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When Haolonggood announced their Diabloceratops it was one of the few ceratopsians by the company that I didn’t intend to purchase.
It’s been awhile since the last Haolonggood reveal, but here finally is the Utahceratops pair.
Those frill patterns really do look like bulging eyes, don’t they?
Difficult to choose between them.
Unlike most other prehistoric toy companies, the vast majority of Haolonggood’s dinosaurs have been herbivorous ones thus far. And the carnivores that they have tackled are mostly genera that have already been done by many of those same other companies: Allosaurus, Baryonyx, Carnotaurus, Daspletosaurus, Dilophosaurus, etc.
I’ve been in the dinosaur collecting hobby for about 14 years now and this hobby has evolved rapidly within that time. In 2010 most collectors were content to just get good models of their favorite genera. Nowadays, a figure of a genus isn’t enough, collectors want dinosaurs identifiable at the species level.
Ye gods, can it really be?
Yes, it can.
Haolonggood is seriously releasing the biggest behemoth of them all (that we know of).
Argentinosaurus, people! When was the last time we got a toy of this one anyway?
This 1:35 scale mould measures a whopping 85 cm long and 50 cm tall, and weighs a staggering 8 kg.
What’s this then? Haolongood has revealed images of a species that wasn’t shown on their big teaser poster earlier this year: Triceratops!
It appears that these two are based on “Yoshi’s Trike,” MOR 3027, which has the longest horns of any Triceratops specimen in proportion to its size (although it wasn’t fully mature when it died, so it may have grown into them more had it lived).
Although I grew up with dinosaur toys around me for as long as I can remember, there was one dinosaur missing from my collection as a small child. This dinosaur, which I desired more than almost any other, was the “two-crested reptile”, Dilophosaurus.
As Waylay bursts out from concealment, the big male champsosaur that was basking placidly on a sandbank immediately slides into the water.* But the pools in these marshlands are half a metre deep at most and Waylay simply wades in and seizes the fleeing reptile’s tail in her jaws.
Edmontosaurus has been a staple in dinosaur toy lines since the very beginning of dinosaur toy production with Marx in the 1950’s. It’s a quintessential dinosaur, right up there with Triceratops, T. rex, and Stegosaurus, even if it was historically regarded as nothing more than theropod fodder.
Lumbering their way to your prehistoric collection courtesy of Haolonggood is this pair of Camarasaurus.
As always, both of these Jurassic giants look quite nice. I think the brown one is a bit more striking, especially with that orange neck.
In 1971, Water Coombs published a paper titled The Ankylosauridae. In it, he argued that there was only one species of ankylosaurid living during the Campanian age of Late Cretaceous North America and synonymized Anodontosaurus, Dyoplosaurus, and Scolosaurus with Euoplocephalus.
Next up from our friends at Haolonggood is a pair of the famous spined sauropod Amargasaurus!
As you can see, these are not coloured as strikingly different as other Haolonggood pairs and trios. Not that they both don’t look good.
