What new mini figures do you wish would be made?

[Sim]

After considering it further, I think now would be a good time to arrange a poll for the mini figures we wish would be made!  Please list up to 10 prehistoric animals you'd like to have in the poll.  Once choices stop coming I'll make the poll!  I'll link figure companies to the poll once it gets a good amount of votes!

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Oh, after missing out on the couple ones like this by virtue of joining the forums too late, I'm glad to be here for this one!
My list:

- Hesperornis
- Leptocleidus
- Kulindadromeus
- Mononykus
- Dimorphodon
- Dearc
- Tapejara
- Diacodexis
- Leptictidium
- Psittacosaurus

[Sim]

I don't get any results for Leptospondylus when I do a search for it?

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

  Oh yeah I meant Leptocleidus. I got my wires crossed a bit trying to choose between different small Plesiosaurs.

[stargatedalek]

Leptospondylus is also a junior synonym for Massospondylus.

I would love to have minis of very small animals that end up being around 1:20-1:10, like small pterosaurs, fish, or alvarezsaurs.

[Torvosaurus]

What is your definition of mini figures? Are we looking at tube-sized prehistorics or small models like the Kaiyodo line, or at small prehistorics that could have a figure? I'm a little confused here.

Torvo

[Sim]

Tube/toob size figures and Kaiyodo figures tend to be around the same size and I consider all of them to be mini figures.  Figures for that kind of size are what the poll will be for.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Diplocaulus
Eohippus
Archaeopteryx
Phacops rana
Michelinoceras
Stephanoceras
Eurypterus
Bothriolepis
Gyracanthus
Eusthenopteron

[Libraraptor]

As far as a figure is well made and has a certain charm to it, I honestly don´t care if it´s a mini figure or a, let´s say Schleich-sized, figure. My collection includes figures and models of all styles, companies and sizes, I don´t need any particular species made as a mini figure.

[Crackington]

I'd like to see a good mini figure of Thecodontosaurus, one of the earliest dinosaurs described but woefully neglected in toys/figures. I have mentioned it before but guess will just need to keep keepin' on until it happens!

I was also looking at Dinowaurs Survival on my collection thread recently and noted that the figures were the poorest thing about the series. Be good to see some of them made properly- Keratocephalus in particular.

[ceratopsian]

Xiaotingia.

[Concavenator]

Deinonychus first and foremost.

Also...

Austroraptor
Pachycephalosaurus
Kentrosaurus
Scelidosaurus
Thescelosaurus
Aquilolamna
Ambulocetus
Rhamphorhynchus

[Nehalennia]

Eurohippus
Diplocaulus
Palaeoloxodon falconeri (Mediterranean dwarf elephant)
Phosphatherium
Platyhystrix
Tetracynodon
Ericiolacerta
Discokeryx

To name a few! Some of these might be a little large for a 'mini figure', not sure what the cut off point is.

[Joel1905]

I'd encourage everyone here to check out PaleoKhris & PS Arts on Instagram.

[Concavenator]

I'd encourage everyone here to check out PaleoKhris & PS Arts on Instagram.

Neat figures indeed, but not an option for exclusively PVC figure collectors.

[Joel1905]

I'd encourage everyone here to check out PaleoKhris & PS Arts on Instagram.

Neat figures indeed, but not an option for exclusively PVC figure collectors.

It's a shame that you'd close those figures off for that reason.

[Concavenator]

I'd encourage everyone here to check out PaleoKhris & PS Arts on Instagram.

Neat figures indeed, but not an option for exclusively PVC figure collectors.

It's a shame that you'd close those figures off for that reason.

They're more expensive and more fragile than PVC figures. Also, in my case (and in other people's cases as well), I'd need the figures to be painted by a professional artist which would make the figures even more expensive. Add several shipping costs too, and so each individual figure comes at quite the hefty investment.

It is therefore totally reasonable for figures of smallish animals like these be requested to be made in PVC despite good resin versions by individuals artists being available too.

[Sim]

@Pachyrhinosaurus, apparently Phacops rana has been reclassified as Eldredgeops rana, so that's what I'll include it in the poll as, unless you have any objection to it.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

@Pachyrhinosaurus, apparently Phacops rana has been reclassified as Eldredgeops rana, so that's what I'll include it in the poll as, unless you have any objection to it.

It is — that's fine. I'm in the habit of using the old genus myself since it was designated as our state fossil that way. Most other collectors I know informally go with the old way as well so it's easy to forget that it changed.

[Halichoeres]

What is your definition of mini figures? Are we looking at tube-sized prehistorics or small models like the Kaiyodo line, or at small prehistorics that could have a figure? I'm a little confused here.

Torvo

It is a bit of a vibes-based distinction! For me it's Safari Toob figures, most Kaiyodo or other gashapon figures, Yowie figures, etc. Starlux is right at the border of 'non-mini' for me, although you could also argue for some of the smaller CollectA popular range figures.

I'd encourage everyone here to check out PaleoKhris & PS Arts on Instagram.

Neat figures indeed, but not an option for exclusively PVC figure collectors.

It's a shame that you'd close those figures off for that reason.

There's a bunch of lipped Tyrannosaurus models available in the same format, yet you also request those from PNSO, for example. Are the printed versions not sufficient? What's the difference?


There are hundreds of taxa I'd buy in mini form, but some that spring to mind are:

Drepanosaurus
Foreyia
Icarosaurus
Tricerichthys
Tullimonstrum