Get your rawr on — with a big green mechanical dinosaur costume, you build yourself! This costume crate contains everything you need to craft a spiky T. rex head, engineer a fierce felt jaw that snaps shut with the pull of a string, then add a set of matching dino claws to complete the look. Finish off your dino discovery by learning about hinges, rotary motion, and fossil detective work. Ready to dig in?

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Chomping Mechanical Dinosaur Costume

Got it for my 3 year old son he loved to build it and play. I would say I had to use fabric glue for the teeth. But we made a great coustum 

This one was AMAZING!! So much fun to build and play with! 

My 4-year-old grandson loved it! He immediately started to make it, with the help of his Dad. They love to do that. They made it in time for him to wear at his birthday party! He's very good at putting things together.

It is an adorable mask.  The chomping mouth was a little difficult to work.  It was hard to adjust the screws to get it to chomp like in the video.  In the end, it was OK because he just left it open.

It was a fun project and looks cool! The mouth doesn’t drop open easily tho so can’t really chomp as easily as you’d like. 

The chomping jaw is very fun, & my grandson LOVED the process of making it & is excited about the finished product!

Great activity and awesome end product that my kids are still playing with months later!

We have fun building this together, but my son did mention that it was harder to build than his other crates. Finding the right tightness of the bolts to get the bottom jaw to close was a little challenging. Overall he really enjoyed it. 

Making the head was a great bit of a stretch activity for my 4 year old grandson, as expected. He loved the finished head
Please note; I’m not the person doing these activities w my grandkids. I’m relaying feedback from my daughter 

Despite the fact I am not the ideal age range for this product, I still loved it and found it a great way to relax and have some fun in this tough times! My only issue that the felt remained bent out of the box and I'm worried the teeth won't remain sticking on it for long. 

Get your rawr on — with a big green mechanical dinosaur costume, you build yourself! This costume crate contains everything you need to craft a spiky T. rex head, engineer a fierce felt jaw that snaps shut with the pull of a string, then add a set of matching dino claws to complete the look.

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