Remember Resaurus?

[Poe Ghostal]

I had their Duke Nukem figure (forgive me, I was young). Good figure for the time, though. If I could go back I would've bought some of their Street Fighter stuff instead, but it's not like we've been under-served for that series.

Or Bone! I forgot they made Bone. Incredible comic.

The line of theirs I really wanted was the Magic: The Gathering one, but I guess the Hasbro purchase of WotC killed it. Then Hasbro showed off an MTG figure line that never got released anyway! It's weird how cursed that property is, figure wise.

Forgive you? That Duke Nukem figure ruled. I've got the NECA one too, I like it though it's weirdly not as fun as the old Resaurus one.

 

[TheGillMan]

The only ones I remember buying were for a friend's kid. Got him a couple of the Carnage velociraptors. I remember making him laugh by having them "talk" like Ren & Stimpy. Weird the stuff that sticks in your head....I can't remember what I had to eat for dinner two days ago, but can remember that?

 

[JakeEkiss]

I have no real nostalgia for anything Resaurus, BUT.... the guys from Resaurus are the ones that started Plan B Toys. Which, pretty much until G.I. Joe Classified, was the only/best source for 1:12 scale soldiers and firearms. I bought like three of the weapon packs they made and used those with basically every gun-toting 6" figure I owned for YEARS. I may even still have a few of them kicking around somewhere.

Oh yeah. I had fair few of their military dudes and for years hoped someone would take up that challenge. Now thanks to Classified, BBWS, and Vala there are loads of good alternatives at the same scale. I sadly never got any of the Resaurus Dinosaur line, though I wanted to I just never found any. Now we've several companies filling that gap as well.

Kind of feel like Resaurus/Plan B walked so a lot of companies now can run.

 

[Stoopid_Sandwich]

Oh yeah. I had fair few of their military dudes and for years hoped someone would take up that challenge. Now thanks to Classified, BBWS, and Vala there are loads of good alternatives at the same scale. I sadly never got any of the Resaurus Dinosaur line, though I wanted to I just never found any. Now we've several companies filling that gap as well.

Kind of feel like Resaurus/Plan B walked so a lot of companies now can run.

The dinosaur line was strangely all too common at places like FAO Schwarz, the Discovery Channel store and depending on if you had one of these places around you, perhaps the gift shop of your local dinosaur museum, paleontology/mineral sciences museum or natural history museum. I imagine most of these latter locations would be more common out west and in the Rockies. Also once Resaurus shut down the brand was later known as Dinosaur King and featured many interesting repaints and even a few new dinosaurs (which also must have come from resaurus in some regard. Possibly an unannounced wave 2?)


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[JakeEkiss]

The dinosaur line was strangely all too common at places like FAO Schwarz, the Discovery Channel store and depending on if you had one of these places around you, perhaps the gift shop of your local dinosaur museum, paleontology/mineral sciences museum or natural history museum. I imagine most of these latter locations would be more common out west and in the Rockies. Also once Resaurus shut down the brand was later known as Dinosaur King and featured many interesting repaints and even a few new dinosaurs (which also must have come from resaurus in some regard. Possibly an unannounced wave 2?)


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If I'd still been living in Dallas at the time I'd have found them no doubt, but by then I was much further South in a smaller town and the only place near me that carried anything Plan-B or Resaurus was the local video game store (I think it was EB Games?). They carried some of the quake, Bandicoot and Duke Nukem figures, and then a handful of the military line made it through. Never once saw one of the Resaurus dinos in person.

 

[Schizm]

I loved Resaurus until I didn't.

*snip*

I was originally Blanka when I first started on many forums as a punk 15 year old kid, including the Resaurus forums. Chose the name because of my excitement at the time for their SF line.

I remember they were hyping up this line for the longest time, and kept dropping all these cool hints that it was going to be this badass, revolutionary thing...

...and it ended up being this lame line of 6 inch electric guitars. I think it was called PickUps or something. I, not having an adult filter, understandably (I think), expressed my disappointment. I was reasonable enough (for being a teenager) and stated that it was kind of lame how they hyped it up for weeks on end, only to show off lame little guitars. Especially when the forum was filled with wishlists of licenses for Resuaurus to pick up.

Ken Lilly or Doug Sapp, one of the two, decided to dress me down on the forums, and essentially call me ungrateful...etc.

Enough so that I vowed to stop collecting their shit after that day. And I stuck to that. They went under shortly thereafter. Not saying that I did that, but hey...I may have done that.

This brings back memories of my teenage years spent on forums - our stories are similar. Guess we never do grow out of certain things, but at least we learn to communicate better. Hopefully. My filter still comes and goes.