Brand: CollectA

News: Upcoming releases from CollectA (New for 2015)

News Category: Upcoming Releases Brand: CollectA

4.3 (7 votes)

I usually post about CollectA’s new figures towards the end of the year preceding release, so better late than never! However, in this case, the delay has been rewarded, because since revealing most of their upcoming 2015 releases at the end of 2014, CollectA squeezed a few more figures into their lineup in January 2015.

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Review: Gastonia (CollectA)

4.5 (28 votes)

During the early Cretaceous in North America around 126 million years ago, a small herbivore emerges from the trees in a wooded forest lifting its head to smell the breeze that is drifting by. It ambles into the clearing on its small legs and starts to nibble some of the vegetation at the forest edge.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Juvenile by CollectA)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (54 votes)

Weaving nimbly through the trees, the princess pursues her furry prey. With a final burst of speed, she pounces on the small mammal and crushes its squirming body with her razor-sharp teeth. As she trots back to her nest and her parents, her prey gripped tightly in her jaws, this former fledgling is unaware that she has taken a crucial step toward becoming the undisputed ruler of her world.

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Review: Mosasaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Mosasaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Mosasaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.1 (30 votes)

With their deadly jaws, great size, and powerful tails, mosasaurs were the marine equivalent of the tyrannosaurs during the Cretaceous Period. And the most fearsome mosasaur of them all was none other than Mosasaurus itself.

One of CollectA’s greatest strengths is their dedication to reflecting the latest paleontological discoveries in their products.

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Review: Therizinosaurus (Deluxe version by CollectA)

Genus: Therizinosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Therizinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.9 (26 votes)

Review and photos by suspsy
Although only scant remains of Therizinosaurus have been uncovered, careful study of its more complete relatives Alxasaurus, Nothronychus, and Falcarius have given us a reasonable idea of how it looked and lived.

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Review: Parasaurolophus (Deluxe) (CollectA)

Genus: Parasaurolophus Brand: CollectA Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.9 (15 votes)

Review and photos by Dinomike, edited by Plesiosauria.
I picked this creature up while on holiday in Spain. This particular specimen was sold as a specially packaged El Corte Inglés edition. CollectA has been steadily making better and better models and this ‘deluxe’ 1:40 scale version of Parasaurolophus is no exception!

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Review: Stegosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

2.7 (14 votes)

My previous review for the dinosaur toy blog was a Therizinosaur, so I spilled the obligatory ink in describing how these were among the strangest-looking dinosaurs known. Today I am reviewing the CollectA model of Stegosaurus, a dinosaur so famous that it is safe to say that any child who could describe what a dinosaur is would also be able to instantly recognise and name Stegosaurus.

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Review: Lexovisaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Lexovisaurus Brand: CollectA, Procon Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.4 (14 votes)

I feel bad for the great stegosaur of the British Isles. Since it was discovered in the 1880’s it has gone through routine name changes and identities. Lexovisaurus is a stegosaur with few known fossils, basically some pieces of plates, hips, limbs, and vertebra are known.

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Review: Carcharodontosaurus (Deluxe Prehistoric Collection by CollectA)

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

4.1 (27 votes)

It was some time back in 1995-96 when I first heard of Carcharodontosaurus. Although it had been known to science since 1931, it wasn’t until 1995 when an expedition led by Paul Sereno unearthed additional cranial material for the theropod that Carcharodontosaurus had its moment in the lime light.

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Review: Olorotitan (CollectA)

Genus: Olorotitan Brand: CollectA Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.5 (11 votes)

“I don’t like it.” This statement was said in a matter in fact voice by my three-year old who loves all dinosaur/prehistoric toys. We were on the CollectA website just browsing the current crop of prehistoric creatures, with my son repeating the words “I like it, and “let’s get it,” as we scroll from dinosaur to dinosaur.

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Review: Minmi (CollectA)

Genus: Minmi Brand: CollectA Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.3 (10 votes)

I have never been much of a CollectA fan but I ran across this little guy and was intrigued. It looked a lot better than some of the others CollectA nodosaurs and ankylosaurs that I have seen (Their Polacanthus and Scelidosaurus being the main offenders).

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Review: Nothronychus (CollectA)

Genus: Nothronychus Brand: CollectA Classification: Therizinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.1 (15 votes)

Review and photos by John Hall
In their reconstruction of the dinosaur Nothronychus, CollectA have produced a very good, very strange-looking model. To understand why this apparently unflattering description is a compliment and not a contradiction in terms, we need to review just a little background on Nothronychus and the therizinosaurs – the truly remarkable group of dinosaurs to which Nothronychus belongs.

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