HAOLONGGOOD - Hopes and Dreams

[Turkeysaurus]

@Concavenator , I think Brontosaurus name is too famous that it has chance to be made by any company. For Haolonggood, if they can do Argentinosaurus, Alamosaurus & Dreadnoughtus, they can do Apatosaurus & Brontosaurus imo.  With different (more accurate) head sculpt, new colors & patters , maybe even the pose Brontosaurus would look different enough from their Apatosaurus to be attractive enough for collectors.

I think that name sells alone. I have apatosaurus but i'd still buy brontosaurus made by HLG. PNSO one would be glorious though, even if they made as big as lingwulong that would reach lower end of size estimates for 1/35 Brontosaurus.

[Turkeysaurus]

After further consideration, I'm not sure I'd get a Diplodocus by Haolonggood. Probably not. I'd like to have an Apatosaurus figure that's in scale with a Diplodocus figure from my collection. And I have a few issues with HLG's Apatosaurus, so that one is not for me.

Just curious whats your issue with the HLG Apatosaurus? Its pretty high on my list even if I find the paint schemes pretty bland. Just curious if their are issues with the scuplt I am not aware of?

Hopefully with the recent Camarasaurus, PNSO starts putting a little more size to their sauropods. I don't expect them to make giants like HLG but I hope a 1:35 Diplodocid or Brontosaurus could be something they tackle.

IIRC head sculpt was found to be scientifically inaccurate. I guess that was the main criticism. I have the brown version, it can have human head and still would look glorious lol.

PNSO lingwulong is 19 meters for 1:35 scale. Brontosaurus parvus is 19 meters, excelsus is 21-22 meters. If they make tiny bit larger than Lingwulong we can have 1:35 Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus..

[Turkeysaurus]

I'm disappointed Haolonggood is going to make another titanosaurian.  It, their Alamosaurus and their Argentinosaurus look basically identical.  I would have liked a diplodocine from Haolonggood, preferably Barosaurus or Supersaurus.  And Haolonggood still hasn't made a dromaeosaurid!

I think it's because Dreadnoughtus has been quite famous lately thanks to Prehistoric Planet & Jurassic World. I'm certain for Diplodocus.

Maybe they aim fame to make it less risky for large sized sauropods since they are expensive.

[Concavenator]

Just curious whats your issue with the HLG Apatosaurus? Its pretty high on my list even if I find the paint schemes pretty bland. Just curious if their are issues with the scuplt I am not aware of?

Hopefully with the recent Camarasaurus, PNSO starts putting a little more size to their sauropods. I don't expect them to make giants like HLG but I hope a 1:35 Diplodocid or Brontosaurus could be something they tackle.

I'd recommend taking a look at L @Leyster 's review to see what I mean. Personally, the combination of inaccurate head and neck breaks the deal for me. I'm also annoyed by its tail not looking particularly whip-like, despite it being a Flagellicaudata. 

I'm not saying it's a bad figure, it isn't. Just that I personally don't consider it accurate enough for me to buy it (despite Apatosaurus being one of my favorite dinosaurs).

I don't think the PNSO Camarasaurus is any indicative of them deciding to size up their sauropods. Their Lingwulong from 2022 was around 1:30, and it's a large figure. I don't think PNSO has an issue making sauropods around that size in 1:35 (or so) scale, but I certainly don't see them releasing a, for example, 1:35 Apatosaurus (for the larger estimates anyways).

I'm disappointed Haolonggood is going to make another titanosaurian.  It, their Alamosaurus and their Argentinosaurus look basically identical.  I would have liked a diplodocine from Haolonggood, preferably Barosaurus or Supersaurus.  And Haolonggood still hasn't made a dromaeosaurid!

I'm tired of titanosaurians too... To me they're all clones as well.

As for them not having made any dromaeosaurid yet, that's certainly quite blatant, but the fact that they have recently made figures of relatively small theropods (Dilophosaurus, Majungasaurus, Concavenator) gives me hope they'll eventually tackle Utahraptor and/or Austroraptor.

[Halichoeres]

I'll believe they're making a Deinosuchus when I see it. The silhouette collage they used as a teaser a while back featured multiple pterosaurs but none have materialized. (Quetz was much earlier.)

[thomasw100]

I'm disappointed Haolonggood is going to make another titanosaurian.  It, their Alamosaurus and their Argentinosaurus look basically identical.  I would have liked a diplodocine from Haolonggood, preferably Barosaurus or Supersaurus.  And Haolonggood still hasn't made a dromaeosaurid!

I fully agree with you that a diplodocine from Haolonggood is more than overdue. As said elsewhere, I will happily buy any sauropod figure they release, but this would be the fourth titanosaurian and a bit more diversity in the sauropod department would be nice. Maybe they have some surprises in stock for us which are not in this teaser image.

[Concavenator]

When it comes to sauropods, I would love a Turiasaurus and a Shunosaurus by HLG.

I'd like a Brontosaurus too, if they end up making a Diplodocus, which they probably will at some point. I'd appreciate a Europasaurus too, IMO, the most interesting macronarian. Europasaurus would lead to very fun comparisons with their bigger sauropods.

I'm indifferent about any other sauropod genus, though if we're talking about sauropodomorphs in general, I'd appreciate a Plateosaurus and a Eoraptor as well (even if I know Eoraptor doesn't stand a chance at being made, owing to its size, of course). 

This would complete the most iconic sauropods (I count here 7 genera, which are Alamosaurus, Apatosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, Mamenchisaurus), complete the sauropods of the Morrison Formation and fill in members of some important clades in the evolution of sauropods and their ancestors.

Rather than iconic, I think you meant "famous" instead. I don't see how Alamosaurus or Argentinosaurus can be considered iconic when we don't know how neither of them looked like. If I showed you two depictions of two different titanosaurians, one being Alamosaurus and the other one being Argentinosaurus, would you be able to tell which is which?

And when people hear Brachiosaurus, they're probably thinking of Giraffatitan, so perhaps it's Giraffatitan the one who could be considered iconic. Brachiosaurus is the more famous name, that's for sure, though.

I'd say Amargasaurus is arguably more famous than famous than Alamosaurus, Mamenchisaurus and maybe even Camarasaurus.

[thomasw100]

When it comes to sauropods, I would love a Turiasaurus and a Shunosaurus by HLG.

I'd like a Brontosaurus too, if they end up making a Diplodocus, which they probably will at some point. I'd appreciate a Europasaurus too, IMO, the most interesting macronarian. Europasaurus would lead to very fun comparisons with their bigger sauropods.

I'm indifferent about any other sauropod genus, though if we're talking about sauropodomorphs in general, I'd appreciate a Plateosaurus and a Eoraptor as well (even if I know Eoraptor doesn't stand a chance at being made, owing to its size, of course). 

This would complete the most iconic sauropods (I count here 7 genera, which are Alamosaurus, Apatosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, Mamenchisaurus), complete the sauropods of the Morrison Formation and fill in members of some important clades in the evolution of sauropods and their ancestors.

Rather than iconic, I think you meant "famous" instead. I don't see how Alamosaurus or Argentinosaurus can be considered iconic when we don't know how neither of them looked like. If I showed you two depictions of two different titanosaurians, one being Alamosaurus and the other one being Argentinosaurus, would you be able to tell which is which?

And when people hear Brachiosaurus, they're probably thinking of Giraffatitan, so perhaps it's Giraffatitan the one who could be considered iconic. Brachiosaurus is the more famous name, that's for sure, though.

I'd say Amargasaurus is arguably more famous than famous than Alamosaurus, Mamenchisaurus and maybe even Camarasaurus.

I think what I meant by using the word "iconic" is that these dinosaurs feature a lot in books, movies, exhibitions, social medial, and even popular culture. So they have become public icons of how people think sauropods looked like. Even if they are fragmentary and we do not even know how exactly some of them looked. And yes Amargasaurus belongs into this group as well. Mamenchisaurus by the way is not so "iconic" or "famous" in western culture, but very much so in China.

[Torvosaurus]

Mamenchisaurus by the way is not so "iconic" or "famous" in western culture, but very much so in China.

Different time, different place, but when I was growing up I was taught that Brachiosaurus was the largest dinosaur overall but that Mamenchisaurus was the longest. Of course, sauropods lived in the water and dinosaurs drug their tails around after them, and Argentinosaurus hadn't been discovered yet and wouldn't be for another 15 years or so. Anyways, I guess Mamenchisaurus was better known, or at least more focused on, 55 years ago or so than it is now. It amazes me sometimes how far paleontology has come in that time.

Torvo