What is the best retro Spinosaurus poll.

[Wallnut]

Spinosaurus changed trought the history well this polls goal is finding the best retro spinosaurus.


I am sorry for the wrong realese date of the first carnegie one it was realesed in 1992 but I write 1997.

[Gwangi]

My pick is the orange Spinosaurus by Favorite. I'm also really fond of the Carnegie 2009 but was never able to get ahold of it, now I probably won't bother trying.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

How far back are you looking?  The Playskool Def. Dinosaurs one was my first. 

[stargatedalek]

Is it cheating to say Mattel?

[CityRaptor]

Is it cheating to say Mattel?

Probably not. Figure is newer, but basedon an old reconstruction.

Question: Shouldn't there be two polls about this? One for the "Carnosaur with a sail" and one for the "Baryonyx with a sail" look?

[Wallnut]

How far back are you looking?  The Playskool Def. Dinosaurs one was my first. 

First reconstructions to baryonyx with sail.

[Shonisaurus]

One of my favorite "retro" spinosaurus is the first orange version of Carnegie's spinosaurus by far followed by Schleich's masterfully sculpted 1996 spinosaurus.

[Over9K]

Gecco's 'Dinomation' Spinosaurus is pretty sweet... and not as inaccurate, proportion-wise, as it might have been...

[Stegotyranno420]

The new Carnegie one and th old papo one, maybe nanmu buts that's not really in my range

[Dinoguy2]

I'm fond of the 1996 Wild Safari version.

[Gwangi]

Lets also not forget about the Tsukuda Spinosaurus

[SidB]

While I still own the 2004/2013 Favorite Spinos, and think that they were excellent figures for their time,  and hold onto my Papo movie monster version, the bottom line for me is displayability: I still have my 2009 Carnegie on show among the extensive Carnegie/Safari and Wild safari collection. It is that good a sculpt.

[sauroid]

this Favorite Co. V2 Spino

[Fembrogon]

Frankly, any long-snouted Spino reconstruction is too recent for me to see it as "retro"; the old-fashioned, allo/rex-headed (sometimes 4-legged) reconstructions take that title exclusively.
With that in mind, my vote has to go to the original Carnegie, which captures that image as professionally as possible for the time. Honestly, I don't know of many other "retro" spino toys that aren't chinasaurs (that Starlux mentioned above looks pretty nice, though).

[SidB]

Good point, the original Carnegie fits the bill more precisely.

[sauroid]

this U.K.R.D. figure came out during the same era as the old Carnegie Spino. (im just not really sure if it's depicting a Spinosaurs but doesnt look like a Dimetrodon either)

[SidB]

this U.K.R.D. figure came out during the same era as the old Carnegie Spino. (im just not really sure if it's depicting a Spinosaurs but doesnt look like a Dimetrodon either)

I'm curious, @sauroid , what does the stamp say (if anything), Dimetrodon or Spinosaurus? It looks like they couldn't make up their minds and just decided to split the difference, sort of!

[stargatedalek]

That is AAA, and it's labelled Dimetrodon.

[DC]

The reconstructions have changed so much  and often the last few years.

The classic Stromer version is Starlux

The quad reconstruction is the original Wild Safari

The JP version was Papo

The Bonadona version is the Collecta Swimming maybe also the Kinto swimming version

for most recent tail The Safari 2021

but we do not have the most recent Stork reconstruction by anyone