[snarkpup]

When I was little, they had a robotic plastic injection molding machine at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul. You put in a coin and the mechanism ran for a couple of minutes and made a plastic dinosaur for you while you watched.

How could these creatures have known, that millions of years in the future, juveniles of a species they could not imagine would be making plastic toy versions of them. Come to think of it, millions of years from now creatures we cannot imagine may be making toy models of us.

[gusopol3]

nothing like a dinosaur to bring out the boy in us.

[MUDDOG]

Nice! Best thing I had was the mechanical horse at Woolworth’s to ride for a nickel.

I hope there is something here millions of years from now that can make toy models of us. Then maybe they can do science and technology, and who knows, get further than we did.

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Mold-a-Rama

[PLMerite]

"When I was little, they had a robotic plastic injection molding machine at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul. You put in a coin and the mechanism ran for a couple of minutes and made a plastic dinosaur for you while you watched."

I got one from the Sinclair station up the road:

And yes, it was a long long time ago.