Recent Acquisitions

[Ajax88]

My artists edition Haolonggood Stegosaurus ungulatus just arrived in the mail. I had been holding off buying this figure for a while as none of the original three color schemes really satisfied me. They were either too bland, or too garish. (I know there are a lot of fruit lovers in the forum) haha. I saw this beauty on Amazon and snagged it as a Christmas present to myself as it looks like the Argentinosaurus won't be on Amazon anytime soon. I really love the coloration, and the slightly glossy look gives it an Eofauna paint job vibe. It is definitely a bit too large for true 1/35 scale, by my measurement, 25.5cm long equating to a roughly 8.9 meter animal, about 15% larger than the biggest specimens we have found. Nothing too crazy, but it stands nearly as tall as a T. rex at the hips, haha.

[Carnoking]

Don't see many in hand photos of those artist editions. Thanks for sharing!

[ceratopsian]

Congratulations on bagging one, @Ajax88!  Not an easy feat.

[Ajax88]

Congratulations on bagging one, @Ajax88!  Not an easy feat.

Now Eofauna better not release a beauty of the same species for 1/2 the price next year. lol

[EmperorDinobot]

Yesterday's excursion after the hospital visit yielded some very interesting items.

I had never seen those Jurassic World changers. They turn into eggs, and were $2.99 a piece. I would like to review them, but don't know whether they'll go here or into the MTB. @Faelrin these weren't all that popular in my area, but I did spot the T,rex that turns into an Explorer, which was panned as an absolute failure of a toy. Which others exist?

Oh and the winter Obi Wan is gonna go great with BOTM's ice dragon next year.

I am planning to do a sort of Winter Park using SW playsets and the like...

Stay tuned.

[Faelrin]

Speaking of Star Wars, and the BotM Arctic Dragon, I wonder how it look alongside a Tauntuan? Assuming you had one.

As far as those little changer things I think have all of the released ones up on the DinoToyCollector site. Some are on amazon, but a good number seem to be released outside the US, assuming they released yet (like the Allosaurus and Parasaurolophus ones for example).

https://dinotoycollector.com/Browse/Browse.php?Company=Mattel&Line=Jurassic%20World%20Fierce%20Changers

[CityRaptor]

Saw Parasaurolophus and Allosaurus in an Aldi store in Germany a few weeks ago. So yeah, they are out.

[EmperorDinobot]

I do not own a Tauntaun. I have this strange "no aliens" policy. Only Transformers are exempt, as is Superman. My Star Wars people live on my Earth, and all are humans. Sabine's cat is a genetic monster, like Bubastus from Watchmen. Tauntauns are not impossible to find, though. I might get one just for a comparison picture.
The transforming dino eggs are pretty bad. They were beaten in the 80's by those egg transforming dino skeletons whose names I always forget, and by the Rock Lords. For $3.00 they are great, though.

[Halichoeres]

I just can't believe that this "new" Recent Acquisitions thread is already five years old!

Six years, even! That means it's lasted as long as the original Recent Acquisitions thread (2012 - 2018). In about the same amount of time, it's accumulated 58% as many replies, which is interesting. I don't think there are more personal collection threads than there used to be, just fewer comments.

[ceratopsian]

Which is a bit sad really @Halichoeres.  Though I'm certainly guilty of reading but not often commenting.  However - I wonder on (slight) reflection if the brand threads are perhaps more active and garner more comments than they used to?  There seems to be a lot of commenting traffic on e.g. Haolonggood new for 2024/PNSO new for 2024 etc.

I just can't believe that this "new" Recent Acquisitions thread is already five years old!

Six years, even! That means it's lasted as long as the original Recent Acquisitions thread (2012 - 2018). In about the same amount of time, it's accumulated 58% as many replies, which is interesting. I don't think there are more personal collection threads than there used to be, just fewer comments.

[Libraraptor]

I just can't believe that this "new" Recent Acquisitions thread is already five years old!

Six years, even! That means it's lasted as long as the original Recent Acquisitions thread (2012 - 2018). In about the same amount of time, it's accumulated 58% as many replies, which is interesting. I don't think there are more personal collection threads than there used to be, just fewer comments.

Which might be due to the deceptive convenience of the "Like" -Button. You simply don´t have to write "interesting!" or "gorgeous!" anymore.