What are you still waiting on the definitive version of?

[ceratopsian]

This is high on my list too. I don't understand how it gets so overlooked.

I'd like a good Caudipteryx. The Carnegie one is far too large for me, and I'm not even a scale collector. Hopefully Kaiyodo or PNSO make a mini at some point.

[Shonisaurus]

I would like super detailed tyrannosauroids other than the tyrannosaurus rex with a really acceptable size, in the style of the BoTM tyrannosaurus but in this case acceptable. Honestly, Favorite's tarbosaurus is pretty but still too small for me and the same is qianzhousaurus from Safari or yutyrannurus from Safari or Rebor to give several examples. I wish tyrannosauroids were made the same size as most tyrannosaurus rex.

I understand that justice has not yet been done with figures such as daspletosaurus, albertosaurus, zhuchentyrannus, alioramus, gorgosaurus, yutyrannus, lythronax, bistahieversor or tarbosaurus to give several examples, except for the honorable exception of BoTM but those figures are very articulated, I would like a version not so articulate of tyrannosauroids of an acceptable size, I repeat as is the tyrannosaurus rex. There is life in the collecting world apart from the tyrannosaurus rex.

As I have repeated a lot of times, the tyrannosaurus rex family could give many economic benefits to the brands of toy dinosaurs as without a doubt, the iconic species of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals in general, the tyrannosaurus rex.

[Bread]

I would like super detailed tyrannosauroids other than the tyrannosaurus rex with a really acceptable size, in the style of the BoTM tyrannosaurus but in this case acceptable. Honestly, Favorite's tarbosaurus is pretty but still too small for me and the same is qianzhousaurus from Safari or yutyrannurus from Safari or Rebor to give several examples. I wish tyrannosauroids were made the same size as most tyrannosaurus rex.

I understand that justice has not yet been done with figures such as daspletosaurus, albertosaurus, zhuchentyrannus, alioramus, gorgosaurus, yutyrannus, lythronax, bistahieversor or tarbosaurus to give several examples, except for the honorable exception of BoTM but those figures are very articulated, I would like a version not so articulate of tyrannosauroids of an acceptable size, I repeat as is the tyrannosaurus rex. There is life in the collecting world apart from the tyrannosaurus rex.

As I have repeated a lot of times, the tyrannosaurus rex family could give many economic benefits to the brands of toy dinosaurs as without a doubt, the iconic species of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals in general, the tyrannosaurus rex.

^ This right here. I feel like companies always race out to do a Tyrannosaurus rex, meanwhile other Tyrannosaurs are ignored. I know for a while CollectA gave us some various Tyrannosaur species, however they need some updates. It would be a gold mine if a company like Safari, CollectA, PNSO, Eofauna, etc... makes one or all of the species of Tyrannosaurs you have named.

[Loon]

Now that my Paraceratherium needs are satisfied, I'm moving on to propagandize for another another mammal, Megatherium. Seriously, I need a nice big figure of this genus! EoFauna, CollectA, Safari, heck I'll even settle for Papo!

Also, Leptictidium, please.

[Faelrin]

To be honest I was just coming here to post about Megatherium. I would particularly like to see a short haired or hairless one.

I also agree about Leptictidium. One of the best preserved smaller prehistoric mammals, aside from the fact it starred in the first episode of WWB. And the fact it resembles a modern day elephant shrew.

The other thing I wanted to post about is Thylacosmilus (based on the new research), and the sadly neglected Pleistocene Australian and NZ megafauna, such as Procoptodon, Varanus priscus/Megalania, Quinkana, Wonambi, Haast's eagle, and the South Island moa/Dinornis robustus (if not other species of moa), and maybe Meiolania (at least the Kaiyodo is still pretty decent) and Ninjemys as well. I'd also like to see new figures of Dromornis, Bullockornis, and Genyornis as well. I may have posted about these before, but honestly, I am really in the mood for them right now, and aside from some now retired Yowie and Geoworld figures (and in regards to V. priscus there is the tiny Kaiyodo figure), other then the expensive Likaon figures for some of these, there isn't much out there for any of these surprisingly.

Honestly I think seeing these from Southlands Replicas would be a dream, but I wouldn't complain if we got them from Safari Ltd or CollectA as well.

Lastly I'm still sorely in need of terror birds in my collection. Like at the very least I would like to see Phorusrhacos, and Titanis, if not any of the others out there that have yet to get figures.

[Loon]

...Honestly I think seeing these from Southlands Replicas would be a dream, but I wouldn't complain if we got them from Safari Ltd or CollectA as well...

For sure, but I'm worried about Southlands. I don't think we've gotten any news from them in over a year.

[Faelrin]

...Honestly I think seeing these from Southlands Replicas would be a dream, but I wouldn't complain if we got them from Safari Ltd or CollectA as well...

For sure, but I'm worried about Southlands. I don't think we've gotten any news from them in over a year.

Now that you mention that I had a look at their FB page. I think their last comment was 2 months ago on the Saltwater crocodile sculpt which was first posted about last year. Last post of this year was in March this year. Gonna be a real shame if they had to stop or went under from Covid, if not something else because their sculpts were fantastic and much needed additions with the lack of options for Australian and/or Oceania fauna as is. Unless they are still working on things but just haven't had anything to share lately.


Granted considering I'm still way behind on picking up their models that probably doesn't help them either unfortunately. Hopefully I can remedy that soon, especially with getting the Thylacoleo, Diprotodon, and Thylacine at the very least. but also probably some of their others as well since I have a soft spot for Australian fauna ever since I was a kid and watched Steve Irwin, or read about the animals in books.

[Faelrin]

? @Stolpergeist Since you mentioned a terror bird with digits, I was thinking about the one done by Lanard for their Primal Clash Terror Bird, which isn't a half bad sculpt, but would have been much better mainly if it didn't have those digits. Granted CollectA's Kelenken isn't far off in that regard either.

It appears I have also forgotten to express my desire for Phiomia earlier, an obscure proboscidean Ark introduced me too recently (and who better to make one other then Eofauna perhaps?), which I honestly find adorable now.

Also perhaps yet again, and back on the subject of birds, Argentavis and other teratorns as well. Ichthyornis, Pelagornis, and Hesperornis too. I can only think of a Yowie and the Primeval/Character Options ones for the latter two. A new more up to date Dodo would be good to see as well, if not another Great Auk as well. Also Anthropornis (which has a Yowie figure I think) and Kairuku, prehistoric penguins. Edit: Also Aepyornis and other elephant birds.


Honestly I'll probably think of a few more by tomorrow too.

Honestly it is really such a shame at how neglected prehistoric birds in general have been with like most being based on Gastornis/Diatryma (and even then there isn't like a whole lot).

Maybe like a tube would be the best way to go for getting these all out there, and it maybe the most financially sound thing since they probably don't sell well to begin with, which is probably why they rarely receive figures as is.

[Halichoeres]

...Honestly I think seeing these from Southlands Replicas would be a dream, but I wouldn't complain if we got them from Safari Ltd or CollectA as well...

For sure, but I'm worried about Southlands. I don't think we've gotten any news from them in over a year.

Over on STS some people were saying that producing the figures is proving too costly. I'll be surprised if there are new figures from Southlands. Molds that can handle PVC are just crazy expensive; I'd wondered how Jason was charging so little for the figures but had assumed he must be moving huge volumes.

[Shonisaurus]

...Honestly I think seeing these from Southlands Replicas would be a dream, but I wouldn't complain if we got them from Safari Ltd or CollectA as well...

For sure, but I'm worried about Southlands. I don't think we've gotten any news from them in over a year.

Over on STS some people were saying that producing the figures is proving too costly. I'll be surprised if there are new figures from Southlands. Molds that can handle PVC are just crazy expensive; I'd wondered how Jason was charging so little for the figures but had assumed he must be moving huge volumes.

Likewise, the sales of Soutlands replicas have slowed due to the coronavirus pandemic and Jason has decided to wait for a better economic scenario to launch new figures. On the other hand, I think you want to economically amortize the sale of the Soutlands Replicas figures, until you have sold enough figures and have made acceptable economic benefits, I believe that you will not market new figures.

[Faelrin]

Thanks for more information about the situation. It totally makes sense that it is hard to continue new releases with how expensive the process is. Definitely why David Silva has had to resort to kickstarter's for the financial help to get things moving along for his lines. It is however also a shame as they were hitting a niche like no one else which probably hasn't been attempted since Yowie back in the day.

I'm sure this pandemic situation probably only made matters worse, in combination with how expensive the process is to begin with. It might be why there's a small amount of releases from Safari Ltd this year (from the looks of it). They are a family business after all so I imagine this situation has forced them to cut down on the new ones because it would be too costly.

It now makes me wonder what we will be seeing going forward from CollectA, Papo, etc. Schleich seems to have a relatively normal assortment of prehistoric animals this year compared with previous year's releases. Papo typically only releases a few as is, so I'm not expecting much to change for them.

[Faelrin]

@Faelrin I have seen a Phiomia a while ago in Mike Eischen's store, until a larger one gets made this may work as a stand in but since it's a small animal it might not look too off next to most proboscid toys.

Do you happen to have a link to it? Google isn't pulling up anything for me unless I am not searching for it right. If it's close to scale with existing proboscidean figures that would definitely be of interest me, as unlike most of my Paleozoic and Mesozoic figures in my collection, I've been lucky enough to have most close to around 1:30 and they display great together in turn. Of course I'll allow exceptions if it gets me a good figure in the end.

[VD231991]

A new (and larger then the Kaiyodo) Eryops would be great too see. I'm also surprised at the lack of up to date Pteradactylus and Ornithocheirus figures (or is it Tropeognathus now?). Rhamphorhynchus and Tupandactylus and/or Tapejara would be nice to see get updated as well.

Tropeognathus was for a while considered a junior synonym of the slightly younger genus Ornithocheirus in some publications, including a revision of the pterodactyloid assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand in Cambridgeshire, southeastern England by David Unwin published in the early 2000s. However, Rodrigues and Kellner (2013) decided that Tropeognathus should be retained as a distinct genus from Ornithocheirus due to some differences in the height of the premaxillary crest and older age. In contrast to Tropeognathus specimens being found well-preserved in lacustrine shale deposits, fossils of Ornithocheirus experienced weathering while being reworked from the upper part of the Selborne Group into the Cambridge Greensand.

Rodrigues, T., and Kellner, A. W., 2013. Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England. ZooKeys 308: 1–112. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559

Unwin D.M., 2001. An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 4: 189–221.

[dinofelid]

@Faelrin Mike Eischen's eBay store is at https://www.ebay.com/str/paleosculpture but it looks like he doesn't have the Phiomia right now (some pictures from an old listing are here), he regularly rotates the models up there so it may come back in stock soon. If not you could send him a message asking about it, it's a 3D printed plastic model so probably not hard for him to restock.

[Faelrin]

V @VD231991 While that was an older comment you responded too, I do appreciate the information, and clarifying on all of that. If I recall right, I think @Halichoeres also went into detail about this in his post regarding the WWD figure he obtained.

D @dinofelid My above comment was from 2020. Though sadly I never did get around to getting it, with everything I had going on. Well that and I suppose it slipped my mind. I'm not too fussed about it though, since there's been an overwhelming amount of stuff released over the past few years (and still to come).

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

There's a few for me... there may already be some decent versions of these out there already actually, but not widely available ones.

Dan's repaint of the Battat Ouranosaurus would've been the definitive version for me if it had been released, but since that will apparently never see the light of day, I'm just waiting for Safari or Collecta to finally get around to it at this point.
PNSO's Centrosaurus is good... but something about it leaves me waiting to see what another company's might look like.
Saurolophus
Utahraptor
Gigantoraptor
Apatosaurus louisae: I basically just want a mass-produced, more toy-oriented version of the Sideshow statuette
I'm glad Collecta finally made a Koolasuchus... but it unfortunately doesn't quite do it for me.  Hopefully Safari makes a better one.
On a similar note, I'm definitely getting the Collecta Shastasaurus as soon as it's out, but since it seems to represent the mid-sized type species, S. pacificus, that means I'm still waiting for the definitive megafaunal species of Shasta/Shonisaurus.
Sivatheres need some representation too.
I have a Basilosaurus I'm satisfied enough with for now, but I feel like none of the available models quite match my mental image of it.

[Halichoeres]

@Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews) what don't you like about the CollectA Koolasuchus? Wrong scale? It seems like one of those animals that if you wait for another version, you might wait forever.

[Sim]

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Same here!

[Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews)]

@Stuckasaurus (Dino Dad Reviews) what don't you like about the CollectA Koolasuchus? Wrong scale? It seems like one of those animals that if you wait for another version, you might wait forever.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I might just get it anyway in the hopes that good numbers inspire more models like it, and maybe something similar in the scale I want will come along eventually.

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

I would love to have an Ouranosaurus. A modern one. Not too big. Not a Resinstatue. I think CollectA could deliver this. PNSO would be a pass for me, because of the higher Prices. PNSO went completely out of my Range. So i have my Hopes on CollectA. They impoved so much. Safari could do one aswell.

Moreover: Dromaeosaurs in modern depiction, closed mouth. Birdlike. Pls.(No Articulation pls.)