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florduh

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Mine is still the Brontosaurus. When I was a kid it was sort of the standard dinosaur of popular culture so it was everywhere.
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I stop at the Sinclair outside the Burbank Airport to top off every time I get talked into dropping someone off. It's fun getting actual dino-juice :shrug:
 

BeltedCoyote

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I stop at the Sinclair outside the Burbank Airport to top off every time I get talked into dropping someone off. It's fun getting actual dino-juice :shrug:

Actually saw the dinosaur from an old station during a road trip earlier this summer. It was pretty cool to see they still kept the mascot
 
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florduh

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I haven't seen one in years. Maybe they still make/sell the green plastic dino?
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They didn't have them in the Midwest where I grew up and there were none in Florida. There's still quite a few around LA! More than willing to sell you $5/gallon dino-juice!


I stopped at that same Sinclair on the way home to Christmas and got a stuffed dino because I forgot a present for my friend's kid!
 

Flotsam

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I haven't seen one in years. Maybe they still make/sell the green plastic dino?
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i think these green plastic ones are from the 60s , I believe they had other dinosaurs available like a stegosauras
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as well.

Now all i think they sell is a plush toy . Sinclair as a brand went away after being acquired by BP. Not i think they are mostly expanding to NY & NJ
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coolbreeze

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They didn't have them in the Midwest where I grew up and there were none in Florida. There's still quite a few around LA! More than willing to sell you $5/gallon dino-juice!


I stopped at that same Sinclair on the way home to Christmas and got a stuffed dino because I forgot a present for my friend's kid!
No plastic Dino, but the do have a bluetooth speaker, lol:
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I was from the midwest and we never had them in town but they seemed to be in clusters elsewhere in the state. There were a few where my grandpa lived, about an hour away.
 

coolbreeze

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i think these green plastic ones are from the 60s , I believe they had other dinosaurs available like a stegosauras
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as well.

Now all i think they sell is a plush toy
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I remember that stegosaurus!

We must have also had the Anklyosaurus:
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coolbreeze

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i remember having a few different ones as a kid & evidently Sinclair had a big exhibit that went around like a Fairgrounds attraction. Dont know why photo is not showing.

I was kind of scared with the Pterodactyl
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There was one station we frequented with the life-size fiber glass(?) one in front. That was cool af!
 
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cybrguy

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As a kid growing up in Chicago there were mold-a-rama machines in all the museums. I had an elephant and a tiger from the zoo, and I had a brontosaurus and stegosaurus from the Field Museum. I think I had some chicks from the Museum of Science and Industry as well. I gave them to a nephew 30 years ago or so. There were millions of them made, so there is no way they could ever become rare or have any value, but they are great memory goosers.
 
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