This past winter, after a prolonged period of getting skunked on Jurassic toys at Walmart, I decided to bring home the Strike Attack Dimorphodon. It was definitely an impulse buy, which I try to avoid, but those are becoming more common when I don’t want to come home empty handed from the toy aisle for the 100th time. The distribution,...
We’re getting a double dose of elephants from Haolonggood this week! First Stegotetrabelodon, now Palaeoloxodon! Again we get to choose between brown and grey colour options. No official word yet on which species these are meant to represent, but given that they are around the same size as the Stegotetrabelodon and woolly mammoth toys, perhaps it’s P. naumanni? Hopefully we’ll...
One of my top favorite non-avian theropods to this day is Carnotaurus. With its iconic and unique horns, tiny strange vestigial arms, and a fascinating scaly skin, what’s not to like? My first introduction to this animal was the Disney Dinosaur film back in 2000, which I first saw in the theater with my father for my birthday, and I’ve...
For their second set of proboscideans, Haolonggood has gone with Stegotetrabelodon. Terrific choice. Stegotetrabelodon is the earliest known elephantid, and has never had a toy to its name before. I think I like the pinkish brown scheme best, but they both look good....
So far, for 2026, PNSO has only announced and released one figure, the articulated Tyrannosaurus (Lanzhousaurus was announced in 2025). This has left some collectors awake at night in a cold sweat. When is the next PNSO release? Will they only make articulated dinosaurs now? Is PNSO done making figures altogether? I’m not one for doom and gloom conspiracy...
Hailing from the Elrhaz Formation of Niger, Africa, Lurdusaurus, the “heavy lizard,” is one of the more unusual members of the iguanodont family. While it did possess the signature thumb spikes, it also had a rather long neck and a very chunky build. Paleontologist Thomas Holtz has suggested that it was the Early Cretaceous equivalent of a hippopotamus, ambling along...
The famous Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, USA, has revealed five new eco-friendly prehistoric plush toys. Chicago the Archaeopteryx. Maximo the Patagotitan. Quetzalcoatlus. Sobek the Spinosaurus. And naturally, Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex. These adorable items can be found on the Field website....
Story quality aside, one good thing that Jurassic World: Rebirth brought us were some bold and fresh designs for the prehistoric animals previously featured in the franchise. The Tyrannosaurus, Mosasaurus, Spinosaurus, Compsognathus, Velociraptor (briefly featured as they were), and Quetzalcoatlus all got a spiffy makeover. In the case of the Quetzalcoatlus, it was less accurate than the Dominion version but...
One of my favorite figures in the Mattel Jurassic World line to this day has been the 2019 Dino Rivals Amargasaurus. Strangely it has yet to receive a review for the blog here in all this time (short of the mini I took a look at in 2023), so here I am to rectify that. Despite the abundance of sauropods...
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...
