Special thanks as always to Happy Hen Toys for sending this one out. If you want this figure or anything else from Schleich and more, prehistoric and extant, they have you covered. Now on to the review. One of the most famous prehistoric animals out there is Dimetrodon, and as a result it is commonly represented on the toy market....
Aside from being the most popular and familiar prehistoric carnivoran, cats of the Smilodon genus are notable for several reasons. They’re the most recent of the “saber-toothed” cats, having only gone extinct at the end of the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. They were also large, reaching and exceeding the size of extant big cats. One species, S. populator, was...
Otodus megalodon is a difficult shark for me to get excited about, despite my love of cartilaginous fishes. Although captivating in concept (a gigantic whale-hunting shark with 7” teeth) there aren’t enough remains of it to really…well…sink your teeth into. Just teeth and vertebrae. We don’t really know what it looked like, despite the best efforts of paleontologists. Thanks to...
Baryonyx caused quite the to-do in paleontology circles back when it was formally described in 1986, as no one had ever seen a theropod quite like it before. Indeed, for a time it was even thought to be a member of a whole new family: Baryonychidae. As well, its large, powerful arms led some experts to surmise that it was quadrupedal,...
Gallimimus from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia is the largest known ornithomimid at around 6 metres/20 feet in length and 450 kg/1000 lbs in mass. It is also arguably the most famous thanks to its appearances in the Jurassic Park franchise. But there really haven’t been very many toys of it, just as there haven’t been very many ornithomimid toys, period. Schleich is...
During the Late Cretaceous, the region currently known as the harsh Gobi Desert of Mongolia was a rich expanse of floodplains, mudflats, and shallow lakes. Here one would find abundant titanosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and pachycephalosaurs, although no known ceratopsids to date. There was an even wider variety of theropods that included alverezsaurs, dromaeosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, oviraptorosaurs, therizinosaurs, troodontids, and tyrannosaurs. And of this...
To start, I want to extend my thanks to Happy Hen Toys for generously offering this review sample for the Blog. Happy Hen Toys has rapidly been establishing themselves as one of the most reliable shops for prehistoric animal collectibles in the United States, and I encourage readers to check out their website for purchasing this and other related items....
Before starting this review, I want to extend my thanks to Happy Hen Toys for generously offering this review sample for the Blog. Happy Hen Toys has, in my experience, become on of the most reliable sources for extinct & extant animal brands alike in the United States. Be sure to check out their website at happyhentoys.com; more links will...
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. Happy Hen Toys is a U.S. distributor of figures by Safari, Papo, CollectA, Schleich, and other similar companies. In the case of CollectA they’re often the only place that sells their products at a reasonable...
Review and photos by Prehistory Resurrection, edited by Suspsy Back in 1994, Schleich released its now-discontinued Replica-Saurus line of dinosaur figures, which included perhaps the goofiest, ugliest, and most hideous dinosaur figure ever manufactured, their first Ceratosaurus sculpt, in a quadrupedal stance. It was finally retired in 2005. For 2021, Schleich released a new and much...
Schleich can be seen as the equivalent of McDonald’s in that, despite the sometimes lacklustre quality of their products, they are still the most globally successful of all the companies specializing in PVC scale models of extinct and extant fauna. Take for example their 2012 Tyrannosaurus rex mould. It’s by no means the most impressive or the most accurate rendition of the...
Schleich isn’t exactly wanting for criticism on this board. Plenty of paleo fans and collectors – myself included – tend to be underwhelmed or outright repulsed by the variety of ugly-looking toys Schleich produces in the name of educational purposes. Not all Schleich products are bad, though, and at least a few of their prehistoric line figures have managed to...
