SidB's Collection Thread

[Stegotyranno420]

I like the Triceratops.
Reminds me of the Dinosaur Strike one

[ceratopsian]

This takes me back to my early collecting days and all the excitement they generated.  Still love the Ouranosaurus planned scheme!

[postsaurischian]

   Nice roundup of Battat's Dinosaur history!
 I remember that you could get their Diplodocus for the lowest prices on eBay after a re-release was announced in 2014.
 This of course didn't last for long.

Following the classic era of Battat dinosaur collectables, there was a brief revival in 2014-15 when Dan Lorusso made a group of four new sculpts under the Battat Terra rubric. .......

 As a final remark it could be mentioned that Dan had sculpted another 8 models for the Terra series before he became ill, announced for 2015.
 We even had pictures of Europasaurus, Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Majungasaurus, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus & Yutyrannus.
 But I cannot say where they are now.

[SidB]

  Nice roundup of Battat's Dinosaur history!
 I remember that you could get their Diplodocus for the lowest prices on eBay after a re-release was announced in 2014.
 This of course didn't last for long.

Following the classic era of Battat dinosaur collectables, there was a brief revival in 2014-15 when Dan Lorusso made a group of four new sculpts under the Battat Terra rubric. .......

 As a final remark it could be mentioned that Dan had sculpted another 8 models for the Terra series before he became ill, announced for 2015.
 We even had pictures of Europasaurus, Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Majungasaurus, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus & Yutyrannus.
 But I cannot say were they are now.

Thanks for these closing comments, @postsaurischian . Yes, I remember that the prices asked for the iconic Battat  Diplodocus on eBay dropped down into the 300-350 USD range at that time, less than half of what they are now. Mind you, converted into Canadian dollars and then adding shipping, and some times duties, that placed them still at a lofty 500 dollars Canadian. Quite impossible for me. And then there was the persistent issue of whether or not Target would have allowed such large units on their shelves, to eat up precious shelf space. 

And then there was the disappearance of the 'missing' Lorusso sculpts that Battat received from Dan, but never released, following his death. I remember the sometimes almost frantic efforts to contact Battat by several members here on the DTF, but to no avail.  That's 6-7 years ago now, almost an eternity for us collectors so zeroed in on the new released of the 'here and now'. It would be gratifying for die hard Battat collectors like myself if they were released, say in this upcoming year, for old times sake. But, realistically, I think that they would be found to have lost a lot of their quality edge in comparison with HLG and PNSO and I doubt that they would sell all that well now on the mass market. Pains me to say that, considering how unique and almost esoteric these figures were when I started collecting back around 15 years ago, but things don't stand still for long, do they?

[SidB]

This takes me back to my early collecting days and all the excitement they generated.  Still love the Ouranosaurus planned scheme!

Glad that you enjoyed them, @ceratopsian .

[SidB]

I like the Triceratops.
Reminds me of the Dinosaur Strike one

Yeah, that trike remains at or near the top of my list of favorites also.

[Concavenator]

As a final remark it could be mentioned that Dan had sculpted another 8 models for the Terra series before he became ill, announced for 2015.
 We even had pictures of Europasaurus, Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Majungasaurus, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus & Yutyrannus.

Out of those, pictures were shown of the Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops and Europasaurus (I mean, the finished figures). We never got to see the Yutyrannus, the Plateosaurus and the Majungasaurus.

[SidB]

As a final remark it could be mentioned that Dan had sculpted another 8 models for the Terra series before he became ill, announced for 2015.
 We even had pictures of Europasaurus, Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Majungasaurus, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus & Yutyrannus.

Out of those, pictures were shown of the Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops and Europasaurus (I mean, the finished figures). We never got to see the Yutyrannus, the Plateosaurus and the Majungasaurus.

If I'm not mistaken, we saw the wire cores that had been fabricated for the last ones, that had never been built up.

[postsaurischian]

As a final remark it could be mentioned that Dan had sculpted another 8 models for the Terra series before he became ill, announced for 2015.
 We even had pictures of Europasaurus, Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Majungasaurus, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops, Plateosaurus & Yutyrannus.

Out of those, pictures were shown of the Gastonia, Gigantoraptor, Nasutoceratops, Pentaceratops and Europasaurus (I mean, the finished figures). We never got to see the Yutyrannus, the Plateosaurus and the Majungasaurus.

 Thank you for the link. I couldn't remember which ones were shown and which weren't.

[SidB]

I've always wished that Wild Past's female Tethyshadros' paint work had been up to the standard of the male's, with the white side stripes being integrated with the underside. The originals -



The improved paint work:



I'm happy with the result.

[Halichoeres]

That does look nicer! Definitely room for a bit of growth in the paint department for Wild Past.

[SidB]

That does look nicer! Definitely room for a bit of growth in the paint department for Wild Past.

True and I think that their current release, the Scutisaurus, shows a definite movement in that direction.

[ceratopsian]

An effective and simple improvement.  Certainly finishes off her off properly.

[SidB]

An effective and simple improvement.  Certainly finishes off her off properly.

I can assure you that she was rather grateful, though a bit irritated at having to wait so long to have the procedure done.