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I was at Everglade Wade’s Li’l Swamp o’Gators this summer, where every year hundreds of visitors come from all over Florida to learn all about alligators, alligator habits and Everglade Wade’s lifelong mission of alligator husbandry. I took Sammy, that kid I was mentoring, and he especially liked the gift shop, which offers lacquered, glass-eyed gator heads in various sizes for a very fair price.
Family fun and education comingled in what might have been a perfect afternoon had E.W. not speciously claimed, halfway through his wrasslin’ exhibition, that his oldest ‘gator—Big Orson—was “a perfect example of a modern-age dinosaur.”
“Bunkum!” I shouted through the chicken wire.
“Do what to ‘im?” Wade asked.
“Nonsense!” I hollered. “Can Big Orson detect sound, motion and other stimuli with a full battery of infra-red, sonic and touch sensors? Can I guide him around my house with a totally rad remote control that looks like a video game controller?”
The nerve of Everglade Wade! Had he never heard of Roboraptor, the country’s most popular dino-robot predator toy? An alligator, a “modern-age dinosaur,” really! Roboraptor has a sleek, mecha-fossil-looking chassis, a look that’s updated thousands of years beyond Big Orson’s dull and scaly retro hide!
That’s just what I was screaming at Everglade Wade when he and a couple of his assistant gator wranglers had to come restrain me. I was pretty hot—one of the wranglers popped me in the nose, and there was a lot of commotion—but it must have been right about that moment that Big Orson ate Sammy.
So anyway, I’d planned to give Sammy this Roboraptor for his birthday, but I guess it’s extra now. Want it?
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Features
Features:
- Giant, 32” long dinosaur roars to life with realistic motions and advanced artificial intelligence
- Includes video game-style remote controller
- Walks, runs and “hunts” with fluid, bipedal motion
- Realistic body movements, including turning head and whipping tail action
- Has three distinct moods: aggressive hunter, cautious creature or playful pet
- Moods are influenced by environmental stimuli
- Touch sensors in tail, chin and tongue
- Sonic sensors detect the location of sharp sounds
- Infra-red vision system detects objects
- Powerful jaws play pulling and tug-of-war games
- Features “laser tracking” technology: Trace a path on the ground with the remote and Roboraptor will follow it
- Responds to commands from Robasapien V.2
- Auto shut-off feature saves batteries
- Requires three “AAA” and six “AA” batteries (not included)
Specs
RoboRaptor Platinum Edition Robotic DinosaurSpecs
RoboRaptor Platinum Edition Robotic DinosaurSales Stats
- Speed to First Woot:
- 0m 0.445s
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