Classification: Theropod

Review: Utahraptor (Kenner, Jurassic Park series 2)

Genus: Utahraptor Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.5 (21 votes)

If you you are looking for an up-to-date, scientifically accurate dinosaur, this guy isn’t for you. However, if you like cool, vicious-looking, fun to play with dinosaurs, this figure is perfect.If you want to look at the Kenner Utahraptor with a scientist’s eye, there are very many problems; The short and bendy tail, the wrong positioning of the hands, the huge feet, the lack of feathers, and the over-sized claws.

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Review: Utahraptor (Keychain by Schleich)

Genus: Utahraptor Brand: Schleich Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.4 (13 votes)

As the largest dromaeosaur currently known, Utahraptor has received a fair number of toys, though certainly not as many as its smaller relatives Deinonychus and Velociraptor. The very first one (as far as I know of) was released by Kenner for the Jurassic Park line back in 1994.

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Review: Utahraptor (Walking With Dinosaurs by Toyway)

Genus: Utahraptor Brand: Toyway, Walking with Dinosaurs Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (21 votes)

The spectacular Utahraptor by Toyway, based on the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs series, is a sleek, slender, rather mean-looking figure. The anatomy is accurate (except for the lack of feathers, but we’ll get to that in a moment), so this is one of the first ‘raptor’ figures to break away from the trendy but erroneous vision put forward by Jurassic Park.

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Review: Utahraptor (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Utahraptor Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine Scale: 1:23

3.9 (42 votes)

Review and photos by bmathison1972, edited by Suspsy.

In 2016, I moved from the hot and humid deciduous forests of Georgia to the hot and dry high deserts of Utah. It wasn’t a stark change for me, though, as I grew up in the hotter and drier Sonoran Desert of Arizona.

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Review: Velocirapteryx (Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect by Kenner)

Genus: Velocirapteryx Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner, monster Classification: Fictional, Theropod Type: Action Figure

3.9 (14 votes)

Review and photographs by Paleona
Before the advent of “Indominus rex“ in Jurassic World, a horde of “genetically mutated dinos gone bad” rampaged the 90’s. Scientists tampering with dinosaur DNA created horrific, “ultra-ferocious” hybrid dinosaurs! Or so the tag line for this crazy toy line states.

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Review: Velociraptor “Alpha” (Jurassic Park: Dinosaurs by Hasbro)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Hasbro, Jurassic Park Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

1.8 (17 votes)

The closure of Kenner by parent company Hasbro in 2000 meant that an entirely different team would design the toys for Jurassic Park 3. Many dinosaur collectors, including myself, feel that the quality of the line took a major nosedive as a result.

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Review: Velociraptor “Blue” (Attack Pack)(Jurassic World by Mattel)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic World, Mattel Classification: Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

2.5 (13 votes)

Review and photos by Takama, edited by Suspsy
With the Jurassic World license now in the hands of people who actually care about the toys they make, we now have a large selection of toys that (so far) have proven to be a massive improvement over the poorly designed dreck that Hasbro has created for the last film in the series.

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Review: Velociraptor “Blue” (Battle Damage)(Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by Mattel)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic World, Mattel Classification: Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3 (10 votes)

Review and photos by Faelrin, edited by Suspsy
For the first time in Jurassic Park‘s history, Mattel now has the license from Universal to create toys for this franchise after Hasbro and Kenner had it for years before. No doubt Hasbro’s disappointing attempt at the previous toy line for Jurassic World (featuring screw holes on the sides of the figures, permanent flesh wounds on most, no sense of scale, and poor quality control) was the push that was needed to hand the reigns over to someone else.

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Review: Velociraptor “BLUE” (Jurassic World by Hasbro)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Hasbro, Jurassic World Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

1.7 (14 votes)

Velociraptor is one of the best known dinosaurs in the world, and it owes its popularity to Jurassic Park. On screen, it is a cunning and deadly foe that is smart, fast, social, and hunts in groups so it can lay traps for its quarry.

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Review: Velociraptor “Blue” (Jurassic World: Ferocious Pack by Mattel)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic World, Mattel Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

2.2 (35 votes)

Review and photos by Prehistory Resurrection, edited by Suspsy

Mattel has made more ”Blue” toys (as well as other Velociraptors) than you can shake a stick at. Today, we will be taking a look at one of several incarnations of the beloved raptor: their Jurassic World Dominion Ferocious Pack version.

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Review: Velociraptor “Cyclops” (Jurassic Park: Dinosaurs by Kenner)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic Park, Kenner Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.5 (16 votes)

The various Jurassic Park lines have given us many Velociraptor toys over the years (and more still to come). One of the more interesting ones is the battle-hardened “Cyclops.”

Cyclops first appeared in the 1997 Lost World line, but like many of the smaller JP toys, it was re-released in subsequent years.

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Review: Velociraptor “Delta” (Amber Legacy Collection by Mattel)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Jurassic World, Mattel Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

3.8 (14 votes)

There aren’t a lot of dinosaur toys on the market that specialize in articulation (David Silva’s Beasts of the Mesozoic line being the main shining exception right now), so the announcement of Mattel’s Amber Collection for their ongoing Jurassic World line was reason for excitement.

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