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Review: Spinosaurus (Animal Adventure/ANIA by Takara Tomy)

3.2 (13 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

Depictions of Spinosaurus have undergone massive changes since Nizar Ibrahim published his famous 2014 reconstruction. It’s a fairly popular dinosaur and it has many toys available, but almost all of them show a bipedal animal with a half circle-shaped sail on its back.

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Review: Odontochelys (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

Genus: Odontochelys Brand: PNSO Classification: Reptile (other) Age: Triassic Type: Figurine

4.8 (12 votes)

Review and photographs by stemturtle, edited by Suspsy
Odontochelys semitestacea was a Triassic stem turtle whose fossils from 220 mya were found in Guizhou, China. It is the testudine equivalent of Archaeopteryx, transitional between Pappochelys and Proganochelys.

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Review: Styracosaurus (2019)(Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Styracosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Centrosaur, Ceratopsian Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.7 (31 votes)

Review and photographs by Jose Carlos Salas (Jose_S.M.), edited by Suspsy
Safari Ltd has a history of delivering great ceratopsid sculpts almost every year, so much so that it’s kind of an annual tradition and 2019 is no exception. This time, they’ve made one of the better known ones for the general public: Styracosaurus.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Aurora World)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Aurora World Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Plush

4.8 (12 votes)

Review and photos by Bryan Divers, edited by Suspsy
The Tyrannosaurus rex, which is easily recognizable with its large head, short neck, small arms, and bipedal stance, is my personal favourite dinosaur. This medium-sized plush toy made by Aurora World is a brightly coloured rendition, and very soft.

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Review: Mapusaurus (Deluxe by CollectA)

Genus: Mapusaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Allosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.2 (19 votes)

Review and images by PhilSauria, edited by Suspsy
I have to admit to being a bit of a lapsed amateur paleontologist; I know the basics about a core group of the more well-known dinosaurs, so when CollectA released this one, I had to hit the reference books and online sources to find out what I was looking at.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Wildlife Artists)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Wildlife Artists Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Plush

4.3 (13 votes)

Review and photos by Bryan Divers, edited by Suspsy
Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur of all. It is the archetypal theropod, with short arms, big legs, and long toothy jaws. It is everything that a theropod should be in our imaginations.

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Review: Keichousaurus (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

Genus: Keichousaurus Brand: PNSO Classification: Reptile (other) Age: Triassic Type: Figurine

4.3 (16 votes)

Review and photos by Ravonium, edited by Suspsy
Apart from the ever-famous Plesiosauria, the superorder Sauropterygia also contains a significant number of lesser-known taxa. Despite the diverse morphology of these reptiles, they are pretty rarely represented as toy figures. Thankfully, PNSO has made a (relatively speaking) sizeable number of these oddballs for their line of minis, including a Glyphoderma in 2016, and this year, an Atopodentatus and the subject of this review: a Keichousaurus.

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Review: Woolly Mammoth (2010)(Cuddlekin by Wild Republic)

Genus: Mammuthus, Woolly mammoth Brand: Wild Republic Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Plush

4.2 (5 votes)

Review and photos by Bryan Divers, edited by Suspsy
My old Ellie has gotten rather old and tired, so I looked up “Wild Republic Mammoth” on eBay hoping to find the same one again so I could still sleep with her. Fortunately, finding her again was not hard.

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Review: Brontosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Brontosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Diplodocoid, Sauropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.9 (28 votes)

Review and images by PhilSauria, edited by Suspsy
Brontosaurus is an animal with a history plagued by a series of bouts of mistaken identity with the earlier named Apatosaurus since its naming in 1879 by Othniel Charles Marsh, the 1905 mount at the American Museum of Natural History being given the wrong skull (based on Camarasaurus, a species that was itself also known for a time by another name, Morosaurus), and the mount given a name plate that said ‘Brontosaurus.’ We have Henry Fairfield Osborn to thank for those last two decisions.

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Review: Proceratosaurus (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

Genus: Proceratosaurus Brand: PNSO Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.1 (15 votes)

Review and photographs by Jose Carlos Salas (Jose_S.M.), edited by Suspsy
Proceratosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic in England. It is one of the earliest known members of the Tyrannosauroidea clade, which contains Tyrannosaurus rex and its ancestors.

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Review: Cave Bear (Papo)

Genus: Cave bear, Ursus Brand: Papo Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4.7 (14 votes)

Review and photos by PhilSauria, edited by Suspsy
Back in the day, most producers of prehistoric fauna in plastic would have included a couple of mammals among their dinosaurs, the usual suspects being the mammoth and the sabretooth. Good to see that has changed over the years, with all manner of ancient mammals getting a look in, but there’s still not a lot of attention given to the cave bear.

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Review: Iguanodon (Papo)

Genus: Iguanodon Brand: Papo Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.8 (20 votes)

Review and photographs by Minmiminime, edited by Dinotoyblog
As a huge fan of ornithopods I was delighted when Papo unveiled my favourite of all for their 2018 collection, the Iguanodon. One of my happiest experiences was standing in awe of the skeletal mount in the NHM and marvelling at the sheer presence and size of this creature.

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