I am only interested when they have the same thing in a Velociraptor, Though I would accept a Ceolophysis You would have to be able to have group control for any real fun, though. I can see it know...

Timmy where is the dog?

Daddy its Velo, he did it I hit the demo mode and well...

Maus

diefldrmas

What's the weight capacity on that sucker? I'd mod i@SpiffySteve: and I thought I was the only one who did that... as a kid. ahem.

Maksimir

And I thought the "mini Hummers" were over the top...

Alex7575

i think it's a great idea. The kids can stop riding the big dogs now.

SpiffySteve

Is it just me or are today's kids WAYYY too spoiled with what is available?

siville

God help us. We're in the hands of engineers...

strider_mt2k

I'm glad they didn't have this when I was a kid. Because the disappointment of not getting this from my parents would have been unbearable!

SuppleMonkey

@Lupison:

if it does, it's certainly not while a kid is riding it - that would have been in the commercial.

i suppose its a necessary safety feature - 4 y/o's aren't generally the best judges of terrain, and in their wonderful little land of hallucinations, they might decide that yes, Kota can definitely make it down a curb, and of COURSE it can make it to the other side of the road before that car gets here...

nutbastard

@Maksimir: Riding the big dog is only fun the first time because it gets confused and was simply trying to run away from you while you're holding on to your dear life. But after the trial run, they learnt and lay down if you attempt to ride it

SpiffySteve

@diefldrmas: Nuts to Ceolophysis. Dromeosaurus is where it's at. Or even a Pachycephalosaurus, for that crowd control thing.

Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E

I dont think it walks.

Lupison

@Maksimir: oh my.. i hope we are not talking about beastiality right? i meant 'ride' as in like 'ride it like a horse'

SpiffySteve

@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E:

yeah just wait til the little bastards find out that, even though THEY can bounce off the walls from 5am til midnight, Kota takes D batteries. Six of em.

Oh sure they could have gone with a plug in rechargeable, but no, see, kids would just DIE if they had to plug kota in and WAIT. It is MUCH better if they can occupy themselves by begging for batteries over and over again. After all, they have no clue what batteries cost, where money comes from or why mom and dad lock their door sometimes. it's all just one big LSD trip enhanced by a lack of legal responsibility.

nutbastard

My parents got me a bicycle when I was a kid. Take that Cretaceous Park boy!

Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E

Screw the Kids, I'm getting this for ME!

MagnoliaBoy

For $300 I rather get a real pet.

os_2

Pffft.

When they get some carnivorous models, let me know.

craig

@siville:

yes they are way too spoiled. and you just know they're going to ask the stupidest questions when they get older...

"what was it like before the internet?"

"it sucked wtf did you think it was like?"

nutbastard

@Lodlaiden_: Article says it can walk, though the video doesn't show it (that I saw, at least).

Reilaos: Reading Comprehension is your friend!

@diefldrmas: Why not a leopluradon? A maaaagical leopluradon!

Reilaos: Reading Comprehension is your friend!

@MagnoliaBoy: And putting a gas engine in it for better top speed?

venomous_duck41

Hash it with Pleo, because it needs to walk.

Then make a velociraptor model that does 30 mph.

I will ride it to work.

Lodlaiden_

@SpiffySteve:Its purely a platonic relationship - a 'hmmm... riding that dog like a horse sure would be funny' scenario.

Maksimir

Yeah, this thing looks pretty stationary. Those legs don't look like they can move at all. Takes a lot of the "awesome" out, since this is basically a robot head stuck on a body-shaped frame.

Still kinda cool, but it's not really "toy of the future hooray!"

typoink

@Lodlaiden_: take that segway!

yungjerry703

Soon it's outer fabric will be torn and joints and wires will show through and it'll be so long ... off to te landfill.

How about a bicycle?????

Dinotech

@diverguy:

I had one too. My mother was pissed Christmas morning when she realized she spend $50+ for something that didn't actually walk.

It eventually was stuffed full of Stormtroopers...and fireworks for an explosives test. It actually held up pretty well, stormtroopers, not so well.

Fuzi Lojak

@Reilaos: Reading Comprehension is your friend!: It runs on six "D" batteries which won't take you very far.

Lodlaiden_

@nutbastard:

More like, "we wrote letters...and bought magazines" which leads to, "What's a letter? What's a magazine?"

Fuzi Lojak

I had a Kenner AT-AT Walker that looked to be about that tall. It didn't roar but I could stuff little Stormtroopers in its head.

diverguy

@Alex7575: No sexual innuendo there at all.

The_Red_Monkey

@Fuzi Lojak:

yeah, and arguments went on for days and days without resolution, music wasn't free, and the only stuff you could watch was what was on TV at that moment. You had to go to stores to buy things, and you had to pay whatever price your local store was charging. Seeing naked people involved glossy paper and VHS tapes, and the pervasiveness of shit talking was highly restricted by such primitive obstacles as geography.

nutbastard

@Fuzi Lojak: How badly do you regret that now? There are collectors who would pay top dollar for that now. I'm glad I still have a number of the original figures, before they all went on steroids, still in original packaging. God bless my parents for thinking ahead. Still not sure where they went wrong with me though.

headc4se

@Fuzi Lojak: That's when you very carefully show the Playboy collection you've developed over the years, before print magazines died.

hnkelley