Favorite Carnegie Dinos (1988-2002)

[Shonisaurus]

The old Carnegie Spinosaurus is probably my favorite dinosaur toy of all time, or at least the one I loved the most for the longest period of my life. The Brachiosaurus was a dream that took me many years to acquire. The Saltasaurus inspired me to collect osteoderm-bearing titanosaurs. The Elasmosaurus and Tylosaurus were probably my first aquatics, and I rather fancied the Pachycephalosaurs too. You had to get two, for obvious reasons.

The old Carnegie Spinosaurus is in interesting choice.  No doubt it has some charm to it.  Do you have the original brown or the repainted red, or both?  Toys from our childhood seem to matter the most to us.  That's why I love the Big Al and Dippy.

Both, and the Salvat knockoff. Got the black and red repaint at the Science Museum of MN gift shop. He became the brown's evil doppelgänger.

The spinosaurus and tylosaurus are two of my favorite figures as well. Also add the Carnegie ichtyosaurus with the ammonite, masterpiece.

[Moodyraptor]

These are some of the first dinos I had as a kid, and got me into collecting  I remember coverting those massive sauropods in the toy shops.  I was a real cryptozoology nut as well as a dinosaur nut as a kid, so one of the first figures I got is the Elasmosaurus - the same figure still sits on my desk today.  I also love the Parasaurolophus and Iguandon, and Euplocephalus, and the running Deinonychus.