The Tyrannosaurs of Over9K

[Over9K]

Mid-way through Mark Witton's King Tyrant, I got an urge to rearrange The Tyrannosaur Shelf. Not everything made it into this iteration, the game of dinosaur-shelf-tetris becomes tedious after a while, and one must just accept defeat.

Here's a badly stitched panorama of The Tyrannosaur Shelf.





... and the halves that made that up...

[Faelrin]

What a beautiful collection of the tyrant king lizard (and friends) over the decades (though quite a number of recent ones, but not to forget the classics).

Also man tetris is definitely the way to describe the game that it is to rearrange shelves of many a figure, and keeping long term balance. Good times when I still had my shelves trying to fit everything in (or rather the room to have them in).

[Over9K]

What a beautiful collection of the tyrant king lizard (and friends) over the decades (though quite a number of recent ones, but not to forget the classics).

Also man tetris is definitely the way to describe the game that it is to rearrange shelves of many a figure, and keeping long term balance. Good times when I still had my shelves trying to fit everything in (or rather the room to have them in).

Thank you!

I am trying to work back through history to grab some more important figures/toys. I need the Dinoriders rex, the Atlantis/Monogram 1/8th scale model kit, the '96 Safari, the '98 Carnegie, there's a couple Schleich figures I need. The really early stuff, from the '50s and '60s I'm really only interested in a few special pieces. There's a Linde Zallinger rex that was an Austrian coffee premium in the '50s I'd love to add to the collection, not because I have any connection to the figure, but I need a Zallinger representative.

EDIT:  I just realized, you can't see the 3 Papo rexes (Green/Brown sitting-Brown running) way out to the left at all, behind the Schliech Tarbosaurus.

[SidB]

@Over9K , I wish that I'd known that you were looking for older rexes - I just gave away three old Schleich Replicasaurus rexes (never reviewed on the DTB) plus some others maybe not in your collection. I would have given them to you for free.

[Over9K]

@Over9K , I wish that I'd known that you were looking for older rexes - I just gave away three old Schleich Replicasaurus rexes (never reviewed on the DTB) plus some others maybe not in your collection. I would have given them to you for free.

Dagnabbit!

Actually, I just traded a couple IDW Godzilla comics that I had doubles of for a LEGO Tyrannosaurus, and the guy threw in the LEGO Dilophosaurus, Raptor and Pteranodon, so I can't really complain about missing out on free dinosaur toys.

[CityRaptor]

That's a lot of Tyranny....
If you want a historical collection, you many also add the Kenner Red Rex ( or the Mattel version) and Prehistoric Scenes/Revell T.rex.

[Faelrin]

I have a couple of those Carnegie T. rexes, but they are in the older storage unit boxed away, behind who knows what. Got them in a haul with a bunch of other figures back in 2019 I think. Otherwise I'd offer you one free of charge.

[Pliosaurking]

Gorgeous display!

[Over9K]

That's a lot of Tyranny....
If you want a historical collection, you many also add the Kenner Red Rex ( or the Mattel version) and Prehistoric Scenes/Revell T.rex.

I do have the Kenner Red, the Lost World Buck and a Super-Collossal T.rex holding down the Jurassic Park/World Toy corps, and most of the Nanmu static line to cover the Model side of the franchise. They were some of the ones that just didn't fit on the shelf.

The Prehistoric Scenes/Revell kit is yet another brand under which the Aurora/Atlantis/Monogram 1/8th scale T.rex was released. I've built it half a dozen times through the decades, and I have to admit, there's a certain amount of anticipation for returning that one to the collection.

I also have a customized GeoWorld plastic skeleton kit that I swapped a different skull onto, but it's 1/10th scale and way too big for the shelf.