Recent Acquisitions

[EmperorDinobot]

@Fossilized-Rubber if you wanna see bad dinos, discount stores is where you'll find them.

[Fossilized-Rubber]

@Fossilized-Rubber if you wanna see bad dinos, discount stores is where you'll find them.

Are they named brand stores? What should I be looking out for? Dollar tree had some great animal monofigs but sadly no dinosaurs.

[EmperorDinobot]

@Fossilized-Rubber if you wanna see bad dinos, discount stores is where you'll find them.

Are they named brand stores? What should I be looking out for? Dollar tree had some great animal monofigs but sadly no dinosaurs.

I find them at Ross, TJ Maxx/TK Maxx/Marshall's, and Dollar Tree also has some questionable dinos.
I must have them all!

[Fossilized-Rubber]

I must have them all!

Do you have any pics?

Yesterday I found a gumball machine with the worst dinosaurs ever, with eyes painted in all the wrong places! Went to Walmart and got some glow-in-the-dark dinos from a popular Chinese fossil mould set (you all probably know the one). I can't wait to do a comparison when I'm back.

[EmperorDinobot]

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I must have them all!

Do you have any pics?

Yesterday I found a gumball machine with the worst dinosaurs ever, with eyes painted in all the wrong places! Went to Walmart and got some glow-in-the-dark dinos from a popular Chinese fossil mould set (you all probably know the one). I can't wait to do a comparison when I'm back.

I reviewed one such figure here: https://dinotoyblog.com/carnotaurus-wow-world-by-nkok/

[Faelrin]

I finally got the Mattel Nothosaurus (mainline) in hand now. Arrived yesterday from my friend in Germany. Better late then never. It does unfortunately have a slightly misprinted eye on the one side, but I'm not gonna be too picky considering how much a pain the distribution has been on this one.

[JimoAi]

I have a package of prehistoric figures in the mail. Includes a recast of the Eofauna steppe mammoth, pnso mini ophthalmosaurus and Safari ltd Dimetrodon.

[SidB]

A couple of new arrivals this week - first, the 'green' version of the HLG Ampelosaurus, care of Lana-Time-Shop, who got it to Toronto in just under two weeks! Here she is nestled into her diorama spot near a couple of CollectA Plateosaurs. The Safari Daspletosaurus lurks nearby:



Not too faraway is my 'black' version, snugged up to the big HLG Apatosaurus:


The other arrival is the Schleich Gastonia via Dejankins. I don't order a lot of Schleich dinos, it generally turns out to be one a year over the last half decade, but I like this figure:





For comparison with the closely related Papo Polacanthus:

[EmperorDinobot]

I saw the Schleich Gastonia in person yesterday. I see them all the time at Fred Meyer stores, and I'm pretty tempted to get one since all Schleich is 30% off.

[Sim]

The Schleich Gastonia is a surprisingly good figure from Schleich.  I'm happy with mine too.  S @SidB, since I know you're interested in having figures that roughly scale well with each other, I wonder if you've considered the small Beasts of the Mesozoic figures?  I find they scale well with larger species, being as small as I'd like them to be.  And they are good figures of species that don't usually get made at that size, e.g. Velociraptor, Psittacosaurus, Dromaeosaurus, Protoceratops hellenikorhinus.

Today I acquired the larger PNSO Dakosaurus!  After discussing it with B @bmathison1972 I concluded that the figure represents Dakosaurus maximus rather than andiniensis, which made me consider the figure again.  Now that I have it I'm very happy with it!  The skull reconstruction in the leaflet that accompanies the figure also looks like that of D. maximus to me, supporting the identification of the figure as that species.

[SidB]

I saw the Schleich Gastonia in person yesterday. I see them all the time at Fred Meyer stores, and I'm pretty tempted to get one since all Schleich is 30% off.

Maybe you should go for it, @EmperorDinobot ; subjectively it was the only Schleich that tempted me, but I'm also convinced in a quick, passing sort of way that it might objectively be the best of this year's Schleich lot.

[SidB]

The Schleich Gastonia is a surprisingly good figure from Schleich.  I'm happy with mine too.  S @SidB, since I know you're interested in having figures that roughly scale well with each other, I wonder if you've considered the small Beasts of the Mesozoic figures?  I find they scale well with larger species, being as small as I'd like them to be.  And they are good figures of species that don't usually get made at that size, e.g. Velociraptor, Psittacosaurus, Dromaeosaurus, Protoceratops hellenikorhinus.

Today I acquired the larger PNSO Dakosaurus!  After discussing it with B @bmathison1972 I concluded that the figure represents Dakosaurus maximus rather than andiniensis, which made me consider the figure again.  Now that I have it I'm very happy with it!  The skull reconstruction in the leaflet that accompanies the figure also looks like that of D. maximus to me, supporting the identification of the figure as that species.

You're right, @Sim , on both counts. The only drawback for me is my viseral dislike of heavily articulated figures, excepting jaw articulation, which I've gradually grown used to, a fact that might be manifest in the absolute lack of these fine figures in my collections. Maybe there's some way to modify some of them so that the joints are hidden, even if that means eliminating the articulation? That does seem to be the only way to get smaller dinos into the 1/25-1/40 range that I collect. Perhaps I could get them modified by Bravo Models, who are currently adding lips to two of my PNSO tyrannosaurids.

[Sim]

When I look at these BotM figures that I have, I don't notice their articulation.  I'm not sure why, but it's great!  Maybe it's because the figures are so good?  Or maybe it has to do with them being so small?  If you do get any of these figures modified to have articulation removed, I would really like to see them!  It sounds amazing!

[Libraraptor]

I saw the Schleich Gastonia in person yesterday. I see them all the time at Fred Meyer stores, and I'm pretty tempted to get one since all Schleich is 30% off.

It is one of their better efforts for sure. I would grab myself one if it Was 30 % off in a German store.

[SidB]

When I look at these BotM figures that I have, I don't notice their articulation.  I'm not sure why, but it's great!  Maybe it's because the figures are so good?  Or maybe it has to do with them being so small?  If you do get any of these figures modified to have articulation removed, I would really like to see them!  It sounds amazing!

This conversation has whetted my appetite and interest. I'll look into this possibility, starting with the genera you suggested.

[Concavenator]

S @SidB I echo @Sim 's suggestion. I have the Chasmosaurus and the seams don't appear to be very noticeable to me when I'm looking at it. Creative Beast figures are amazing and if you end up getting any of them I'm sure you'd enjoy them!

[EmperorDinobot]

Yeah the Chasmosaur sized dinos (Einiosaurus, Avaceratops, Diabloceratops, Nasutoceratops, Regaliceratops) have seams that are hard to notice. In fact, it's the large ones that have large, hard to escape lines. See the reviews on the DTB. I reviewed the Einiosaurus a while back.

Yeah I'll get Gastonia.

[CityRaptor]

Collected since my last post in this thread:

Dominate the Skies!
Fear Nothing!
Awaken your Survival Instincts!

Quetzalcoatlus
Dreadnoughtus ( the seller also ironically included a free game called "Fast Food Fear!". Not pictured here.)
Survival Instinct Starter Set ( Amamzon is actually selling the very same Blue for more than this set of 4!)


Also my first Hammond Collection figure:

"Now I enter this Collection, a Concavenator, yes!"

And I got a set of the new Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary cards:

They are from different subsets ( most conisting of 9 cards ) and types of cards, according to checklist:
Spinosaurus is card 22, a wrinkled card and from "Leading Dinosaurs"
Rexy is card 56, a holographic card, from "Art Mood" and makes larger image with card 56
Ghost is card 72 a base card, from "Welcome to Jurassic World!" and makes a large image with the cards 64 till 71.
Mosasaurus is card 96, a metal card and belongs to the "Jungle Rules"
Lockwood is card 119, a base card and from "Cool Moments from JW - Fallen Kingdom"...uh, yes.
Triceratops is card 162, a glow-in-the-dark card and is part of "Origin"
I don't think I'll buy more cards.

[SidB]

Yeah the Chasmosaur sized dinos (Einiosaurus, Avaceratops, Diabloceratops, Nasutoceratops, Regaliceratops) have seams that are hard to notice. In fact, it's the large ones that have large, hard to escape lines. See the reviews on the DTB. I reviewed the Einiosaurus a while back.

Yeah I'll get Gastonia.

Yes, I remember your review, but I'll go over it again.

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

Introducing the 1/35 era terra patagotitan! Finally arrived all the way from Brazil, and the artist, Ademar P. Nascimento, was great to work with. The model absolutely blew me away, the pictures don't do justice to how truly massive it is. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in giant sauropods, and it's super affordable too, only $170 including shipping and the paint job.