I would not buy these again

These are pretty small and a little overpriced. They aren't very tough either. My boys liked them but they broke apart and haven't touched them since.

Really cute and fun, but the egg has issues

When it comes to being a nice figure, this toy is great and the price isn't too high compared to similar products I've seen in the past. Where the problem is, is the toy almost exaggerates what it can do. I expected it to be really cool from the description, but it's not really well executed at all.

For example, I thought for the Dinosaur to 'hatch' it would be on a mechanical hinge of some kind. But in actuality, the egg slides together and part of the egg 'pokes' the activation button at which point it throws off the top part of the egg. This causes a few problems. Firstly, the egg is difficult to slide together and younger kids will be unable to do it. Half the time it doesn't work and gets 'stuck' as well. Secondly, the egg can't really stay together at all without 'activating' the hatch mechanism, except when it gets stuck which is maybe one in every ten tries. This means you can't store the dino in the egg, or leave it closed. The best you can do is balance the top part of the egg on the bottom, which has a tendency to fall over and roll away. For displaying this toy as a figure, or storage, this is kind of a nightmare.

The egg mechanism is at the front and the egg is not heavy enough to compensate, so when the dino isn't inside it constantly falls forward, falls apart and rolls away. They should have weighted the bottom of the egg to prevent this.

Onto the T-Rex baby itself, which oddly looks like a Velociraptor to me. The figure itself is cute and has nice details and was a hit by itself. They quickly became bored with the hatch mechanism, but continued to use the T-rex up until now and will probably continue to use it. However, the 'growing teeth' are again kind of a disappointment. Because the mouth opens as the teeth grow, you can barely notice them get bigger, they grow so little. Still, a dino that can chomp is good enough, but again the advertising made it seem much cooler.

On the note of packaging and setup, no batteries are required (yaaay), but getting it out of the box is kind of a nightmare. No joke, this is the hardest toy ever to remove from the box and I test A LOT of toys. Not only is every part of it taped and glued together so you have to pull it apart using strength and more than few swear words (make sure no little ones are around for this!), but once you get the box open...the dino is also tied down. It's not enough that they tie him down with thick string which you must cut, his feet are also tied tightly with plastic straps that are difficult to cut free without damaging him. Again, I recommend nail clippers, but even then it's difficult to cut close enough to get the toy out. It really is kind of a nightmare to unpack, so grandparents might have difficult getting it out if they have arthritis in their joints.

Overall, the toy is really cool and reasonable price, but the design of the egg needs a lot of improvement so that it can be used again and again, or displayed alongside the dino. At the moment, the egg will probably eventually end up getting tossed because of the balance and mechanism issues. The dino, however, will be kept and played with again and again.