The Dinosaur Boy reviews Discovery’s Triceratops 4D Model Puzzle

Discovery's Triceratops 4D Model Puzzle

Do you know one of the reasons I love to write my blog?  Because people read it and send me stuff to try out.  This time the Discovery Channel sent me a really cool triceratops puzzle called Triceratops 4D Model Puzzle.  I was glad because triceratops is one of my favorite dinos.  It was one of the first ones I ever learned about.  I also loved this puzzle because it’s 4D!  I think what they mean by 4D is that you see inside the dinosaur.  2D would be flat like on paper.  3D means it’s real-looking.  This puzzle is 4D because it takes place inside the dinosaur.

So you get this box and it has each of the dinosaur’s guts.  It’s not put together for you– you have to do that part.  You can play with the organs before you put them in.  There’s a cool book that comes with it that tells all about the dinosaur parts and says what each organ does.  It didn’t take me long to put everything together, but I needed a little help from Dad on the back legs.  The cool thing is that the skin that goes over the top is transparent so you can see the heart and all the guts that you just put together.  And it’s not just the body– it’s the head too!  I think they should do one of these puzzles for ceratosaurus.  I love this puzzle and I even saved the box because it’s a great box.

Here are some pictures of me putting it together.

I let Weston help me open the box. Can you see we're wearing our triceratops shirts?

Opening the package

Putting the guts in

The finished product!

[Dad's Note:  This puzzle is detailed yet easy to assemble.  The pieces are well constructed and fit together nicely.  An included booklet is not only a guide to the puzzle, it's a guide to triceratops and its anatomy.  The booklet details each part and organ, providing an explanation of each.  One minor beef:  The writer's command of the English language leaves something to be desired.  That said, the booklet is an impressive addition to the kit.  Bridger proudly displays his assembled puzzle in our kitchen.  The box?  Well, Mom might have conveniently lost that.  Too bad, it was a great box;).

Christmas is coming, so get your Triceratops 4D Model Puzzle here!]

 

 

 

 

 

A great post coming tomorrow!

Tomorrow I’m going to have an awesome post about a really cool dinosaur thing I just got.  Sometimes people send me stuff to play with or watch, then I write about it on my blog.  Well, this was such a cool thing I got.  I want the people who sent it to me to know that I didn’t forget about it and that I love it.  But I don’t want to say anything else about it tonight or I’ll give it away.  So get your friends and family together tomorrow night to read my blog and I’ll tell you all about it then!

I’ll give you a couple clues:  It has little horns and it’s armored.  That’s all I’m going to say.

I still don’t want to get married

I been thinking about it and I still don’t want to get married when I grow  up.  Me and Weston decided that we’ll just get our own house next to Mom and Dad’s house.  Then we’ll adopt some kids from the kid place where you adopt kids from.  I’ve never been there, but I can imagine it’s like this big room where a bunch of kids are playing with toys, waiting for moms and dads to come pick them out.  They probably are using their best manners so they’ll be picked.  Then you give the worker some money and leave with the kids you chose.  That’s what me and Weston will do.

Why do some animals push their young away?

This one is for West.

I been thinking about something lately that I just don’t get.  Some baby animals when they get a certain age, their parents just push them away.  Why do they do that?  Luckily we humans don’t do that.  We keep loving our babies even when they get old.  That makes me thankful to be human.

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Now I’m doing this twitter thing.  It’s like a mini blog thing where I can type little things and people can read them.

[Dad's Note: Click here to follow Bridger on Twitter.]

Blackie went to Jesus

This one is for Blackie, my sweet chicken.

Blackie probes the ground for bugs at a family reunion earlier this month.

Blackie went to Jesus.  It’s ok, because he’s much happier now.  Maybe in heaven he can get some feathers back on his head.  It was sad because he just had a skull with no skin or feathers.  We had to keep him in the house and even take him camping with us.  He seemed like he was doing okay, but then Mumma wend downstairs and he was dead.  I was really sad that he died, but he’s happier now.  Mumma buried him before she told me about it so I wouldn’t be so sad.  I love you, Blackie.

[Dad's Note:  For what it's worth, Blackie's last days were happy ones.  Bridger walked him every day.  He lived like a king in a bird cage in the house.  He went camping and fishing with us, and feasted on top notch scratch.]

A shot I took with my cell phone just days before Blackie was violently attacked by a murderous chicken, who at Bridger's request will remain nameless.

Blackie’s doing better

I’m so glad that Blackie’s doing better.  She started drinking and eating yesterday.  I had to help her do that because I think she’s blind.  But then she started eating and drinking on her own.  Now she’s in her box just chirping away.  She’s still not toally okay, but she’s doing better.  I hope she stays alive.

Please pray for Blackie

I have a sad story today about my chicken, Blackie.

Blackie is this tiny chicken I got from my friend Gibran.  He’s going back to Mexico for a long time so he gave me his chicken.  She’ll be grown by the time he gets back from Mexico.

But the thing is Blackie was attacked today by another chicken.  That chicken pecked all the feathers off her head and then pecked off all the skin.  I went outside to check her this morning and saw her laying there in the coop with no skin on her head.  It was just her skull.  You could see her tendons moving back and forth.

I climbed in there and grabbed Blackie and carried him upstairs to Mom and Dad.  She was still alive.  Mom took her to the vet to see if there was anything we could do.  The vet put some medicine on Blackie’s head and said maybe she’ll die.

Then we put Blackie in a special box with newspaper in it.  If she eats and drinks tonight, maybe she’ll live.  If not, she’ll probably go to Jesus.  Me and Weston said special prayers for her but I thought I should tell the world to say prayers for her too.  Maybe that will help.

I can’t put a picture of her on my blog because it’s too gross.  I’m worried about little girls seeing the picture because they’ll flip out if they see it.  Girls are like that.  McCall’s not so much like that, though.  She would probably be tougher than most girls.  She’s not tougher than mom, though.

I hope Blackie lives, but mostly I don’t want her to hurt so much.  I’ve never had all the skin ripped off my head before, but I’m sure it’s gotta hurt.  Man, I hope she gets better.

Picture of the week: A boy and his cane

Bridger and his fancy cane at Uncle T's wedding (photo by aunt Tammy)

A housekeeping note from Dad

From Dad:

We apologize to anybody who has tried to reach Bridger’s blog via his domain name during the last part of May.  Since I switched the blog from Blogger to WordPress last year, Bridger’s domain, www.thedinosaurboy.com,has served only as a placeholder that redirects to the permanent URL, thedinosaurboy.wordpress.com.

We maintain the domain name because 1) it still hosts his archived posts prior to the switch, 2) the domain is easier to commit to memory than the actual web address, and 3) many sites still link to the domain itself.

Problem is, the domain name exceeded its bandwidth quota last month and became unavailable.  Thus, readers who had bookmarked the blog at www.thedinosaurboy.com were unable to access it.

Confusing enough?

In order to avoid access problems in the future, we advise everybody to create new bookmarks reflecting the actual web address, http://thedinosaurboy.wordpress.com.  You’ll get to the exact same place– only a few milliseconds quicker and without being redirected by the domain name.

For further convenience, you may subscribe to Bridger’s feed in a reader by clicking on the orange icon at the top of the page.  That way you’ll recieve the content as soon as it’s published.  Bridger has prepared several posts in the last few weeks that I haven’t had a chance to publish yet because of the busy month.  I’ll start publishing those this week.