The safari ltd sauropelta fan club

[Gwangi]

The CollectA Polacanthus is a very poor figure.  It doesn't look like a real dinosaur, and definitely not Polacanthus.  Bizarrely, it lacks Polacanthus's sacral shield and in its place there's an inorganic-looking circular arrangement of six large spikes.  The missing sacral shield and other inaccuracies of the CollectA Polacanthus are mentioned in its DTB review: http://dinotoyblog.com/2011/09/27/polacanthus-collecta/

The CollectA Polacanthus looks like it would be more useful as a hair brush than a dinosaur toy.

Oh wow, that review takes me back. My opinion of the CollectA Polacanthus has not changed. In fact, I got rid of mine. Looking forward to seeing proper images of Papo's efforts.

[Flaffy]

There are quite a few good nodosaurs out there right now. Collecta polacanthus, minmi and gastonia plus safari saurapelta have all come out fairly recently which is pretty good for an obscure family of dinosaur.

Ya sure that good old CollectA 'dragon-head' is a good nodosaur figure? 

[Killekor]

Today i posted in my Dioramas thread an episode (the third) of my diorama story (Mr.T-Rex Adventures) where One of the characters Is a Safari sauropelta.

Here's it: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=5195.msg154687;topicseen#new

Thanks

Predasaurskillekor

[Neosodon]

The CollectA Polacanthus is a very poor figure.  It doesn't look like a real dinosaur, and definitely not Polacanthus.  Bizarrely, it lacks Polacanthus's sacral shield and in its place there's an inorganic-looking circular arrangement of six large spikes.  The missing sacral shield and other inaccuracies of the CollectA Polacanthus are mentioned in its DTB review: http://dinotoyblog.com/2011/09/27/polacanthus-collecta/

The CollectA Polacanthus looks like it would be more useful as a hair brush than a dinosaur toy.

In terms of scientific accuracy I guess its pretty bad, looks more like Gastonia. It's the least favorite of my nodosaurs but I still like it. The detail and paint isn't that bad and I think it looks kind of cute.

[Sim]

The CollectA Polacanthus doesn't look like Gastonia either.  Like Polacanthus, Gastonia has a sacral shield, while the CollectA Polacanthus omits the sacral shield for a fantasy-looking circle of spikes.  The CollectA Polacanthus has a strange-looking head that doesn't look like the head of Gastonia at all.  The figure's head doesn't look like any nodosaurid head I know of.  I think the CollectA Polacanthus is one of those figures that they didn't really try to get right, resulting in it looking more like a cartoony fantasy 'monster' than any real dinosaur.

The CollectA Polacanthus seems to be based on the artwork seen in Reply #14 here: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=408.msg9278#msg9278  The nodosaurid in that artwork has a sacral shield, so it looks like the most inaccurate feature of the CollectA Polacanthus is one that wasn't in the artwork they copied for their figure!

There are quite a few good nodosaurs out there right now. Collecta polacanthus, minmi and gastonia plus safari saurapelta have all come out fairly recently which is pretty good for an obscure family of dinosaur.

Something I missed earlier, Minmi doesn't appear to be a nodosaurid.

[Neosodon]

The CollectA Polacanthus doesn't look like Gastonia either.  Like Polacanthus, Gastonia has a sacral shield, while the CollectA Polacanthus omits the sacral shield for a fantasy-looking circle of spikes.  The CollectA Polacanthus has a strange-looking head that doesn't look like the head of Gastonia at all.  The figure's head doesn't look like any nodosaurid head I know of.  I think the CollectA Polacanthus is one of those figures that they didn't really try to get right, resulting in it looking more like a cartoony fantasy 'monster' than any real dinosaur.

The CollectA Polacanthus seems to be based on the artwork seen in Reply #14 here: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=408.msg9278#msg9278  The nodosaurid in that artwork has a sacral shield, so it looks like the most inaccurate feature of the CollectA Polacanthus is one that wasn't in the artwork they copied for their figure!

There are quite a few good nodosaurs out there right now. Collecta polacanthus, minmi and gastonia plus safari saurapelta have all come out fairly recently which is pretty good for an obscure family of dinosaur.

Something I missed earlier, Minmi doesn't appear to be a nodosaurid.

I didn't mean it looked exactly like Gastonia just more like it than Polacanthus which it was supposed to be modeled after.

I guess your right that Minmi was not a nodasaur. It was so primitive that it was not classified in the group. But it is closer to a nodasaur than any other group of dinosaur so I guess it could be classified as a pro nodasaur or proankylosaur. If you like collecting nodasaurs, minmi is worth picking up.

[Sim]

Actually, more recent analyses find Minmi to be a basal member of Ankylosauridae (the group that includes Ankylosaurus, Euoplocephalus, etc. but doesn't include nodosaurids).  However Kunbarrasaurus, which is what a lot of Minmi reconstructions are based on, has been found to likely be more primitive than ankylosaurids and nodosaurids, which would make it a basal ankylosaurian.