#522 Dino Riders - Pterodactyl Alongside Llahd (1988)

The Pterodactyl is the smallest dinosaur inwards the laid about moving ridge of Dino-Riders, it is slightly smaller than the Ankylosaurus, together with non articulated, although both boxes were the same size. Maybe intentional, or not, is that the dinosaur comes amongst a figure that represents a kid instead of a man, to a greater extent than or less ane caput shorter together with amongst thinner extremities.

The flight sauria is made of the same plastic equally other dinosaurs, but beingness then sparse inwards the wingsm, neck, paws together with then on, the plastic is a chip flexible. This flexibility is lost amongst the fourth dimension if the dinosaur was conserved inwards harsh weather of oestrus or low-cal exposure. In many cases, the Pterodactyl is missing ane of its paws or some of its legs. They were only broken spell playing, perchance many children idea the plastic was momre flexible than it truly was.

The harness is quite simple: it consists of a delta fly harness gibe to the dinosaur amongst a peg that had to live inserted inwards the dinosaur´s belly. The peg is besides frail together with could live broken inwards used toys. But fifty-fifty to a greater extent than frail are the 2 tiny missiles that attach to the harness tubes together with that, inwards some cases are "stretched" together with their handgrip create non gibe whatever to a greater extent than the tubes rattling well, making the missiles somehow "loose". In other cases, the missiles are only lost. So easily lost together with fragile, are quite hard to find, perchance ane of the most hard parts to detect inwards the entire laid about wave.

The harness create non attach rattling firmly to the dinosaur, perchance that´s why Tyco decided to include a smaller, lighter figure instead of the ordinary, big ones. Interesting, notwithstanding is that the 2 handles to gibe the figure to the handgrip bar are designed to live used past times a big figure.

There is a variant of this toy inwards which the figure included is non the child-Llahd, but an adult-Llahd, a figure amongst a unlike cast, but similar colours. The adult-Llahd version is considered to live rarer than the child-Llahd version. I convey both, bone yous tin compare both inwards the side past times side pictures.

We convey unintendedly used the discussion dinosaur for the Pterodactyl, but technically it is no dinosaur, but a flight sauria. I e'er similar to brand this clear when I write almost "dinosaurs" that are non "real dinosaurs".