A trio of articulated raptors based on the ones from Jurassic Park 3 are ripping and slashing their way to collectors, courtesy of Nanmu. The White Queen. The Blood Knight. The Bad Luck Charm. Quaint monikers. Each has 23 points of articulation and is about 35 cm long and 13 cm tall at the hip. They will retail for around...
The company Dino Dream has unveiled a 1/30 scale model of the Tyrannosaurus rex “Ember” from Jurassic World: Rebirth. As you can see, Ember is sculpted in a swimming pose, which makes sense given his role in the movie. Looks quite impressive! It will be limited to 999 pieces and retail for around $219.99 US....
Having already covered two of the line’s highlights with the Edaphosaurus and Eryops it’s time to look at one of the more mundane toys in Diener’s series of rubber erasers, the Dimetrodon. Like the two previously reviewed toys the Dimetrodon hails from the Red Beds of Texas, which makes in a fitting toy to round out this trio, but since...
Despite being the type genus of Dromaeosauridae, Dromaeosaurus has still not yet been made into a toy by CollectA, Haolonggood, Mojo Fun, Papo, PNSO, Safari Ltd., or Schleich. I really don’t get why. Creative Beast Studio, however, has rightly showered it with plenty of love, in the form of their 1:6 and 1:18 scale toys for Beasts of the Mesozoic....
While Anomalocaris takes the number one spot for my favorite Cambrian period invertebrate, Opabinia is a very close second, due to its enigmatic anatomy, featuring a strange proboscis, five eyes, and with a body shape that is similar, yet distinct from Anomalocaris and kin. I was of course delighted when I saw that it was part of the From the...
Haolonggood knows full well that you just can’t tackle Cenozoic megafauna without including the woolly mammoth! The sculpting detail on this duo looks terrific. But it might have been even better if the colour schemes were a little more distinct from one another. Nevertheless, great stuff, Haolonggood! Keep it up!...
The fact that I am reviewing a 2025 Jurassic World: Rebirth toy nearly halfway through 2026 is a troubling sign. Indeed, it means that I’m a struggling to find any new releases in my local retail stores, where a meager selection of last year’s toys are gathering dust on the shelves. After months of frustrated searching for early 2026 releases...
Before I start my review, I must thank our friends and colleagues at Happy Hen Toys for sending along this review sample. If you are in the United States, Happy Hen Toys is the place to go for all your prehistoric pals in plastic! Meraxes was one of three legendary dragons used during Aegon’s Conquest, the campaign in which Aegon...
This year has been an exciting one for Haolonggood collectors as it has seen the company broaden its horizons and release a range of non-dinosaur prehistoric animals. They include a few Cenozoic mammals and the model we’re looking at today, a Sarcosuchus. Sarcosuchus is an early Cretaceous crocodyliform that superficially looks like a gigantic gharial but belongs to a clade...
If there’s one thing that young prehistory fans enjoy, it’s randomly pitting their toys against one another in savage battles, geography and time be blowed. And if there’s another thing that young children in general are entertained by, it’s seeing things change colour by immersing them in water. That’s precisely why Mattel’s two biggest properties, Barbie and Hot Wheels, have...
Before we begin the review, I would like to thank Happy Hen Toys for sending this figure along as a review sample. Check out their large selection of animal and dinosaur figures by clicking on the banner below. Birds of the Phorusrhacidae family, commonly known as terror birds, are some of the most impressive dinosaurs to evolve in the post-Mesozoic...
Joining the ranks of Jurassic World Super Colossal toys this year is the infamous Distortus rex. Like previous Super Colossal carnivores, this one can “consume” smaller toys and then disgorge them out of its belly....
