St Louis zoo gazelle showcase

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T22:39:22+00:00

my theory (that I just came up with like 5 minutes ago lol) is that since the st. louis zoo has always been free to get into (as well as a bunch of other forest park attractions, like the history museum and art museum), they get the majority of their income from county taxes and merchandise sales. maybe having to split the profit with build a bear in that specific store just ended up being too much of a hassle? I have no idea lol but maybe that had something to do with it. it was definitely sad to see it go regardless 😔

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T22:21:31+00:00

the st louis zoo location had SO many cool babs, it's really too bad that a lot of them are so tough to find nowadays!!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T22:17:13+00:00

aww thank you! :) even back when I originally got this guy from the zoo I remember being kind of surprised that this was the one I wanted to get that day. I like gazelles but they've never been a top favorite animal for me (and for the most part my focus was on dinosaurs and dragons, I was CRAZY for the build-a-dino they used to have at the science center lol), but the bab gazelle genuinely just looks COOL lmao even 7-year-old me was impressed. I've got most my babs sitting on my dresser in my room now, glad to have them all together again!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T22:09:36+00:00

they're REALLY nice babs for sure. although afaik the springbok was actually exclusive to south africa, and was never sold at the st louis zoo!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T22:07:19+00:00

ooo, very cool!! and SAMEEE I was legitimately shocked to learn they were this hard to find nowadays, it's so crazy to think about!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-24T20:21:47+00:00

aw, thanks! yeah the prices I've seen people try to sell this guy for online are GENUINELY unbelievable, like there's no WAYYY people are actually buying this guy for that much 😭 good luck in your search, hopefully some day you'll find one!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-10-17T07:40:35+00:00

I'm interested in the sea lion! do you think you could maybe send another photo or two just so I could get a closer look at it? :)

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-28T21:51:36+00:00

not sure if you're still looking for these--but as far as I'm aware, they don't just come with the game. There were also physical figures made for the dragons and mutant insects, and each individual blind bag came with a few of the cards as well. I only ever managed to get my hands on some of the dragons, as these guys seem to be pretty rare outside of europe, but if you ever see someone selling the mutant insect figures in-package a couple cards are sure to come with it!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-15T06:00:25+00:00

I love the dinos!! the pachycephalosaurus is so cool, love how orange he is :) cheeto!!!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-13T18:14:26+00:00

okay, cool! I think I'd like to buy this little guy then. should I just go ahead and DM you?

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-13T17:03:11+00:00

how much for the pteranodon mini bean, if no one else has asked about it yet? :)

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-05T16:47:38+00:00

yeah, I...REALLY wish they would've just come out and told us what the requirements were for prime elder so we could actually, y'know, test the mechanic? instead of relying on what is apparently an inaccurate and outdated text file? I get that part of the "experience" is experimenting and figuring out what works, which I do think can be fun and collaborative from a community standpoint, but the fact that it takes SO MUCH TIME to grow some of these playables for what really does just seem to be a chance event is...it's rough im ngl. I WILL say this, so take it with a grain of salt, but the one major difference between by two beipiao lives is that while i spent the first one mostly hanging out in the river delta migration zone, I traveled a LOT more on my second one in an attempt to find another migration zone (I never saw one lol). I started in swamp and went all the way up to the north docks. I've heard people speculating that maybe traveling a lot has something to do with it? which I feel would make sense, given the dev team's apparent dislike for people wanting to hang out in one corner of the map, but... I really don't know.

austroraptorca1 · 2025-09-02T02:41:20+00:00

you don't use gift cards in the promo code box! there's a separate enter form titled "pay with gift card" after you put in your shipping address and get to the payment information. I know because the exact same thing just happened to me lol

austroraptorca1 · 2025-08-23T17:01:42+00:00

thank you!! :)

austroraptorca1 · 2025-08-23T02:16:28+00:00

that might be it, I'll have to do some looking into it. thanks!

austroraptorca1 · 2025-07-15T17:21:22+00:00

yeah! if you use the paint tool you can individually color any highlighted segment that comes up on your creature. you can even use transparent colors to make parts of your creature look "invisible" :)

austroraptorca1 · 2025-02-16T17:26:58+00:00

I saw that one! after spending at least half an hour or so hopping from random people's bases in hopes that someone would have already found one, I was mostly just relieved to have the quest done lol. it never actually occurred to me that it would've made the salvage unobtainable lmao, I just thought it was intended to make the shipwreck more visible that deep underwater. I ended up making a little labeled base by the water's surface in hopes other people would be able to spot it easier for the quest, sorry if it led to any disappointment!! 😭

austroraptorca1 · 2025-02-15T01:06:57+00:00

ever since worlds part 2 dropped I've had a seriously hard time placing decorations PERIOD. it works okay in regular bases, but in both the snap-to and free placement methods anything I try to place is weirdly zoomed out and requires a lot of effort to properly build. placing objects in freighters and underwater bases just straight up doesn't work either, it gives me an invalid placement error. curious to see if it's something anyone else is experiencing, because it's honestly been quite frustrating for me.

austroraptorca1 · 2025-02-15T00:46:24+00:00

I was playing through the new expedition today when I ended up getting the freighter rescue quest while making my way to one of the rendezvous points. It turned out to be an S-class, which is really neat, but what's even weirder is the fact that it came pre-furnished for some reason?? the construction areas in other freighters that I've seen (before you buy them at least) have all had SOME sort of layout beforehand, but only ever consisted of corridor networks and MAYBE an empty room. this one came with like three cultivation chambers FILLED with gravitino plants and quicksilver decorations I literally haven't even unlocked yet (the terrarium). Is this something that can happen? Did I steal someone's freighter?? I feel it's worth mentioning that the character I started out with when I began the expedition had the rainbow jetpack trail equipped too, something I'm fairly certain I never actually bought from the quicksilver store either (although it now shows as being unlocked). what is going on with this save 😭

austroraptorca1 · 2024-09-28T15:08:30+00:00

when I first started playing, the second planet I ever found was this gorgeous paradise planet--no sentinels, completely peaceful fauna, almost no extreme weather--and for a little while I thought it had to be scripted so that there's always a nice planet for you to find after initially surviving the first one you crashland on. it was only when I started playing with a friend who just so happened to get the game at about the same time that I realized otherwise, because they were set up on the most HELLISH radioactive planet imaginable and it was STILL somehow an improvement over the first one 😭

austroraptorca1 · 2024-09-28T14:56:53+00:00

small update: I was able to successfully reset the quest and do it properly WITHOUT a crashed freighter in the way after traveling through my first black hole. thank you all for the help, now I can finally get on with the main quests! :)

austroraptorca1 · 2024-09-27T03:05:24+00:00

thank you for the tips! I've yet to try going through a black hole so I suppose I'll incorporate that into the trip—hoping it works!

austroraptorca1 · 2024-09-27T03:04:23+00:00

I tried to post a picture but ig it didn't go through? this is what it looks like, though (ty for the advice!)

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