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Adopt & Save a Raptor project:
As you might know by now, the original release of the "papo" (that's the brand of the figure) on the original Jurassic Park color it's nearly impossible to get and when you do it costs a small fortune just because "now it's rare"...
(as for right now we have a "Jurassic Park 3 male" raptor color scheme and this fall 2016 it's the re-release of yet another repaint, the green raptor resembling "Delta" from Jurassic World)
So I pinpointed (by mere chance) a guy selling it on my country (different region/state/province, I'm from the capital city and the guy is from "Cordoba", anyway, still useful to got him at good price and also added a papo Pachycephalosaurus to my collection as well, so I made the shipping cost count), the problem was, the raptor was horribly messed up... 
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As you can see on seller original pictures the figure had a huge gap on the head and lower jaw, later I found out this was due someone "played so hard" with this poor raptor that literally -detached- the head, and someone re-glue it with random superglue (like any parent wold do, grate for you guys, I hate parents using superglue to fix literally the most expensive collectables, really guys..?)
The entire body was utterly covered on red waterproof markers, like red "sharpie", and this is obviously made by a child (see why I hate small kids?, why I will never have any children on my own?, they fuck shit at an alarming rate, 33 years of mint collectibles could blown to hell in 3 days if a child entered my room). So now I'm guessing this is supposed to be...blood?, like the raptor was eating meat..? or got hurt on a fight..? only one of many gods can know for sure... *[special mention for the teeth and inner mouth completely destroyed]
By the time I got him (that was like what, 2 days ago?) the entire "red" stain had being already long absorbed into the Raptors rubber like material, so using the bleach technique was no good at this point, didn't even tried. I did used a paper cutter blade (similar to what the US call "hobby knife") to cut the plastic/rubber to see how deep it got and it was almost red to the core of the tip of the tail, there was no point into trying to bleach it. What I did was gave him a powerful clean up, detached the poorly glued head, boiling water special mix of cleaning agents blah-blah-blah... then dry it out and start the operation "Adopt and save a Raptor" so to speak...
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To return it to his original colors and former glory I used all water based paints and sealers, nevertheless, still very resilient materials to work with (so if by some crazy coincidence I need to get the colors out one day *on a long distant future* I can do it by long term hot water procedure, but since that is not going to happen...whatever). You can see the progress here, until the Raptor came in, it took no more than 2 days... and that was just because I went to sleep in between.
Now this rescued raptor it's back on track and has being reunited with his younger brother from the papo france family among others (like the JP1 kenner raptor). <3
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its a nice figure i personally like robotic/Animatronic dinos. having 3 Alpha Training Blues i treat them like pets(this i dont care what people think) the animatronics make it easier i can tell they where not designed to be well played with dispight being toys.
you can blaim a parent giving a dino figure to a kid because well they are toys. and sometimes they get broke and well superglue is sometime the best you can do. but i also understand the value some of those figures have for some people.