Now that’s a beast.
For our last Imaginext look for this round, I got a chance to play with the signature “big ticket” set, the 2ft tall Ultra T-Rex.
Naturally, I had some help.
Some assembly is required, as you might expect, but in a few minutes, I had this surprisingly sinister war machine making it’s way around the kitchen. This T-Rex’s days as king of the lizards was probably long past, and in another clever departure from the usual Imaginext dinosaurs, this poor sucker is a lot less rampaging beast and a lot more fossilized battle station. In a turn that could be considered just a bit macabre, it appears the warrior clan constructed this monster machine using T-Rex’s spent bones and some clever, steampunk -like engineering. Like I said, there’s a definite sinister quality to it.
My helper was mostly unfazed by those kinds of implications.
Like most big-dog Imaginext sets (and this one really is bigger than most dogs), Rex comes with a ton of features, the big two being his motorized movement and his light-up eyes and audio roaring. The roll feature struggled a bit for us, inside as well as outside, but I found with a little push, he would shuffle his way around. Your mileage may literally vary there.
Much more impressive to me and my assistant was the Rex’s rearing up feature, activated by one of the “action points” on his back. Twisting this snaps the monster from his tail-out walking mode to his tail-dragging intimidation mode.
Once there, it’s a bit easier to access the next “action point” behind his skull, that opens his jaw and unleashes a pair of spears.
And just below those are a pair of cannons, very similar to the one on the Dino Fortress:
These are compatible with the cannon balls from the other set- it’s a little thing, but making ammo for these things compatible with each other shows a lot of smart design, and definitely makes it easier on little gunnies who don’t have time to be bothered with things like caliber, or chasing the lava balls they launched across the yard.
This set serves as a kinda Cadillac offering, summing up all the design features and style of the smaller sets into one really big showpiece that’s just plain fun to mess around with. The electronic features are very cool, but honestly, just flipping the beast up and down, firing the cannons, and moving the little warrior braves through the various mounts and spaces turned out to be the most entertaining. So if you’re in the market for a 2ft battle station made of dinosaur bones, look no further.
Thanks again to the Imaginext team for sending these over!
