Haolonggood - New for 2025

[DavidJamesArmsby]

@Turkeysaurus
I've wanted a line of paleo accurate (for their time) retro dino models for the longest time. Imagine a line that goes through the 1800's Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins depictions, into the 1900s Charles R. Knight depictions, and so on.
A line of dinosaur models that celebrates the history of our evolving understanding of dinosaurs would be amazing... don't know if it'd sell well though.

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

I would definitely love to see some Crystal Palace age retro designs with a modern intricate paint job; not sure I'd be doing much buying though  And even then I am far more interested in the mammals and non-dinosaur reptiles than the actual would-be-showstoppers... Turtle Diictodon and Ibis Pterodactylus could look absolutely stunning with modern animal inspired paintjobs.

But also, then again.


(Images by Mark Witton)

[MLMjp]

New teaser shared by Paleofiguras:

[oscars_dinos]

lowkey hate when companies do this lol

[thomasw100]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

[DavidJamesArmsby]

I'm seeing a pair of Saurolophus in this teaser. One green with a pale green crest, and one brown with a pale purple crest. Tail is a little wiggly for a hadrosaurid but it could just be the angle.
I think Saurolophus is my most anticpated of the confirmed 2025 line up, so I could be wrong and just wishing super hard.

[TlatolophusJuanorum]

I'm seeing a pair of Saurolophus in this teaser. One green with a pale green crest, and one brown with a pale purple crest. Tail is a little wiggly for a hadrosaurid but it could just be the angle.
I think Saurolophus is my most anticpated of the confirmed 2025 line up, so I could be wrong and just wishing super hard.

Don't forget about the unreleased Einiosaurus, I do see and feel the same. Hope they surprise us with more genra

[oscars_dinos]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Welp, that's definitely the American species; lacks the stripes of the Asian species. Makes sense with the scale from the teaser image. Guess that'll make it look more at place with all the American Dinosaurs everybody keeps releasing, but I fear the lack of the Asian species to pair it with might drive me slightly crazy lol

[thomasw100]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

I am on the same page with you. Haolonggood produces nice figures, they have improved a lot in just two years and their sauropods are really special, but they still lack a certain level of professionalism in many ways.

It starts with the release images that you mention, continues with the lack of background information how they reconstruct the figures, further continues with these chaotic pre-order campaigns and it goes all the way to the issue of production quality like flaws in the molding and paint.

They received so much, sometimes uncritical, praise that I am afraid that they might eventually develop what I would call the spoiled child syndrome.

[oscars_dinos]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

I am on the same page with you. Haolonggood produces nice figures, they have improved a lot in just two years and their sauropods are really special, but they still lack a certain level of professionalism in many ways.

It starts with the release images that you mention, continues with the lack of background information how they reconstruct the figures, further continues with these chaotic pre-order campaigns and it goes all the way to the issue of production quality like flaws in the molding and paint.

They received so much, sometimes uncritical, praise that I am afraid that they might eventually develop what I would call the spoiled child syndrome.

this makes the claim that pnso is dying from hlg funny to me

[thomasw100]

this makes the claim that pnso is dying from hlg funny to me

There is of course the issue that the large sauropod figures from Haolonggood suck up a large fraction if not the entire annual budget of many collectors. And the sauropods have sold like hot cakes simply because there is just nothing available on the market that would come close to this.

This in effect means that the average collector would have less budget available to spend of other figures, which certainly would affect PNSO in some ways. It could well be that this is one of the reasons that they have not released a single museum line figure in almost two years.

After all having been said and done, I typically end up with about 30 percent of Haolonggood figures to be sent to an artist like Dinosaur Models Artworks either for a full repaint or small fixes like seam lines or quite recently the head of the Brachiosaurus.

So far I have sent only a single PNSO figure for full repaint, the Ankylosaurus, and only because I bought this a few years after the initial release when paint quality was not as good as or the first batch.

[Baryonyx]

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[DavidJamesArmsby]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

I am on the same page with you. Haolonggood produces nice figures, they have improved a lot in just two years and their sauropods are really special, but they still lack a certain level of professionalism in many ways.

It starts with the release images that you mention, continues with the lack of background information how they reconstruct the figures, further continues with these chaotic pre-order campaigns and it goes all the way to the issue of production quality like flaws in the molding and paint.

They received so much, sometimes uncritical, praise that I am afraid that they might eventually develop what I would call the spoiled child syndrome.

I've bitten my tongue every time Haolonggood vs. PNSO QC has come up, but I feel the need to finally break my silence;
I have bought every single PNSO figure since 2020, and almost every Haolonggood model to date (I skipped T. Rex 1.0, Therizinosaurus, and one or two others), and I can say from first-hand experience that PNSO's QC is way worse than Haolonggood's.
Just off the top of my head, my Baryonyx had a super warped face (which I managed to fix), my Styracosaurus had a severely warped nose horn (which I couldn't fix), most of the plates of my stegosaurus are warped (which I also couldn't fix), I've had at least 3 missing display stands not present in the boxes, and I've had to clip off extra plastic flash from more PNSO models than I can count. The flash issue seems to have disappeared as I haven't seen it in like 2 years, but I remember it was especially bad on my Allosaurus and Dunkleosteus.
The absolute worst was my PNSO Saurophaganax, though, which came with the most severe paint scuffage I've ever seen on a model. It's all on the right side and I'm convinced it was dropped and stepped on in the factory before being boxed up. I bought this model directly from PNSO's Aliexpress store and after 10 or so days of back-and-forth, they refused to refund or replace it because they couldn't find any proof of my order. This has massively sullied my opinion of the company's customer support. I'm seriously considering sharing a picture of this model, because it's really, really bad.

PNSO bipeds also have widely known issues standing, and if you buy any of their older models (pre-2020?) they have signifigantly downgraded paintjobs. A dirty practice a lot of companies do to keep production costs of older models down, but I don't think Haolonggood has done this yet for any of their older models (but I could be wrong?).

In contrast, the only issue I've had with any of my Haolonggood models is my Alamosaurus has light paint scuffing on it's right side which is barely noticeable.
I still love the offerings from both Haolonggood and PNSO, I wouldn't buy virtually every single one of them if I didn't. But for models that cost SIGNIFIGANTLY more than any of their competitors, PNSO should not have these issues. Every time someone brings up bad QC in dinosaur models, I immediately think of PNSO.
I haven't had an issue since their Baryonyx, so I hope this is a sign of things to come.

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

Welp, that's definitely the American species; lacks the stripes of the Asian species. Makes sense with the scale from the teaser image. Guess that'll make it look more at place with all the American Dinosaurs everybody keeps releasing, but I fear the lack of the Asian species to pair it with might drive me slightly crazy lol

On the contrary, the angle of the crest seems to remind me more of the Mongolian species, but it's impossible to really tell without a full image.

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

I have to agree with @DavidJamesArmsby here, the quality control does seem significantly better on HLG models. This may just be a coincidence, but I also feel that my pnso models are much more vulnerable to paint scuffing in general.

[oscars_dinos]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

I am on the same page with you. Haolonggood produces nice figures, they have improved a lot in just two years and their sauropods are really special, but they still lack a certain level of professionalism in many ways.

It starts with the release images that you mention, continues with the lack of background information how they reconstruct the figures, further continues with these chaotic pre-order campaigns and it goes all the way to the issue of production quality like flaws in the molding and paint.

They received so much, sometimes uncritical, praise that I am afraid that they might eventually develop what I would call the spoiled child syndrome.

I've bitten my tongue every time Haolonggood vs. PNSO QC has come up, but I feel the need to finally break my silence;
I have bought every single PNSO figure since 2020, and almost every Haolonggood model to date (I skipped T. Rex 1.0, Therizinosaurus, and one or two others), and I can say from first-hand experience that PNSO's QC is way worse than Haolonggood's.
Just off the top of my head, my Baryonyx had a super warped face (which I managed to fix), my Styracosaurus had a severely warped nose horn (which I couldn't fix), most of the plates of my stegosaurus are warped (which I also couldn't fix), I've had at least 3 missing display stands not present in the boxes, and I've had to clip off extra plastic flash from more PNSO models than I can count. The flash issue seems to have disappeared as I haven't seen it in like 2 years, but I remember it was especially bad on my Allosaurus and Dunkleosteus.
The absolute worst was my PNSO Saurophaganax, though, which came with the most severe paint scuffage I've ever seen on a model. It's all on the right side and I'm convinced it was dropped and stepped on in the factory before being boxed up. I bought this model directly from PNSO's Aliexpress store and after 10 or so days of back-and-forth, they refused to refund or replace it because they couldn't find any proof of my order. This has massively sullied my opinion of the company's customer support. I'm seriously considering sharing a picture of this model, because it's really, really bad.

PNSO bipeds also have widely known issues standing, and if you buy any of their older models (pre-2020?) they have signifigantly downgraded paintjobs. A dirty practice a lot of companies do to keep production costs of older models down, but I don't think Haolonggood has done this yet for any of their older models (but I could be wrong?).

In contrast, the only issue I've had with any of my Haolonggood models is my Alamosaurus has light paint scuffing on it's right side which is barely noticeable.
I still love the offerings from both Haolonggood and PNSO, I wouldn't buy virtually every single one of them if I didn't. But for models that cost SIGNIFIGANTLY more than any of their competitors, PNSO should not have these issues. Every time someone brings up bad QC in dinosaur models, I immediately think of PNSO.
I haven't had an issue since their Baryonyx, so I hope this is a sign of things to come.

these are valid criticisms, I feel this way about papo actually lol but yeah. Both companies have their problems, luckily I've had no issues with my pnso collection but that doesn't invalidate your experiences.

[DavidJamesArmsby]

Honestly after this month long stretched out teaser of the Haolonggood T. rex release it starts to become really annoying and tiresome that this company apparently cannot release anything any more without these teaser games.

This year Haolonggood has very much stayed behind the expectations they had created themselves in terms of forthcoming releases. Lots of arm waving by way of announcements and teaser images but very little delivered so far.

If nothing else, this shows how much more professional PNSO actually is. They release something when it is ready, and it is available for order few days after that. Plus they support every release with these making of and how to draw videos.

couldn't agree more. I feel like I come off as anti HLG sometimes (despite owning some of their figures) but its only because I feel that HLG is praised and often said to be better than pnso, and like, the quality of the figures are subjective but from every other aspect I feel like HLG still has alot to learn in just like presentation, like the fact that they can never take a good product picture is crazy to me. That and like the teasing of figures like mentioned above and I hate how they use ai for there social media sometimes

I am on the same page with you. Haolonggood produces nice figures, they have improved a lot in just two years and their sauropods are really special, but they still lack a certain level of professionalism in many ways.

It starts with the release images that you mention, continues with the lack of background information how they reconstruct the figures, further continues with these chaotic pre-order campaigns and it goes all the way to the issue of production quality like flaws in the molding and paint.

They received so much, sometimes uncritical, praise that I am afraid that they might eventually develop what I would call the spoiled child syndrome.

I've bitten my tongue every time Haolonggood vs. PNSO QC has come up, but I feel the need to finally break my silence;
I have bought every single PNSO figure since 2020, and almost every Haolonggood model to date (I skipped T. Rex 1.0, Therizinosaurus, and one or two others), and I can say from first-hand experience that PNSO's QC is way worse than Haolonggood's.
Just off the top of my head, my Baryonyx had a super warped face (which I managed to fix), my Styracosaurus had a severely warped nose horn (which I couldn't fix), most of the plates of my stegosaurus are warped (which I also couldn't fix), I've had at least 3 missing display stands not present in the boxes, and I've had to clip off extra plastic flash from more PNSO models than I can count. The flash issue seems to have disappeared as I haven't seen it in like 2 years, but I remember it was especially bad on my Allosaurus and Dunkleosteus.
The absolute worst was my PNSO Saurophaganax, though, which came with the most severe paint scuffage I've ever seen on a model. It's all on the right side and I'm convinced it was dropped and stepped on in the factory before being boxed up. I bought this model directly from PNSO's Aliexpress store and after 10 or so days of back-and-forth, they refused to refund or replace it because they couldn't find any proof of my order. This has massively sullied my opinion of the company's customer support. I'm seriously considering sharing a picture of this model, because it's really, really bad.

PNSO bipeds also have widely known issues standing, and if you buy any of their older models (pre-2020?) they have signifigantly downgraded paintjobs. A dirty practice a lot of companies do to keep production costs of older models down, but I don't think Haolonggood has done this yet for any of their older models (but I could be wrong?).

In contrast, the only issue I've had with any of my Haolonggood models is my Alamosaurus has light paint scuffing on it's right side which is barely noticeable.
I still love the offerings from both Haolonggood and PNSO, I wouldn't buy virtually every single one of them if I didn't. But for models that cost SIGNIFIGANTLY more than any of their competitors, PNSO should not have these issues. Every time someone brings up bad QC in dinosaur models, I immediately think of PNSO.
I haven't had an issue since their Baryonyx, so I hope this is a sign of things to come.

these are valid criticisms, I feel this way about papo actually lol but yeah. Both companies have their problems, luckily I've had no issues with my pnso collection but that doesn't invalidate your experiences.

I definitely think I've had particularly bad luck with my PNSO models. And again; I wouldn't keep buying them if they weren't great models, but I felt the issues I've had needed to be shared.
And it's actually funny you mention Papo, because they're responsible for the absolute worst QC I've ever experienced! XD Again, I love Papo's stuff, and their 2005-2018 stuff is responsible for addicting me to dino collecting to begin with, but when I ordered my original Brown standing T. Rex it arrived with no paint at all except the base brown shades. No nails paint, eye paint, no teeth paint. Just a couple shades of mottled brown.

[Turkeysaurus]

I like these teasers to be honest, HLG gives something to speculate instead of "hopes" and "wishes".

Tyrannosaurus teaser got annoying because longer period of waiting combined with lack of lips & only 2 variants instead of teased 3 or 4. However it was still more fun than posting "I hope they make Brachytrachelopan" 14th time.

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

I agree that I like teasers, but only if the actual figure is revealed soon thereafter, speculation is fun at first but eventually it runs out.