Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy After so many years of the DinoToyBlog examining every obscure corner of the dinosaur toy landscape, you’d think all older products in the Jurassic Park franchise to have been fully covered. That mainly seems to be the case for the beloved Kenner lines, but there are still many strange toys by other...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy The UKRD dinosaurs were mass-produced back in the early 1990s’, and don’t seem to be particularly sought after today, but some of them appear to have been inspired by John Sibbick’s palaeoart in David Norman’s 1985 Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs, which I think makes them somewhat interesting. That also seems to be true...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy While many companies that produce dinosaur toys strive to make their figures scientifically accurate (though often failing), some completely disregard science, preferring instead to use dinosaurs as simple pop culture monsters. This is true for Chap Mei, whose Dino Valley line toys are often imitations of dinosaurs appearing in pop culture rather...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy To the general population, plesiosaurs are mainly known as “that prehistoric animal which the Loch Ness Monster might be,” though they were, of course, a very distinct group of reptiles with a long and important role in the history of palaeontology. Plesiosaurus itself was the first named plesiosaur, lending its name to...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy This review is of a toy I distinctly remember seeing in a store and asking my mom to buy some time in the early 1990s’; it looked like a big, bad killer dinosaur, much fiercer than the others on the shelf. I always thought it was supposed to be an inaccurately proportioned...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy UKRD released a series of dinosaur toys in the early 1990s’, and I remember my kindergarten class had dozens of them. They came in at least three size classes, with the medium ones being most prevalent. Many of them seem to have been modelled after John Sibbick’s artwork in David Norman’s classic...
Review and photographs by Funk, edited by Suspsy This is my first guest review here on the DinoToyBlog. Ever since my mom started throwing out stuff from her attic, I’ve been trying to save my old dinosaur toys, and as a long time DTB reader, I thought it would be a good opportunity to see if I had something that...
