Today's after work discount store score!
These are series 2 "budget" (primarily made for lower income kids) dinosaurs but I really like them as they are closer to the actual size that a Velociraptor would be. The ones in the books/movies are WAY too big and were initially supposed to be Deinonychus (a related species that actually were that big) until Crichton decided that "Velociraptor" was a much scarier name. These "budget" figures are less than half the size of the standard Velociraptor figures.
I usually do not bother with the repaints any longer, but made an exception as this "budget" line is usually much harder to find than anything in the main line. A year or so back, Five Below and Big Lots had them and I bought every single Velociraptor (both "Blue" and the generic orangy one) I saw across multiple stores. I also bought a dozen of the tiny Indominus Rex and 1 each if the 2 T-Rexes (brown and green) as well as the Stygimoloch. This year's first release was "Blue" (same as every previous year), a Therizinosaurus (I bought 12) and a Giganatosaurus (I bought 6). The second release are these same 3 but adds in repaints of the Velociraptor (the ones I got today), T-Rex (similar to the very first release) and the Stygimoloch. I never saw the very first year of these figures, but through reissues and repaints, I got all of the individual species from that year except for the Indoraptor
