Classification: Ankylosaurid

Review: Micromachines dinosaurs (National Geographic Collection/ Micromachines)

Genus: Brachiosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Pachycephalosaurus, Protoceratops Brand: Micromachines Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Ceratopsian, Ceratosaur, Macronaria (basal), Pachycephalosaur, Sauropod, Theropod, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic Type: Figurine, Set

3.8 (5 votes)

Micromachines, a brand noted for their wide range of miniature automobiles, stepped outside the box when they produced a series of dinosaurs in association with National Geographic. Obviously they are all tiny, a bit smaller than the figures in Kaiyodo’s dinotales range, but they are quite nice and very collectible.

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Review: Minmi (CollectA)

Genus: Minmi Brand: CollectA Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.3 (10 votes)

I have never been much of a CollectA fan but I ran across this little guy and was intrigued. It looked a lot better than some of the others CollectA nodosaurs and ankylosaurs that I have seen (Their Polacanthus and Scelidosaurus being the main offenders).

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Review: Minmi (Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom Attack Pack wave 3 by Mattel)

Genus: Minmi Brand: Jurassic World, Mattel Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.1 (9 votes)

It’s fantastic to see Mattel make so many different species of dinosaurs for the Jurassic World FK line. Minmi is another one of those wonderful rarely seen dinosaurs that is gracing us in plastic form. This animal is not just a mini me version of an ankylosaur.

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Review: Minmi (Science and Nature, Pty Ltd.)

Genus: Minmi Brand: Science & Nature Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.1 (9 votes)

Today I´d like to introduce to you Science and Nature Minmi. The company did it as a part of their signature line of figures, “Animals of Australia Realistic Toy Replicas.”

Minmi is the name of a small herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous Period of Australia, about 119 to 113 million years ago.

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Review: Pinacosaurus (PNSO)

Genus: Pinacosaurus Brand: PNSO Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (44 votes)

During the Cretaceous period, ankylosaurids abounded in Asia even more than they did in North America, with some of the more notable genera being Gobisaurus, Jinyunpelta, Liaoningosaurus, Minotaurosaurus, Saichania, Tarchia, and the subject of this review, Pinacosaurus.

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Review: Pinacosaurus (Protocasts)

Genus: Pinacosaurus Brand: Protocasts Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (11 votes)

Some years have passed since the last review of a Protocasts model appeared on this blog. This is certainly not due to a lack of models by the side of the creator, in fact I myself got an Irritator figure laying around since years awaiting a review.

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Review: Pinacosaurus (Unknown Company)

Genus: Pinacosaurus Brand: unknown company Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.6 (9 votes)

Review and photos by Takama, edited by Suspsy
Today’s figure was bought at a Mexican Fiesta back in 2014. It is from the same unknown line as this T. rex reviewed back in 2011, and it is a pretty sizable piece of plastic.

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Review: Prehistoric Animals (Panini, review part 1)

Genus: Ankylosaurus, Brontosaurus, Camptosaurus, Corythosaurus, Dimetrodon, Iguanodon, Parasaurolophus, Protoceratops, Pteranodon, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Brand: Panini Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Ceratopsian, Ceratopsian (basal), Chasmosaur, Diplodocoid, Hadrosaur, Iguanodont (basal), Pterosaur, Sauropod, Stegosaur, Theropod, Thyreophoran, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic, Permian Type: Figurine, Playset, Set

3.4 (9 votes)

Sticker albums are a staple of many a childhood and they were certainly a part of mine. However, unlike my school contemporaries in the early 1990s, I didn’t deal with stickers of footballers or garbage pail kids, all my swapsies were dinosaur stickers of course!

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Review: Prehistoric Tube B (CollectA)

Genus: Amargasaurus, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Liopleurodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Spinosaurus, Torosaurus, Velociraptor Brand: CollectA Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Ceratopsian, Diplodocoid, Macronaria (basal), Plesiosaur, Pliosaur, Pterosaur, Sauropod, Theropod, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic Type: Figurine, Set

3.9 (15 votes)

Time again to downsize with CollectA’s second tube collection. Like the previous set I reviewed, this one came out in late 2015 and contains no fewer than ten teeny toy dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters, a couple of them making their debut with CollectA.

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Review: Saichania (Antediluvia Collection)(David Krentz)

Genus: Saichania Brand: Antediluvia, David Krentz Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (7 votes)

“Saichania” is Mongolian for “beautiful one.” Admittedly, this is not the sort of title one expects to find among ankylosaurs. After all, they don’t quite have the sleek and decorative appearance of other thyreophorans like Kentrosaurus, nor the poise and majesty of the classic Stegosaurus.

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Review: Saichania (Dinomania Series 1, by Kaiyodo)

Genus: Saichania Brand: Dinomania, Kaiyodo Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous

4.1 (8 votes)

Kaiyodo is known for making excellent dinosaur sculpts with awesome coloring, for but many a fan’s grief, they’re sold only in Japan. from 2004 onward, some of these could be found in specialty stores across America, but the quantity was minimal and they were always gone very quickly.

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Review: Saichania (original sculpt) (Replica-Saurus by Schleich)

Genus: Saichania Brand: Schleich Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.7 (9 votes)

The Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid Saichania (which means “beautiful” in Mongolian) was a moderately sized but heavily armored dinosaur whose fossils were first discovered in southern Mongolia in 1977. Saichania was a squat animal which reached a maximum length of slightly over 20 feet, making it smaller than its more famous American cousin Ankylosaurus.

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