Following up on my Hammond Collection Allosaurus review, is with yet another beloved animal from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, the Stegosaurus. More specifically the Hammond Collection juvenile Stegosaurus based on the one from The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Strangely this is my first time reviewing a figure of this animal, despite it being one of my favorite dinosaurs, and...
Review and images by Frey, edited by Suspsy Introduction Despite launching in early 2026 (with preorders available in late 2025), Nanmu Studio may have already released the most popular Tyrannosaurus rex figure of the year. Creative Beast Studio plans to release their updated T. rex in both 1/18 and 1/35 scales later this year, so that title may change, but for now...
Rounding out my reviews of Mattel’s ’93 Classic Collection we’re looking at what might be the most absurd assortment of figures in any of these sets; the one that includes an airborne mathematician carting around a baby Triceratops as if it were a briefcase. This is the Dr. Ian Malcolm Glider Escape Pack, and it’s the last ’93 Classic set...
The current Jurassic World Survival line from Mattel has proven somewhat lackluster so far and put a pause on my Jurassic World toy collecting. As a result, my list of Mattel toys to review has been whittled down to only a few figures, including the remaining ’93 Classic Collection toys. So, the silver lining in this year’s lull is that...
Today we’re looking at the Dennis Nedry Track & Chase Pack, part of the now defunct ’93 Classic line that was released in celebration of Jurassic Park’s 30th anniversary. The set was the second to last one to be released before the line was rebranded as the Jurassic World: Reimagined line, which so far has still proved inferior to its...
Because of the recent holiday happenings around the house I decided I wanted to keep my workload light this week and review something quick and easy, so I turned to my unreviewed assortment of Captivz figures. My pair of Captivz Triceratops quickly caught my eye. The Captivz Triceratops was one of the first Captivz figures I acquired, and it was...
One of the most famous large theropod dinosaurs is also the most enigmatic. As one can see from the title, it is none other than Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. While first named in 1915 by Ernst Stromer, it was initially discovered in 1912 by Richard Markgraf in the Bahariya Formation, of Egypt. While it was not the first spinosaurid material discovered (that...
There are still odd tie-in lines released with the original Jurassic Park trilogy that are left unexplored on the blog, so here is our first look at the figures that came with the Topps Candy Container eggs alongside Jurassic Park III back in 2001. By this time I had stopped buying toys myself, so this is actually my younger brother’s,...
For my money’s worth, one genuinely good thing Jurassic Park III gave us was a terrific array of new dinosaur designs, some of which are among the best-looking dinos in the whole franchise. It also brought back Sam Neil as the beloved paleontologist Alan Grant from the first film, which was a nice treat for longtime fans even if the...
The Stegosaurus scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is pretty much that film’s version of the Brachiosaurus scene in Jurassic Park, and almost as impactful. Thirteen-year-old me was certainly wowed, right alongside the film’s protagonists, when Stegosaurus made its franchise debut. And like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park these were scientifically informed, with their backs arched high and the...
Review and Photographs by MonkeyRascal, edited by Suspsy For a very long time, LEGO dinosaur collectors have lemented the lack of a Spinosaurus. That is, before the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth. However, many of them are not aware, (or rather, choose to forget) that LEGO has actually produced not one, but three Spinosaurus, and the first two were both...
While the blog is currently full of Jurassic World toys, the pool of unreviewed, original Jurassic Park toys is far from exhausted yet! In another entry in the series of figures-I’m-surprised-haven’t-been-reviewed, we’ve reached the dinosaur hatchlings that came with the human action figures released by Kenner in tandem with Jurassic Park in 1993. Every human had a companion hatchling, so...
