Hi Andrew, welcome to NE, can you introduce yourself to our readers? Hi, so I’m Andrew, I’m a 37 year old big kid who loves dinosaurs, especially Jurassic Park. Originally from Durham but now living in South Shields, where I drive my Wife and 12 year old Daughter mad with all things Jurassic. You are the man behind Rexys Reviews, but what exactly is Rexys Reviews? So Rexys Reviews started as a YouTube channel (hence the name) in 2019 during the Covid lockdown. I would make videos reviewing some of my Jurassic Park toys and merchandise just to fill in some of the time when we were all stuck indoors. This continued until my collection of all things Jurassic expanded slightly out of my loft and onto my driveway when we
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added “Rexy”, the tribute Jurassic Park Tour Car to household. From there, following an off the cuff email about attending a local comic con event to share the car with other fans, the idea to sell some of my “spare” collection came to be. After a few events with
amazing feedback we decided to open a web shop selling dinosaur product which combined with the events and a constantly growing collection, we were rapidly running out of space at home. You also recently opened the Dino Den in South Shields, can you tell us a bit more about that? That’s right, in January this year my wife stumbled upon a post on Facebook for a former pub looking for a new lease of life and messaged me saying “look, space for a shop and your collection”, so we decided to go and have a look. No harm in looking right? Well 6 weeks later and a lot of very late nights and even more hard work from a great bunch of friends, The Dino Den was born. The plan was to create a one stop dinosaur shop that catered to the needs of dino fans of any age.
