 Hello everybody and welcome back to... Well it's not too anything really because today we're going to be talking about a bit of a controversial subject surrounding the Jurassic Park slash world toy community and that is the most recent uh, Mattel Kickstarter. It's not really a Kickstarter they call it Mattel Creations but for all intents and purposes it's a Kickstarter with various goals that unlock different rewards and the rewards being just a better thing that you back. So I saw this not too long ago. This is what they call the Jurassic World The Gates crowdfund. Well I don't know why they call it Jurassic World The Gates when it's got nothing to do with Jurassic World. Already off to a strong start. And basically I saw this not too long ago and it was just mind-boggling to me because for a start it was originally only for US customers. So everyone else in the rest of the world and if you have anything to do with the Jurassic toy community you'll know that America or the US because you know Mattel's based in the US I'm pretty sure anyway uh they get a lot of the toys that the rest of the world doesn't. Me being from the UK and then living in Japan now uh I find it very hard to find certain toys uh around because they just don't exist. Now Mattel have sent me things in the past and as of speaking and recording this right now I do have a thing a box waiting for me in Japan that Mattel have sent me. I highly doubted this though. The image shows a Ford Explorer a Jurassic Park gate with electric fence some of the um the little signage that you can get of like the raptor pens the galamite messuno some nice authenticity sort of things you can have Lex Tim and as well as a goat and not only you know this is Jurassic Park but there is a T-Rex here but you might be thinking well that looks like not rexy it's green well that's because this is the book T-Rex not from Jurassic Park but from the lost world so already I'm kind of thinking why is that here okay so let's just have a look you're celebrating Jurassic Park's 30th anniversary with awe-inspiring crowdfunding it starts with the enormous fan demanded a motorized entry gates and a first ever Ford Explorer number five so if you know of Jurassic Park there was two explorers one was 05 one was 04 I'm assuming all of the ones that they made so far have been 04 so this one's 05 difference being the number no expenses have been spared on recreating the details and the collector level execution extends to all the extras you can unlock from each tier save the magic word fund all the extras and return with us to a time when dinosaurs ruled the earth sounds great on paper now already they need 5000 in order to achieve I think funding like if this gets 5000 backers actually they do call them backers then it will go into production but what do you get for your 300 pound now it could be different in dollars if it's $200 you're actually cheaper now you get a Ford Explorer you get the electronic gates and that's it this this one right you see what's here you don't get like that car you get you get the car and you get the gates uh now let's if we ever look at the gate it's well done it's it's got like an embossed Jurassic Park logo it has the flames that are some sort of you know clear plastic that might have light bulbs around it if we look at the back you've got a speaker so I'm assuming that it might play the Jurassic Park theme tune uh you know when you open it you can actually charge it I'm assuming because there's a couple of different plugs there there's an on and off switch and also a little bit of level to detail you've got Dennis Nedry's you know any sort of like over overhauled it to manual power and then just drove through it um would be cool if that worked but um if I'm going to be honest it looks kind of shoddy it looks like it's been back in folding and it's back in molded and they just kind of put a little bit of paint of it there you go now as far as the Explorer goes we have a quick look at that yeah but that's very true to the Jurassic Park Explorer that we've seen in the movies you've got some details you've got the tour program that's been printed onto the plastic as well as some extra detail there and as you can very clearly see only one thousand three hundred sixteen people have pledged to it me not being one of them and we'll get into that and reasons why in a second so overall what are you getting for your money it's not worth it it's not worth it the thing is five thousand is the biggest milestone they need to make um then it's six thousand which gives you an electrocution or post electrocution tim figure um and two enclosure fences so it's just mind boggling so this fence that you see this thing I mean I can't really see it must be if we scroll down there we go we can see a better version of you got the the gates opening there um stay in the car there's a better shot I should have just scrolled to these my bad um and there's the fence now the fence it I don't know what it's made out of it looks like it's made out of some sort of like an actual metal cable which is interesting um the fence itself also has lights uh tim doesn't fly off it the way they've shown it but it looks like it does have some sort of light uh flashing the only thing is this doesn't look anything like the lights that flashed in the original anyway and then the biggest one you want to unlock I assume is the book t-rex from the lost world now I don't really know too much about the the model or the animatronic that they used when it comes to the lost world but I have the only reason why this isn't rexie is because we've had five million rexies before so in order to maybe get us to you know want to buy the kit um they're giving us the book t-rex which we've wanted for a while in fact we did get it ages ago I think in a legacy set I could be wrong um but I mean this it has better articulation more articulation a higher level of detail it's very reminiscent of hold on I'll go get it oh this t-rex this being oh the the big daddy of the lost world play set I mean you had the RV of course but this thing oh it was going it's all like it's almost a hundred percent rubber except for the arms and the uh legs which you can see a very clear cut for the plastic there but you know you could open its mouth to do whatever you wanted it to do it would eat something and eat the guy that came with it and you could fish it out of its belly there it was also electronic obviously what's inspired this coloring because I don't really know if the book t-rex had a defined color to it in the movies Kenner that's it I was trying to think of who who made this for Kenner they decided to go with this lovely color scheme and Mattel have faithfully recreated it all from the tiger stripes down the back to the the tiger stripes there but in terms of this set it doesn't really make too much sense and let's get into that so for 300 300 pound you're getting at the moment you're not getting anything because it's not getting funded but you're getting the gate and you're also getting the explorer now let's say oh let me tell you why that's a terrible idea not too long ago we got the explorer so it boggles the mind so here is the explore I mean I've unboxed these you can find this on my channel but it is almost exactly the same explorer that came out with freaking Tim and this Tim is very good quality the jacket the face everything about this is top notch so I'm assuming they're just using this and changing the head sculpt and I mean if you don't own a tim and you don't own the explorer there's no reason for you to back this 300 pound project when you can buy this or you know you can probably find an eBay or second hand or somewhere it exists now the biggest differences or should I say the similarities are that they didn't have the paint applications for the windows they'd be more accurate because they've added the black trim around the windows and stuff but this really isn't something that begs the extra money because you can just get a paint brushing as you see me do when it painted the friggin colossal giganautosaurus nails because they didn't paint them so what else do you get well you actually get the pelican briefcase that the flares and the searchlight were in now I don't even know if this thing opens in the boot it shows it but that's about it also as you can tell this is an 04 and that one's gonna be an 05 as far as interior in the front goes well it's it's verbatim the same okay so they've painted the side mirrors they've actually added an in you know rear view mirror onto the the actual car itself but as far as the the screen goes and the dash they've kept that all the same they've painted it to be more accurate they've actually printed a tour program screen onto it but for all intensive purposes this guy right here with its opening doors it's amazing paint application with its fading uh you know even the lights on the front they haven't changed in this one yes they've got the bf goodridge all terrain ta's you know this new one has this one doesn't but to a kid it's really only going to be a collector that's going to notice those differences and if we're a collector you might as well just paint it and save yourself the cost speaking of what else you get you get the Jurassic Park gate that you know opens that in itself is very good i can't see a reason to knock that other than you know you could probably find if you wanted a Jurassic Park gate on ebay or the secondhand shops you know where someone's traded in the original Jurassic Park Kenner compound and you've got a gate with that um and you know like i said when it comes to tim we've already had tim all you're getting for the uh the backer reward what is it at 6000 backers your extra 300 you know if this is fully funded even then it's still a stretch to say is it worth 300 because i don't know if it is because you've already we've already got him we've already got the explorer we have a gazillion t-rexes i don't know like yes it's it's the book t-rex its paint application looks different but as far as the head sculpt goes maybe it's a little bit different i i'm not really going to notice yes there's more articulation for the arms but there's been so many of these turtle neck you know t-rexes that i'm not really going to notice the difference and if i wanted to if i really wanted to i could paint this t-rex to look like that if i thought that would be a good project wouldn't it i've got my paints i paint warm i'm already probably like okay let's let's paint this let's see if i can do a better job than the uh you know already as close to as the metal and save myself the money the only real exclusives here are the electric fence which we can see on this image actually just cuts off so it's not like you know you can string them all together for some reason they've cut it diagonal so you can't even link the fences together if you wanted to make a full compound not that you would but if you had spent thousands and you got two links of these fences you might be able to make a fully you know working the blinks and stuff or fence compound but if i'm honest i don't think you'd be able to do that because the reason why this this drastic part gate has the bottom bit here with that you know the other connection i think is to do with the electric fences i think you plug in the electric fences to that and that's how they work i don't think the electric fences have their own outlet or charge i think that's probably why they are you know cut to the gate so already thinking about using the electric fences to make a compound or put them somewhere else have them blink i think you need that drastic part gate there in order to make them blink i could be wrong i could be wrong i don't know anyway your real exclusives if we're gonna be honest are lex and the goat because we have not had a lex figure so i i don't know what to say this is targeted exclusively towards collectors let's be honest because a bit of plastic like this is all a kid needs they don't need realistic realism they don't need a flashing light their imagination takes over it's almost like well you know as an adult we're having to pay extra to fill in the void that our imagination can't do anymore if we're honest people who are collecting these sorts of things have imagination anyway so we don't need to spend an extra 100 200 300 pound they're flashing lights or a car with black window trims on it so in conclusion is it worth 300 no i don't think so and i'm not the only one it shows that pretty much everybody else has the same idea that's why it has not been backed if they had not released the fold explorer tin and a million and one t-rex is beforehand i don't think the paint application to turn a t-rex into the book an exclusive lex and goat even you know that's not guaranteed is worth it unfortunately i think this is going to be one of the first metel creations to go extinct and maybe this is something that they really need to reconsider i think in this video i've laid out all my critiques but if i was to you know be head of metel and if i was to put myself in their shoes and think about a project that would have been the strongest to start with honestly the rv from the lost world you've already got the t-rex book you just needed to make the rv because apart from the compound which it seems though they've got tunnel vision and they're just focused on the first movie lost world you should have done the rv you should have made it electronic just like the original kenne but made it way more you could have done so much with the interior you could have lit up those computers you could have made it look absolutely gorgeous and putting that book t-rex in there would have made sense i feel like they've completely missed out on an opportunity there but i understand why they did this this from a marketing standpoint and the popularity you know you see all the numbers just about the most popular film just get the fence get the electrified tim your like recreate iconic scenes but obviously they ran out of ideas what you could have done is either done the rv because you got the book t-rex you just chuck that in there or the visitor center i'm assuming in order to cut costs they repurposed molds and stuff that they've already had in the past already made pre-made like tim like the fort explorer and still charged out the wazoo for products that we've already gone anyway guys this is you know i'm back in the uk for a little bit and we're gonna get back to toy unboxings i will do toy unboxings when i get back to japan i just still need to set up the space properly um and it will look great i promise but now that i'm here i'm ready i'm ready to see just what matel has released or just generally have fun but anyway guys if you enjoyed the video leave a leave a comment uh tell me what your thoughts are because you know us as a you know if it wasn't for us drastic toy enthusiasts we wouldn't have gotten all these amazing toys we wouldn't be complaining you know if if we were still stuck with hasbro and matel just came to us with this amazing project we would have backed it yeah 100% but we have kind of been spoiled with matel they've given us so many good things that now that they're giving us kind of a similar standard we're not happy we want better where are you guys if 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