Classification: Pachycephalosaur

Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

4.1 (15 votes)

Pachycephalosaurus belongs to the general group of dinosaurs called marginocephalia which encompasses all the dome-headed pachycephalosaurs as well as all of the ceratopsians. Pachycephalosaurus itself was the largest of the dome headed dinosaurs, estimated to have grown to between fifteen or perhaps twenty feet in length.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.9 (17 votes)

With its wonderful knobby skull and domed cranium, Pachycephalosaurus is one of the most distinctive dinosaurs. Paleontologists are still divided over how precisely it used its noggin, although a 2013 study by the University of Wisconsin concluded that it did indeed engage in intraspecific conflict.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Definitely Dinosaurs by Playskool)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Definitely Dinosaurs, Playskool Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3 (6 votes)

Review and photographs by dinoguy2, edited by Suspsy

Playskool’s Definitely Dinosaurs line can be broken down into two basic categories: the larger, ride-able toys that came with saddles for their “Cavester” companions, and the smaller toys with minimal accessories. Pachycephalosaurus was part of the smaller assortment, and like the others, it was pretty basic, with only four real points of articulation.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Dinotales Series 5 by Kaiyodo)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Kaiyodo Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.6 (8 votes)

Pachycephalosaurus is the largest and most well recognized member of the dome-headed dinosaurs. It lived at the end of the Cretaceous 66-65 million years ago and therefore would have been amongst the last non-avian dinosaurs ever to be alive. It coexisted with other well known dinosaurs like Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Electronic Deluxe by Chap Mei)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Chap Mei Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

2.3 (15 votes)

Rounding out my electronic Chap Mei toys is that scrappy (and in this case, rather scary) thick-headed lizard, Pachycephalosaurus!

This rather dubious-looking dinosaur measures 25 cm long and stands 17 cm tall when hunched over. The main colours are light brown and dark brown with beige accents, electric blue stripes, white teeth, and translucent orange for the eyes and the cranium.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Jurassic Park, Series 2, by Kenner)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.3 (12 votes)

Following up on the Pachycephalosaurus theme started in the last blog entry, here’s a review of a quite different version of this dome-headed dinosaur. Both the review and photos are by Griffin8891
Now before we all start pelting poor Jurassic park toys with “that’s inaccurate!” and “not scientific!” let’s make one thing very clear.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Jurassic World Bashers and Biters by Hasbro)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Hasbro, Jurassic World Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

2 (13 votes)

Review and photographs by Takama, edited by Suspsy
Pachycephalosaurus is common among dinosaur toys with almost every company (including the Chinasaur manufacturers) having at least one model of this species in their collection. The animal was made somewhat famous due to its appearance in The Lost World: Jurassic Park and it would later make a cameo in Jurassic World.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (large) (UKRD)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: UKRD Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.3 (4 votes)

Marginocephalia is a clade full of interesting species that are largely hard to define by their body, with their only real definition being their heads. There are two groups, the ceratopsians (for which the number of models are near innumerable) and the less popular pachycephalosaurs.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Papo)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Papo Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.4 (16 votes)

Papo are much-loved for their highly detailed, Jurassic Park resemblin’ line of prehistoric creature figures; any number of them are perfect lookalikes of their movie counterparts, right down to the smallest inaccuracy. So it is too with this little marginocephalian fella, the Papo Pachycephalosaurus, perhaps one of the most overlooked members of the line.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Recur)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Recur Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4 (25 votes)

Thanks to Recur for the review sample.
Earlier this year I filmed myself unboxing a delivery of Recur figures on Youtube. The video received a whopping 5,000 views in two months demonstrating that unboxing videos really are popular, aren’t they! Suspsy has already reviewed some of these Recur figures on the Dinotoyblog, and he has more in the pipeline, so watch this space for more.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Soft Model Series 1 by Kinto Favorite)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Favorite Co. Ltd., Kinto Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine Scale: 1:32, 1:33, 1:50

4 (8 votes)

Despite the figure’s small size, there are plenty of fine details to appreciate on this release from Kinto/Favorite’s earlier days.
Favorite Co. Ltd is among the better dinosaur toy producers currently in the market, even though many of their figures are either out of production or exclusive to Japan.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park by Kenner)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.4 (13 votes)

Time – the ever-flowing river. Come with us now to a time before Walking With Dinosaurs, when the river flowed through a world easily impressed by CGI and when Spielberg ruled the Earth. Welcome…to the Jurassic Park action figure line, circa 1997.
Fine, I dropped the ball at the end there.

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