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Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
After many travails and an extra plague year in transit, the latest of the Paleozoic Pals has made landfall from the Carboniferous.
My father adores his Diplocaulus salamandroides. My niece has been sent a picture of hers with its accompanying book, to be held in trust until her next visit. My mother has been presented with its enamel pin form, which is done in bands of lighter and darker purple instead of newt-like red and black. I had forgotten entirely about the stretch bonus of Bandringa rayi, whose spoonbill suggests the Amazon river dolphin of the Pennsylvanian period. I really am invested in the continued existence of the Paleontological Research Institution, which is one of the reasons I have gladly thrown in to its Kickstarters for almost ten years. The present being so very full of horror and stupidity, it is important that it can also produce such snuggable plush of the past.
My father adores his Diplocaulus salamandroides. My niece has been sent a picture of hers with its accompanying book, to be held in trust until her next visit. My mother has been presented with its enamel pin form, which is done in bands of lighter and darker purple instead of newt-like red and black. I had forgotten entirely about the stretch bonus of Bandringa rayi, whose spoonbill suggests the Amazon river dolphin of the Pennsylvanian period. I really am invested in the continued existence of the Paleontological Research Institution, which is one of the reasons I have gladly thrown in to its Kickstarters for almost ten years. The present being so very full of horror and stupidity, it is important that it can also produce such snuggable plush of the past.
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I can attest to it!
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Tiktaalik is one of Niece's favorites!
(I do not know if they will ever do a mosasaur, but if so it will be my favorite.)
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We agreed that the Diplocaulus in particular has a sweet face. It would also have grown up to a meter in length. I want more amphibious megafauna on my planet.
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We have a cuddly mammoth name of Marilyn.
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I have been collecting or gifting the PRI's priceless Paleozoic Pals since Dunkleosteus terrelli in 2016. My niece has most of them. They make me really happy.
We have a cuddly mammoth name of Marilyn.
Nice! Where did she come from?
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That's the Diplocaulus! It has great personality. (And I voted for it years ago in a poll, so I get to feel micrometrically responsible.)
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The Bandringa has joined the Dunkleosteus and the Helicoprion on top of the bedroom shelves, escorting the model ship.
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How adorable! So they regularly do Kickstarters?
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Annually from 2015 through 2021, after which the supply chains and the state of the everything caught up with them. Diplocaulus and Bandringa are the products of the Kickstarter run in the summer of 2023, which suffered unusual problems with fulfillment thanks to everything from manufacturing snags to port strikes to to a longtime museum donor pulling their funding which understandably threw the PRI as a whole off its stride, but it has produced wonderful plush (I wrote to the designer to tell her so) and I am very much hoping they will be able to run another campaign this summer. I will certainly link it if so. They need all the support they can get and their plush remains top-quality.
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I'd love to hear about it if they did, so thank you in advance!