#palaeontology
Who’s coming to our 2nd birthday party? Fossil Hunter Lottie!
Almost unbelievably, TrowelBlazers is now a whole two years old- crazy as we still feel sort of like ‘newbies’, yet at the same time we’ve done so much, and it feels like we’ve all known each other much longer.
Over the past year there has been a wonderful assortment of TB-related activities, some of which we already talked about on our 2014 review. But even just in the past few months of 2015, we’ve been rocking it (yes, that was a geological pun).
And now, the Big Event you’ve all been waiting for: an actual TrowelBlazers doll is being launched! Fossil Hunter Lottie was made in collaboration on a voluntary basis after we were approached by manufactures Arklu, who wanted advice on making sure their palaeontology action figure was realistic. So we tweaked a few things about her field clothes, made sure she had a trowel and a geological hammer, suggested the packaging design, wrote some extra content on real life trowelblazers and safe fossil hunting, and worked out some fun launch plans.
Lottie came with us to America, on a fossil hunt with children on the Jurassic Coast where Mary Anning worked, and this week went on a UK #RealFossilHunter tour to meet palaeontologists and find out about the diversity of their careers. You can check it out our BRAND NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!!
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