New DTF banner

[Sim]

1. Safari Utahraptor
2. Safari Therizinosaurus or Stegouros
3. CollectA Dearc
4. CollectA Nanuqsaurus
5. CollectA Dreadnoughtus
6. Papo Suchomimus
7. Schleich Stegosaurus
8. PNSO Gorgosaurus or Megalosaurus
9. PNSO Saurophaganax or Yangchuanosaurus magnus
10. PNSO Zuul
11. Haolonggood Apatosaurus
12. Beasts of the Mesozoic Gorgosaurus, Albertosaurus or Tarbosaurus

My choices for the figures I'd like in the new forum banner have changed a bit.  I'd like to see any of the following in the new forum banner:

1. Safari 2023 Utahraptor
2. Safari 2023/2024 Stegouros
3. Safari 2023/2024 Therizinosaurus
4. CollectA 2024 Dearc
5. Papo 2024 Suchomimus
6. Schleich 2024 Stegosaurus
7. PNSO 2023 Megalosaurus or Gorgosaurus
8. PNSO 2023 Yangchuanosaurus magnus
9. PNSO 2023 Zuul
10. PNSO 2023 Spinosaurus
11. Haolonggood 2023 Apatosaurus
12. Haolonggood 2023 Carnotaurus
13. Haolonggood 2023 Pentaceratops
14. Beasts of the Mesozoic 2023/2024 Tarbosaurus or Gorgosaurus or Albertosaurus

[Sim]

Thanks for the new forum banner @DinoToyForum!  It's amazing!  It's the best banner this forum has ever had, in my opinion.

[Faelrin]

@Sim I'm pretty much thinking the same. The diversity on it is really good. Got a number of time periods represented (Cambrian, Ordovician, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous), a number of animal groups (1 amphibian, 2 invertebrates, 2 synapsids, 2 thyreophorans, 1 sauropod, 1 ceratopsian, 4 theropods, and all from different groups, 2 pterosaurs, and 1 marine reptile), and companies (CollectA, Colorata, Creative Beast, Favorite, Haolonggood, Mattel, Papo, PNSO, Safari, and Schleich).

[Concavenator]

I like it! But Eofauna will have to work harder if they ever want to be featured in the banner... Oh, well, maybe in a few years' time they will get there. 

[Ikessauro]

Really nice banner, I like it. Also, I forgot about that device compatibility @DinoToyForum ,  you are absolutely correct in this instance. There isn't much you can do to avoid repetition.

[DinoToyForum]

Glad you like it! I updated it secretly earlier today, I wanted to see how soon people would notice.

It actually took me most of today, it can be very tricky getting everything to fit neatly, but it worked out well in the end.

[Sim]

I think it was worth it @DinoToyForum, this new banner is inspiring!

[DinoToyForum]

That said I did see the new forum header this morning as I got up. Nice work on it. One tiny suggestion (if it is at all possible), but should the PNSO Saurophaganax be included? I think it is pretty clear it is the 2023 1st place poll winner, and I wonder if it should have some representation on the header (although the Haolonggood Apatosaurus is the second place winner which does have representation for what it is worth).

Edit: I do like the inclusion of the 2017 Colorata Cameroceras, and the 2016 Favorite Canadaspis. It's nice to have some Paleozoic invertebrate inclusion, even if these are older figures by now.

Quoting from a different thread.

I selected the PNSO Saurophaganax for the banner but I just couldn't get it to fit.

I selected the two invertebrates at the end to squeeze into some awkward gaps.

[EmperorDinobot]

I LOVE it!!!!!

[Faelrin]

@DinoToyForum That absolutely makes sense, and no big deal. It is lovely as it is currently is anyways.

Honestly it was a clever solution, and also helps serve as a reminder that there's more then Mesozoic reptiles out there to collect (including the Koolasuchus and two synapsids), even if they do take up most of the attention (um including mine).

[triceratops83]

The Haolonggood Apatosaurus really ties the room together.

[Gwangi]

That's a great banner, lots of diversity all around, which I consider most important. What pterosaur is that?

[Concavenator]

@Gwangi If you mean the flying one, it's the new Favorite Dimorphodon. The other one is CollectA's Dearc.

[Gwangi]

@Gwangi If you mean the flying one, it's the new Favorite Dimorphodon. The other one is CollectA's Dearc.

It was the Dimorphodon I was asking about. Thanks! I don't even see the Dearc, it must be behind the words.

[ceratopsian]

Back home from Kimmeridge (pliosaur skull) and just had the opportunity to look at the new banner on my desktop.  Really like it!  Excellent all-round diversity of companies and animals.

[DinoToyForum]

Back home from Kimmeridge (pliosaur skull) and just had the opportunity to look at the new banner on my desktop.  Really like it!  Excellent all-round diversity of companies and animals.

Was the pliosaur skull as impressive in person as it looks in pictures!?

[ceratopsian]

More so. Huge on-screen but ginormous in person. Should be able to put up a couple of snaps tomorrow @DinoToyForum.

Back home from Kimmeridge (pliosaur skull) and just had the opportunity to look at the new banner on my desktop.  Really like it!  Excellent all-round diversity of companies and animals.

Was the pliosaur skull as impressive in person as it looks in pictures!?

[Halichoeres]

Lookin' good!