REBOR 1:35 Tyrannosaurus rex museum class replica official photos updated!

[DinoLord]

Low starting bids does not indicate low value. It's a very common tactic used by eBay sellers.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I never thought I'd be entering this discussion.

As some might know I love REBOR !  ... and I'll probably buy every figure they're releasing if they keep up their great quality and the 1:35 scale.
But I'd be pleased if we could stop the Sideshow comparison - this is accomplished absurdism! They're playing in different leagues, they might be even in a different form of sport .
If I hold a Tyrannosaurus skull replica (which means a downsized copy of a real skull) next to the Sideshow T. rex, I can clearly see that there is no Dinosaur sculptur who can do such wonderful tyrant lizards as perfect as David Krentz . You can't compare it to any other figure . ....... o.k., Shinzen maybe .
We also do not have to discuss which one is the more accurate. It's sooo obvious (.... but one does not really have to care, so what the hey?)!

..... still loving the REBOR rex. They're just too different to be compared.


   ....... and yes, some people (me included) do care about who's painting a figure. It's part of the art and there are GREAT differences .

You pretty much summed up my own thoughts.  I think many people care who paints and sculpts a particular piece. This maybe extreme, but it's similar to  saying a Van Gogh is as good as a Hamilton Collection piece or something from the Franklin Mint. I think that comparison makes sense.

The Rebor Rex would have made a great piece to base the one in the Jurassic World film on..I always liked spines on my dinos.

[tyrantqueen]

If anyone on the forum here really thinks their SS statues aren't worth their value, I'll gladly buy them off them you for the amount you think they should go for.

I bet I won't get any takers.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

If anyone on the forum here really thinks their SS statues aren't worth their value, I'll gladly buy them off them you for the amount you think they should go for.

I bet I won't get any takers.

Ditto. But you spoke first so you get first grabs.

[postsaurischian]

We're getting off-topic !
My comment to this is here: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=159.msg71697#msg71697

[petebuster1]

We're getting off-topic !
My comment to this is here: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=159.msg71697#msg71697

Yes it has Rebor's sculpting and paint work is top notch, they are easily museum quality, yes maybe they have a couple of accuracy issues but lets see what they will have to offer in the year to come, they are still the best value high quality dinosaurs on the market without postage they were £35 or about 25 dollars a piece, thats what i call best bang for buck

[postsaurischian]

....... they were £35 or about 25 dollars a piece, thats what i call best bang for buck

Ehm, that would be an economic dream coming true for the Americans, but the truth is GBP 35 are about USD 53.

[petebuster1]

....... they were £35 or about 25 dollars a piece, thats what i call best bang for buck

Ehm, that would be an economic dream coming true for the Americans, but the truth is GBP 35 are about USD53
Yes sorry i meant to put 55 dollars still a very good price imo 6 times less than sideshow and being smaller have more display space

[Federreptil]

First I'm very glad Rebor is entering the scene. They make well detailed sculpts which are very good handcrafted. So I hope, as company they will have a very long and successful life with a huge list of coming dinosaurs. Please go on!



I think the whole discussion about price and worth you can see in another angle of view. It's not easy to enter as an absolute newbie the market. So the price for a Rebor statue in comparison to Papo or Sideshow is not only a question of accuracy or quality. The sculpt of Rebor is maybe a little more defined than Papo but in many cases the difference is not too big. But Papo is a mass article with a much bigger edition. So it`s a fortune, if the model is not to heavy and they can deliver a very fine quality for an lower price with healthy margins. In this way the packaging of Rebor is a good instrument for a higher price. But if you take a standard carton, a one color print banderole and a foam cutting inlay – it`s not to expensive for a much better appeearance. I don`t think, Rebor makes with the first two models a huge profit. At present they sell two models about specialised retailers to a small audience. In this way they are more matchable to the polyresin-models of Kinto-Favorite/Dinostoreus, equal in the pricing. Sideshow is going another way with high-priced, artist-branded, vibrant and big statues in strictly limited editions. This is more valuable even to the collector market. This match their origin as producer for movie and superhero memorabilla.

We can see, the production and distribution of dinosaurs are no selfgoing business. Battat lost their attention for dinosaurs for a long time, Bullland and a little bit Schleich have struggled with the market and I know at lest two or three starving dino-stores in the internet. So for Rebor it will not be easy to get success. But without this we will lost one more chance to get satisfying dinosaurs. So it's maybe a good starting strategy to choose the well known T-Rex (I know circa 135 other interpretations) in a Jurassic Park Style.



In my view it's not a question of plagiarism or laziness. I see it as interpretation and style. Rebor do without doupt an own sculpt! No comparison to nameless chinasaurs, Salvat or sometimes Geoworld. I don`t like if someone steal a genuine work from someone. And the minimum is the credit for a quotation. But if you look in the whole history of paleoart and dino-sculpts you can see who much it's a story of influences and adoption. See the voodoo-style head of the Krentz-T-rex of dinostasia. How often you can see this in repaints and illustration because it is so appealing.

Nevertheless most of the wording of Rebor and especially the museum quality is pure marketing. The last museum quality I remember is at the Carnegie Collection which don't crop outdated forms and on the tags of elder Schleichs and Bullylands. This is same accurateness or not. At the end this claim don't matter and the decison is easy: You like it and buy it. Or You dislike this T-Rex and have to wait for another offer.



So here are also some pictures and not only an further opinion.

[petebuster1]

Very well said, i think anyone can see what a great model it is and i dont think it would look out of place in a museum. They've made a great start to a new line and only time will tell how good they will become but i think there's going to be some wonderful things ahead that are more affordable.
From what i've read their y rex may have the right amount of feathers contrary to what many seem to be complaining about? do they have evidence i've not read?

[Jetoar]

Wonderful, even with the new Schleich figures  .

[Arul]

Really want to have it but...too expensive for me 

[stargatedalek]

From what i've read their y rex may have the right amount of feathers contrary to what many seem to be complaining about? do they have evidence i've not read?

indeed they must, since we have impressions for the animals entire body
no room for speculation there

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Very well said, i think anyone can see what a great model it is and i dont think it would look out of place in a museum. They've made a great start to a new line and only time will tell how good they will become but i think there's going to be some wonderful things ahead that are more affordable.
From what i've read their y rex may have the right amount of feathers contrary to what many seem to be complaining about? do they have evidence i've not read?

I don't think so. Yutyrannus certainly had more feathers than Rebor has seen fit to apply.



Most knowledgeable artists restore it at least like that.

[tyrantqueen]

I think the reason it has so little feathering is because they were afraid of alienating one of their target audiences (the "awesomebro" crowd). As we all know, they despise feathers.

That's a huge shame because a fully feathered fuzzy Yuty would have been epic. They definitely have the sculpting talent to make it happen. Better luck next time I guess.

[Manatee]

Very well said, i think anyone can see what a great model it is and i dont think it would look out of place in a museum. They've made a great start to a new line and only time will tell how good they will become but i think there's going to be some wonderful things ahead that are more affordable.
From what i've read their y rex may have the right amount of feathers contrary to what many seem to be complaining about? do they have evidence i've not read?

I think their Yutyrannus (NOT Y-Rex; please don't make that a thing) would look out of place in a museum, especially next to a fossil of Yutyrannus with feathers covering its entire body.

I despise the awesomebro crowd with all my heart. I'll use this quote from Esther from io9 to sum them up:

Whether it's giving a Velociraptor wings or making a T. rex look like it would sit in a cage and say "polly want a cracker", it's horrible, the way facts are ruining drama.

Yes, that's a real quote. May the Greek, Norse, Sumerian, and any other gods I forgot help us all.

[Megalosaurus]

Not everyone that prefers unfeathered restorations is part of the "awesomebro crowd".
Some are just selective for which species should be restored with feathers or if they should be "fully feathered".
As for me, when I see the Y-Rex (I use the Alias the company give to its model) I just think to myself: "They have a good sculptor there, but they are very conservative". Anyway I bought it and I like it.
Now we are waiting a fully feathered dromeasaurid from them, so I think REBOR is going to "enter the feather wagon". For now, I'm happy with their featherless King T-Rex.

[stargatedalek]

The spines are infinitely more speculative than feathers could possibly be (on a coelurosaur), so in no way is their tyrannosaurus conservative. Nor is it accurate (the head ) to the information we do know for certain. In some cases minimal (or no) feathering is conservative*, but in this case given the enlarged spines and distinctive Jurassic Park influence its pretty safe to say they were going for the 'awesomebro' element rather than trying to be conservative.


*I beg to differ for coelurosaurs but alas we have a thread for that, I'll try and stick to REBOR here

[Arul]

Sorry if i out of topic but anyway nice touch federreptil as always    

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Sorry if i out of topic but anyway nice touch federreptil as always    

Actually you are very much on topic! Those are some really nice pics!