Papo New For 2025

[Syndicate Bias]

No Papp Carcharodontosaurus or Mapusaurus yet I see. I'll check again in 5 years

[EmperorDinobot]

I was thinking that they should do a Carcharodontosaurus yesterday too jaja, you read my mind.

Also, "spaghetti feathers" is referring to Conca's...um...integument? That's golden material right there. I can't laugh because people are sleeping, and I'm having a hard time containing myself as I write this.

[Concavenator]

No Papp Carcharodontosaurus or Mapusaurus yet I see. I'll check again in 5 years

I highly doubt they could top Haolonggood's Carcharodontosaurus or PNSO's Mapusaurus either way. 

The Giganotosaurus didn't turn out too great.

[crazy8wizard]

Anatomy wise the Giganotosaurus isn't half bad. In fact it's better than some of the other Giganotosaurus released around that time. The bizarre upright, about to fall over pose is what messes with it. Unless you give it props and then it becomes really funny

I do kind of like how it resembles James Gurney's Giganotosaurus featured on National Geographic's Dinosaur Giants: Found!

[GojiraGuy1954]

There are no need for all the identical carcharodontosaurids from one company anyways. Go buy a PNSO.

[Stegotyranno420]

There are no need for all the identical carcharodontosaurids from one company anyways. Go buy a PNSO.

L take.
Super mega L take.
🤣

I'm on S @Syndicate Bias side. It doesnt hurt to want to see a classic, beloved company deliever a heavily reuqested species. And even if you do think they are  almost same,  i assume the reason to request is due to how the Giga turned out. though realistically I do agree with @Concavenator.
Unless if they have another home-run like the suchomimus, whixh I am hoping. And if its anyfhing like the Sucho, it could be better than the PNSO versions (artistically, i am sure some of us paleonerds are gonna clutch their pearls over an extra tooth or oversized dewclaw 🤣🤣🤣 )

[Sim]

I don't think any allosauroid is being heavily requested to Papo.  PNSO has made excellent figures of all the main ones, bar Carcharodontosaurus which has been done very well by Haolonggood.  Papo already has Giganotosaurus, Concavenator, Allosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus and now Yangchuanosaurus.  This is a lot of closely related animals.  I think this is enough allosauroids for a while.  If Papo does make another allosauroid I hope it's Neovenator as it would be good to have a widely-available figure of it that's better than CollectA's newest one.  Alternatively something different would be good too, such as Torvosaurus or Herrerasaurus, or man other thyreophorans, Papo has only made one for each main group of thyreophorans and they've all been terrible.  Something better is much needed.

[Concavenator]

Anatomy wise the Giganotosaurus isn't half bad. In fact it's better than some of the other Giganotosaurus released around that time.

Umm... IDK about that. As a representation of the real animal, it's hard for me to imagine how it gets more cursed than this. Maybe you were referring to the likes of Schleich's version?



This figure is from 2019. It's also really bad, but even it doesn't have such a silly pose. Other than that, I don't see any Giganotosaurus figure released around that time being worse than Papo's. I would also rank Mojo's Giganotosaurus from 2020 as superior to Papo's. And Eofauna's and Safari's Giganotosaurus figures, which were released in 2019 and 2017, respectively, are also in a completely different league from Papo's, despite both having their skulls wrong.

Putting scientific accuracy aside, I will admit though that Papo's Giganotosaurus, as nothing more than a sculpt, is not bad at all, actually, it's pretty good! I had the chance to see it in person, and even though it still overall came off as a joke to me, the sculpt was impressive to see nonetheless. That's classic Papo for you, but sadly not necessarily current Papo, as they've been also cranking out monstrosity after monstrosity (their Protoceratops, Concavenator, Polacanthus and Amargasaurus instantly come to mind). These latter pieces are also inaccurate, but they don't even make up for that with good-looking sculpts. I agree with what @Flaffy said here.

It doesnt hurt to want to see a classic, beloved company deliever a heavily reuqested species.

I don't think any allosauroid is being heavily requested to Papo.

At this point, the only thing that's heavily requested to Papo is that they stop doing so many species dirty and that they start doing a good job in a consistent manner.  Really, it's pointless otherwise. It's of no use if they make a figure of an overdue species like Herrerasaurus, Kentrosaurus or Plateosaurus only for those figures to have the quality of the Protoceratops or the Concavenator.

As for these 2025 species... we'll see it how goes. The Suchomimus is quite good, but I take it as an outlier. I would still not take it for granted that there will be a single decent one amongst these. It certainly could, but I think I have solid reasons not to expect it. If there will be one or several good ones, nice, then! Personally hoping for the Anhanguera to be one of "the decents"! Or the only one should there be just one. But in that case, I'm expecting it to be the Yangchuanosaurus.

I'd just let whoever sculpted the Suchomimus to keep sculpting their figures. If they did, Papo would be a company to watch out for. Otherwise, they can't really keep up with the other companies, leaving them in a position not different from Schleich's (well, save for the exceptional and random good Papo figure that would arise from time to time).

[Sim]

It's also really bad, but even it doesn't have such a silly pose.

I think the pose of that Schleich figure is worse than the Papo figure's!  I would prefer a rearing Giganotosaurus over whatever's happening to the Schleich one!

At this point, the only thing that's heavily requested to Papo is that they stop doing so many species dirty and that they start doing a good job in a consistent manner.

This is exactly it.

As for these 2025 species... we'll see it how goes. The Suchomimus is quite good, but I take it as an outlier. I would still not take it for granted that there will be a single decent one amongst these. It certainly could, but I think I have solid reasons not to expect it. If there will be one or several good ones, nice, then! Personally hoping for the Anhanguera to be one of "the decents"! Or the only one should there be just one. But in that case, I'm expecting it to be the Yangchuanosaurus.

I think there will be at least one good figure, it would be unlike Papo if there wasn't.  I'm expecting the Yangchuanosaurus to be good, as a follow-up to the Papo Suchomimus.  But Anhanguera as well since Mr Seo sculpted all Papo's current pterosaurs.  Also, I'm sure the Tyrannosaurus will be good too, I can't imagine Papo neglecting that species.

I'd just let whoever sculpted the Suchomimus to keep sculpting their figures. If they did, Papo would be a company to watch out for. Otherwise, they can't really keep up with the other companies, leaving them in a position not different from Schleich's (well, save for the exceptional and random good Papo figure that would arise from time to time).

Interestingly, Papo consistently does modern animals extremely well.  They are tied with Safari as my favourite modern animal figure company.  It would be so nice if they did prehistoric animals well consistently too.

[Primeval12]

I quite like the Papo Giga. The sculpt is absolutely gorgeous. It is very imposing on the shelf too with its pose.

[crazy8wizard]

Fortunately, I don't collect real animals, I collect figurines of extinct animals, so if I like the sculpt I'll consider it. I prefer the sculpt, paint, and anatomy over the baryonyx which is in a similar rearing pose but has a lot more going on.

Anatomy-wise the skull of the papo model is closer in reconstruction to more modern, robust giganotosaurus skulls and opts for the less wide supratemporal fenestra, narrow snout, and bizarre curved notch of the O'Donnell mount of the 1990s.

[GojiraGuy1954]

There are no need for all the identical carcharodontosaurids from one company anyways. Go buy a PNSO.

L take.
Super mega L take.
🤣

I'm on S @Syndicate Bias side. It doesnt hurt to want to see a classic, beloved company deliever a heavily reuqested species. And even if you do think they are  almost same,  i assume the reason to request is due to how the Giga turned out. though realistically I do agree with @Concavenator.
Unless if they have another home-run like the suchomimus, whixh I am hoping. And if its anyfhing like the Sucho, it could be better than the PNSO versions (artistically, i am sure some of us paleonerds are gonna clutch their pearls over an extra tooth or oversized dewclaw 🤣🤣🤣 )

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[GojiraGuy1954]

I quite like the Papo Giga. The sculpt is absolutely gorgeous. It is very imposing on the shelf too with its pose.

I do think it's an overhated one. I'm not a superfan, but the rearing pose is dynamic and doesn't look silly to me. I've considered buying it a few times when I see it in person, but have refrained for now because I have the EoFauna one.

[Concavenator]

I think there will be at least one good figure, it would be unlike Papo if there wasn't. 

Hope you're right!

[JimoAi]

any chance anyone knows when will the pictures be revealed?

[PrimevalRaptor]

I quite like the Papo Giga. The sculpt is absolutely gorgeous. It is very imposing on the shelf too with its pose.

I do think it's an overhated one. I'm not a superfan, but the rearing pose is dynamic and doesn't look silly to me. I've considered buying it a few times when I see it in person, but have refrained for now because I have the EoFauna one.

Agreed, like yes it has issues and the pose is not natural and the tail is pretty short but when I saw it in person I had to pick it up cause the front half of it, especially the head, is really stunning (and I got some great photos of it from the right angles lol)

[SpartanSquat]

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any chance anyone knows when will the pictures be revealed?

I hope they will reveal before december, but Im expect they will show pics in december.
I really hope mr seo will be the sculptor of yangchuano.

[Halichoeres]

Fingers crossed for some fuzz on the Anhanguera.

[Libraraptor]

Does anyone know when some pictures will be revealed?

[Joliezac]

Does anyone know when some pictures will be revealed?

No idea. This time last year there were already pictures shown. I'm hoping December they will be revealed.