HAOLONGGOOD - New for 2024

[SidB]

The same goes for me. I have the blue one and I don't notice any defects.

Same here.

[triceratops83]

My Argentinosaurus was just delivered. It's a dark rainy day for taking photos, so these aren't exactly optimal. I thought a good size comparison would be with Muscovy ducks, which are pretty big birds - the big male could look into its eyes if he stretched his neck up. Moot point anyway - the ducks refused to go near this thing.


Here it is on the hood of my car.


And the lovely Huayangosaurus.

[SidB]

Darn tough to get those ducks to co-operate, @triceratops83 - hard to keep our ducks in a row!

[triceratops83]

Darn tough to get those ducks to co-operate, @triceratops83 - hard to keep our ducks in a row!

Yeah, mine get up to all sorts of mischief. Their reactions to dinosaur toys are always funny, but I guess the size of this Argentinosaurus really put them off - when I approached them holding it, they just bolted.

[Paleo Flo]

Ia m still waiting for my brown Utahceratops. I will report about if there are potential errors when it had been delivered.

[Pinbacker]

HLG Styracosaurus and Majungasaurus revealed!

[Renecito]

Paleofiguras posted Styracosaurus and Majungasaurus:

[Paleo Flo]

Not as thrilling as I hoped. Especially the Styraco...grey doesn't suit it well (my opinion).
But I guess a few more pics could change that...

[EmperorDinobot]

They are both good. The Styracosaurus is just coming out of a burnt forest.

[suspsy]

I will wait until additional images become available before making a blog post.

[Gwangi]

Majungasaurus looks great but I'm content with Safari's. I'm not really liking the Styracosaurus but the competition is steep for Styraco. Battat's is still the best as far as I'm concerned, I thought Haolonggood might dethrone it.

[Joliezac]

The Styraco just looks unfinished to me? Doesn't seem on the same level as detail paint wise as some of the former ceratopsians. The Majungasaurus looks great. I don't have one in my collection.

[EmperorDinobot]

BMoS Battat's is truly the best one.

I liked Favorite's, the first one. The second one seems to be melting. Oh, and the Kaiyodo one is great as well.

[DavidJamesArmsby]

I am very interested to see more images of that Majungasaurus. It has a chance to be Haolonggood's best theropod I think. It looks to lack jaw articulation too, which I think is good. No jaw articulation means creating good looking and accurate head sculpts will be easier. The bad head sculpts are what ruined most of Haolonggood's infamously subpar theropods for me.
Their best theropods in my eyes are still their dilophosaurus pair, which I think are the only ones they've released without jaw articulation.

[thomasw100]

The Styracosaurus is quite nice but no match for the PNSO one in my opinion although the PNSO figure is more than 2 years old. Haolonggood apparently managed to sculpt the ventral side of their Triceratops with chain mail style integument, but no sign of this on either the Utahceratops or the Styracosaurus. I really like that the paint design of this new Styracosaurus has no stark squiggles. I hope that they will eventually decide to completely let go on this. The first picture suggests that the surface texture could be more crisp again compared to what we saw on the Utahceratops.

In my view the biggest challenge that Haolonggood really needs to address (and better sooner than later) is in the area of production quality and quality control. Their designs are now very nice both in terms of sculpt and paint but the production seems to be affected by quality issues. This ranges from molding issues resulting in molten and glassy looking surfaces in parts of the figures to relatively common minor paint defects. Most of the latter can be fixed quite easily, but the molding issues really need to be resolved.

[Ambre]

FINALLY a majungasaurus figure that i actually like !! Im not crazy for the Stiraco but i'll wait for more pictures to release

[Carnoking]

Oh my gosh, I am so hyped to see that Majungasaurus!

[Pinbacker]

After waiting for years (in vain) on Wild Past's 1:35 Majungasaurus, Haolonggood finally swoops in and delivers the goods. What a beautiful model. Can't wait to see the other variant. The Styracosaurus looks great as well! I liked the subdued color palatte, but I'm guessing the other variant will be more colorful.

[triceratops83]

As far as I'm concerned, a 1:35 scale model of the largest dinosaur is the coolest thing ever, so here are some closeups and comparison pics for anyone still on the fence.

A detail of the back of the Argentinosaurus.


The mouth is incredibly detailed.


The head.


The seam line at the neck - expertly blended in.


The seam at the tail - once again you have to really look to notice.


With some other 1:35 Cretaceous Critters and a scale human.


With some other large Sauropods.


And the Huayangosaurus with some PNSO and Haolonggood Stegosaurs. As you can see, not much smaller that the Haolonggood Wuerhosaurus, but much more detailed. I see no reason why Haolonggood can't release figures this size on their own.

[Quiversaurus]

Paleofiguras posted Styracosaurus and Majungasaurus:

The more I look at the grey, the more I like it. I think there are a lot of subtleties we can't yet see from this image. I like PNSO's Styracosaurus more, but this is still a beautiful rendition imo. Good to have multiple styles and options to choose from. I imagine there'll be another paint scheme?

I really like that Majungasaurus! Paint scheme and sculpt look closer to PNSO therapods than ever before. What a smart species to come back with therapods on.

I feel like the edge HLG has over PNSO is that they keep a finger on the pulse of the collecting community's preferences, like on this forum for eg. They heard the cries for 1:35 sauropods, delivered beautifully, and now perhaps they're moving on to abelisaurids...