Mosasaurus (Papo)3.5 (53)
My sincere thanks to Happy Hen Toys for furnishing this review sample. More Mosasaurus toys have been produced in the 8 years since Jurassic World than in the entire previous…
I'm an environmental scientist and former college professor, with a background in evolution and ecology. I'm on a mission to hunt down the best toy version of every Paleozoic and Mesozoic animal and plant, which leads to some incongruous display shelves. That mission also means a pretty motley assortment of reviews, with maybe a bit of a bias in favor of fishes. Mosasaurus (Papo)
Mapusaurus (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO)4.5 (78)
My sincere thanks to Happy Hen Toys for furnishing this review sample. Several other companies have made Mapusaurus figures before, including Bandai, Playmates, and CollectA. So far, however, we've only…
Pravitoceras (Prehistoric World by CollectA)4.8 (18)
Most paleontology enthusiasts are familiar with ammonites, the predatory mollusks with muscular arms and calcium carbonate shells. Most ammonites' shells were disc-shaped coils (planispiral) that contained chambers, some of which…
Ekrixinatosaurus (Rebor)2.8 (40)
"It stinks!" -- Jay Sherman Most of the toys reviewed on this blog have been purchased by the reviewers. There are rare exceptions, and while I can't speak for other…
Helicoprion (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO)4.9 (24)
This stand was purchased separately and is not included with the model. 270 million years before orcas, 250 million years before megalodon sharks, 170 million years before even the mosasaurs,…
Daspletosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)4.5 (26)
Every fall, Safari Ltd announces their releases for the upcoming year. Understandably, probably owing to the pandemic and the attendant slowdown in trade, their announcements for 2021 were pretty limited, only…
Irritator (Dino Hazard)4.9 (18)
Brazilian paleontologist Tito Aureliano published the time-travel dinosaur adventure novel Dino Hazard: Realidade Oculta (English subtitle: Hidden Reality) in 2015, and since then he and a team including other paleontologists…
Atopodentatus (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO)4.6 (37)
The Middle Triassic began a mere five million years after the end-Permian extinction. On land, forests had finally staggered back from the destruction. Insects, mammal relatives, and sauropsids started to…
Dunkleosteus (Mojö Fun)4.4 (17)
350 million years before the advent of humans, reindeer, or consumerism, our distant gnathostome forebears celebrated Fishmas. Fishmas originated when Santa Claus turned the wrong dial on the time machine…
Dunkleosteus (Like Hobby by ThinkArt)4.5 (13)
If somebody has heard of just one Paleozoic fish, it's probably Dunkleosteus, designated yesterday as Ohio's official state fossil fish! Toy companies have made more than a dozen different versions…
Caviramus (Deluxe by CollectA)4.8 (27)
At this point I think it's fair to say that a new large-format pterosaur is among the highlights of CollectA's new figure announcements. They don't quite come every year, but…
Magnetic Jurassic Sea Creatures (Geoworld)3.9 (7)
Most of us, if we're familiar with Italian toy company Geoworld, are familiar with the extensive "Jurassic Hunters" line of dinosaur and Cenozoic mammal figures, or perhaps the "Jurassic Action"…
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