The Dinosaur Toy

When reading through a copy of a Calvin and Hobbes comic yesterday, I thought to myself about a lost icon of my youth: the dinosaur game. Like Calvin, I liked dinosaurs as a kid. When I was six years old the Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the most amazing things that ever lived. Actually, the Tyrannosaurus Rex is probably still one of the most amazing things that have ever lived, at least to me. I was fascinated by dinosaurs, and I had all sorts of dinosaur toys, from tiny little brontosauruses to a two-foot high T-Rex.

Probably one of the most interesting things to me about dinosaurs was the fact that they lived in a world that was completely different from mine. I knew my world wasn't all that exciting; in central Minnesota it got down to forty degrees below zero in the winter, but their world was one full of danger and intrigue. Huge lizards soared overhead on bat-like wings while predators the size of my mom's car trampled through the thick jungles. Monstrous battles took place in the hot sun while humans weren't even a blip on the radar yet. With my dinosaur toys I reenacted these battles, screeching and screaming while the Triceratops tried to defend her nest against the gigantic aggressors (though I only had one at the time).

The world of dinosaurs has changed quite a bit since the days of my six year-old self and his dinosaur toys. Some of them have become warm blooded (depending on who you ask), and it turns out that my favourite T-Rex was much more of a scavenger than a marauder. Thanks to Jurassic Park the Raptor has turned out to be a bit of a celebrity in the dinosaur world with his big talons, sharp teeth, and large brain. My favourite Brontosaurus is no more; it turns out that his gigantic fossil was actually a mislabeled Apatosaurus fossil. The world that they exist in inside my mind is still the same though, filled with outlandish screeches and howls, and full of struggles between massive creatures. The dinosaur toys don't interest me as much anymore; they've been replaced by the uncertainty of their namesakes' disappearances. Why did so many gigantic creatures, creatures which literally ruled the earth, get wiped off the planet? The question seems especially pressing since we pretty much rule the earth now (or at least we'd like to think so) so what's going to happen with us? Perhaps Calvin has the answer.

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