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You know the merch team sucks when you try to buy something with the logo / theme / character / wtf, and no matter how hard you look, you either cannot find anything, or cannot find anything close to what you want. Think: pretty much every female character in SF / action movies / etc. until comparatively recently.
But there is something beyond misogyny / sexism afoot! It turns out the dino merch team is _terrible_. People are out on the internet hunting for realistic looking dinosaurs of various sizes (but a few inches across, basically), so they can spray paint them gold and put them on wreaths, use them as Christmas ornaments, etc.
Why can’t you just _buy_ gold / silver / etc. tinted dinos? I mean, if this is a thing, a good merch team would already have it out there. The markup you could get on that would be pretty bonkers, too. They are leaving money on the table here!
But there is something beyond misogyny / sexism afoot! It turns out the dino merch team is _terrible_. People are out on the internet hunting for realistic looking dinosaurs of various sizes (but a few inches across, basically), so they can spray paint them gold and put them on wreaths, use them as Christmas ornaments, etc.
Why can’t you just _buy_ gold / silver / etc. tinted dinos? I mean, if this is a thing, a good merch team would already have it out there. The markup you could get on that would be pretty bonkers, too. They are leaving money on the table here!