Classification: Pachycephalosaur

Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Electronic Deluxe by Chap Mei)

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 (Tsukuda Hobby Collection)

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

3.6 (8 votes)

Among the many prehistoric toys of the 1980s’ were the distinctive dinosaurs of the Tsukuda Hobby Collection. I vividly recall coming across them at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto back in 1989 (I think) when it was showcasing the then-spectacular animatronics of Dinamation.

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Review: Jurassic World Minifigures (Hasbro)

Brand: Hasbro, Jurassic World Classification: Ceratopsian, Mosasaur, Pachycephalosaur, Pterosaur, Stegosaur, Theropod, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic Type: Set

2.5 (8 votes)

Review and photos by Nathan ‘Takama’ Morris, edited by amargasaurus cazaui and Suspsy
The latest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise has finally hit theaters at the time of this writing. While we continue to discuss what we liked and disliked about the movie on the forum, I thought it would be a great time to tackle my first review of JP merchandise for the blog.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Version 1, Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.9 (12 votes)

Despite my lifelong love of dinosaurs, I never made make a point of acquiring Carnegie Collection figures as a child. I suppose I was far too busy acquiring Lego sets and Ninja Turtles. But when my mother returned from a business trip with the Carnegie Pachycephalosaurus as a gift, I was delighted.

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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: Dracorex (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Dracorex Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (18 votes)

Where reviews of new toys are concerned this 2012 release has somehow gone neglected. Now, amidst the flurry of reviews for newer models I’m writing one for this little guy. I’m writing of course about the Safari 2012 Dracorex, one of a stellar lineup of toys released last year and the only one from that lineup that has yet to be reviewed.

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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 (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 (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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Review: Dracorex (CollectA)

Genus: Dracorex Brand: CollectA, Procon Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.3 (16 votes)

The skull of Dracorex was found in the Hell Creek Formation in the United States and dates back to the Maastrichtian age at the very end of the age of dinosaurs. Its full name, Dracorex hogwatsia, translates to “Dragon King of Hogwarts” which pretty much makes it the coolest official name in science ever.

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (Battat)

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

4.5 (21 votes)

Photographs by Doug Watson, edited by Dinotoyblog
The North American marginocephalian, Pachycephalosaurus, has been reconstructed as a toy or model quite often. This review is the best example for this thesis. To put it bluntly at the beginning: The Battat Pachycephalosaurus is one of the best Pachys out there, due to its anatomical correctness, very detailed head, credible posture, and unusual paint job.

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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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