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Review: Velociraptor (Feathered Version by Recur)

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3.9 (29 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

I’m really happy that Recur exists and is making toy dinosaurs. I’m a big fan of CollectA and Safari Ltd., but I realize that they are cost prohibitive to a lot of collectors, and while I enjoy cheap knockoff toys (I don’t care for the term “Chinasaur”), part of me always hesitates to give them to kids, knowing that the original toy they got the design from is probably 70 years old, and was scientifically inaccurate then.

Review: Tyrannocon Rex (Transformers: Collaborative by Hasbro)

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4.2 (39 votes)

Review by GiganotosaurusFan, edited by Suspsy

We take a different path today, not down a path of dinosaurs, but a dinosaur/robot. On September 17, 1984, lightning struck as one of the most popular children’s cartoon shows of all time debuted: The Transformers.

Review: Majungasaurus (DinoWaurs Survival)

3.3 (13 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

I’m still rather unclear on how DinoWaurs worked. It was distributed by One2Play, a South African organization that may or may not still exist. I was under the impression that they were simply for collecting before I started researching this review, but there seems to be a game that goes along with it.

Review: Archelon (Dinotales Series 2 by Kaiyodo)

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4.9 (7 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

Sea turtles. Seeing them majestically soar through the water with their stoic yet playful expression can inspire awe in any observer. Who doesn’t love them? Well, I suppose jellyfish don’t. And some crustaceans. And seagrass.

Review: Pleurocystites (Dinotales Series 3 by Kaiyodo)

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5 (9 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

How does Kaiyodo find new animals to make toys of? Much of their Dinotales series consists of strange and obscure animals that even a seasoned paleontologist might not have come across before. Case in point: Pleurocystites, an echinoderm from the Late Ordovician.

Review: Spinosaurus (Inflatable Animals by Ravensden)

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2.3 (3 votes)

Review and photographs by DrWheelieMobile, edited by Suspsy

British manufacturer Ravensden is nowadays best known for making plush toys of various extant animals, as their website states, “for the zoo, aquarium, leisure and promotional markets.” However, there was a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s when one would be hard-pressed to enter any zoo or aquarium gift shop and not find a rack containing another of their product ranges: the aptly, if unoriginally, named Inflatable Animals line.

Review: Spinosaurus (2020)(Mojo Fun)

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2.4 (19 votes)

Review and photographs by Stolpergeist, edited by Suspsy 

Spinosaurus has always been an animal of mystery; the way it has been depicted over the years changes drastically with each new discovery. Just last year, we saw a huge change in its appearance with a new publication about its tail.

Review: Halfbaby Dinosaur Set (Yantai, distributed by Learnplay Inc.)

3.3 (9 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

Trying to find information about either the creator of these toys, a Chinese company named Yantai, or their American distributor, Learnplay Inc., isn’t easy. According to one of the few sources I was able to find, Yantai has been around since 2011 and their Halftoy line is just one of hundreds of designs they have made.

Review: Giganotosaurus (Nanmu)

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3.7 (23 votes)

Review and images by PhilSauria, edited by Suspsy

If you are of a certain age then chances are that this animal was not among the species in the dinosaur books that you may have had growing up. Formal recognition came in 1995 (by Rodolfo Coria‭ & ‬Leonardo Salgado) with its name, Giganotosaurus, meaning “giant southern lizard.” A reference to its location in the Southern Hemisphere with remains found in Argentina at the Candeleros Formation.

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