New Yowies Series 2024: Ultimate Dinosaurs

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Not sure how many of you are familiar with this brand of mystery egg toys as their prehistoric offerrings have been few and far between. Usually they offer modern animal figures and have lucrative for some rare species in toy form for collectors. This is the first series for the US of anything prehistoric, so I thought I would post it here.



Besides, some of these look awful familiar... :roll:

[Gwangi]

I went from excited to disappointed entirely too fast. Yowie has had some great figure sets but this clearly isn't going to be one of them. Looks like most of them are knockoffs too.

[Primeval12]

@Halichoeres I spy a species you've been wanting

[crazy8wizard]

Seeing a lot of borrowed color schemes that seem mixed and matched from different sources, but I am excited to see a cryptoclidus again. Also a couple genera not seen in mini form yet which is interesting.

[Faelrin]

This is like the first prehistoric figures from them in like 2 decades or so right? Hard to believe they haven't caught up with the times for their sculpts. Disappointing to say the least. I mean the detail, anatomy, and sculpt work for their recent extant figures are pretty decent.

That said a few of these are interesting choices, but aside from Kosmoceratops, Lambeosaurus, and Atopodentatus, they could just as well be Brachoisaurus, Therizinosaurus or Plesiosaurus, if not a generic member of their respective groups, from how generic the sculpts are.

It looks like they are trying to compete with Captivz with the stat stuff. Also I spy a Jurassic logo used as well. Edit: Also Papo running rex used again.

[Halichoeres]

So on the one hand Yowie clearly put less effort into this series than they do with their typical animal series. Stock photos of Papo figures, some questionable sculpts, some questionable text. On the other hand, as @Faelrin said, this is their first prehistoric series since 2002, so that's cause for some celebration, even if it's not all I might have hoped.

@Primeval12 yup I'll be going for that Cryptoclidus! Maybe the Atopodentatus too, it looks better proportioned than PNSO's mini one even if the sculpt is a bit less detailed.

[Flaffy]

The Kosmoceratops has a paint scheme suspiciously similar to BotM's adult Centrosaurus.

[Concavenator]

How big these figures are? I'm unfamiliar with the company. The Atopodentatus has me curious.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

These are approximately Safari Toob size figures. They fit in a plastic surprise egg (like and Easter egg).

[Primeval12]

So on the one hand Yowie clearly put less effort into this series than they do with their typical animal series. Stock photos of Papo figures, some questionable sculpts, some questionable text. On the other hand, as @Faelrin said, this is their first prehistoric series since 2002, so that's cause for some celebration, even if it's not all I might have hoped.

@Primeval12 yup I'll be going for that Cryptoclidus! Maybe the Atopodentatus too, it looks better proportioned than PNSO's mini one even if the sculpt is a bit less detailed.

I will be going for the same two. May the odds be ever in your favor  

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Kind of surprising Yowie would do that after having decent sculpts for their modern animals. I recently noticed that Sheetz sells them now and have been collecting the baby animals series. The blind bag concept is rather lucrative since I definitely spent more than I should have on them and haven't completed the set yet.

[Concavenator]

@Saarlooswolfhound I see, thank you!

[SBell]

Kind of surprising Yowie would do that after having decent sculpts for their modern animals. I recently noticed that Sheetz sells them now and have been collecting the baby animals series. The blind bag concept is rather lucrative since I definitely spent more than I should have on them and haven't completed the set yet.

Their last prehistoric release also used existing sculpts (Predators or Dinowaurs, one of those).

And at least one set also reused figures, the small Nayab figures (the Bites series, I think)

[Faelrin]

Website for it:

https://yowieworld.com/collect/ultimate-dinosaurs/

Their instagram post says this is Series 9:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8bPgfxPu4b/

Here's some higher res images of the figures:

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With these better images, I like the Atopodentatus, Kosmoceratops, and Lambeosaurus the most of these. That said I kind of was leaning with the Atopodentatus anyways.

[Gwangi]

Thanks for the better images @Faelrin. Initially I thought a lot of these were knockoffs but I guess they're not. That doesn't mean they're good though!

The only ones I wouldn't be disappointed in getting are the Suzhousaurus, Kosmoceratops, Cryptoclidus, and Atopodentatus. The Titanosaurus is cute but I couldn't care less about the rest of them. So that's 4 or 5 out of 13. And lets not forget that some of the eggs will have those awful Yowie characters. Not great odds. I think I'll just stick with the Captivz as far as blind bag toys go. I might still end up with a few of these however, my daughter likes Yowies and will probably get excited when she sees a new series is available.

[Faelrin]

So apparently another series with dinosaurs released last year. I came across this searching for the new ones (nothing came up, so too soon I guess). There's more info on it here (not great by all means):

https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t24581-new-yowie-series-for-2023

[CityRaptor]

Those look like re-uses of the Simba Predators molds, although renamed. The Apatosaurus was Supersaurus in that series. Indeed looks like the magazine version of Supersaurus was used. ( Yep, there was a magazine for that toyline here in Germany. )

As for the 2024 series: Yeah, those are mostly uninteresting, ripped off or really generic, with reuses of the Papo Rex and Pteranodon in the logo and a ripped off JP/JW symbol. And of course there is the danger that you end up with one of the freaks. I love how the rarity of those things is called "popular", given that they are probably junk no one wants.

But now for the real question: If Yowies are sold in a plastic capsule inside a chocolate freak, how are those legal in the US? Wasn't that being illegal the reason Kinder Surprise Eggs were not sold in the US?

[Faelrin]

Kinder Eggs have the chocolate seperated from the toys in seperate bags if I recall right.

I wonder if it is a similar thing here.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

I am not real educated on the law behind things, but Yowies have the solid plastic toy and info sheet inside a plastic egg (split horizontally) and then a formed chocolate exterior around that, and then a foil wrapper. Kinder eggs I have seen or gotten in the US, have an egg shaled capsule (split vertically) and one half has the chocolate treat in it and the other half has the puzzle toy and the paper directions/info sheet. So I think the issue is more of a "small parts/swallowing hazard inside a food item" vs. "solid toy encapsulated by a chocolate exterior"... but thats just my break down of it and am unsure if I have ever had a "real" kinder egg that Europe sells.

[SBell]

Kinder Eggs have the chocolate seperated from the toys in seperate bags if I recall right.

I wonder if it is a similar thing here.

As a Canadian that has always been able to get normal kinder eggs... including yesterday...

The toys are multiple pieces, inside a plastic capsule, inside the chocolate egg.