Following up on my Hammond Collection Allosaurus review, is with yet another beloved animal from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, the Stegosaurus. More specifically the Hammond Collection juvenile Stegosaurus based on the one from The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Strangely this is my first time reviewing a figure of this animal, despite it being one of my favorite dinosaurs, and...
I have a soft spot for the UKRD figures of the 90s, as they were among the first dinosaur toys I collected as a kid, and I’ve reviewed quite a few of them for this blog. I’ve now reached the Stegosaurus from 1992 and thought it would just be an “also ran” kind of review, as the figure itself is...
The Stegosaurus scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is pretty much that film’s version of the Brachiosaurus scene in Jurassic Park, and almost as impactful. Thirteen-year-old me was certainly wowed, right alongside the film’s protagonists, when Stegosaurus made its franchise debut. And like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park these were scientifically informed, with their backs arched high and the...
Discovered in the Woburn Sands Formation in England and formally described in 1874, Craterosaurus was a relatively small stegosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous some 113-112 million years ago. Mattel released the first and so far only Craterosaurus toy in 2024 as part of their Danger Pack series. It is sculpted in an alert pose with its legs bent and its tail...
“Hello, my fellow dinosaur lovers. Dr. Bella Bricking here once again, as well as the indispensable Beth Buildit. As always, we are happy and proud to be here. Happy National Dinosaur Day and Happy Pride Month!” “Hey there, folks. Hope you’re still holding up strong.” “Today’s review is an exciting one, for it deals with an animal we have never...
The Haolonggood Huayangosaurus was a figure originally teased on the 2024 Haolonggood announcement poster and since it’s a genus for which figures are few and far between a lot of collectors were eager to acquire one, me included. But then came the bad news, the Huayangosaurus was a bonus figure included with the Argentinosaurus pre-order. Why Haolonggood chose to include...
To my surprise, there are still figures that were released as tie-ins with the original Jurassic Park film in 1993 that lack reviews here, including the die-cast metal dinosaurs line by Kenner, who of course made the main action-figure line for the film as well. The metal figures were released in two-packs that contained a collector’s card for each dinosaur,...
Review and photos by Hubert, edited by DinoToyBlog Continuing with our overview of the 7 inch Cartoon Series by Wing Crown, Stegosaurus is next in line. Like the others in the series, this is simplified in its ‘early tetrapod’, just-walked-out-from-the-water form, with no anatomical intricacies to be found beyond the obligatory plates and tail spikes. This overview will therefore be...
Before we begin the review, I would like to thank the generous folks over at ToyMonster, for sending me a large selection of Captivz figures to share with the blog. Today we’re looking at the Captivz Kentrosaurus…again. Yes, this is a figure that I already reviewed. It feels a bit odd basically reviewing the same figure twice and I briefly...
I’ve been in the dinosaur collecting hobby for about 14 years now and this hobby has evolved rapidly within that time. In 2010 most collectors were content to just get good models of their favorite genera. Nowadays, a figure of a genus isn’t enough, collectors want dinosaurs identifiable at the species level. They don’t want Triceratops, they want T. prorsus....
If we were handing out awards for ‘chonkiest Stegosaurus toys’ this one would surely be in the running. When I first embarked on this review I had assumed it would be a simple matter of specifying this as the Bullyland ‘mini’ Stegosaurus, but I quickly realised it isn’t that simple. There are several variants of this figure, since Bullyland tweaked...
Pop quiz: which Upper Jurassic dinosaur from the famous Morrison Formation of North America had two rows of large plates on its back and four long spikes on its tail? I reckon the majority of respondents would immediately say that the answer is Stegosaurus, and of course, they wouldn’t be wrong. But what fewer of them might know is that it’s...
