Dino Storm browser MMO game

February 15, 2012 — Dinosaur Cowboy

In my weekly searches for dinosaur cowboy related material I came across Dino Storm, a computer game that has visuals similar to Warcraft 3, except there are cowboys on dinosaurs with laser cannons. Sound familiar? I thought it might.
Anyways they are just about to start a closed beta and then an open beta soon after that (I think). I don’t have high expectations for browser based games (mainly since my only exposure was years ago, but I think the technology might have improved). Still it’d be a worth a shot just to see “live action” mounted dinosaurs fighting each other. We’ll see as soon as the beta is available, I guess!

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New Papo 2012 Dinosaurs!

February 1, 2012 — Dinosaur Cowboy

I take a month off and look what happens, Papo announces 6 new dinosaurs! I couldn’t find any high res photos online so I pulled some from the announcement PDF (it’s in Russian).

Here’s the goods! They repainted the current t-rex from green to brown. I think Jurassic Park has forever made me consider t-rexes as green, so I’m happier having that color over this new brown one, but hey, variety is cool:

And then a REALLY cool new green t-rex that is running. Definitely going to be a hot item. This is one of the few Papo toys that instantly screams “conversion” as I could easily see molding a saddle and reins onto it.

And the mighty Brachiosaurus, standing 31.5cm high and 40cm long (1:55 scale or so). Definitely going to dominate the board, but boy does it ever look cool! Priced at around $45, but that’s pretty comparable based on the size.

I guess I’ll wrap up with the boring ones. There is a baby brown and green Tyrannosaurus, and the underwater Tylosaurus. Okay, “boring” might be too harsh of a term, I think they just don’t pop since the pictures aren’t that great. I do think the baby t-rex toys would make terrific capture-the-flag objectives.

Of course these are announced just as I get my Ankylosaurus and completed the old line. Can’t complain with such high quality toys coming from Papo (although one of these days I’ll check out other companies and production lines…).

See also: New 2013 Papo and New 2014 Papo.

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Medieval Dinosaur Howdah

January 31, 2012 — Dinosaur Cowboy

An awesome example of how chaotic and deadly a medieval battle involving dinosaurs would be. At least our poor cowboys get laser pistols to even the odds!

Anyways this month sure was a wash for posts. I’ve been pulled away from Dinosaur Cowboys by my other hobbies, plus a lengthy Christmas vacation.
Hopefully going into February I can get a battle report posted, since I have one all photographed with point form notes, I just need to translate that into a full writeup and format it for the site.
I was thinking this morning about using the same core mechanics of Dinosaur Cowboys for a modern era tactical squad level skirmish game. That’s outside the scope of this blog, but hey, I just love that D12 mechanic.

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