New, Full 12 Ounce Can Dr. Pepper Strawberries & Cream USA Limited Edition “Jurassic World Rebirth 'Spinosaurus'" (2025).
NOTE: This offering is for ONE collectible can. It is NOT for a six-pack. NOT for a 12 pack. NOT for a truckload. It is for ONE collectible can, as stated.
DETAIL: Traveling internationally as part of my occupation, I continually have friends and customers ask me to bring back to the USA Pepsi and Coca-Cola cans and bottles from elsewhere in the world. Surprisingly, I have had many friends and customers outside of the USA ask me to secure for them collectible cans of Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Here’s one such offering, a full can of Dr. Pepper Strawberries & Cream USA (2025) limited edition can promoting the movie “Jurassic World Rebirth”, featuring the dinosaur movie character “Spinosaurus”.
If you’re in the USA, this might not at first blush seem a “collectible”, though in time it most certainly will be. But then in Eastern Europe or Central Asia for instance, a can of Coca-Cola printed in their alphabet might not seem very unusual or collectible. But to an American, that same can is quite collectible. Likewise in Europe or Asia, American cans, especial those of limited production, are likewise quite collectible. So for all of my friends in Europe and Asia, here’s a genuine, full can of Dr. Pepper Strawberries & Cream “Jurassic World Rebirth 'Spinosaurus'” limited edition (USA 2025).
Jurassic World Rebirth is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. It is a standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Ed Skrein.
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Earth's environment has largely proven inhospitable to the remaining populations of dinosaurs and other de-extinct prehistoric animals. The surviving creatures now reside in remote, tropical locales, reminiscent of the environments where they once flourished. Zora Bennett, a covert operative, is recruited by ParkerGenix, a pharmaceutical company, to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and team leader Duncan Kincaid on a top-secret mission.
They infiltrate Ile Saint-Hubert, a forbidden island in the Atlantic Ocean, once used by InGen as a dinosaur research facility. The team's objective is to locate the three largest remaining prehistoric species from land, sea, and air. The biomaterials of these creatures hold the key to a revolutionary drug capable of saving countless human lives. Along the way, the team encounters a shipwrecked civilian family, and both groups find themselves stranded. They discover that the island is home to mutated, failed dinosaur experiments that have thrived in isolation for decades. Among them is the Distortus rex, a deformed, mutant Tyrannosaurus rex with six limbs.
Jurassic World Rebirth is the first film in the series to not include any returning actors from previous installments. The character of Zora was not written as a gender-specific role. Scarlett Johansson was already a fan of the franchise and hoped to join it for more than a decade. While Rebirth was in development, she arranged a meeting with Spielberg and pitched the idea of joining the cast in some capacity. Garteh Edwards (the director of the film) learned of Johansson's interest and immediately cast her as Zora.
Jonathan Bailey would also be cast at the suggestion of Universal executives who were impressed with his performance in the 2024 film "Wicked". Edwards cast Manuel Garcia-Rulfo after seeing him in an episode of the television series "The Lincoln Lawyer". Likewise, he cast Rupert Friend after being impressed by a performance he gave in an episode of "Homeland". Friend worked with Koepp to make his character more dimensional. Other actors cast in the film included Mahershala Ali, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, and Béchir Sylvain.
Like previous films, the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals were created through a mix of animatronics and CGI. Paleontologist Stephen Brusatte returned from Dominion as a dinosaur consultant. The design of the Distortus rex was inspired by the xenomorphs in the Alien franchise and the rancors in the Star Wars franchise. With its bulbous head, ILM's visual effects supervisor David Vickery said, "It's as if another animal has been wrapped around the T-Rex. Gareth wanted us to feel sorry for it as well as terrified, because its deformities have caused it some pain, and there's an encumbrance to it."
Another type of mutant animal, the flying Mutadons, are a combination of a pterosaur and Velociraptor. They were inspired by an encounter that Koepp had with a bat on his porch. Koepp described the Mutadons as a failed early attempt by InGen to create hybridized dinosaurs. The Mutadons underwent many design changes, some depicting the creature with multiple heads and varying limb configurations. The film includes the return of Spinosaurus, a dinosaur previously featured in the film Jurassic Park III. For Rebirth, the Spinosaurus was redesigned to reflect newer research which determined the animal to be primarily semiaquatic.
According to Vickery, "We've given it more powerful hind limbs, a much bigger, broader tail, webbing in between its feet, and the appearance of a shorter more powerful neck by adding fatty deposits and extra skin folds." To determine the design and behavior of the Spinosaurus, ILM studied crocodiles and grizzly bears. Other returning species include Ankylosaurus, Carnotaurus, Compsognathus, Dilophosaurus, Mosasaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, and Tyrannosaurus rex. To establish it as a different individual than the ones depicted in the previous films, the Tyrannosaurus rex was redesigned to draw influence from the 1969 film "The Valley of Gwangi". Edwards described it as "a healthier, heavier, more muscular, more bull-like" animal, while retaining the typical look of a Jurassic Park T. rex.
Like all previous installments, the film also features the return of Velociraptor, with a new design inspired by the raptors in Jurassic Park III. Rebirth introduces new species such as Titanosaurus, Diabloceratops, and the pterosaur Anurognathus. The film also features Aquilops, which used three on-set animatronics. Jurassic World Rebirth premiered on June 17, 2025, at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London.Universal is scheduled to release the film in the United States on July 2, 2025.
SHIPPING & RETURNS/REFUNDS: Domestic shipping is $12.99 for USPS “Ground Advantage”, $14.99 for Priority Mail. Domestic rates include USPS Delivery Confirmation. Canadian shipments are $33.49 for Air Mail or $41.49 for Global Priority Mail. All other International shipments are $52.49 for Air Mail, $59.99 for Global Priority Mail. Your purchase will ordinarily be shipped within 48 hours of payment. We package as well as anyone in the business, with lots of protective padding and containers. All of our shipments are fully insured against loss, and our shipping rates include the cost of this coverage (through stamps.com, Shipsaver.com, the USPS, UPS, or Fed-Ex).
International tracking is provided free by the USPS for most all certain countries. ADDITIONAL PURCHASES do receive a VERY LARGE discount so as to reward you for the economies of combined shipping/insurance costs (postal costs for additional cans from the third onward typically only cost $1 each for domestic shipping – in some cases, even for international shipping). So as to maximize your discount, please ask for a rate quotation and instructions BEFORE checking out.
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If upon receipt of the item you are disappointed for any reason whatever, I offer a no questions asked 30-day return policy. Send it back, I will give you a complete refund of the purchase price; 1) less our original shipping/insurance costs, 2) less any non-refundable fees imposed by eBay. Please note that though they generally do, eBay may not always refund payment processing fees on returns beyond a 30-day purchase window. So except for shipping costs and any payment processing fees not refunded by eBay, we will refund all proceeds from the sale of a return item. Obviously we have no ability to influence, modify or waive eBay policies.
PLEASE NOTE: Despite extremely heavy and competent packaging on our end, soda cans are VERY susceptible to being damaged by the USPS – principally if they explode because they were transported in unheated, unpressurized aircraft cargo holds; or left in a mail box in very cold weather. If this happens, don’t “weird out”…just contact us. We insure every parcel…we simply need photos of the damage to submit a claim and if available, ship a replacement.
ABOUT US: Prior to our retirement we used to travel to Eastern Europe and Central Asia several times a year seeking antique gemstones and jewelry from the globe’s most prolific gemstone producing and cutting centers. Most of the items we offer came from acquisitions we made in Eastern Europe, India, and from the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean/Near East) during these years from various institutions and dealers. Much of what we generate on Etsy, Amazon and Ebay goes to support worthy institutions in Europe and Asia connected with Anthropology and Archaeology. Though we have a collection of ancient coins numbering in the tens of thousands, our primary interests are ancient/antique jewelry and gemstones, a reflection of our academic backgrounds.
Though perhaps difficult to find in the USA, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia antique gemstones are commonly dismounted from old, broken settings – the gold reused – the gemstones recut and reset. Before these gorgeous antique gemstones are recut, we try to acquire the best of them in their original, antique, hand-finished state – most of them originally crafted a century or more ago. We believe that the work created by these long-gone master artisans is worth protecting and preserving rather than destroying this heritage of antique gemstones by recutting the original work out of existence. That by preserving their work, in a sense, we are preserving their lives and the legacy they left for modern times. Far better to appreciate their craft than to destroy it with modern cutting.
Not everyone agrees – fully 95% or more of the antique gemstones which come into these marketplaces are recut, and the heritage of the past lost. But if you agree with us that the past is worth protecting, and that past lives and the produce of those lives still matters today, consider buying an antique, hand cut, natural gemstone rather than one of the mass-produced machine cut (often synthetic or “lab produced”) gemstones which dominate the market today. We can set most any antique gemstone you purchase from us in your choice of styles and metals ranging from rings to pendants to earrings and bracelets; in sterling silver, 14kt solid gold, and 14kt gold fill. When you purchase from us, you can count on quick shipping and careful, secure packaging. We would be happy to provide you with a certificate/guarantee of authenticity for any item you purchase from us. There is a $3 fee for mailing under separate cover. I will always respond to every inquiry whether via email or eBay message, so please feel free to write.
How did we get "into" soda pop cans? Pepsi and Coca-Cola are probably the most instantly recognizable cultural icons anywhere on the globe. And for that reason, somehow, Cultural Anthropologists, Sociologists, Archaeologists, etc., and other enthusiasts of these social sciences are irresistibly drawn to them. Our studies and travels have taken us from the frozen tundra of Siberia to the deserts of India and the Middle East, to communist countries, democracies, and dictatorships. And bizarrely, you can always find machines or shops vending Coca-Cola and Pepsi (and Marlboro, Pall Mall, Viceroy, Lucky Strike, and Camel cigarettes).
When we used to travel every year to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, friends and colleagues would ask us to bring back Coca-Cola or Pepsi cans. Christmas issues from various countries were always frequent requests (like Europe's Grandfather Frost and his Elves). We would put extras on our eBay store. Before long colleagues in Europe asked for cans from the USA. Not just iconic Pepsi and Coke cans. But especially limited edition Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper cans. We accommodated them too. And the extras went onto our eBay store. And suddenly, over 20 years, it grew to 500 offerings. They’re a complete money loser. It’s probably an obsession only a cultural anthropologist (or psychiatrist!) would understand. But we have thousands of followers around the globe, and we can’t let them down.