The canteen in my old Mater Carmeli school sold snacks, school supplies--and Panini sticker albums. I wonder if it's still around, the sticker albums, not the canteen. On the glossy-paged album, you stick on the dinosaur stickers, which you also have to buy per piece to complete the book. Otherwise, you end up with just blank white spaces of dinosaur outlines.
It's kind of an extinction in reverse: you buy the album with just an empty ancient terrain and then one by one you stick on the dinosaurs and bring them back to life.
Somehow, I still remember the name Panini even if I never bought the album nor the dinosaur stickers. The knight with the looong jousting stick was kinda hard to forget too. I wanted that sticker album so badly back then, but it never occurred to me to save up for it.
My cousin Ryan had it good; he was a proud owner of that album of my dream--out of sheer frugality probably or maybe because his parents just gave him more pocket money each day.
My cousin Ryan had it good; he was a proud owner of that album of my dream--out of sheer frugality probably or maybe because his parents just gave him more pocket money each day.
The Panini dinosaur sticker albums preceded the dinosaur animated film Land Before TimeJurassic Park. My childhood was full of dinosaurs, it seems. Land Before Time made me cry (and want the Little Foot toy), while Jurassic Park had my jaw dropping in amazement. Man, those were a lot and the landmark film of running dinosaurs on the field.
When you're that young and dinosaurs appear onscreen, in full living, breathing detail, they're scaly skins up close even, their movements rendered as scientifically accurate as possible--your jaws will drop. The old sticker album is now really brought to life. Things will never be the same again.
Nowadays, kids don't have that. They don't have a point of reference; they don't have a past to look back to and compare with the now. Sure, they can watch the old copies of movies and compare, but it's a different thing. There's simply no transition to awe, not like the first time you saw Jurassic Park back in 1993, the same way they'll never know what the cassette-tape days or Famicom days or rotary telephone days were like. So we're lucky, in a way.
Now I feel as old as a dinosaur.
When you're that young and dinosaurs appear onscreen, in full living, breathing detail, they're scaly skins up close even, their movements rendered as scientifically accurate as possible--your jaws will drop. The old sticker album is now really brought to life. Things will never be the same again.
Nowadays, kids don't have that. They don't have a point of reference; they don't have a past to look back to and compare with the now. Sure, they can watch the old copies of movies and compare, but it's a different thing. There's simply no transition to awe, not like the first time you saw Jurassic Park back in 1993, the same way they'll never know what the cassette-tape days or Famicom days or rotary telephone days were like. So we're lucky, in a way.
Now I feel as old as a dinosaur.
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