Games Animals Play

January 31st, 2006

Filed under: General

Being a household consisting of a family doctor and a teacher, we often get things in the mail designed for children. Case in point today, when we got a sample packet of “Weird n’ Wild Creatures” cards. These are good sized full-color cards, each detailing a particulardangerous animal. They can describe current animals (anaconda, grat white shark), historical creatures (saber-toothed tiger, dinosaurs), or mythical beasts (cerberus, hydra). If I were five or six years old, this would be cool. I was totally into dinosaurs and monsters at the age, and could bore an adult to tears with my recital of dry dinosaur facts.

However, since I’m no longer five, the cards got pitched after a brief review and reminiscence. One thing quickly caught my eye: included with the larger cards were a set of smaller cards of the same creatures set up as a collectible card game. Clever idea, but clearly incorrect. Everyone knows that Nessie could easily take out nearly any other animals (except maybe King Kong, Godzilla, or Titano), but these cards have her losing to a frilled lizard and a tree frog. Nessie, call your lawyer.

Loch Ness Monter
Attack:3 Defense:3 Life:90		 Saber-Toothed Tiger
Attack:7 Defense:4 Life:100
Poison Dart Frog
Attack:2 Defense:8 Life:80		 Frilled Lizard
Attack:3 Defense:4 Life:70

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4 Responses to “ Games Animals Play ”

  1. David Oakes
    February 1st, 2006 at 8:59 am

    Ah yes, “Weird and Wild” cards. I can personally confirm that if you are 5 or 7, they are the greatest thing on the planet, easily beating out sliced bread. They even lasted a whole month, which is 28 days longer than most fads at that age.

    I didn’t notice that Nessie was so poor. Or, in fact, if we even had a Nessie. I think the Big GUn in out pack was some mythical creature, like Tiamat or something. But no matter what the cards said, “Tyranosaurus Rex” trumped all. It’s like looking in a thirty-year old mirror…

  2. Callie
    August 26th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    I am 13 and I was obsessed with these when I was 8, and I just found these cards in my room, along with the bigger ones. I noticed, though, the both the Loch Ness Monster information card and trading card were missing, which is weird because they were my favorite. I’m actually just here because I wanted to see the Loch Ness Monster picture again . . .

  3. Callie
    August 26th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    Oh yeah and I think this said the Great White Shark would win and I’m just thinking, “how the heck can a shark beat a giant plesiosaur! It has the same teeth, but the Loch Ness Monster is bigger.

  4. Kerry Rowan Rogers
    March 9th, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    Actually, I could see the poison dart frog beating Nessie. Nessie eats it, the poison kills her. Like that, see. Then again, something that size would probably take a lotta poison to drop, but they do say the poison dart frog does is the world’s deadliest in terms of sheer toxicity.

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