PNSO New for 2025

[Turkeysaurus]

We were worried future of PNSO but they dropped two new dinosaurs before Haolonggood can release T.rex.    

[thomasw100]

It looks really good. Nice that they're doing genera that have never been touched before. An Anchiceratops would be tempting.

But I won't lie, I'll inevitably be disappointed by every PNSO reveal that isn't that damn lipped T. rex. I know, it is indeed an obsession.

I am sure that this lipped T. rex will come rather sooner than later.

[Turkeysaurus]

Model is 15 cm which would make 5.25 m for 1:35. Stellasaurus is 4.2 meters. It should have been 12 cm ,  around HLG Kosmoceratops size.

[thomasw100]

It's oversized unfortunately like Styracosaurus.

Not sure about that. From what I read the fossil material is essentially a partial skull which is sufficiently complete to establish a new genus. But as far as I can see not much (if any) post-cranial material has been found. This gives length estimates a rather large uncertainty margin. Estimates of around 5 to 6 meters are floating around and with a figure size of 15 cm this would place it right in the middle of that range.

[ceratopsian]

Well that was a huge surprise just now!  As you might guess, I'm personally super happy with another ceratopsian, but I fully sympathise with those less keen on the group than I am who would prefer a more diverse sequence of releases from PNSO. I would have thought more diversity was a better sales policy - though of course it's quite possible that working on ceratopsians currently fits in with another part of their business portfolio.

I must confess that I had forgotten about Stellasaurus hitting the (not quite!) headlines back in 2020.  It looks a handsome model - though I would appreciate more variety in colour palette from PNSO (same as for HLG on the whole).

[thomasw100]

Edit: That said, this is the third ceratopsian in a row. Time for something different next right?

Yes, please!

Just some background information here: PNSO made 1 ceratopsian in 2024 and now 2 in 2025, after a long break that lasted from late 2022 to late 2024 when they released Lokiceratops. Haolonggood released 5 ceratopsians in 2023 and 6 ceratopsians in 2024.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

It's interesting, never heard of the species before. The blue eyes are noticeable but really almost distracting as with some previous PNSO models at least to me.  I kind of wish they would just close the mouths on them too.  It sort of has this retro paleoart vibe in it's pose I like.

[Sim]

Just some background information here: PNSO made 1 ceratopsian in 2024 and now 2 in 2025, after a long break that lasted from late 2022 to late 2024 when they released Lokiceratops. Haolonggood released 5 ceratopsians in 2023 and 6 ceratopsians in 2024.

Perhaps the reason making ceratopsids is more noticeable with PNSO is due to them releasing figures much less often than Haolonggood.  With Haolonggood there were lots of non-ceratopsian releases...  But maybe it actually comes down to me not liking most of PNSO's recent releases.  So repetition is more noticeable to me..  I'm not sure, the information you mentioned is valid.  I'm not confident why the ceratopsids in a row is more noticeable and bothersome from PNSO despite Haolonggood making more.  Maybe Haolonggood spread them out among non-ceratopsids, making their releases more varied over a given time period?

@ceratopsian, I'm happy the PNSO Stellasaurus pleases you!

[Sim]

It just occurred to me that another factor in PNSO making ceratopsids being more noticeable than Haolonggood doing the same is that there was that long period where PNSO didn't release anything new, between the Lokiceratops and Spiclypeus.  So it's been what, half a year, with only ceratopsids from PNSO.

[Flaffy]

Hopefully this will be a whole wave of ceratopsians.

I think diversity would be better than a lot of ceratopsids, but if PNSO does make more ceratopsids I hope they are of species that need a good figure, e.g. Anchiceratops, Agujaceratops.

Agree with both of those chasmosaurines.

Point on the Stellasaurus: IMO it fills a much needed gap in the Styracosaurus --> Pachyrhinosaurus anagenesis line. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing PNSO's take on Achelousaurus since CollectA's one is quite crude by today's standards. I also wouldn't mind PNSO revisiting the genus Pachyrhinosaurus, hopefully with P. canadensis or P. perotorum.

Credit: Chris DiPiazza

[Sim]

I would love to have an Achelousaurus by PNSO!

[DavidJamesArmsby]

It looks fantastic; I'll definitely buy it. I would have preferred something more unique akin to their Lufengosaurus though.

But we are utterly spoilt when it comes to great ceratopsian models. I think it's becoming the most oversaturated dinosaur group in terms of collector's toys. Between BOTM, HLG, PNSO, and everyone else, I think my shelves consist of 40% ceratopsians.

They're probably my favourite dinosaur group, so it's hard to complain, but I think even I'm getting a little exhausted.

[Sim]

But we are utterly spoilt when it comes to great ceratopsian models. I think it's becoming the most oversaturated dinosaur group in terms of collector's toys.

Them and allosauroids 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Hopefully this will be a whole wave of ceratopsians.

I think diversity would be better than a lot of ceratopsids, but if PNSO does make more ceratopsids I hope they are of species that need a good figure, e.g. Anchiceratops, Agujaceratops.

Agree with both of those chasmosaurines.

Point on the Stellasaurus: IMO it fills a much needed gap in the Styracosaurus --> Pachyrhinosaurus anagenesis line. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing PNSO's take on Achelousaurus since CollectA's one is quite crude by today's standards. I also wouldn't mind PNSO revisiting the genus Pachyrhinosaurus, hopefully with P. canadensis or P. perotorum.

Credit: Chris DiPiazza

We just need some species with horns that curve left and right and we'll have an entire set lol

[oscars_dinos]

pnso be like

[Elengassen]

But we are utterly spoilt when it comes to great ceratopsian models. I think it's becoming the most oversaturated dinosaur group in terms of collector's toys. Between BOTM, HLG, PNSO, and everyone else, I think my shelves consist of 40% ceratopsians.

This is true, and I've noticed for a while that many companies make ceratopsians at a greater rate than other ornithischians – perhaps because they are more immediately distinguishable from each other than many stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods etc.

That said, with PNSO's current ceratopsian run, they are at least focusing on genera with little or no representation in figure form. If they carry on with their ceratopsian streak, I hope they keep doing this.

(Although I'd also quite like a Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis)

[thomasw100]

It looks fantastic; I'll definitely buy it. I would have preferred something more unique akin to their Lufengosaurus though.

But we are utterly spoilt when it comes to great ceratopsian models. I think it's becoming the most oversaturated dinosaur group in terms of collector's toys. Between BOTM, HLG, PNSO, and everyone else, I think my shelves consist of 40% ceratopsians.

They're probably my favourite dinosaur group, so it's hard to complain, but I think even I'm getting a little exhausted.

I guess the shelf occupancy depends a bit on how one measures it. In my case, if I go by area my shelves would be occupied by like 80 % sauropods just because of how huge they are.

[Concavenator]

I think PNSO and Haolonggood are afraid of making feathered dromaeosaurids. 

Afraid? Don't see why would they be afraid. We should take into consideration that PNSO and HLG basically only tackle animals that can be comfortably made in that 1:30-1:35 scale. That excludes the vast majority of dromaeosaurids.

As we know, there are two large and well-known dromaeosaurid genera: Utahraptor and Austroraptor.

If PNSO and HLG ever make a figure of a dromaeosaurid (we'll see if that happens), one would expect it to be either of those genera (or at least, Utahraptor, being noticeably bulkier than Austroraptor).

I don't think they are afraid, I think they simply aren't too interested. Just as PNSO did a great job with their Deinocheirus and Therizinosaurus, I bet a new dromaeosaurid by them would be great too. Another reason why we might not be seeing more feathered dinosaurs from PNSO/HLG is because sculpting them is probably more cumbersome than sculpting scaly species. And maybe they get the idea that scaly dinosaurs are more popular than feathered species for the general public for some reason or another (which also explains why we basically see the same type of dinosaurs being released over and over as figures: tyrannosauroids, allosauroids, spinosaurids, ceratopsids, ankylosaurians, stegosaurians and sauropods).

These factors combined probably explain why we see so few feathered species releases from those companies.

And I feel like when companies produce figures of ceratopsids no-one cared about (e.g. this Stellasaurus, CollectA's Furcatoceratops) they are doing it at least partially to surprise people, which I don't think is better than choosing species people want.

I agree. Choices like this one are so pointless in my eyes, especially when there are quite a few genera people have been requesting from PNSO for years, like Dilophosaurus, more dromaeosaurids, etc.

No doubt about it, PNSO's species' choices are hit or miss. Sometimes it's a hit (Zuul, Borealopelta, Edmontosaurus, Yutyrannus, Deinocheirus, etc), but there are poor choices too (Stellasaurus, Tyrannotitan, "Sinopliosaurus", "Nanotyrannus"). And this one is a miss. By contrast, about every single release from Wild Past's Kickstarter portfolio was a splendid choice, filling important gaps.

I think diversity would be better than a lot of ceratopsids, but if PNSO does make more ceratopsids I hope they are of species that need a good figure, e.g. Anchiceratops, Agujaceratops.

Also agree with this. I would even argue that the problem doesn't necessarily lie in them releasing several ceratopsids one after the other (although I'd also appreciate more variety), but rather which species are they releasing. As long as the ceratopsids in question are known from good remains, I can't complain, regardless of me being interested or not (I'm not interested in Spiclypeus yet I still acknowledge it as a good choice).

Both Lokiceratops and Spiclypeus are known from good remains (so they make for good releases), whereas Stellasaurus isn't, and this slot could've gone to a more complete ceratopsid like Anchiceratops (or hey, another non-ceratopsid).

[I also wouldn't mind PNSO revisiting the genus Pachyrhinosaurus

+ 1 on that.

[Fembrogon]

Well, this is a brand-new genus for me, so credit to PNSO for introducing a new dinosaur to folks, at least. It's a very nice-looking model as usual, too.
With all these ceratopsians I almost wonder if PNSO is compensating for that glut of large theropods previously. 

[oscars_dinos]

its a really nice figure i love the pose, the color, everthing deff getting this