One of my favorite childhood films was The Last Dinosaur, a 1977 co-production between Rankin-Bass and Tsuburaya Productions* about a megalomaniac big game hunter and his attempt to hunt down a T-rex with footsteps like the sound of thunder, living in a lost world.
I plan to do a nostalgia-filled review of the movie for PGU at some point, but in the meantime a recent Web search revealed to me a brand-new holy grail: the M1 Last Dinosaur set.
Released in 2009 to commemorate the release of the Japanese DVD, this was a Japanese exclusive item. Given the otherwise complete lack of Last Dinosaur merchandise, I must own this. Even better, it comes with the Polar Borer vehicle from the movie! Krang totally ripped it off.
If you have any leads on how I could obtain one of these, please let me know.
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* Founded by Eiji Tsuburaya, the Japanese special effects wizard behind Godzilla and the rest of the Toho Monsters, as well as the creator of Ultraman.
Kevin
You can keep an eye out for it on Jauce.com, an English site that enables you to bid on Japanese auctions.
Thrawn
Dude! I love that movie! I'd love to have a T-Rex based on it. And that is a neat looking toy Poe.