came up as the random set of the day.
This is rough, but imagine if they tried redoing these with the skills and quality present in the creatir animal polybags. Or, up the budget and make them equivalent to the microfighter aninals they've done in the Star Wars line. They're great too, even if more static.
Alas, Lego seems content to just have extremely simple, premoulded dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park line for now, which are even simpler than the big Dino sets from this line. Oh well.
The build is kinda lacking, but this set is without a doubt a good parts pack.
Yeah, the discrepancy between the legs always bothered me with this one. I loved the other baby dinosaurs sets as a kid, but this one was always kind of weird because of the front legs being arms.
I remember when people were happy to have dinosaur parts in Lego. These were fun sets to have back in the day. My boys played with them constantly.
I wouldn't mind picking up a few of the baby dino sets someday.
@Your_Future_President said:
"That Dino needs a chiropractor..."
a Dinopractor?
The one I always wanted but no shops had it.
@Wavelength said: "Alas, Lego seems content to just have extremely simple, premoulded dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park line for now, which are even simpler than the big Dino sets from this line. Oh well."
When it comes to animals, particularly ones that are interacting with minifigs, I like premoulded pieces. Ever since the monkeys, parrots and sharks from Pirates (and the original green and black dragons from mid 90s Castle), I've preferred them. Brick build animals -- particularly at that smaller scale -- can be very hit-and-miss. Something as large as, say, one of those Creator dragons, sure, but when you get dogs (and other minifig pets) in those Creator modular buildings (that just look like they were put together with leftover, random bits)? I don't much care for those.