Favorite - New for 2015

[Dan]

In addition to the more widespread availability of their soft model Anomalocaris and Dunkleosteus, Favorite will be issuing an updated version of their Spinosaurus skeleton. Not surprisingly, it appears this model was crafted before recent material was published.



Given the investment and time typically involved for manufacturing these models, it may still be a couple years before we see more contemporary reconstructions of the species reaching mass-market (and yes, CollectA has been quite the exception in this regard).

As always, new releases can be found as soon as they arrive at DansDinosaurs.com

[Dinomike]

The legs on this one look a bit shorter than on your average Spino and the lower jaw looks a little bit chunky too. Maybe they had time to shorten the legs? Still looks good though!

[Daspletodave]

The new Favorite Archelon and Dimetrodon arrived

[DinoLord]

Nice acquisitions! They look a bit shiny - is that just the lighting in the photo?

[John]

I have the Dimetrodon and it's one of the best of the genus I've seen,easily identifiable as D. limbatus.Seeing the in-hand photos,I'm going to have to get ahold of one of those Archelon models too.

[ItsTwentyBelow]

Very nice!  Thanks for the pics.

I will be interested in acquiring these two. I recently received the Favorite Anomalocaris and Dunkleosteus, my first two Soft Models, and was very impressed. Also will be cool to get a lesser seen species of Dimetrodon!

These seem to be released in twos as of late... I am excited to see the finished Megalodon model, and hopefully learn what the other animal released alongside it will be.

[Takama]

From Favorites Facebook Page

[Halichoeres]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

[Roselaar]

Very nice! Opabinia and Anomalocaris sure seem to be the most popular animals of their days, but you can't have enough of both in my mind.

[SBell]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

If they do it will probably be Cladoselache. Which would be fine, although the Safari toob (or Dinotales) is just about the right size already.

What we need is a decent rhizodont or pandericthyid to proper scale!

[Halichoeres]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

If they do it will probably be Cladoselache. Which would be fine, although the Safari toob (or Dinotales) is just about the right size already.

What we need is a decent rhizodont or pandericthyid to proper scale!

Yeah, that's what I'd like to see! But maybe they consider the megalodon companion enough. Damned shame if so.

[triceratops83]

Opabinia, another surprise from Favorite. It's good to see they are giving us more Paleozoic life.

[SBell]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

If they do it will probably be Cladoselache. Which would be fine, although the Safari toob (or Dinotales) is just about the right size already.

What we need is a decent rhizodont or pandericthyid to proper scale!

Yeah, that's what I'd like to see! But maybe they consider the megalodon companion enough. Damned shame if so.

I personally consider the Megalodon figures to be placeholder figures until the sculptor does something more interesting--at best, they're bulky great white sharks. At worst, they're just great white sharks (which, yes, are cool, but not in this context). It's not like there is a lack of even other large sharks to make (hence, i stand by my push for Cretoxyrhina to get made--even if, really, still not much different).

[Halichoeres]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

If they do it will probably be Cladoselache. Which would be fine, although the Safari toob (or Dinotales) is just about the right size already.

What we need is a decent rhizodont or pandericthyid to proper scale!

Yeah, that's what I'd like to see! But maybe they consider the megalodon companion enough. Damned shame if so.

I personally consider the Megalodon figures to be placeholder figures until the sculptor does something more interesting--at best, they're bulky great white sharks. At worst, they're just great white sharks (which, yes, are cool, but not in this context). It's not like there is a lack of even other large sharks to make (hence, i stand by my push for Cretoxyrhina to get made--even if, really, still not much different).

I would also rather have a Cretoxyrhina than a megalodon. Until recently I would have said there's no way, given that everyone knows the name megalodon, but now that there's a Cretoxyrhina on Dinosaur Train...

[John]

In case anyone was wondering what color the soft model series Megalodon shark was going to be,it's here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.860687010675768.1073741902.480725025338673&type=3

[CityRaptor]

Meh, even the colors scream White Shark. C. megalodon is probably the least interesting of all prehistoric sharks.

I would also rather have a Cretoxyrhina than a megalodon. Until recently I would have said there's no way, given that everyone knows the name megalodon, but now that there's a Cretoxyrhina on Dinosaur Train...

It was also in the Sea Monsters special from WWD. A shark I personally want to have in toyform would be Hybodus. Very versatile, as you one can use it in the late Permian and most of the Mesozoic.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Opabinia, yes? That will look great next to their Anomalocaris. Is it too much to hope that this means they might make some Devonian companion for the Dunkleosteus?

If they do it will probably be Cladoselache. Which would be fine, although the Safari toob (or Dinotales) is just about the right size already.

What we need is a decent rhizodont or pandericthyid to proper scale!

Yeah, that's what I'd like to see! But maybe they consider the megalodon companion enough. Damned shame if so.

I personally consider the Megalodon figures to be placeholder figures until the sculptor does something more interesting--at best, they're bulky great white sharks. At worst, they're just great white sharks (which, yes, are cool, but not in this context). It's not like there is a lack of even other large sharks to make (hence, i stand by my push for Cretoxyrhina to get made--even if, really, still not much different).

It's sad from a collector point of view that Meg just isn't all that interesting. Add a whale it's chomping or something else so it stands out.  It is however interesting to show that sharks have changed very little in all their time here on our planet.

[CityRaptor]

Expect that C.megalodon is not that old. It's from the Miocene and Pliocene.

There is an older Megalodon, but that is not shark....or vertebrate to begin with!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon_(genus)

[sauroid]

this is Favorite's great white shark


they just made their new C. megalodon look "fiercer"

[SBell]

Expect that C.megalodon is not that old. It's from the Miocene and Pliocene.

There is an older Megalodon, but that is not shark....or vertebrate to begin with!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon_(genus)

Ha! That's why it's kind of funny that everyone refers to it as Megalodon, when that's not it's name. Unless people really need a fossil bivalve in their collection? I have a brachiopod, so why not...

And have to second the sharks changing--time frame thing--sharks have changed enormously in their 400 Million years. Every shark we have today is just one brnach of a family that was far more diverse and bizarre than anything we could have expected. Really, a figure like C. megalodon just maintains the stereotype of sharks never changing. If they want to impress, do a hybodont, a pleurocanth, a petalodont or a falcatid--then we'll see what ancient sharks really looked like.