Dr Adam S. Smith (aka 'DinoToyBlog' here, and 'DinoToyForum' on the Dinosaur Toy Forum) is a curator and palaeontologist at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall, UK. Adam launched the Dinosaur Toy Blog in July 2007 and followed it up with the Dinosaur Toy Forum in January 2008, and the Animal Toy Forum in December 2012. He is particularly interested in marine reptile figures, especially plesiosaurs. Adam also runs The Plesiosaur Directory website and has published several popular articles and technical papers on fossil marine reptiles. He is a children's book author with 'The Plesiosaur's Neck' (2021) and 'The Tyrannosaur's Feathers' (2023).Top 10 best early (basal) ceratopsian toys (Protoceratops, Psittacosaurus & kin) of all time. As voted for by the Dinosaur Toy Forum Community. See: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3066.0
Top 10 best Tyrannosaurus rex toys of all time as voted for by the Dinosaur Toy Forum community (as of February 2015). See the votes as they stand today, and cast your own vote, here:Â https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=2932.0Â Additional photo credit to Gwangi
Top 10 prehistoric ‘croc’ toys as voted for by members of the Dinosaur Toy Forum community
Top 10 (well, 11!) new dinosaur toys of 2014 as voted for by members of the Dinosaur Toy Forum Community:Â https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=2003.0
All 59 entries in the Dinosaur Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2014, sponsored by Everything Dinosaur.
High resolution versions of all the photographs, the diorama titles, and the poll to vote for your favourites, are available on the Dinosaur Toy Forum here: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=2665.0
Did we say 10? Only 9 made the cut. Top 9 new dinosaur toys of 2013. As selected by the members of the Dinosaur Toy Forum:Â https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=1901.0
An overview of Libraraptor’s displayed dinosaur and prehistoric animal toy collection (2014)
An overview of Dinotoyforum’s displayed collection of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals (2014)
The Dinosaur Toy Blog’s video review of the Plesiosaurus skull by Favorite Co. Ltd
