My son has never really been a fan of the Go Diego Go TV show but he was super excited when he got this Dinosaur Digging Kit for his last birthday. Out of all the dinosaur related things he got, this was the first thing he wanted to open up an play with.
The one thing that impressed me about this dinosaur digging kit when we first unwrapped it is all the different things that came with it. It wasn’t just a digging kit, it included safety goggles, a glow in the dark dinosaur model kit and 3 smaller dinosaurs that grew when you put them in water. I liked that it was more than just a digging kit because I had imagined that the digging wouldn’t take long and the toy would only provide a brief moment of fun. Unfortunately for me, I was wrong.
It comes with a hard block of what is supposed to be sand and inside that block are the bones of an unknown dinosaur. You get a small brush and a wooden digging tool to try to excavate the dinosaur bones from the block. In my opinion, the block was much too hard. They recommend that you wet it down with a wet sponge to make it easier but that only helped a little. It was much too hard for a 5 year old to do. In fact, it was hard for this 34 year old to do and really became quite the chore. It was very dusty and messy and the biggest problem I had with it was the bones inside the block were easily broken. Half the bones we uncovered were broken by the time we got them out of the block which mean we could not glue the dinosaur together. I am sure they were intact when they were added to the block by the act of digging them out broke them into pieces. Maybe I needed to have more patience but it already took us forever to get it done.
I think this toy missed the mark and would not recommend it. My son would disagree. Despite it being a major pain in the ass and I had to run and hide every time Harrison wanted to get back to digging out the bones, he seemed to love it. I am not sure why as I had to do most of the digging and not having a dinosaur to put together when it was all done was a big disappointment but if you asked him today he would still say he loved his dinosaur digging kit. For me, the only thing out of the whole kit that I was impressed with was the glow in the dark dinosaur model that came with it. That still sits happily by his bedside.
If you want to check it out, it is available on Amazon. You can read what others thought it by going to Dinosaur Digging Kit.
