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 extinct bird toys, as voted for by the Dinotoyforum community. See the poll and cast your own vote here: https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3117.0. This top ten list features lots of Safari Ltd and Kaiyodo toys and a mixture of genera including Archaeopteryx and terror birds.
Top 10 Allosaurus dinosaur toys. As voted for by the Dinosaur Toy Forum community. See the results and cast your own vote here:Â https://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=4809.0
Weird light-up plesiosaur and other marine reptiles unboxing. In which I open four more deliveries, get confused by a screaming electronic plesiosaur, spooked by a spider, and feel retro 90s with a troll toy.
T. rex Mega Bloks disaster & more marine reptiles (Ebay dinosaurs unboxing). In which we get far too excited about a small plastic plesiosaur, build and accidentally demolish a 90s Lego-like Mega Bloks T. rex set, and discover a little jockey who snuck into one of the Ebay deliveries.
Colorata dinosaur toys unboxing. Cretaceous Volume 2 includes Carnotaurus, Deinonychus, Futabasaurus, Maiasaura, Mosasaurus, Spinosaurus, and Styracosaurus.
Plesiosaurs and mosasaurs Ebay unboxing, October 2016
Unboxing a surprise package courtesy of the Peking Natural Science-Art Organisation (PNSO). Thanks to the PNSO for sending us these samples to review, explore the PNSO section of the Dinosaur Toy Blog for the individual figure reviews.
Everything Dinosaur unboxing Oct 2016. Thanks to Mike Walley from Everything Dinosaur for the extra surprise included in the box. Check out their website here:Â https://www.everythingdinosaur.com
Encyclopedia Prehistorica dinosaurs pop-up book. By Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.
Leaf through by Lanthanotus.
An overview of Lanthanotus’ dinosaur toy collection on display (2016)
An overview of Kayakasaurus’ dinosaur toy collection on display (2016). A short but sweet video!
