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Post by RetroArt on Jul 29, 2012 23:23:13 GMT -5
Hey folks, I'd like to know if you have a single PS box you like the best out of the entire line. For me, it's the JUNGLE SWAMP!  (image courtesy of auroraprehistoricscenes.com) Why? I love the entire scene it evokes. This was a favorite kit of mine since it first came out when I was a little kid- that scenario of the small bog and lush jungle settings filled with all sorts of primeval creepy crawlies tickled my little preschool-age imagination! THE JUNGLE SWAMP is my favorite PS box art, however, it is not my favorite kit. I'll leave THAT for another thread! |
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Post by acroray on Aug 1, 2012 7:57:27 GMT -5
Jungle Swamp is among my favorite box arts (and was also my first PS kit!), but the real winner for me is Flying Reptile:  So much of the dinosaur media I enjoyed at the time of my youth when I also first collected the Prehistoric Scenes was filled with stylized, moody colors and lurid landscapes - things like the film AT THE EARTH'S CORE and the TUROK SON OF STONE comic book. Many of the Prehistoric Scenes' package art follows the same style: Styracosaurus, Allosaurus, Jungle Swamp... but Flying Reptile's sunset tones and rich, menacing purple sky really leap right off the box at me and convey a world of menace and "prehistoric monsters". |
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Post by RetroArt on Aug 1, 2012 8:32:11 GMT -5
Absolutely! There's something very JONNY QUEST/SCOOBY DOO-ish about the depiction of the pteranodon standing on its feet, beak raised defiantly up and glaring down towards you (the kid holding the box!).
Ok, I changed my mind- FLYING REPTILE is the BEST!
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Post by TAY666 on Aug 3, 2012 18:12:54 GMT -5
Mine is the sailback  I like the bright colors, and the fact that the box, looks just like the actual kit. Which was kind of rare for Aurora. |
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Post by RetroArt on Aug 3, 2012 19:33:11 GMT -5
You're right, it's my favorite now too!
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Post by prescenes2 on Aug 28, 2012 0:08:13 GMT -5
The Spike Dino "Styracosaurus"!
The Red sky and Green beast and the mysterious overall darkness appealed to my senses. Pteranodons box came close with the purple and burnt orange coloring
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Post by desslock on Aug 28, 2012 9:02:38 GMT -5
All good choices - the art really was part of what made this series special.
I also love the Styracosaurus and the Pteranodon art - never managed to get those kits as a kid, and really coveted them, especially the "spiked dinosaur" (love the tree in the art too). Personally, I'm biased towards the diorama kits, since they promised such adventure - the original cave art, with the allosaurus, is probably the one that intrigued me the most then, and I still love it today. I also really love the Swamp and the Tar Pit.
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Post by TAY666 on Aug 28, 2012 15:45:42 GMT -5
Actually, what hooked me the most, was the side pane artwork.
That is what really got my imagination going, as well as the lust to get the series.
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Post by desslock on Aug 29, 2012 21:49:10 GMT -5
That's interesting - I really liked the side art on the 71 kits that integrated the kits - showing the Cave/Neanderthal/Flying Reptile/Allosaurus in one scene together, and the Cro-Magnons/Tar Pit/Sabertooth in the other - even though that art isn't anywhere near as sophisticated as the cover art (the Allo looks almost like a child's drawing), the combinations really fostered an integrated environment that made them seem fun to play with together.
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Post by hypnotator on Sept 9, 2012 12:00:26 GMT -5
The original painting for the Jungle Swamp was up on Ebay a couple of years ago.  It’s beautiful and I wish I could have bought it. My favourite though has got to be the T Rex art, with the bleak, cold background. It’s very imposing. |
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Post by skid on Sept 9, 2012 19:10:35 GMT -5
The cave box art with the allosaurus, why? Because he (the allo) seems to be casually licking his left paw, while waiting for the right moment to pounce on a cro-mag when the time comes! -S'kid
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