The Dinosaur Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2026 sponsored by Happy Hen Toys is now open!
Another year, another contest – it’s diorama time again! And thanks to our generous sponsors, Happy Hen Toys, there are cash prizes!
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Anyone can enter.
The Dinosaur Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2025 sponsored by Happy Hen Toys is now open!
It’s time to get creative again and begin planning and building your ‘dinoramas’ for the latest contest! And thanks to the fantastic folks at Happy Hen Toys we’re delighted to announce there are generous prizes this year.
Coming on the flippers of their Cryptoclidus is Mojo Fun’s Carnotaurus. It’s their very first toy of the “meat-eating bull,” and it looks fairly decent, although it’ll be good to see images from other angles.
Here’s the latest reveal for the popular Hammond Collection: a juvenile Triceratops.
This little one should go very well with the adult version.
Finally! A new Gallimimus toy for next year!
This 1:40 scale Deluxe toy strongly resembles a rooster, which is appropriate given that its name means “chicken mimic.”
And yes, it’s mounted on a base just like CollectA’s previous ornithomimosaur toys, but I have no issue whatsoever with that.
Here’s a hideous but happy sight: the painted 1/18 scale prototype of Andrewsarchus for the upcoming Beasts of the Cenozoic series by Creative Beast.
The colour scheme is based on the extant brown hyena. Looks quite terrifying!
Have I mentioned that Recur has really improved as of late? Here’s their new Spinosaurus.
And this is their new Therizinosaurus, although it looks like it’s got the head of Deinocheirus. Odd.
And here’s more images of their previously revealed Tyrannosaurus rex.
It’s been awhile since the last Haolonggood reveal, but here finally is the Utahceratops pair.
Those frill patterns really do look like bulging eyes, don’t they?
Difficult to choose between them.
Here’s something that ought to make any dedicated dinosaur fan sit up and take notice: the very first toy of Ingentia prima, the “first huge one,” courtesy of CollectA!
Ingentia was a basal sauropodomorph that lived in South America during the Late Triassic period.
We’ve launched a new website, the Monster Toy Blog!
The Monster Toy Blog is dedicated to monster toy and model reviews, and completes a Holy Toy-rinity of figure review sites together with our existing Dinosaur Toy Blog and Animal Toy Blog sites.
A screenshot of the Monster Toy Blog
Our team of eight reviewers – EmperorDinobot, Faelrin, Gwangi, Saarlooswolfhound, SBell, Suspsy, Torvosaurus, and myself – have been beavering away with plenty of new content to kick the site off with a monstrous bang.
Many readers will be familiar with the Fauna Figures site set up by our very own Sean Bell in 2019. The blog was a follow up to his online store of the same name, and explores his extensive toy collection, which ranges broadly across time and taxa.
Earlier this week Eofauna teased something new for early next year with a partially redacted photograph. It was clearly a fifth proboscidean, but we wondered which one could it be? An American mastodon? A gomphothere of some sort? Or perhaps even a dwarf mammoth?
