Haolonggood - New for 2025

[suspsy]

I'll have to wait for more images, but I'm kind of drawn to the yellow one. Either way, my Safari Albertosaurus will be pleased to have a good meal.

[DavidJamesArmsby]

Yep. I'll take both, please

[thomasw100]

Both look very nice. Sculpt looks very refined and paint designs are great as well. Will be very hard to decide which one to get. Need to still reserve space for the forthcoming large sauropod. Especially as it appears that Haolonggood is going to make all the species from this teaser image.

[Over9K]

[thebermuda303]

Kinda looks like a hybrid of both, definitely using it as S.angustirostris. head kinda matches an immature individual if we go by that route

[thomasw100]

It's unfortunate more care was not taken to ensure the integument was consistent with known material.

Will likely be picking one up regardless. I like the darker blue version overall, but the yellow one's purple crest is quite attractive.

I think this level of scientific detail we can only expect from PNSO. Which of course also comes with a different price tag.

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Welp. The midline ridge annoys me way too much for what would ordinarily be a great little speculative touch for any other animal, considering this is clearly osborni - they got the crest right, and mottling is present!
But god the ridge.
I couldn't have even been mad (annoyed?) if it didn't extend down the tail, since we technically don't have skin impressions on the back of the animals, so they could've slotted into a natural gap like feathers on Tyrannosaurid reconstructions - but nope, they go all the way down the tail, too. Guess this cements how much Haolonggood values scientific rigour - Just about as much as older PNSO did.

This isn't even the biggest deal for Saurolophus in particular, I suppose - I can just treat it as an intermediate between the two species, or an Augustynolophus, I guess. And sanding down the ridge on the tail in particular, as much as it would pain me for a model this well sculpted, isn't impossible, of course. I just kind of hate knowing that even if my most desired animals get made by one of the forerunner companies, there's still a chance they'll muck it up. And it's not like I'm a Megatheropod fan who can inevitably wait for someone else to make a new take on the animal before a year passes, either...

Gods, despite the fault, it's such a beautiful model, too. Might get them both, with one to represent S.osborni and getting a minor file treatment, and the other to represent Augustynolophus. Assuming the feet don't have a second, even less ignorable flaw - like, uh. What's the hell is that back left foot doing?

[Faelrin]

Would it be easier to just modify the crest shape with hot water or a hair dryer since it has the ridge of the other species or is there more differences between the two where this wouldn't be enough?

[thomasw100]

Welp. The midline ridge annoys me way too much for what would ordinarily be a great little speculative touch for any other animal, considering this is clearly osborni - they got the crest right, and mottling is present!
But god the ridge.
I couldn't have even been mad (annoyed?) if it didn't extend down the tail, since we technically don't have skin impressions on the back of the animals, so they could've slotted into a natural gap like feathers on Tyrannosaurid reconstructions - but nope, they go all the way down the tail, too. Guess this cements how much Haolonggood values scientific rigour - Just about as much as older PNSO did.

This isn't even the biggest deal for Saurolophus in particular, I suppose - I can just treat it as an intermediate between the two species, or an Augustynolophus, I guess. And sanding down the ridge on the tail in particular, as much as it would pain me for a model this well sculpted, isn't impossible, of course. I just kind of hate knowing that even if my most desired animals get made by one of the forerunner companies, there's still a chance they'll muck it up. And it's not like I'm a Megatheropod fan who can inevitably wait for someone else to make a new take on the animal before a year passes, either...

Gods, despite the fault, it's such a beautiful model, too. Might get them both, with one to represent S.osborni and getting a minor file treatment, and the other to represent Augustynolophus. Assuming the feet don't have a second, even less ignorable flaw - like, uh. What's the hell is that back left foot doing?

Honestly I am more bothered by the weird position of the left hind limb with just one digit of the left foot on the ground.

But maybe it is meant to be a pose where the dinosaur is in the final stage of lifting the left foot from the ground.

[Concavenator]

It's unfortunate more care was not taken to ensure the integument was consistent with known material.

Will likely be picking one up regardless. I like the darker blue version overall, but the yellow one's purple crest is quite attractive.

I think this level of scientific detail we can only expect from PNSO. Which of course also comes with a different price tag.

No, not only from PNSO. PNSO figures, albeit generally pretty good accuracy-wise, sometimes have some inaccuracy here and there too. And I would say Eofauna's and Safari's figures are usually, at least (not as best) as accurate as PNSO's, and they're a fraction of their price, so higher accuracy is not an excuse for higher price. If I were to guess, I'd say PNSO are taking advantage of their achieved status throughout the years to charge higher prices. Though maybe there are other factors that I don't know about too.

Whether you aesthetically prefer PNSO's figures or not, that's a different matter, but accuracy is objective.

To add to the previous discussion about PNSO and HLG figures QC, I've had a number of PNSO and HLG figures. Out of the two companies, the only one whom I ever experienced a QC issue with on a figure was PNSO - namely, with their Museum Line Stegosaurus (paint scuffs and bent thagomizer spikes right out of the box). Granted, I never experienced any QC issue with another PNSO figure, but for a figure as blatantly overpriced as that Stegosaurus, I'd at least expected to receive it in pristine condition, even more so because the figure came extremely well-packed. For contrast, my copy of the Safari Stegosaurus arrived intact, and it was packaged in a simple plastic bag. So I also disagree with the higher price point on PNSO figures being an indicative of better QC.

Personally, I never experienced any QC issue with a HLG figure.

[FerretGoose]

woooooooooo!!!! i've been wanting a saurolophus osborni for a long while!!! i was just about to start sculpting one from polymer clay, but now there's no need muahahahaha.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I like the overall color of the blue, the yellow I like the detail on the head more. Seems like the lighter base color with the wash allows more to show through.  I'll check out larger pics later, but def will get at least one.

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Would it be easier to just modify the crest shape with hot water or a hair dryer since it has the ridge of the other species or is there more differences between the two where this wouldn't be enough?

S.osborni is far smaller than the S.angustirostris. S.angustirostris also (seemingly) had vertical stripes.

...Which, upon looking closer, seem to be present in the brown variant at the expense of S.osborni's mottling, so, I guess that's something.

[oscars_dinos]

this seems like a step up in quality, i like it alot

[thebermuda303]

Welp. The midline ridge annoys me way too much for what would ordinarily be a great little speculative touch for any other animal, considering this is clearly osborni - they got the crest right, and mottling is present!
But god the ridge.
I couldn't have even been mad (annoyed?) if it didn't extend down the tail, since we technically don't have skin impressions on the back of the animals, so they could've slotted into a natural gap like feathers on Tyrannosaurid reconstructions - but nope, they go all the way down the tail, too. Guess this cements how much Haolonggood values scientific rigour - Just about as much as older PNSO did.

This isn't even the biggest deal for Saurolophus in particular, I suppose - I can just treat it as an intermediate between the two species, or an Augustynolophus, I guess. And sanding down the ridge on the tail in particular, as much as it would pain me for a model this well sculpted, isn't impossible, of course. I just kind of hate knowing that even if my most desired animals get made by one of the forerunner companies, there's still a chance they'll muck it up. And it's not like I'm a Megatheropod fan who can inevitably wait for someone else to make a new take on the animal before a year passes, either...

Gods, despite the fault, it's such a beautiful model, too. Might get them both, with one to represent S.osborni and getting a minor file treatment, and the other to represent Augustynolophus. Assuming the feet don't have a second, even less ignorable flaw - like, uh. What's the hell is that back left foot doing?

Immature S.angustirostris have up turned crest like S.osborni has. If we take figure's size in to consideration that'd fit pretty well.

[Turkeysaurus]

Unlike T.rex, the bar is low with Hadrosaurs. You've got to work with what you've got.  ..and if PNSO makes one pretend that's the other species.

[oscars_dinos]

I actually love the toe i think it makes it really gestural, look at videos of animals walking and pause it when the foot is lifting off the ground this happens all the time

[Joliezac]

These are gorgeous! I'm tempted to get both...

[thomasw100]

More pictures surfaced on Paleofiguras Facebook site:

[bmathison1972]

Yes! Saurolophus will be an immediate purchase for me when it becomes available in the US! I don't follow this thread super closely, wasn't there some discussion on the species? Does it represent a North American species?