Recent Acquisitions (Archive, March 2012 - July 2018)

[UK]

Very generous family you have there Doc, congratulations :-)

[LophoLeeVT]

wow! very envious of your uncle!

[docronnie]

Thanks Steve! My brother visited my uncle in the US last month and I asked him to buy me just one Battat dino. They ended up buying all the new ones plus the Dacentrurus.

My Uncle Bob is actually here now on vacation.   

Thanks too, raptor! 

[mest]

Very nice dinos from Battat docronnie. Dacentrurus looks really good. Battat should really consider expanding it's market to Europe.

NB
Just looked at Target. Great news that from now on they ship products to Europe. So also Battat. That was not possible a few weeks ago.

[docronnie]

Very nice dinos from Battat docronnie. Dacentrurus looks really good. Battat should really consider expanding it's market to Europe.

NB
Just looked at Target. Great news that from now on they ship products to Europe. So also Battat. That was not possible a few weeks ago.

Thanks mest! 

That's great news indeed for our European collectors. 

[Moodyraptor]

Very nice dinos from Battat docronnie. Dacentrurus looks really good. Battat should really consider expanding it's market to Europe.

NB
Just looked at Target. Great news that from now on they ship products to Europe. So also Battat. That was not possible a few weeks ago.

Thanks mest! 

That's great news indeed for our European collectors. 

Woo-hoo!  Good news indeed.  Though the only one currently available on their website is the nanshiugosaurus. 

[Tyto_Theropod]

Congrats, docronnie! Battats are really lovely figures. I've been meaning to get some for a while now, but like you I'd have to import them because here in the UK there isn't really anyone who sells them. We only just got the CollectA Spino.

[SBell]

Congrats, docronnie! Battats are really lovely figures. I've been meaning to get some for a while now, but like you I'd have to import them because here in the UK there isn't really anyone who sells them. We only just got the CollectA Spino.

it was only just released everywhere, so that's not unusual (it was supposed to be a 2016 model, but they pushed the release up a few months).

It's just as hard in Canada. We were so close--we had Target here and everything! (I was able to get the 4 new models)--for one year. Then they literally burned out and burned themselves down.

And the only time I've been to the US, the Target I visited only had two of them. I shoudl really make the 90 minute drive south some time...

[Tyto_Theropod]

I guess I could always make the half-day journey south to see what the situation is in England...

[docronnie]

Thanks Tyto! 

I've been lucky so far to get all my Terra-Battat dinos as gifts.  I see that 3 new ones might be released in the future.  Hope I could get them too. 

[PaleoMatt]

I'm lucky to live where Everything Dinosaur is located, I live in the same city

[Tyto_Theropod]

That must be great, because you can go and see what the figures look like before you buy them! I've only had that pleasure with some of my Schleichs and Papos, and I don't really feel like getting any of them ATM after hearing some stuff about how the companies have behaved - especially the former...

Having said all that, I have to consider myself lucky that I on the whole I don't need to order my dinos from abroad. Dinosaur Time even does the second run of Favourite soft models (some of which are high on my wishlist ATM) and some of their desktop figures as well.

[MLMjp]

Today I got this two:

Also tyrantqueen´s idea of using a cotton road is a very clever one My poor little rex was almost kissing the ground when I bough it

[SBell]

Today I got this two:

Also tyrantqueen´s idea of using a cotton road is a very clever one My poor little rex was almost kissing the ground when I bough it

That's so strange about the little rex--I have had one for a while, and a few in-store, and none of them have that issue!

[MLMjp]

Today I got this two:

Also tyrantqueen´s idea of using a cotton road is a very clever one My poor little rex was almost kissing the ground when I bough it

That's so strange about the little rex--I have had one for a while, and a few in-store, and none of them have that issue!

This issue has been mentioned in other threads, some Collecta figures tend to have warping issues

[SBell]

Today I got this two:

Also tyrantqueen´s idea of using a cotton road is a very clever one My poor little rex was almost kissing the ground when I bough it

That's so strange about the little rex--I have had one for a while, and a few in-store, and none of them have that issue!

This issue has been mentioned in other threads, some Collecta figures tend to have warping issues

I've seen that, and it's so weird--I have so many, and none of them, especially the ones on bases, are warped at all.

[RobinGoodfellow]

The warping issue depends on the environment.
In Milano we have cold winters and very hot summers.
And ALL of my thin Collectas with a base have warping issues (baby Rex, Ichthyovenator, Saurophaganax, Pachycephalosaurus, Bistahieversor, ...).
Collecta made the figures (with a base) with a "too" thin plastic for the legs. 
So the figure warps during hot season. 

[Bokisaurus]

Today I got this two:

Also tyrantqueen´s idea of using a cotton road is a very clever one My poor little rex was almost kissing the ground when I bough it

That's so strange about the little rex--I have had one for a while, and a few in-store, and none of them have that issue!

This issue has been mentioned in other threads, some Collecta figures tend to have warping issues

I've seen that, and it's so weird--I have so many, and none of them, especially the ones on bases, are warped at all.

I don't have any problems with all of mine, with the exception of the pachy, all are staying well even the the oviraptor ( the first one on base I believe) after all these years.
Could be temperature, although my baby rex gets direct sunlight part of the day, and it's still standing.
I wonder if there is inconsistency in the type of material used between batches.

[SBell]

The warping issue depends on the environment.
In Milano we have cold winters and very hot summers.
And ALL of my thin Collectas with a base have warping issues (baby Rex, Ichthyovenator, Saurophaganax, Pachycephalosaurus, Bistahieversor, ...).
Collecta made the figures (with a base) with a "too" thin plastic for the legs. 
So the figure warps during hot season. 

Where Ilive it ranges from +40C in the summer to -40C in the winter, and I have no issues. There must be variations in production, or production order (everything I have is from  year of release, not later--maybe that helps?)

[Jetoar]

Wondeful acquisitions  . The next week they are arrive some of my new little tresaures of my collection  .