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The Beasts of the Mesozoic, the most realistic dinosaur figures EVER, are almost here. Whet your appetite with the Forest Accessory Pack first, featuring one of the weirdest animals ever, Microraptor.
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Hey everyone, it's Dog here for A-I-P-T and what have we got here
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It's a box, it's usually a box. But there's something very special inside
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There's Orson on the outside. You remember Orson. Hi. He's with us for my Monsters Unleashed, oversized hardcover review
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I think he's gonna like this a little better. little better. Orson doesn't go outside but he does have a stuffed bird that he loves to play
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with. That's not what's in here but I think you'll catch what I'm throwing down in a second
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I've not opened this yet. I know what it is mostly. Wow! That is nice packaging
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So you might have seen this on our site before, interview with David Silva of Beast's
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of the Mesozoic the Raptor series. What does that say? One in a sixth scale dinosaur action figure
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But wait, those are feathers. You're goddamn right they are. These are the most accurate, scientifically accurate
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dinosaur figures on the market now. So we think anyway. At least articulated wise
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and these are not the big Raptors themselves yet if you remember that it was a Kickstarter that David did
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and had these little add-ons with environments and accessories the Raptors themselves will come later
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I think you saw in the article Robert Reeds had the mountain environment and I got the forest environment
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mostly for Microraptor and these were sent out ahead of time I guess David felt like these were done, might as well get them out there
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That's cool. Actually, no packaging on this other than the box top
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Wow. Well, I had to get Micro Raptor because it's just so weird
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If I remember correctly, the Raptor not getting, uh, did not live in a forest environment as far as we know
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But I just had to get Micro Raptor. I couldn't. That looks like a salad
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Oh no, but it's conifers. Do you need your greens, Orson? Well, here's what the packaging looks like
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looks like oh yeah look at that you remember flowering plants did not exist for
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most of the Mesozoic a lot of conifers a lot of ferns so again you see that
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silver was really going for the accuracy here look at the back box now pretty simple that okay Creativebeast is where you want to go
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Okay, so I'm gonna pause it, take things out and see what we got
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Okay, so here's the box opened the back cover and the front cover
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You see great attention to detail in the packaging. Nice. Nice forest environment painted inside the box
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Maybe not painted. And instructions and the other side of the box that probably come out of the box
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but they are very tight. So I don't know if there's anything on the back or not
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That would be interesting to find out if I can ever get the instructions out of the box
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but yes instructions and how to put things together which is helpful
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because it is a little more complex than I expect it but look at these beautiful pieces
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piece of a trunk can you call a trunk of a fern
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I'm not sure but look at the texture here and look at the splintering
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that's pretty amazing There's another longer one here. And I know what you're looking at right now is the tail of Microraptor
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Came in a little bag. Orson's gonna play with the posing rod
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Because that's where he does. Look at this. Oh, that actually comes right out
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Look at that little patch of eggs. I'm not sure if he's gonna be sitting on these or eating them
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I think Microraptor is thought to be an insective. So he might just be... Look at that
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A little tiny dinosaur coming out of the egg. Right in the middle
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Well, as you can see, it just popped right out. That's probably okay
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And you'll see some other little bits here. Tiny bits left in the bag
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I'm gonna leave them there or else I will lose them. More of the base
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And this is actually really light. This is a kind of a thin plastic but it looks great
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See the cones on the ground, the ferns and obviously things we're going to get stuck in it here
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And again mats, a little good looking trees like we have now
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It's really into pine. We'll see how all this comes together and there's the micro rafter itself
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Let's see if I can. First impression, I mean, you're not calling this an action figure
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And it is articulated. I mean, look at this. Actually, the mouth moves. That's pretty cool
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Up and down. But the wings the legs the limbs let go with that are kind of I don want to say fragile but they come off kind of easily
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This is cool, though. I mean, you can have the Microraptor flap its wings. We're still not really sure
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It's my understanding if they could actually fly or not, if they were, if they just glided between trees
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Or even just got a little bit of extra oomph when it hopped
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that is one line of thinking. It doesn't take much when you're trying to out-compete the other guy
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So the four limbs flap. Wow, that's really cool. The t-tail on the claws
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And the bizarre hind limbs... I mean, the reason this thing is so weird
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is because it seems to have four wings, basically. Which kind of..
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You know, somebody suppose that there might... have been a four-winged bird ancestor at one point but I don't think it was really
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taken seriously until my pro raptor wasn't covered in China and you see the
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hindlings don't really do much they kind of go back and forth
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oops wings in the way but if you try to spread them out one pops off and
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and the four of 배s are kind of the same way. You can flap them a little bit
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But they do come off. So I don't know how much action..
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I mean, I just bought these for display anyway. So be careful with these
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They are articulated, but they are subject to fall apart, as a character on the Simpsons might say
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Alright, so let's see if I can put this together and see what the whole thing looks like
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Okay, here's the scene I was able to make with the Microraptor Forest Environment accessory pack
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And first of all, I just want to see, you want you to see, so here's the top of the tree, again, if you want to call it a tree
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Um, and this is, this is really cool in and of itself
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And again, there's the trunk. and it snaps right into this base when you put a little intermediate peg in there
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The other things, no. Here's that clutch of eggs again. Look, I just kind of put it there because I saw someone else do that online
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There's no, really nothing to attach it. But you do see a hole there
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That's for these ball pegs, apparently. me. But I don't know what good those are
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Because again, there's nothing to attach to down there. So maybe you're just meant to have fun with it and put these things wherever you want
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I not very imaginative I like things to be told where to put things so that hampers me a little but maybe that just me And the other fallen log again I just going off what someone else did online
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I put out front here and there's micro-wraptu who actually does kind of balance pretty
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well on there. And I will say balance because again there's there's no place to put any pegs
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You see I've got the tail on there now and he might fall over but I want to show you this
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I didn't realize it first. tail is malleable. Oh, it's like a pipe cleaner or those weird little stretchy things with the wires
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in the toys you had when you were a kid. So again, I'm not crazy about how loose the whole everything is, but you put it all together
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and that looks pretty great. Maybe there's more that can be done once the real big raptors come in. Hello
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Protect those eggs. So there it is the forest accessory pack with micro raptor colors
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I'm not sure. I actually had a discussion with David Silva once about the colors of the animals he was making
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And at that time, not a lot were known. I think more allanosomes have been identified since then, so I'm not sure if the..
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Oh, and there he goes. I'm not sure. Let's see how easy way that... see this is tough
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I'm not sure, and weight wise too, this standing tree is very heavy, so if I took that log off, it would fall backwards
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I guarantee it. Again, for some reason I feel like we might have more information on Microraptors coloring by now
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You can preserve, I've written about this before, you can preserve what's called melanosomes
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in, now it's not going to go, in tissue
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Melanosomes are the organelles in the cell that contain pigment. And I know at least in a few dinosaurs that's been found in their feathers. There
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That one hand. Not without difficulty, but he's back on there. And it's funny, you can actually tell what color the pigment in melanosome is by the
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is by the shape of it and that's just going by you know what we know today simple
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structure we're assuming it hasn't changed much over time so there you have it
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hope you liked reading Robert's description hope you like this video of the
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forest environment now we're just waiting for the big guys
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