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So this baby 'hit the street' this morning, 10/06/2019. Exclusive at Target stores for ONLY $49.99 (!!!???!!) I reserved mine a few days ago (I had read that they already were in the back of the stores) so I had them take one out and hold it for me til this morning. I plan to do a little repainting on this one.

Not a kit, but still worthy of mention here as it WILL significantly 'enhance' any large scale dinosaur display!

So, I got there at 0800 this morning as they opened the doors. The customer service people looked and said "nothing back here, we are not supposed to hold stuff."

OK - I ran down to the toy section. Nothing on the shelves. Went back to customer service and insisted they look again.

Finally - behind some boxes, they found MY BOX just as the gal left it 3 days ago. PAYDIRT!!! Needless to say, I was as excited as if it was Christmas morning a "few" decades earlier!!

Some photos to illustrate the action:

And now, a few pics of this baby dominating the kitchen - and with a few Sega and PNSO dinosaur 'friends':









After a few days she will move to a permanent display with the other large scale critters. For now she needs to be "front and center"!!

Reminds of me of Horizions.
Be sure you feed it enough vegetables..

scuzzfink85 wrote:Reminds of me of Horizions.
Be sure you feed it enough vegetables..

Actually its BIGGER than the Horizon Brach, about an inch taller and a MUCH BULKIER body. Clearly its based on the same maquette, though. This toy is more accurate than the Horizon Brach., which has a bit of an emaciated torso and a neck that is too vertical ... (and, of course, the neck on this one moves and can be adjusted several ways ...)

Very cool. What scale would you say it works out to. Looks like a real "monster"!

The Sega and PNSO figures pictured with it are about 1/24 scale, so I'd say this Brach works out to 1/20 scale (think "Sauroposeidon" gigantic) or maybe 1/18 scale for a very large Brach. I think it will scale well with my Horizon TRex (which I now have the excuse to complete).

I have a couple of Horizon Rexies, one unbuilt, the other one is pretty warped (and unexpertly glued together by someone else years ago that I got for "a song"). I have wanted to correct the Horizon Rex by bulking up the legs (resculpting, really) massively, and this baby put that project back on my mind ... that 'deformed' one will work, but I'll have to disassemble it and then strengthen it first ... too many projects, and NO TIME!!

bucketfoot-al wrote:The Sega and PNSO figures pictured with it are about 1/24 scale, so I'd say this Brach works out to 1/20 scale (think "Sauroposeidon" gigantic) or maybe 1/18 scale for a very large Brach. I think it will scale well with my Horizon TRex (which I now have the excuse to complete).

I have a couple of Horizon Rexies, one unbuilt, the other one is pretty warped (and unexpertly glued together by someone else years ago that I got for "a song"). I have wanted to correct the Horizon Rex by bulking up the legs (resculpting, really) massively, and this baby put that project back on my mind ... that 'deformed' one will work, but I'll have to disassemble it and then strengthen it first ... too many projects, and NO TIME!!

Pretty cool and $50 not a bad price!

Scooke123 wrote:Pretty cool and $50 not a bad price!

You ain't kidding!!! And the THRILL of actually picking it up in a STORE!!! (Think back ... you all can remember what THAT used to be like!!!)

scuzzfink85 wrote:Reminds of me of Horizions.
Be sure you feed it enough vegetables..

I was thinking the same thing- it does remind me of a Horizon kit too

Looks like a very good sculpt, and what a huge piece

I am going to resurrect this old thread, and 5 years later, give you my new experience of 2024!!!

Someone was a good boy so Santa dropped a BIG ONE under the tree!!!

The Mattel GIANT Drednaughtus!!!! 5 FEET long!!! OH MYYYYY!!!!!!

Wow!! That dino is awesome !
Look forward to seeing what you do with that !

Hah! You wish! For now it's fate is to be in the background of a display of more accurate, but smaller 1:20 scale dinosaur models. As no one will ever produce a perfectly accurate sauropod of that size, due to the prohibitive cost, these Mattel sauropods, cheap toys as they are, are certainly accurate enough to lurk in the background of a display of the more accurate critters!

Holy Schnikees!
I can tell this is gonna be good!

Here's the latest Jurassic Park Mattel "Big Boy" - the ENORMOUS "Titanosaurus"!!!

Was considering 'bashing it, but ... "The Kaiju Vibe is strong with this one!" So for now he'll play side-kick to my X-Plus Giant Kingoji and the Koboyoshi Tucky Toho Kong!!!

Wow !

Too cool! And certainly a big'un!

Your still going have to clean up after unless you litter box train them....

scuzzfink85 wrote: ↑July 13th, 2025, 8:56 pm Your still going have to clean up after unless you litter box train them....