The S in Screature

This is the dinosaur you do not want to meet in the forest on a rainy night: the Dilophosaurus.

The venom-spitting and dramatic neck-frill in the film Jurassic Park have no scientific basis though, and it's just, according to Michael Crichton, creative license at work.  Too bad for actor Wayne Knight.

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This is the same Dilophosaurus rendered in toy form, simply called Screature ($39.75 at Amazon). 

From creators D-Rex, the one-foot high interactive Screature spits (thankfully water not eye-blinding venom) if you're not good to him.  With infrared sensors, Screature can be set on guard mode to guard your stuff, he spits and bites, remember?  Don't expect the chap to walk though because he can't.  But this toy dinosaur is interactive all right.  He just spits and snaps his jaws and makes loving gurgling sounds or ferocious growls depending on your petting style, flares his neck frills, and then spits some more.  Spit, spit, spit.

Water reservoir is disappointingly small though--which is why I only got as far as three spits--actually the animatronics toy packs in as much as 10 squirts.

Here's something from McDonald's Happy Meal circa 1995 or thereabouts: a toy dinosaur (I'm too lazy to track down the exact species.)  Not being animatronics and just a wind-up toy, the dinosaur's movement is limited to a simple up and down motion.  And it's been in the bathroom for the last nine years or so.