This year has been an exciting one for Haolonggood collectors as it has seen the company broaden its horizons and release a range of non-dinosaur prehistoric animals. They include a few Cenozoic mammals and the model we’re looking at today, a Sarcosuchus. Sarcosuchus is an early Cretaceous crocodyliform that superficially looks like a gigantic gharial but belongs to a clade...
In some past reviews, as well as on the Dinosaur Toy Forum, I have confessed that I find carcharodontosaurids somewhat dull, at least when compared to other large theropods, such as tyrannosaurids, spinosaurids, or abelisaurids. Carcharodontosaurids are mostly basic in form and virtually identical to each other, to my eye. As I learn more about them though, I’m coming to...
One of the first dinosaur toys I ever bought as an adult collector was the 2008 Carnegie Collection Giganotosaurus. I got mine from Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth around 2010 and it has stood as the sole representative of the genus in my collection ever since (not counting Jurassic World toys). Many excellent Giga figures have been released over the...
Review and photographs by Frey, edited by Suspsy Haolonggood’s 2025 Tyrannosaurus rex comes in two variants: model #HLG‑159‑T (note that they also use #HLG‑159 for their Limited Edition Blue Brachiosaurus, differentiated as #HLG‑159‑B, although the boxes in my experience do not show the “B” or “T,” so I wanted to clarify this for fellow collectors who notice such things)...
Before we begin the review, I would like to extend my gratitude towards Happy Hen Toys for sending this figure along as a review sample. Check out their large selection of animal and dinosaur figures by clicking the banner below. With 121 reviews, Triceratops is the second most reviewed genus on the Dinosaur Toy Blog. Much like the dinosaur that...
Although I’ve been collecting toy dinosaurs for over 15 years my only representatives of the second dinosaur described by science have been the 1961 Marx, 1980 Invicta, and 1992 Carnegie Collection Iguanodon figures. It’s a somewhat embarrassing confession but let me explain myself. Shortly after its release I very nearly bought the Safari Iguanodon. I had it in-hand in a...
Review by Paleo Flo, edited by DinoToyBlog. When it comes to dinosaur figures and models we are actually living in some kind of wonderland. There are so many companies which all produce wonderful offerings of the animals from deep time. As a dinosaur enthusiast you have the trouble of choosing. In recent years two companies became the greatest players in...
Aside from Tyrannosaurus rex, not very many prehistoric animals can rightly lay claim to the status of pop culture icon, but Brontosaurus is most definitely one of them. It is by no means the biggest sauropod, nor is it the most unusual, but it is blessed with a name that always rolls off one’s tongue in a most satisfyingly smooth way. For a...
Shantungosaurus giganteus, as its name suggests, was a monster of a hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is known from a handful of incomplete skeletons. Shantungosaurus may be the sister genus to the American Edmontosaurus. Two other genera, Zhuchengosaurus and Huaxiasaurus, appear to represent ontogenetic and polymorphic variation of S. giganteus. The animal’s habitat was warm, wet, and...
That dratted Dakotaraptor pack must have been either desperate with hunger or straight up galoots to try to take on Scutum. To their credit, they attacked him with all their ferocity and might, surrounding him on all sides, distracting him with loud cries and violent wing flapping, and leaping onto his back to dig in with their hooked...
Before we begin the review, I would like to extend my gratitude towards Happy Hen Toys for sending this figure along as a review sample. Check out their large selection of animal and dinosaur figures by clicking the banner below. Saurolophus, a genus of late Cretaceous hadrosaur, has been one of the most requested dinosaurs for as long as I...
Review and photographs by Henry, age 12, edited by Suspsy Camarasaurus was a basal macronarian that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic. Although there have been quite a few figures of it over the years (and most have been incredible), there are few that are as impressive as Haolonggood’s 2024 take. I was originally planning to get PNSO’s...
