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).In which I unbox some new Recur dinosaurs and other prehistoric animal toys. Recur figures are available on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2O8w832 Thanks to Sen at Recur for the review samples.
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In which I inspect the ‘New Kron on the block’, a pliosaur toy by mysterious company Moses, and compare it with similar Krono-sausage-sauruses by Safari Ltd (Carnegie Collection) and Salvat. Thanks to Libraraptor for thinking of me and sending me this smashing little figure as a gift.
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Top 10 Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus toys as voted by the Dinosaur Toy Forum community. See the full results of the top 10 poll and cast your vote here: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=6179.0
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Figure numbers 13 to 15 are a trio of marine reptiles, and their dark blue colour works very well for aquatic animals.
Our recent review of the 2017 Bullyland Archaeopteryx prompted me to search through the Dinotoyblog archives to compare the new version with the old…only to discover that we’ve never reviewed the original Bullyland Museum Line Archaeopteryx. That immediately helped me settle on which figure to review next.
In which I unbox ‘the birthday Liopleurodon’, a gift from mum and dad, and recount its epic journey from bondage to freedom and onto my display shelves. The toy is the Jurassic Clash action figure by Lanard Ltd.
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In which I unbox (or unenvolope) gifts and trades from Postsaurischian, IrritatorRaji, and Libraraptor. Including Jurassic World and Schleich figures.
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Top 10 Triceratops toys as voted by the Dinosaur Toy Forum community. See the full results of the top 10 poll and cast your vote here: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=6976.0
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