Battat - New for 2015

[Concavenator]

Damn,I can't wait to see the rest!Dan,have you finished any of the other 4? (Sorry if I'm a little impatient)

[Zhuchengotyrant]

I know! I am very excited for the Majungasaurus especially. I'm sorry if I'm impatient too, but seriously! Who WOULDN'T be?!?!

[Concavenator]

I know! I am very excited for the Majungasaurus especially. I'm sorry if I'm impatient too, but seriously! Who WOULDN'T be?!?!

Great to see you back!  Yeah,I'm looking for the Majungasaurus tbe most.I love that dinosaur,its weird proportions are just irresistible to me! 

[Zhuchengotyrant]

I know! I am very excited for the Majungasaurus especially. I'm sorry if I'm impatient too, but seriously! Who WOULDN'T be?!?!

Great to see you back!  Yeah,I'm looking for the Majungasaurus tbe most.I love that dinosaur,its weird proportions are just irresistible to me! 

Yep. I'm back, and back with a bang. I've been gone because I've been busy. (First year in middle school!)

[Meso-Cenozoic]

Composite skull based on AMNH 1624, MNA PL.1747, UNM FKK-081 (After LEHMAN, 1993). MNA Pl. 1747: Skull,SDNHM 43470 and the body  (mainily) from the OMNH as well as skeletaldrawings and other artists painting as well as sculpts.

I just had to tell you, Dan, that cracked me up! Now THAT"S an answer!! LOL!

[alexeratops]

I know! I am very excited for the Majungasaurus especially. I'm sorry if I'm impatient too, but seriously! Who WOULDN'T be?!?!

Great to see you back!  Yeah,I'm looking for the Majungasaurus tbe most.I love that dinosaur,its weird proportions are just irresistible to me! 

Yep. I'm back, and back with a bang. I've been gone because I've been busy. (First year in middle school!)

Me too.

[loru1588]

Thanks everyone for the words of encouragement! I've slowed down a bit due to batteries of medical tests and physical therapy. Nasutoceratops will be off to the casters next week. Plateosaurus will be next. Hope to have the other 2 finished and in resin before spring. Long process, but these should all be available late 2015 with the Gastonia, Giganoraptor, Pentaceratops & Europasaurus available in the late spring early summer.

[Concavenator]

So maybe that means we can see the Nasutoceratops next week?! 
Because I'm really excited to see it.

[Meso-Cenozoic]

Hope all is well with you soon, Dan!

So the next group of figures won't be available till late Spring/early Summer? I thought it was said before that at least the Gastonia and Gigantoraptor would be out in January?

[loru1588]

I have no control of the release dates. The Gastonia & Gigantoraptor have been in production but Target may want the release of 4 dinosaurs at one time, hence making the release of the 4 pieces later. I believe I said  around or after January of next year.

[Meso-Cenozoic]

OK. Thanks, Dan! Gifts of new dinos should be a year-round event anyway.

[ItsTwentyBelow]

Man, this is all still so exciting to me!

I still can't believe the Battat dinosaurs are back! Will be hard to wait for the next Terra series to release but I'll try to be patient, ha. I want everything we've seen so far that is unreleased, but I think I want the Pentaceratops most. So awesome.

I have all my Battat figures, both 90's and 2014, all arranged together right now on a shelf, and I'm always so impressed at how well the new figures just mesh so well with the originals in scale, quality, and appearance. They were already so good for the 90's. You can't really say that with most Carnegie figures from the 90's compared with those of recent years.

I'll be excited to hear when we eventually get more details about the re-release of the Boston Museum series, too 

[Zhuchengotyrant]

Any images on the other new sculpts?

[triceratops83]

Is there a potential release date for the BMOS figures yet? And will they be released together or in batches? I need to know how much longer I have to pace back and forth in anticipation.

[sauroid]

where do you get your Battat Terra in Australia?

[triceratops83]

where do you get your Battat Terra in Australia?

Dan's Dinosaurs We have Target here, but I can't see them getting the Battat line. I might email Minizoo, they've got all the major brands, but I doubt they could get them if it remains a Target exclusive.

[Zhuchengotyrant]

Yeah. Although mano countries have Target, only the one sin the US have the Terra dinosaurs.

[deanm]

Maybe fairer to say North American Target stores (as both the Us and Canadian Targets have them).

[tanystropheus]

The Gigantoraptor is pretty cool looking.

[triceratops83]

I got a question for Dan if he's around, does Battat try to influence the choice of dinosaur genera for the toy lines? Like, would they balk at the choice of say, something like a tenontosaurus when told it was a medium sized herbivore with no outstanding features over something more "sensational" like a theropod? Or are they easy going enough to run with the choices you make? Became curious when the Safari Edmontosaurus was retired and everyone here was wondering why. I know all companies are different but would like to hear your take on this.