PNSO New for 2025

[DefinitelyNOTDilo]

A lipped Tyrannosaurus has hardly been teased. Besides that, most of PNSO releases from the last three years haven't been teased before its release to begin with.

We simply don't have any clue of what they're coming up with next.

What do you mean it's "hardly been teased" they showed us a digital model of one...

PNSO is not purely a figure company, they do a lot of other work, the Rex model they shared could easily be for one of a number of things.

[Joel1905]

A lipped Tyrannosaurus has hardly been teased. Besides that, most of PNSO releases from the last three years haven't been teased before its release to begin with.

We simply don't have any clue of what they're coming up with next.

What do you mean it's "hardly been teased" they showed us a digital model of one...

PNSO is not purely a figure company, they do a lot of other work, the Rex model they shared could easily be for one of a number of things.

That's not a strong argument against them releasing it as a figure

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

If they did not end up releasing that Rex as a figure it would be funny considering how long we've been hyping it up in here.

But speaking of models made for non-figure release purposes;
It makes me so sad that PNSO stopped their mini line despite all the awesome "mini scale" animal artwork they keep creating...

[thomasw100]

Official PNSO video describing the creation of the Coronosaurus model:

[Joel1905]

If they did not end up releasing that Rex as a figure it would be funny considering how long we've been hyping it up in here.

But speaking of models made for non-figure release purposes;
It makes me so sad that PNSO stopped their mini line despite all the awesome "mini scale" animal artwork they keep creating...

There were loads of images of extant mini PNSO models from a couple of years ago but the figures themselves never seem to have been released! Komodo Dragon, a Great White Shark, a Wolf, a Bear, a Dolphin etc, it's sad because they looked great!

Some of them would've been within 1:35 scale range too

[Concavenator]

If they're going to do little clusters of closely related animals, I wish they had done the same for Lufengosaurus and its relatives!

I think they only released that Lufengosaurus last year because it's both a Chinese taxon and a species they previously made a figure of. Had Lufengosaurus been discovered in another country, I highly doubt they'd made it. They haven't even made a Plateosaurus (though at the same time, I'd deem Plateosaurus a more likely release from them than, say, Velociraptor, on a basis of scale). 

Though more prosauropods would be welcome indeed, especially a Plateosaurus!!

A lipped Tyrannosaurus has hardly been teased.

And



Paleofiguras stated that a lipped T. rex has been confirmed to be coming at some point. Though one doesn't even need confirmation for something like that. Ever since the day the 2020 Wilson was announced, I was sure they'd eventually be releasing a lipped Tyrannosaurus, same when Cameron was announced and they were still giving arguments as to why they "believed" theropods were lipless. So if anyone wanted a lipped T. rex from them, it was just a matter of patience.

Explicit confirmation aside, they made two lipped Yanchuanosaurus, ain't no way they aren't making a lipped T. rex too, after all the people wishing for one, and the fact that it's literally Tyrannosaurus. And if they truly believed Chinese people prefer lipless theropods, I guess they would have kept on releasing lipless theropods just like they'd been doing for years, but that's not the case (the Tyrannotitan is clearly an outlier, the sculpt was probably ready from before).

I've lost track of how many Tyrannosaurus models they've released over the years, so they clearly like to milk this dinosaur, and the fact that they've released several lipped theropod figures, but none of them being a T. rex, makes it yet even more obvious than it already was.

We simply don't have any clue of what they're coming up with next.

We do know about some species PNSO will be releasing at some point: Ichthyovenator, a new Mosasaurus, a new Tyrannosaurus and a Gigantoraptor. That doesn't mean that either of them will necessarily be released next, but that we can expect them sooner or later.

[Sim]

I notice the soft tissue of the lower jaw is different between that Tyrannosaurus model and the digital reconstruction.

[Concavenator]

@Sim Yep. Aside from the physical sculpt being half-lipped, the fully-lipped one has a throat pouch (possibly inferred from Tarbosaurus?).

As far as I can see, and overall, the T. rex from the render has more soft tissue on its head than Cameron, which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

[thomasw100]

Dinos Dragons review of Coronosaurus:

[SRF]

@Concavenator let me rephrase my own words: a lipped T. Rex as a PVC model has hardly been teased by PNSO.

Through the years PNSO has released multiple artworks of T. Rex. I remember we've got the artwork of two T. Rexes which eventually were inspiration for both the Wilson and Andrea models. The time period between the first time I've seen that artwork and the release of Wilson was around a year I think.

PNSO also sculpted multiple statues for museum exhibits and a lot of those are also made into PVC models or they've made figures that are (loosely) based on the statues they've done earlier. There was a poster with silhouets of dinosaur statues and prototypes by PNSO which contained a lot of species that got made into PVC models in the first year after. For a lot of their models, PNSO also used to tease their next release with artwork of certain dinosaurs or with direct teasers of silhouettes of the actual model shortly before their release. They've stopped doing that somewhere in 2021, Andrea being the last one. So between the release and somewhere in May 2023 PNSO stopped teasing their actual PVC models before their release. The model they've teased in May 2023 was: Cameron.

Now when it comes to the lipped T. Rex, Zhao Chuang stated that it's a missing piece in PNSO's offerings. With PNSO improving their sculpts through the years, the release of Cameron two years ago was  inevitable, just because Wilson didn't match up with the other models in their offerings anymore when it comes to sculpting detail and so on. Nowadays lipped theropods are hardly the standard for PNSO so "the need" for PNSO to release a lipped T. Rex still isn't really there when it comes to compatibily with their other offerings. Sure the next PNSO T. Rex will be lipped. Sure we've seen the first impressions of how that figure could look, just like we've seen in January 2020 when PNSO reveiled that artwork of two T. Rexes. But it has never been stated that a lipped T. Rex is in the making as a PVC model just yet and we haven't seen anything that indicates that PNSO is very much further into the process of making one.

I believe that when PNSO is closer to releasing a lipped T. Rex model, we'll see the first images of it way before the moment PNSO usually releases images when the model already becomes available. And we're not there yet.

[SidB]

@Concavenator let me rephrase my own words: a lipped T. Rex has hardly been teased by PNSO as a PVC model.

Through the years PNSO has released multiple artworks of T. Rex. I remember we've got the artwork of two T. Rexes which eventually were inspiration for both the Wilson and Andrea models. The time period between the first time I've seen that artwork and the release of Wilson is around a year I think.

PNSO also sculpted multiple statues for museum exhibits and a lot of those are also made into PVC models or they've made figures that are (loosely) based on the statues they've done earlier. There was a poster with silhouets of dinosaur statues and prototypes by PNSO which contained a lot of species that got made into PVC models in the first year after. For a lot of their models, PNSO also used to tease their next release with artwork of certain dinosaurs or with direct teasers of silhouets of the actual model just before their release. They've stopped doing that somewhere in 2021, Andrea being the last one. Between the release and somewhere in May 2023 PNSO stopped teasing their actual PVC models before their release. The model they've teased in May 2023 was: Cameron.

Now when it comes to the lipped T. Rex, Zhao Chuang stated that it's a missing piece in PNSO's offerings. With PNSO improving their sculpts through the years, the release of Cameron two years ago was  inevitable, because Wilson didn't quite match up with the other models in their offerings when it comes to sculpting detail and so on. But now lipped theropods are hardly the standard for PNSO so "the need" for PNSO to release a lipped T. Rex still isn't really there when it comes to compatibily with their other offerings. Sure the next PNSO T. Rex will be lipped. Sure we've seen the first impressions of how that figure could look, just like we've seen in January 2020 when PNSO reveiled artwork of two T. Rexes. But it has never been stated that a lipped T. Rex is in the making as a PVC model just yet and we haven't seen anything that indicates that PNSO is very much further into the process of making one.

I believe that when PNSO is closer to releasing a lipped T. Rex model, we'll see the first images of it way before the moment PNSO usually releases images when the model already becomes available. And we're not there yet.

I tend to agree with this line of argumentation. In practical terms, it makes me very glad that I got 'Cameron" lipped by Aaron of Bravo Models last year. I've had a whole year plus to enjoy it, instead of a possibly futile (at least in the short to midterm) wait for PNSO to produce one.

[suspsy]

I still think the chances of a lipped T. rex coming out this year are reasonably good based on the tyrant release pattern we've observed previously.

[SRF]

I still think the chances of a lipped T. rex coming out this year are reasonably good based on the tyrant release pattern we've observed previously.

I'm not saying there isn't a chance that it comes out this year. But we don't have any confirmation yet that it will either.

[Concavenator]

. But it has never been stated that a lipped T. Rex is in the making as a PVC model just yet and we haven't seen anything that indicates that PNSO is very much further into the process of making one.

Again, Paleofiguras stated that a lipped Tyrannosaurus (PVC) figure is confirmed to eventually be released. And they're a reliable source. Back in the day, I also let you all know that PNSO was going to release a Tyrannotitan:

Not Safari, but PNSO Tyrannotitan is coming. We don't know when, but it is. 

And what happened some time afterwards?

Tyrannotitan

Take a look at the posts' dates.

So yeah, that we are completely clueless about what PNSO will be releasing isn't entirely true. That also applies to right now:

We do know about some species PNSO will be releasing at some point: Ichthyovenator, a new Mosasaurus, a new Tyrannosaurus and a Gigantoraptor. That doesn't mean that either of them will necessarily be released next, but that we can expect them sooner or later.

...

But now lipped theropods are hardly the standard for PNSO so "the need" for PNSO to release a lipped T. Rex still isn't really there when it comes to compatibily with their other offerings.

I disagree with that statement. Sure, most PNSO theropods are lipless, but that's because most of them were released before September 2023, which is when they started making lipped theropods again. Ever since, they haven't released too many theropods. Another Yangchuanosaurus and an Allosaurus anax, both lipped, a lipless Tyrannotitan (probably because it'd been sculpted some time before or in order not to create contrast with the other carcharodontosaurids), and two spinosaurids (Spinosaurus and Baryonyx), which can get away with being lipless because they're spinosaurids. But one would still expect future PNSO theropods (spinosaurids aside) to be lipped.

Again, explicit confirmation aside, everyone knows PNSO will eventually be releasing a lipped Tyrannosaurus. When? We have no clue, but it's a certainty that it'll be happening sooner or later. No surprise there. That's really what I was trying to say.

[suspsy]

What a hearty laugh we'll all have if it turns out to be the next reveal.

[SRF]

@Concavenator while I regard Paleofiguras as a reliable source, there was also a rumoured list that they shared back in 2022 which held no dinosaur that was actually released as a PVC model by PNSO. Sometimes these kind of lists do hold truthfull information but it's not always the case. Sure there are more than one example of rumours that turned out to be true. The Torosaurus was one of them as well when their Triceratops came out. But in the mean time we've gotten a lot of other species which weren't rumoured as well.

I'm also not arguing that a lipped T. Rex will eventually be released by PNSO. I even see it happen this year when I look at their release pattern. But PNSO didn't actually these a PVC model of a T. Rex just yet. Not like they used to back in 2020 and 2021 and not like they did with Cameron two years ago. I reckon PNSO is going to create a lot more buzz before releasing a lipped Tyrannosaurus than they would with any other model.

[FerretGoose]

well, i was expecting a new dinosaur, but dolphins are cool too hehe

[suspsy]

A dolphin or indeed any extant animal is not what I want from PNSO, but far be it from me to begrudge them or anyone who is excited by this reveal. It does look good.

[Faelrin]

It's an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis), or as they referred to it, the Chinese white dolphin.

Edit: Now I wish for them to make a Baiji, considering it may be extinct or near extinct.

[Flaffy]

I wish they gave the dolphin its signature pink colouration. Seems like a missed opportunity imo.