Take Your Daughter to Work Day

So what are we doing at work today?

Seems boring.

Confronting the T-Rex.

Roar!

Big Roar!

Okay, Dad, that was exciting.

I am glad you enjoyed it daughter.

Several years ago MRS Bunkermeister and I visited Dinosaur World in Cave City, Kentucky.  I got this big dinosaur there.  I like it so much we went back a while later and got another one.
 

Undersea Lizard

The Iguana can swim, even underwater.

They eat underwater plants.

The octopus keeps an eye open just in case.

Checking around the rocks for kelp.  Strangely the rocks are from a pet shop lizard toy.

Holding his breath a long time.

He finds a tasty salad.

Godzilla comes and eats your lawn.  Perhaps not the scariest movie plot.
 

Lizards in The Nam

One of the little known dangers of the Vietnamese jungle was the Giant Chameleon.

Long range patrols into deep forests were most likely to encounter them.  For years they were thought extinct at best or a mere legend at worst.

But by 1968 several patrols had reported contact with the great beasts, this diorama is based on one such encounter.

The point man for a squad size patrol of US Marines looking for reported NVA activity in the area was instead surprised by a Giant Chameleon.  It's natural ability to change color made it almost invisible in the jungle until the point man got within range of the Giant's tongue.

Only rapid engagement with the Marines implementing their reaction to ambush drill and laid down massive fire upon the Giant Chameleon.

 The point man, while obviously surprised, emptied a whole magazine 20 round magazine from his M14, straight into the left eye of the Giant Chameleon, and coupled with the support fires from the rest of the squad, the Giant released him and ran back into the forest.  The squad withdrew a full click and requested napalm air support over the whole grid square where they had just been.

Not being quite sure what the target was, the US Navy still sent in four Skyraiders and dropped napalm on the target area.  The next day a careful search by the squad, by then reinforced by the rest of the platoon, was unable to find anything definitive.  

1/72nd scale plastic USMC Vietnam by Pegasus. 

Horned Toads and Indians

Horned toad just snoozing in the warm desert sand.

Suddenly a group of inexpensive Chinese American Indians attack!

Quickly they surround the dozing lizard.

Stunned by surprise!

The giant lizard does not stand a chance against this 1/72nd scale onslaught. 

Head held high, he meets his fate with all the dignity a lizard can muster.

Moving in for the kill.

I got these figures decades ago, they were from a dollar store, they are not Giant of Hong Kong but they look a lot like them.  I suspect both Giant and these guys copied the same 1/32nd scale figures.  These also came as cowboys and I have a few of those also.