Review and images by GiganotosaurusFan, edited by Suspsy The year was 1969 and everyone was talking about the new show-stopping dinosaur movie made by Ray Harryhausen. It was The Valley of Gwangi, an epic tale of how the last living Allosaurus was found, captured, and eventually met a grandiose, spectacular, and tragic end after a cathedral crashed down on top...
After roughly four years of blogging and collecting I’ve reached my 50th review for the DTB. For this special review I wanted to do something offbeat and distinct. In seeking out a unique subject I came across a figure that merges my love of cinema with my love of dinosaurs, and I knew this was the model I would have...
After the death of the non-avian dinosaurs some of the remaining theropod tried to re-claim their former glory and put mammals back in their place. These were the terror birds, or Phorusrhacidae, which carried on the legacy of Tyrannosaurus and its kin between 62-2 million years ago. Ultimately, they wouldn’t make it, but during their reign as apex predators they...
Review and photos by Patrick Bate. Edited by Plesiosauria. Styracosaurus was a centrosaurine ceratopsian from Cretaceous North America. Its unique and formidable horn arrangement have made it perhaps the second-most popular toy ceratopsian, behind Triceratops. This effort by X-Plus is one of two dinosaurs from their (retired) Prehistoric Masterpiece collection. Like the other in the set (an Albertosaurus, previously reviewed...
Albertosaurus is the smaller cousin of T. rex and is rarely found in the form of a dinosaur toy. The Prehistoric Masterpiece Collection is produced by Japanese sculptors Araki and Shinzen; the figures are hand-painted and also included in this series is a Styracosaurus. This figure was discontinued a few years ago, and I’m not sure how much longer...
