Mattel - New for 2025

Faelrin · October 13, 2024, 08:32:04 PM

Now that I think about it, Jakapil would have benefited from another two critter pack due to its small size, and it is a shame they don't seem to be continuing that trend.

EmperorDinobot · October 14, 2024, 02:27:15 PM

It could benefit from legs that aren't 'roided out, too. I'm weirdly not excited for it. I'm used to Mattel's thicc legs, but this dinosaur is on Venom.

stargatedalek · October 14, 2024, 05:23:01 PM

Doesn't read roided to me, more like a doughy little baby.

EmperorDinobot · October 14, 2024, 05:33:23 PM

A doughy little baby like the hatchlings of old!

The Alioramuses (Aliorami?) look like doughy bitey babies.

Faelrin · October 16, 2024, 02:58:26 PM

Got some new pics of the Jakapil, and some brand new minis (Hesperosaurus, Irritator v2, Monolophosaurus, Becklespinax outside the sets, and some other new one. Not sure. Mapusaurus maybe?)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UNYXgnogH8

crazy8wizard · October 16, 2024, 05:50:42 PM

It is indeed Mapusaurus

ItsTwentyBelow · October 25, 2024, 07:43:45 PM

To be clear, the Jakapil wave is solidly a 2024 release. Just picked up both it and the Lophostropheus at a Walmart in western Washington state. These are cool, exotic species, proportions and accuracy be damned!

Faelrin · October 25, 2024, 08:41:35 PM

I think it is still is part of the 2025 lineup though considering the package redesign (no longer Epic Evolution). A lot of the time the Wave 1 stuff shows up in the latter part of the previous year (Q3 or 4 I guess?). Like how the 2019 Dino Rivals stuff was available by Christmas time 2018, and so on. My Walmart just got the Rauisuchus case in so these won't show up for a while yet. I'm on the east coast too (PA). West coast folks have historically gotten the waves early in part from being closer to the ports, if not other reasons.

I think this year's line up is going to be like how it was in 2021, split between Chaos Theory and Rebirth. In 2021 the first wave of stuff was Camp Cretaceous (with a package redesign), and the latter half was Dino Escape.

Think of it kind of like how the Safari Stegouros and Therizinosaurus are still part of the 2023 planned lineup, but releasing in 2024, but like this is the reverse of that.

EmperorDinobot · October 25, 2024, 09:02:37 PM

Rauisuchus is plentiful over here. All month I've been seeing it. I got mine in September. The Dimorphodon came later, but it's a shelfwarmer.

Faelrin · October 26, 2024, 06:09:22 PM

Just saw this new goofy T. rex figure on Amazon. Seems in the style of the recent Blue, Allosaurus, or the previous Blue, Indominus rex, or Carnotaurus.

stargatedalek · October 26, 2024, 06:11:45 PM

I miss primal pal Blue. It was still cartoony but at least kind of looked like a baby version of a JP raptor.

suspsy · October 31, 2024, 07:05:47 PM

https://dinotoyblog.com/news/upcoming-releases-from-mattel-new-for-2024pt-4/

Primeval12 · October 31, 2024, 07:21:10 PM

OOO first Mattel ichnotaxon! I hope they make Eubrontes next since I'm from where the tracks were found.

crazy8wizard · October 31, 2024, 07:38:06 PM

Quote from: suspsy on October 31, 2024, 07:05:47 PMhttps://dinotoyblog.com/news/upcoming-releases-from-mattel-new-for-2024pt-4/

I have to be a tiny bit pedantic, but footprints are fossils, just not skeletal fossils.

CarnotaurusKing · October 31, 2024, 07:43:09 PM

Good toys, couple of strange choices of taxa. Good choice of "inspiration"

for the Hypsilophodon, though a bit more color would've been nice. Guemesia is a weird choice, when Aucasaurus and Abelisaurus are still begging for figures. Bold, but baffling, choice making an ichnotaxon. Could've just titled it Vespersaurus, as that might be (or is similar to) what made the tracks. Happy that the legs and feet are a lot less chunky and strangely proportioned, previous models often suffered from snowshoe-feet. Compare the Guemesia to their Quilmesaurus and Rugops from a while back.

Faelrin · October 31, 2024, 07:59:55 PM

I really dig that little abelisaur and the Hypsilophodon. Fascinating seeing it feathered in the way that it is too. Wonder what inspired that one? The pterosaur is pretty neat choice. Never heard of it.

Kind of wish they referenced the Frontier JWE design for the Huayangosaurus, but it is nice to see it in the line somewhat.

crazy8wizard · October 31, 2024, 08:02:35 PM

Then again, is there really anything stopping anyone from just calling it Aucasaurus personally? If it's a one-bone taxa that means 99% is filled in from something.

Flaffy · October 31, 2024, 08:08:11 PM

Quote from: Faelrin on October 31, 2024, 07:59:55 PMI really dig that little abelisaur and the Hypsilophodon. Fascinating seeing it feathered in the way that it is too. Wonder what inspired that one? The pterosaur is pretty neat choice. Never heard of it.

Rip-off of Tapwing's design from The Isle (game). Which itself was heavily inspired by the King of Saxony Bird of Paradise.

Gwangi · October 31, 2024, 08:17:12 PM

I'm convinced that Mattel is deliberately picking the most obscure dinosaurs they can find. This is the oddest lineup yet.

Flaffy · October 31, 2024, 08:18:22 PM

No clue why they decided to make an ichnotaxon. And here I thought making figures of species only known from scraps was a questionable decision.

Funniest part is, they didn't even get the only "part" of the animal we know of correct! Here's an exerpt from wikipedia:

"The impressions of the third digit of Farlowichnus are significantly longer than the second and fourth digits, which are proportionately much shorter."

Something the figure certainly does not depict. It is yet again a generic theropod sculpt with a random name pulled out of a hat. Moreover...

"Although the footprints are structurally tridactyl, or the imprints of three toes are visible, Farlowichnus was likely functionally monodactylous."

The only interesting part of this ichnotaxon, and Mattel couldn't be bothered to get it right.

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