 Hello everybody and welcome to an update video on the Mattel's creations because just like the dinosaurs, it too has recently went extinct. My god, did I not expect this thing to become as controversial as it did. But before we get into all of that, what was the Mattel creation? Have you been living under a rock or even you don't even have to be living under a rock because I think for some Jurassic fans this might have just cruised right on by and they didn't even notice that it was a thing. It was basically a 500 Canadian dollar, I think it was, 300 pound I think. I don't even know. It was a load of money. Base level, you just got the gates. That was it. These electronic gates, if you've got 5000 backers that open, make a noise and have lights and LEDs and look really cool. Then they had stretch goals which if more backers pledged then they would slowly unlock. And the main goal was to have all of them. That's how they showcased it. And that's not how kick starters or crowdfunding projects happen. If you know you crowdfund a certain project and then as you know they get more and more stretch goals then you get extra little bits put in. However, Mattel advertised this as the full thing. So it was incredibly confusing and then it just sort of led to people not really trusting it because it was like well they're showing me with all these products or showing the products but actually I'm not going to get those. I'm just going to get the gate. But the other unlocks were the fence with electrified team. There was the goat with the removable leg. There was the Ford Explorer and of course the bull T-Rex which is from what I understand and from my comments and looking at other people's videos was the main thing that people wanted from this was this John Hammond collection bull T-Rex with a new head sculpt and different feet because people like that. If you did Early Bird you'd get the little signs also but it failed and it failed miserably. Not since Jurassic Park 3 have I seen such controversy in the Jurassic Park community. There's three things you don't mention in the Jurassic Park community. That is Spinosaurus basically anything to do with Jurassic World and now the gates. Don't talk about the gate. Why did it fail? Well the one reason that the products weren't that great and we're going to be honest we've already had the Ford Explorer. We've already had Tim that came with the Ford Explorer. The gates are completely new and they are was at 20 inches tall like super big these giant gates and really the only thing new with I thought was legs but actually no. I'm sorry just Mattel's distribution outside of America is pants so I didn't even know that they released a kitchen set with Tim, Lex. I think some kitchen units as well as a raptor so hey that's metal but even then the Lex isn't new. Well I say it's not new apparently the Lex and Tim had different head sculpts and it just didn't really warrant it and you could say that why Mattel doing a Kickstarter. Well they've done it with the Star Wars line. I've seen that they've had some really successful kick starters in fact something very similar they managed to crowdfund within a day but it was just one like fighter you know pilot jet thing. I don't know I don't know Star Wars very well but it isn't abundantly clear right now but it got it funded it had like thousands of backers but why did this not do it from a marketing perspective it's the gates it comes with electrified Tim and and and the fences. This has been an absolute train wreck. There's no other word for it it started with just America and then when they realized oh god there's no one buying it we made it international and after that when no one was still you know backing it they decided to put the fences with the gate so even if it did just get the bare minimum funding you would get the gate and the fences but even then the fences didn't seem to connect to the thing it was it was weird man the Jurassic Park gate shouldn't just be a thing. I don't know why the marketing team has decided that's a place it just have the cut you know go through the gates they've never like in the whole history of Jurassic Park have you ever sold the gates by themselves only on eBay as separate things have they been sold by themselves they've always been part of an enclosure or a command compound thing so I have no idea they've decided why they decided to do this but they did and it has shown that actually you can't just get anything from Jurassic and get it funded a lot of people are crying that now the Hammond book t-rex is going to disappear and we're never going to see that I think out of this entire set the only thing we're not going to see is probably the gates if i'm honest maybe the the sculpts for the Lex and Tim but the Hammond there's already so much money that goes into designing prototyping painting they have everything for it they would be stupid to not now release it as something else because I think if anything they've noticed from this crowdfunding is people want that book t-rex um it was just so weirdly packaged this whole Jurassic Park you know creation and then you just threw in a lost world book t-rex for me personally I'm sick of the same t-rex over and over I don't care if it has a different head sculpt I don't care if it has different feet it's still a solid plastic turtle neck t-rex that you know for instance I brought this up last time this is the bull t-rex or sorry yeah the book t-rex from the same sort of line just now modern day well this was from 1997 I think it was it never felt that Ken have released the same toy over and over again with different paints it didn't feel like that this was completely custom you know maybe it's not the best thing in the world depending what you're into they could have easily released this again with a different paint job and called it oh well it's the female t-rex but they didn't they made a whole different like mechanical tail moving jaw like locking into place eating biting thing whereas this was it swallowed things whole and then you got them from the belly even had an electronic roar on the top completely custom so when I look at something like the book t-rex that they were releasing with this I just see the same old t-rex that we've seen over and over again because let's be honest it's it's a t-rex I if you've collected every t-rex from this Mattel line since dominion god help you because there has been so many you would have probably a 50 and I think that's an understatement I wouldn't be surprised if there's a hundred different t-rexes that look basically the same I want something custom I want something different and the explorer that came with the set was basically the same explorer they had re-released except for now it had rubber tires its interior was differently designed which if we're gonna ask the question it's beggars belief really why weren't all those things included with the original that came with Tim with that came with the t-rex the only thing that was missing was a drastic part gate lex and a goat and you would pretty much have this whole Mattel creations in something that hit the shell and for some reason there were some vocal parts of the community not naming names but I've seen a few you know on Twitter or x they were saying you know you need to back this and how dare you question Mattel uh yes there are a million billion dollar company or whatever but they need to be able to do this and there are practices and I'm not going to get into that it's it's just basically someone sounding their opinion and they're allowed to the same way I'm allowed to the problem that came with it was that they were expecting you to change your opinion and I think that's the problem they were like no no you're wrong and we're all entitled to our opinion the same way they were um and it just came off as preachy I think when it comes down to it I love Jurassic always have done since I was a kid but it doesn't mean that I'm gonna like everything that is Jurassic and I'm not gonna lie if another franchise comes out of woodwork that is dinosaur related and is amazing I will support that one and if Jurassic performs the way it has been doing with mediocre film after mediocre film in my personal opinion um I might not be a fan of it I will always have a nostalgic tie to Jurassic I mean for God's sake look at all this I will always be a fan of Jurassic but it doesn't mean that I'm gonna support everything and just because I'm a fan of Jurassic doesn't mean I'm gonna pledge hundreds of pounds of dollars or God knows what to a Kickstarter basically that isn't got anything in it for me I don't care about the gates I've already got the explorer pretty much everything in there I've got it I want to make a book t-rex I've got the vintage one or I could just grab one of the thousands of uh Mattel Rex's that I've already got and spray paint it I could do a better job the Jurassic franchise at the moment especially when the toy line is concerned it's so fragmented you've got the Hammond collection that's supposed to be for collectors you've got the common baseline which the sculpts look great but then the paint jobs are lacking and look terrible you've got the now 30th vintage anniversary line which apparently is going to continue and do more things and now you've got Mattel creations which are now going to be even more drastic what they just need to do is just focus on a line just do something we had legacy in the past and legacy I think is still a thing we've got so many different types of Jurassic and maybe that's the problem they've got their hands in so many different jars that they don't have the resources to give each one the time and money that it really needs I don't think this is going to be the end for Mattel creations and I hope it's not if it is it's a damn shame and maybe they're just sending a message to us I don't know but really there is still plenty of things in the Jurassic franchise that this is made for the Mattel's creation that is this Kickstarter sort of thing if we just even though it's off the top of my head a command compound would sell like crazy redo it make it look great there's people on Etsy who are already recreating scenes from the you know the control room from Jurassic and they're selling their products on there we have hit a time where we don't have to rely on Mattel as creators to give us what we want all you need to do you want to spend hundreds on this Kickstarter spend it on a 3d printer learn how to 3d print buy it for you paints and before you know it you can make anything you want we don't need to rely on Mattel to make it there are still a few things that I've picked up from Mattel that I can't wait to unbox on this channel but if I'm going to be honest this thing it wasn't for me and apparently it wasn't for you guys either except for 1,300 of them I think if this Kickstarter got its whole you know funding goal it was about two million and you know these things do cost a lot to go into production I I mean I've tried I've tried thinking oh I could easily make a toy yeah let's do that merchandise and it's very expensive to get the sculpts to get the testing if you want it done right and that's obviously what Mattel has to go through so I can understand about you know they're needing this especially if it's for creators or sorry collectors that have the expendable money but really at the time we're living in we don't cost of housing especially in the UK and just living in general prices are going through the roof we don't have an extra 200, 300, 400, 500 pound to spend on a bit of plastic that's gonna gather dust so yeah just kind of wanted to talk about this new Mattel thing because it's it's been a big thing in the community and as me you know being a collector for years of dinosaur toys since I was a kid and you know being the target audience for the time and still kind of having that brain as an adult will be honest all collectors do I just wanted to throw my two cents and now that it's over just sort of poke at the wreckage that was the Mattel Jurassic Park gate or Jurassic world that they called it for some reason gate thing that they were doing anyway guys if you enjoyed this video leave a like and I'll see you later or bye bye