Recent Acquisitions (Archive, March 2012 - July 2018)

[suspsy]

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?)

I haven't had such bad luck either. The only one that seems to sag is my little baby T. rex, and not by very much. He's been standing next to his dad for months now and looks fine.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Here's my latest haul. In addition to this I got a When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth banner, like in JP. I strongly suggest the cycad to anyone who doesn't have one BTW.

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[LophoLeeVT]

whish brand is the cycad???

[RobinGoodfellow]

whish brand is the cycad???

It's from Collecta.

[SBell]

Here's my latest haul. In addition to this I got a When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth banner, like in JP. I strongly suggest the cycad to anyone who doesn't have one BTW.

They also have a nice, big gingko and a new Baobab tree; I only have the latter and it pleases me for no apparent reason just to have it!

Although I have seen the other two, and yeah, they are great tree models.

[Libraraptor]

Excuse my question, but who is that guy behind that xy - ceratops?

[John]

Excuse my question, but who is that guy behind that xy - ceratops?

That would be The Doctor from Doctor Who.The original from 1963 to be exact.

[Silvanusaurus]

I have been letting these acquisitions build up for a while now, and only just got around to photographing them, but these are from roughly the last month or so:


A wide variety but I've started shifting the focus of my collecting to Great British dinosaurs! (Mostly Baryonyx and Iguanodon so far) I was quite astonished to find this Geoworld Becklespinax for £3 in T.K. Maxx, I didn't even know this figure existed, let alone that Geoworlds were available on UK shelves! It's not a great figure by any means but it's such an obscure British species, I had to get it. They had quite a good selection of others at the same price, and also the 'Jurassic Action' Baryonyx too (which cost a bit more):


A beautiful Sega Stegosaurus (I believe this was from forum member Invicta Hunter):


And just today I got these two fellows from Toys R Us for £19.99, which seems incredibly cheap:


I'm trying to decide whether to open them or leave them in the box (incase they become a great rarity in the future)... It's a shame I find the box itself to be such an eye sore. I'm really not a fan of the posture of these figures either, but the mildly funky colours, and sheer detail in the sculpts is hard to resist...

[Dinomike]

Great ones Silvanusaurus! I always open my boxes - I simply don't have room for them. I've kept a couple, namely the Rebor ones and one signed by Doug Watson:)

[Dinomike]

Happy birthday to me! 

[Rain]

Happy Birthday ! 

[Arul]

Happy birthday Dinomike hope the rebor acro will make your day

[Roselaar]

Great new catches! I really need to get myself that Acrocanthosaurus too...

[Dinomike]

Thanks for the birthday wishes! The Acro is a stunning piece!

[LophoLeeVT]

wow comgrats on your b-day hunt!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Scored this entire set on ebay for 20.00 ! Used to have them as a kid but kept losing the parts.  Glad to have em' back unopened..but man I'm tempted to build them again!

[Lanthanotus]

Used to have wooden skeleton models like these as a kid (all of them I think, unfortunetly all of them lost I think :/),... but what's this "motorized" about them?!

[suspsy]

Scored this entire set on ebay for 20.00 ! Used to have them as a kid but kept losing the parts.  Glad to have em' back unopened..but man I'm tempted to build them again!

I used to have the T. rex. It did indeed fall to pieces after a time.

[Tyto_Theropod]

Ah, nostalgia! I remember seeing these wooden kits in museum shops when I was a kid. I was never really interested, because my way of thinking was that you could see dinosaur skeletons in books, and I wanted to have toys of real, live dinosaurs so I could re-enact the Mesozoic all over the sitting room floor! I can still see the appeal to little kids though. I believe they still sell similar kits today.

[CityRaptor]

They do. Even in various variants, sizes and even colors but this is the first time I've seen them motorized. There are even updated versions of some of them.