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Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:34 pm ]
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Hey guys, trying to find a place to buy replica fossils for my son's birthday. I have been looking for awhile but I'm pretty much only finding places that sell museum quality replicas or real fossils and the prices are through the roof. The other sites I find are so poorly designed that it's impossible to navigate through them: example:

I'm looking for affordable fossil replicas of dinosaurs that my son would recognize. He's six so things like claws and teeth are what he can relate to. Getting something too small or obscure would be lost on him. I mean there has to be a place where you can get cool little dino things for a kid without paying out the ass or having them made of plastic.
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:41 pm ]
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Give me a price range and I'll give you a site.
Author:  Stuuuuuuu [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:41 pm ]
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Maybe get him a cheap one then take him hunting for real fossils. It's cheap and could also be called quality time. Might be hard to find dinosaurs, but you could probably find a fossilized prehistoric worm or something.
Author:  CriminallyVu1gar [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:42 pm ]
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Most of them made a new board called the Drunkie. Badum tsh.


You could always get plaster and food coloring and go it yourself.
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:44 pm ]
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Stuuuuuuu wrote:
Maybe get him a cheap one then take him hunting for real fossils. It's cheap and could also be called quality time. Might be hard to find dinosaurs, but you could probably find a fossilized prehistoric worm or something.

This brings me back to my childhood, hunting for trilobite fossils at 18 Mile Creek with my dad.
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:44 pm ]
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Yeah we're in Colorado so we're always out on the trails. We've been doing a lot of botany and bug searching for a couple years and now he's wanting a rock pick and dino gear. Phil I'm thinking under a hundred bucks. Looking (obviously) for more bang for the buck. Like teeth, claws, skulls, rock panels, etc. Something that his six year old brain could look at and know it's a dino instead of like a vertabrae or knuckle..lol.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:45 pm ]
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I haven't looked but I'd guarantee you Edmund Scientific has you covered

http://scientificsonline.com/
Author:  Crosscheck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:47 pm ]
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ok, now I have looked and I was right ;)

http://scientificsonline.com/search.asp ... il&ipp=ALL
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:49 pm ]
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Cross has non-dino fossils covered, but here's a site with plenty of dinosaur fossil replicas for under $100:
http://www.prehistoricstore.com/dinosaurs/
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:51 pm ]
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Shaweet. Trying to think like a boy...though i may get excited over some tiny little fossil that is millions of years old (well i mean a replica), Ash will probably wonder why I'm giving him a rock for his birthday...hahaha!
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:51 pm ]
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Dude Phil, fucking A man. Nice job.
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:51 pm ]
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Personal note: when my brother and I were kids, my dad had to go to some conference in San Diego for work. He decided to take a trip to the LaBrea Tar Pits before coming back and dipped his sabretooth tiger fang and velociraptor claw in the tar. He's got em on display in his house now.
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:52 pm ]
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Honestly, go with a mix of both Cross' and my suggestions. Dinosaurs are all well and cool, but every kid knows what a dinosaur fossil looks like. On the contrary, few kids could tell you what an ammonite or trilobite looks like.
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:57 pm ]
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Yeah for sure. I'm kinda browsing through both. He's a young rock hound so I'm thinking a pick, a dino one and either an ammonite or trilobite..or even like a fern leaf or fish
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:04 pm ]
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I think an ammonite is cooler than a trilobite, and usually a bigger fossil, too.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:05 pm ]
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mechaphil wrote:
Personal note: when my brother and I were kids, my dad had to go to some conference in San Diego for work. He decided to take a trip to the LaBrea Tar Pits before coming back and dipped his sabretooth tiger fang and velociraptor claw in the tar. He's got em on display in his house now.

Personal note: The La Brea tar pits are one of the more depressing historic / museum sites in the US.

It's basically a 2 acre plot in the middle of a city surrounded by tall buildings. Litter blows in from the streets and gets stuck in the tar.
(they do have a neat museum there though)
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:06 pm ]
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I'm thinking that I'm going to buy myself a birthday gift too from that site. My b-day is two days after his...lol.
Author:  mechaphil [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:09 pm ]
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Crosscheck wrote:
mechaphil wrote:
Personal note: when my brother and I were kids, my dad had to go to some conference in San Diego for work. He decided to take a trip to the LaBrea Tar Pits before coming back and dipped his sabretooth tiger fang and velociraptor claw in the tar. He's got em on display in his house now.

Personal note: The La Brea tar pits are one of the more depressing historic / museum sites in the US.

It's basically a 2 acre plot in the middle of a city surrounded by tall buildings. Litter blows in from the streets and gets stuck in the tar.
(they do have a neat museum there though)

That is depressing :(
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:17 pm ]
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His birthday looks like this: Lunch, Denver Natural History Museum (military gets free tickets nice), movie, ice cream then camping out in the yard with a fire.
Author:  Crosscheck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:20 pm ]
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mechaphil wrote:
That is depressing :(

Well all those animals picked a popular place to die...the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax in LA.
Prime real estate.

Although it is right next to the museum of modern art and the Peterson automotive museum, so a day can be spent in that area.
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