Haolonggood - New for 2025

[bmathison1972]

There are lots of other figures and species to collect annually. I can wait for a slightly smaller version.

[Flaffy]

I really want one of the Brachios, trust me, but with my current collection set-up I cannot take a sauropod taller than 32-33 cm.

It might be worth picking up and keeping in box until you are able to display it. Like Flaffy said, another option  coming along in the near distant future is a gamble of long odds, and with the Alamosaurus already being out of stock after only a year, waiting might not be the best call.

I find myself in a similar boat with their Argentinosaurus. I'm having a hard time figuring out where I could display that thing but I certainly don't want to miss the boat on getting one, especially since the chances of another 1/35 scale PVC offering coming along are slim.

That is why I got the Argentinosaurus & Brachiosaurus despite them being too large for my current displays. The argent currently resides on my deks because it fits nowhere else.

Yeah no way I'm fitting my Argent on a shelf. I just have mines placed on the floor as a statue that greets me whenever I enter my room.

The prices go up considerably after the preorder period and I can see this Brachiosaurus selling out eventually like the Alamosaurus. I will just have to work on setting up another spot for these large sauropods.

I reckon the Brachiosaurus will sell out faster simply because of how popular it is as a species. Alamosaurus is considerably more obscure and certainly not a household name. I do wonder if HLG has plans to do reissues of their sold out figures though. I imagine financial risk of re-runs not selling as well the intial run are higher for such expensive models.

[Flaffy]

@Everything_Dinosaur will be stocking the Brachiosaurus confirmed. No pricing yet unfortunately.
Blogpost Link: https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2025/01/08/new-haolonggood-brachiosaurus-models.html

[thomasw100]

I reckon the Brachiosaurus will sell out faster simply because of how popular it is as a species. Alamosaurus is considerably more obscure and certainly not a household name. I do wonder if HLG has plans to do reissues of their sold out figures though. I imagine financial risk of re-runs not selling as well the intial run are higher for such expensive models.

One perspective on this can be gained from looking at how well the large 1:35 scale sauropods from Haolonggood have sold.

If for example you sort all products from Lana Time Shop according to "Best Selling", the Argentinosaurus ranks 4th place and the Alamosaurus ranks 8th place. These are much higher than any product from PNSO and the Argentinosaurus is only topped by some Nanmu products.

Lana confirmed that this ranking is calculated from the sales volume for each product, i.e. number of units sold times the price of the product.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I wish the Brachio was just a few cm smaller. Oh well, another new one is bound to come along.

If I was getting it, green would be my first choice. Not crazy about the orange/brown one. The blue one is also very nice, but its tail banding is too bold.

The main thing tempting me towards this Brachiosaurus is...
1) I don't have a true Brachiosaurus in my collection (missed the boat on the Carnegie, still kicking myself for that)
2) I doubt any company in the near future will be brave enough to do a true to scale 1/35 [insert giant sauropod here]
3) $95 is a very reasonable price for such a massive solid PVC figure, something that PNSO definitely cannot match.
4) The last we saw of PNSO's version was years ago, and looks to be reconstructed after Giraffatitan.

I had honestly forgot Pnso had shown that.  Must have decided it was too pricey or something?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I reckon the Brachiosaurus will sell out faster simply because of how popular it is as a species. Alamosaurus is considerably more obscure and certainly not a household name. I do wonder if HLG has plans to do reissues of their sold out figures though. I imagine financial risk of re-runs not selling as well the intial run are higher for such expensive models.

One perspective on this can be gained from looking at how well the large 1:35 scale sauropods from Haolonggood have sold.

If for example you sort all products from Lana Time Shop according to "Best Selling", the Argentinosaurus ranks 4th place and the Alamosaurus ranks 8th place. These are much higher than any product from PNSO and the Argentinosaurus is only topped by some Nanmu products.

Lana confirmed that this ranking is calculated from the sales volume for each product, i.e. number of units sold times the price of the product.

And of course Lana isn't the only retailer selling them either. HLG must have done very well with the Alamosaurus to even consider the Mamenchisaurus Camarasaurus and then Argentinosaurus and now a Brachiosaurus.  Just seeing that line up says that people are buying these large sauropod figures and want them.  I don't think they will stop making them as long as there are species to do.

[Torvosaurus]

They've lost me on the Brachiosaurus. The color options are way too busy; I prefer more subtle colorations. Probably a good thing after the Argentinosaurus since my wife's disapproval was viewed quite well in her gaze without her saying a single word. She was accepting if not happy. I guarantee one more big dino will be too much for her to reserve her vocal demonstrations.

Torvo

[ceratopsian]

I've gone for the blue/grey version.

[Berno]

(Side note, cause they aren't super active on this blog, can someone who has twitter ask them there as well?)

I asked HaoLongGood_Elsa on x about any plans of releasing pterosaur models in the future, no response yet.

[Berno]

Diplodocus will be next and maybe last large dinosaur for a while imo.

So far all large dinosaurs are mainstream ones. I hope I'm wrong though.

I agree that Diplodocus or one of its close relatives is fairly likely to be the next one. After that it is really unclear I would say.

Haolonggood will have good data on sales figures of all their figures, so they will be able to see if the market starts to get saturated with these large sauropod figures.

Also this was a theme that fitted very nicely into the Year of the Dragon. A good opportunity to gain more popularity and recognition as a company.

I could imagine that they would also release some smaller sauropods where they could sense that PNSO may produce a competing product like they have painfully experienced with the Camarasaurus.

Definitely I would expect that 2025 will see more theropods being released. This has started already with Majungasaurus and now Concavenator.

What I would like to see them do would be to fill in more species from certain faunas, like Morrison, Dashanpu, Judith River, Horseshoe Canyon.

If they continue with theropods I hope to see some medium size species like Nothronychus, Abelisaurus, Eustreptospondylus, Herrerasaurus and Gallimimus.
Also it would be fun to see really small sauropods like Magyarosaurus or Yamanasaurus.

[thomasw100]

They've lost me on the Brachiosaurus. The color options are way too busy; I prefer more subtle colorations. Probably a good thing after the Argentinosaurus since my wife's disapproval was viewed quite well in her gaze without her saying a single word. She was accepting if not happy. I guarantee one more big dino will be too much for her to reserve her vocal demonstrations.

Torvo

One can of course solve the problem of too many big dinosaurs by giving something away in exchange for getting something new. Like I will part with one of my two (or even both) Nanmu Brachiosaurus when I get the Haolonggood one.

I do understand very well that you feel that the color options are way too busy. I share this feeling, but have some hope that in natural light they may look more subtle than in glaring illumination. If this does not hold, I will get a repaint.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

They've lost me on the Brachiosaurus. The color options are way too busy; I prefer more subtle colorations. Probably a good thing after the Argentinosaurus since my wife's disapproval was viewed quite well in her gaze without her saying a single word. She was accepting if not happy. I guarantee one more big dino will be too much for her to reserve her vocal demonstrations.

Torvo

One can of course solve the problem of too many big dinosaurs by giving something away in exchange for getting something new. Like I will part with one of my two (or even both) Nanmu Brachiosaurus when I get the Haolonggood one.

I do understand very well that you feel that the color options are way too busy. I share this feeling, but have some hope that in natural light they may look more subtle than in glaring illumination. If this does not hold, I will get a repaint.

I should take a photo of the "Great Valley" my bedroom/office is right now with all the Mattel sauropods plus Nanmu, HLG, ect..

[Paleo Flo]

@Blade-of-the-Moon : that would be nice :-)

I came to the conclusion to take a break from collecting. This time for real.
Exceptions could only be an Archaeopteryx, a Kentrosaurus, a Centrosaurus and an Iguanodon. And of course I hope that HLG will not offer to much temptating Ceratopsians   

My final orders are the blue "mosaic" Brachiosaurus and the green Styracosaurus.

In addition I will order the brown or the purple Argentinosaurus as the "Everest" of my collection despite it's costs.

These three dinosaurs will be final entry for one year or possibly more. We will see!

I don't say goodbye to the forum. But I have a feeling that I have to take a serious break from it. Nevertheless...these are great days being fascinated by dinosaurs.

 

 

[Turkeysaurus]

@Blade-of-the-Moon : that would be nice :-)

I came to the conclusion to take a break from collecting. This time for real.
Exceptions could only be an Archaeopteryx, a Kentrosaurus and an Iguanodon. And of course I hope that HLG will not offer to much temptating Ceratopsians   

My final orders are the blue "mosaic" Brachiosaurus and the green Styracosaurus.

In addition I will order the brown or the purple Argentinosaurus as the "Everest" of my collection despite it's costs.

These three dinosaurs will be final entry for one year or possibly more. We will see!

I don't say goodbye to the forum. But I have a feeling that I have to take a seroius break from it. Nevertheless...these are great days being fascinated by dinosaurs.

 

 

So your taking a break plan is buying Styracosaurus, Brachiosaurus , Argentinosaurus, possibly archaeoptheryx , Kentrosaurus and Iguandon and various other ceratopsions...

[Paleo Flo]

The orders for Brachio and Styraco are out; Argentino will be done soon.

The four named other genera will be the only "planed" exceptions because I am still waiting for fine representations ogf them in these quality.

The ceratopsians...yeah that was written as a funny sidenote  because ceratopsians are hard to resist for me. But I will have a try.

Thank you @Turkeysaurus for your wishes 

[JimoAi]

Will be ordering the grey Apatosaurus and the blue Brachiosaurus for my case.

[thomasw100]

The orders for Brachio and Styraco are out; Argentino will be done soon.

The three named other genera will be the only "planed" exceptions because I am still waiting for fine representations ogf them in these quality.

The ceratopsians...yeah that was written as a funny sidenote  because ceratopsians are hard to resist for me. But I will have a try.

Thank you @Turkeysaurus for your wishes 

Technically speaking the Einiosaurus should have been released last year already and we have been aware of it for quite some time. Therefore I think this is an exception that can be well justified.

[Paleo Flo]

The orders for Brachio and Styraco are out; Argentino will be done soon.

The three named other genera will be the only "planed" exceptions because I am still waiting for fine representations ogf them in these quality.

The ceratopsians...yeah that was written as a funny sidenote  because ceratopsians are hard to resist for me. But I will have a try.

Thank you @Turkeysaurus for your wishes 

Technically speaking the Einiosaurus should have been released last year already and we have been aware of it for quite some time. Therefore I think this is an exception that can be well justified.

The Einio was never planed by me to aquire. I am fully satisfied with the Safari Doug Watson one. 

[Quiversaurus]

@Blade-of-the-Moon : that would be nice :-)

I came to the conclusion to take a break from collecting. This time for real.
Exceptions could only be an Archaeopteryx, a Kentrosaurus and an Iguanodon. And of course I hope that HLG will not offer to much temptating Ceratopsians   
 

I can identify with your choices - Kentrosaurus and Iguanodon are at the absolute top of my list too (:

[Paleo Flo]

@Blade-of-the-Moon : that would be nice :-)

I came to the conclusion to take a break from collecting. This time for real.
Exceptions could only be an Archaeopteryx, a Kentrosaurus and an Iguanodon. And of course I hope that HLG will not offer to much temptating Ceratopsians   
 

I can identify with your choices - Kentrosaurus and Iguanodon are at the absolute top of my list too (:

That's great! 
These dinosaurs are so iconic!