Imperial creatures

landrover wrote:

OK Roger,
I have too, lion, elephant,zebra, giraffe.

I will search tomorrow, I'll take some pictures.
I'll look at the year of manufacture.

The year of manufacture is VERY important: it tells exactly which exact line it belongs to. The SIZE is important as well, since my Tiger is a lot bigger than yours, which proves that they are from two different lines.

By the way, Roger: the Smilodon is 1989 and the Arctic Wolf is 1987. You forgot to mention it on TAI.

Other two pictures:

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Nice

A very impressive collection of Imperial models

It is nice to see them together. Those pictures give a good impression of the sizes and styles of the brand

I'M SO JEALOUS!!!

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When the little Imperial Wildlife animals will be put on TAI, Roger will have to seperate them from the big Imperial Wildlife animals. If you look at my Imperial Tiger, you will see that it is of a lot bigger size than Landrover's; I put it besides my Imperial 1985 Brachiosaurus so everyone can see it. Landrover's Imperial Tiger is a lot smaller than his 1985 Imperial Brachiosaurus, which is the very same size as mine (you will notice also that I took off my Brachiosaurus' varnish to bring it back to its original yellow and pink colors).

TAI is being incredibly busy these days so I only could add Fernando's small wild animals today.
Black bear, panda, gazelle, gorilla and tiger are now entered and in a new section called Wildlife (small). Thanks also to Fernando and Valerie for your imput.

Roger,Please say me ,if you need other pictures.

landrover wrote:

Roger,Please say me ,if you need other pictures.

Yes, Fernando, it would be nice also individual pictures of giraffe, zebra, elephant, panther and lion. Just as you did with previous Imperial figures. Many thanks!

I took new pictures with AA battery for comparison sizes:

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Perfect Fernando! I have downloaded all of them, as soon as possible I'll upload them on TAI. Imperial in a short time went from 0 too 100 km/h as a Land Rover.

Great pictures, Farnando

hmmmm....I think I have seen some of them before

Later : No, the ones I have are TM, they are different, but almost the same style

All of them are now on TAI. 10 Imperial small wildlife figures, it now looks like a collection!

You forgot to put the 1985 Stégosaurus: it's the dark blue one Landrover is showing you.

Bowhead Whale wrote:

You forgot to put the 1985 Stégosaurus: it's the dark blue one Landrover is showing you.

Very well observed, Valerie! It is now on TAI, 68th stego, very popular dino indeed.

Fernando also forgot to photograph his 1985 Imperial Tyrannosaurus alone. We can see it on the group picture: it's the tall, standing Brown and green dino.

Bowhead Whale wrote:

Fernando also forgot to photograph his 1985 Imperial Tyrannosaurus alone. We can see it on the group picture: it's the tall, standing Brown and green dino.

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Thanks Vallerie for noticing it and also Fernando for providing more great pictures to TAI.
101th Tyrannosaurus added.

The TAI Imperial page is taking shape!

Roger wrote:

Bowhead Whale wrote:

Roger wrote:

Bowhead Whale wrote:

Roger wrote:

Yes, that's a quite unusual looking ankylosaurus, I think one of the big interests of the dino collecting hobby is to see how representations of prehistoric animals change during the years, for manufacutring design and also for popular and scientific perception of these creatures. Congratulations for your new find. I added it to TAi, 27th ankylosaurus.

Did you write the year 1977? The year is very important, because Imperial released quite a few lines of dinosaurs, recognizable by the year.  
By the way, I also have a few surprises for you in AAA!

Yes, it was listed as 1979 and I changed it to 1977. I'll check your new AAA!

Imperial released a line of dinosaurs (including a Dimetrodon) in 1977. In 1978, the manufacturer released a new line of dinos, and a third one in 1979. A fourth line, more realistic than the others, was released in 1985. Another one, including a Smilodon and an American Mastodon (the one I provided you with) was released in 1989. In the 2000's, an original line of dinosaurs was released by Imperial; this one was a line of skelettons with a soft rubber skin we could put on (to see the animal alive) or take off (to see the skeletton).

Oh, almost every year a new collection, that's not a range of toys, that's an Empire!
I'll take this information in consideration while building the Imperial page.

I own the Imperial Mastodon & Smilodon from 1989.

So, I'm not the only one here to own them!

Bowhead Whale wrote:

So, I'm not the only one here to own them!

I guess not. They are nice figures overall.

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Yesterday, while searching for my National Geographics whales card (I lost it and I just cannot put my finger on it since I scanned it), I found my Imperial Rubber Bean Bag MANTA RAY card. We can see, on it, not only the little information card about the manta ray on one corner, but also the other animals of the set in the middle of the back. I think it would be interesting to put it on TAI.