Haolonggood - New for 2025

[thomasw100]

I ordered the green version but  I could possibly change it before it ships.  I'm just not sure really. I liked the original green design and I can't tell now if it's really changed a lot or if it depends on lighting? It looks like the patterns became more intricate. I do notice in the pic above they seem to have dry brushed part of the jaw white when they painted the teeth as well.

I like how you can see the skin detail on the orange version with the lighting in these images.

The lines around the beak though similar to the Argentinosaurus are not nearly as well done and almost look to have been an afterthought?

The more I look at the pictures of the head, particularly the one of the blue version, the more I get the impression that the part with the beak and the teeth could be a separate piece that has been inserted. Hence the sharp grooves which could be actually seam lines. Definitely will need some application of putty and touchup paint.

[thomasw100]

There was an interesting discussion on the Haolonggood fan account:



Does somehow know how using wayback machine one could look at this post which was deleted?

[Berno]

My situation is same. I have bunch of brown-ish sauropods. I think orange is most natural but i gotta choose between green & blue.
Btw i don't like that skin/beak/teeth combination. It's straight from halloween

That is the main problem for me.
In theory fixing it would be is simple, fill the ridges with plastic putty and you can remove the teeth with a dremel or cover them with putty.
I'm ok with retouching/finishing my models when they cost $20-30, but spending $180 (probably a lot more) in a model that needs retouching bothers me, I'm still having doubts about ordering the Brachiosaurus.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I ordered the green version but  I could possibly change it before it ships.  I'm just not sure really. I liked the original green design and I can't tell now if it's really changed a lot or if it depends on lighting? It looks like the patterns became more intricate. I do notice in the pic above they seem to have dry brushed part of the jaw white when they painted the teeth as well.

I like how you can see the skin detail on the orange version with the lighting in these images.

The lines around the beak though similar to the Argentinosaurus are not nearly as well done and almost look to have been an afterthought?

The more I look at the pictures of the head, particularly the one of the blue version, the more I get the impression that the part with the beak and the teeth could be a separate piece that has been inserted. Hence the sharp grooves which could be actually seam lines. Definitely will need some application of putty and touchup paint.

I guess I will judge it after I get it what I want to do. It won't be hard to alter or fix. Just gotta match the paint.

[Turkeysaurus]

After learning another company decides not to produce large sauropods, i decide even if Haolonggood puts trunks on their sauropods and i'd still buy them.

Now Green or Blue?

[Berno]

After learning another company decides not to produce large sauropods, i decide even if Haolonggood puts trunks on their sauropods and i'd still buy them.

Now Green or Blue?

True to that, Haolonggood it's the on dealer in town.
I think I'm gonna wait to chinese new year to see if are any sales/promotions.

[MLMjp]

After learning another company decides not to produce large sauropods, i decide even if Haolonggood puts trunks on their sauropods and i'd still buy them.

Now Green or Blue?

I mean...a trunk would bee too much. But some exposed teeth and weird beaks? A small price to pay for salvation (salvation being 1/35 scale large sauropods)

[Turkeysaurus]

Alamosaurus was 2 kg so Brachiosaurus must be around 2-2.5 kg. Titanosaur in silhoutte will be probably similar. Argentinosaurus was 4.8 kg. Diplodocus will be probably around 1 kg.

So Argentinosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Titanosaur and Diplodocus will weight around 11 kg, not to mention of their extra size combined on top each other. That would take entire passenger baggage alone.

I can't order much else to my sister. It takes 2 to 4 years for her each trip to my country anyway. I must find a new passenger or else i'll just start collecting pics on internet.

[MLMjp]

After learning another company decides not to produce large sauropods, i decide even if Haolonggood puts trunks on their sauropods and i'd still buy them.

Now Green or Blue?

I mean...a trunk would bee too much. But some exposed teeth and weird beaks? A small price to pay for salvation (salvation being 1/35 scale large sauropods)

Besides, my current Brachiosaurus (Schleich 2008) has its teeth exposed despite close mouth. It will be a nice reminder of the past.

[Flaffy]

If I were to get myself a copy of the Brachiosaurus, I would be very tempted to send it to Martin for minor surgery:
1) Create a smooth transition between scaly skin and keratinous pseudobeak
2) Add extraoral tissue so that the teeth are concealed

I hope Haolonggood never makes sauropods with exposed teeth again.

[thomasw100]

Lana Time Shop posted a notice on their FB that Brachiosaurus orders placed before 12 January would be shipped within this week. They also posted a few more pictures:

[Elengassen]

I wasn't too bothered about the exposed teeth at first, but the more pictures I see the creepier they look. Hope they're not too noticeable IRL.

[Sim]

I'm surprised there's this much talk on the Brachiosaurus's teeth when no-one except me seemed to mind the hideous exposed-teeth PNSO Lingwulong.  And the PNSO Alamosaurus even got its head praised, while having exposed teeth.

[Flaffy]

I'm surprised there's this much talk on the Brachiosaurus's teeth when no-one except me seemed to mind the hideous exposed-teeth PNSO Lingwulong.  And the PNSO Alamosaurus even got its head praised, while having exposed teeth.

There certainly wwere talks and complaints of the exposed teeth on PNSO's Mamenchisaurus, Lingwulong and Alamosaurus.

I guess the only difference is PNSO had been doing lipless-everything for quite some time by that point so it wasn't as much of a shock. While HLG had consistently been giving their sauropod sculpts concealed teeth up until now (Amargasaurus debatable?).

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I think if you just painted over those "teeth" you'd never know that they weren't part of the beak.



This image Lana posted has the green looking much less white outdoors.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Nice head detail.

[thomasw100]

I'm surprised there's this much talk on the Brachiosaurus's teeth when no-one except me seemed to mind the hideous exposed-teeth PNSO Lingwulong.  And the PNSO Alamosaurus even got its head praised, while having exposed teeth.

There certainly wwere talks and complaints of the exposed teeth on PNSO's Mamenchisaurus, Lingwulong and Alamosaurus.

I guess the only difference is PNSO had been doing lipless-everything for quite some time by that point so it wasn't as much of a shock. While HLG had consistently been giving their sauropod sculpts concealed teeth up until now (Amargasaurus debatable?).

I agree that the problem with Haolonggood sauropods is that when it comes to the head you never know what to expect for the next one. We had something that looks more like lips without teeth exposed, we had ramphotheca without teeth exposed and now we have ramphotheca with teeth exposed. No consistency whatsoever.

The good news is of course that in the case of the Brachiosaurus this can be fixed without having to do a complete repaint of the figure. The same applies for these awful grooves between the soft tissue and the ramphotheca.

The bottom line still is that Haolonggood is the only company that produces large sauropod figures in 1:35 scale and even with some additional costs for touchup work or the occasional repaint this is still better than having to pay 500 USD or more for a resin statue.

[thomasw100]

Some comparison pictures were posted by Paleofiguras:

[Carnoking]

I had placed my order for the blue but I'm genuinely considering emailing Lana and asking for a change to red... oh why oh why must this be so difficult??

[SenSx]

That's the issue with their bonus pre-order.

It forces people to rush to choose, while they don't have the proper visuals for that ><
That's why I prefer to wait, even if I don't get the bonus, but I understand for people more interested than me in the additional figure.

Haolonggood is great, but they need to improve their promotional photo quality.