The best figure of every species, according to Halichoeres

[Halichoeres]

Is that a Baryonyx there, or am I mistaken? If it is, I'll have to track one down for my collection.

The tiny one at the upper right is a Baryonyx, but the larger one on the left is a Suchomimus, with a crude fish in its jaws. You can have either or both of these if you want them.

I would be interested in both actually, is a hypsilophodon also available?

Yep! I'll PM you.

I just noticed the two Papo Pteranodon in the background of the packaging.  I wasn't sure whether I find them being there funny or sad, but now I think it's both.

I agree, it's both. The packaging is a tragically hilarious hodgepodge of Geoworld-level plagiarism and misidentification, probably the result of 30 minutes on Google Images:

I am not sure what animal the "Aeolosaurus" was, but the figure, to its credit, at least passably resembles a sauropod. Also get a load of the "Giganotosaurus" and "Hypsilophodon" images.

[LophoLeeVT]

perhaps the aeolosaurus image is a mamenchisaurus?

[Halichoeres]

perhaps the aeolosaurus image is a mamenchisaurus?

Are you maybe looking at the Barosaurus? That's a long-necked sauropod at any rate. The Aeolosaurus package photo looks more like an ornithopod to me.

[LophoLeeVT]

yes......i got confused....

[Halichoeres]

Some dinosaurs of the Jurassic, plus one arthropod. Now I have to change the name of the thread to something less pedantic but more pretentious.

The arthropod:

Rebor Protolindenia. The wing venation is actually pretty spot-on, but it's also just printed on a thin sheet of clear plastic, rather than embossed like that of the Kaiyodo Meganeura. Still a nice little figure, about 1:1.5, too large to scale well with the Rebor Compsognathus.


But it scales very well with this little Henkelotherium.


Thunder-Beasts Callovosaurus by Multi Toys. Strange that a 90's-era line of giant cartoony action figures included so many unusual species. Had to have 'em! This one is about 1:5, almost half a meter long.


Kaiyodo Huayangosaurus (Dinotales 7). I had the green one and traded it in for this color scheme, which I find more attractive. About 1:45-1:50.


Imperial Tuojiangosaurus from their recent (2010) line of squishy dinosaurs filled with beads. This is one of the best-known stegosaurs, but no respectable company has made a full-sized figure of it. How about it, Safari or CollectA? This one is missing a couple of pairs of plates, and the tail spikes are incorrectly oriented, but that's almost the least of its problems. About 1:30.


Jurassic ornithischians in 1:30-1:50. One of these is not like the others.


PNSO Lufengosaurus. A little emaciated and in a fairly unlikely posture, but still an impressive piece. Replaced the CollectA version. About 1:15 based on L. magnus.


Bullyland Europasaurus. Pretty nice figure, from Bullyland's last good year (2014). I delayed buying it because I was holding out for the Battat, but we might be waiting for that one for a pretty long time. This one is about 1:25.


Lontic Barosaurus. One of the more neglected members of the Morrison sauropod fauna. This one is about 1:85--Barosaurus was a long animal!


With my other tiny sauropods. The world needs 1:40 versions of each of these guys.

[Archinto]

Very glad you fond a callovosaurus! I love the new additions

[Halichoeres]

Thanks, Archinto! I recently "completed" my collection of Thunder-Beasts (I wanted three, I got them). The rest are below, with my other new Jurassic theropods:


CollectA Metriacanthosaurus. CollectA makes nice-looking figures of these scrappy taxa, but I sometimes wish they would deploy their considerable talents in depicting animals known from more than a femur fragment, a handful of vertebrae, and scraps of an ilium. About 1:40, maybe, probably, but hard to say for such a poorly known animal.


CollectA Torvosaurus gurneyi. Calling their large figures "Deluxe" makes perfect sense, but I'm not sure why CollectA insists on calling them 1:40, when they almost never are. This one is more like 1:25-1:30.


Imperial Podokesaurus. I feel like this guy was in most of my dinosaur books growing up, so I don't know why there aren't more toys. This one is about 1:18.


Planeta DeAgostini Ornitholestes, from when DeAgostini was cool. About 1:14.


Thunder-Beasts Ornitholestes. Replaced the fairly terrible Chap Mei figure. Now I have, to the best of my knowledge, the two nicest Ornitholestes toys in existence that don't have the stupid nose horn. This one is about 1:8.


Thunder-Beasts (Multi Toys) Coelurus (found with Archinto's assistance). This is a hilarious figure that it would be a little unfair to critique on accuracy. It's about 1:6 based on total length, but when you adjust for the short tail it's probably more like 1:5. Someday maybe someone will make a feathered version with the elongated neck and back it is likely to have had.


The Thunder-Beasts figures definitely make this shelf more colorful.


Rebor Compsognathus. Bought it for its dragonfly prey, but it turns out to be a little nicer than the Geoworld one, so I swapped it in until someone makes one with feathers. It has pronated wrists, a problem the Geoworld didn't have, but it has better proportions overall and the right number of fingers. About 1:5-1:6.


Kaiyodo Yi qi (Dino Expo 2016). My favorite from the set, although the placement of the support rod is a bit questionable. I'm reliably informed that this name is properly pronounced "yirr chirr," but I never hear anybody say it that way. [EDIT I was mistaken on this, see discussion below.] About 1:5.

[Flaffy]

Well in Chinese, 'Yi-Qi' sounds like '異奇'， which means strange or bizarre. I heard that some translate it to "strange wing".

[Archinto]

The ornithosuchus is actually labeled as an ornithomimus on the thunder beasts packaging. Its one of my faves of the smalls along with the struthiomimus.

Oh, and does your coelurus have a serious eye and a derpy eye? One side of mines face is hilarious looking!

[Sim]

It's nice to see some Ornitholestes toys without the stupid nose horn!

I'm reliably informed that this name is properly pronounced "yirr chirr," but I never hear anybody say it that way.

That's interesting.  I've seen people confidently say the name is pronounced "yee chee", or as seen here "ee chee": http://waxing-paleontological.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/scansoriopterygid-faq.html

[Halichoeres]

Well in Chinese, 'Yi-Qi' sounds like '異奇'， which means strange or bizarre. I heard that some translate it to "strange wing".

Hm, well, now I know what it looks like! But I have to be honest, I'm not completely sure what it sounds like.

It's nice to see some Ornitholestes toys without the stupid nose horn!

I'm reliably informed that this name is properly pronounced "yirr chirr," but I never hear anybody say it that way.

That's interesting.  I've seen people confidently say the name is pronounced "yee chee", or as seen here "ee chee": http://waxing-paleontological.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/scansoriopterygid-faq.html

Pertinent to both your comment and Flaffy's, on reviewing pinyin (which, by the way, strikes me as an excellent example of how not to romanize a language with no alphabet), it seems that it should be more like "ee chyee." I was confusing qi with chi, the latter of which terminates in something that, to my anglophone ear, sounds a lot like the ər sound that American speakers use at the end of "acre."

The ornithosuchus is actually labeled as an ornithomimus on the thunder beasts packaging. Its one of my faves of the smalls along with the struthiomimus.

Oh, and does your coelurus have a serious eye and a derpy eye? One side of mines face is hilarious looking!

The smalls are still pretty big!

I don't think either eye looks particularly derpy in isolation, but since they aim in slightly different directions, the net effect is a fair amount of derpiness:

[Archinto]

I was happy to see the minis being jp3 re-ak attack size. I had forgotten until i got my first batch of em. But yeah, your mini there is an ornithomimus.

Your coelurus eyes are printed a lot straighter than mine. My coelurus is straight out of some sort of meme its so derpy..... the whole eye is printed offset.and points upward.

If you find a dimetrodon from that line i am seriously looking.....

[Halichoeres]

Wait, really? I was going on Joe DeMarco's Dinosauriana, which doesn't list an Ornithomimus in this series at all. It gives the composition of this boxed set as follows:

Brachiosaurus
Deinonychus
Dilophosaurus
Ornitholestes
Pachycephalosaurus
Struthiomimus
Tyrannosaurus
Velociraptor

I assumed the Struthiomimus was the one at top right because of its tiny head. By process of elimination, I thought the one at top left had to be the Ornitholestes. But it also wouldn't surprise me if DeMarco made a mistake (it happens a lot), or if Thunder-Beasts figures had different names at different points in their production.

I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for a Dimetrodon.

[Archinto]

I went back and double checked and my bad. It is an ornitholestes. I swear i remembered it being an ornithomimus.   Ah well. Glad thats sorted haha.

Im hoping to find the series two set of minis too so if you see em lemme know! Loving the mold variations.

[Halichoeres]

I went back and double checked and my bad. It is an ornitholestes. I swear i remembered it being an ornithomimus.   Ah well. Glad thats sorted haha.

Im hoping to find the series two set of minis too so if you see em lemme know! Loving the mold variations.

Thanks for checking! I will definitely keep my eye out for those.

[Appalachiosaurus]

Well in Chinese, 'Yi-Qi' sounds like '異奇'， which means strange or bizarre. I heard that some translate it to "strange wing".

Hm, well, now I know what it looks like! But I have to be honest, I'm not completely sure what it sounds like.

This should help:
https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E7%95%B0%E5%A5%87

It sounds like 'yee chee'

[Halichoeres]

Well in Chinese, 'Yi-Qi' sounds like '異奇'， which means strange or bizarre. I heard that some translate it to "strange wing".

Hm, well, now I know what it looks like! But I have to be honest, I'm not completely sure what it sounds like.

This should help:
https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E7%95%B0%E5%A5%87

It sounds like 'yee chee'

Thanks! I'd forgotten that that was available on Google Translate. To me, it doesn't sound like "yee chee" at all! It sounds like "ee tsyee" with the t-s-y all slid together into one complicated consonant. I wonder if the difference in what we think it sounds like is because of our respective accents. I'm from the western US, so I have the Denver/Phoenix/Albuquerque accent, and I'm guessing from your username that you're from the eastern US. In any event, Sim's approximation was much closer than what I initially thought, but mostly because I confused qi with chi. It definitely does not end in any phoneme that resembles an English r sound.

[stargatedalek]

I'm so used to the Hepburn system that I never realized it wasn't "Yee Qwee".

[Halichoeres]

Some Mesozoic aquatic bilaterians!

First, some arthropods:


Yowie Lost Kingdoms B Dubbolimulus. Cutie-pie. About twice life size.


This Kaiyodo Eryon is actually the figure that convinced me to start collecting arthropods. It's so friggin' good. About 1:2-1:3.


Kaiyodo Triops longicaudatus, the long-tailed tadpole shrimp. Supposedly this species--not just the genus--has been around since the Triassic. That is some extraordinary morphological conservatism. According to the so-called biological species concept, Triassic populations would almost certainly not be the same as modern ones, unless somehow their genomes are as conserved as their external morphology. But under something more flexible--and, to my mind, more realistic--like the evolutionary or ecological species concepts, they're the same entity. This one is about life size.


Mudbugs.

I've recently managed to scare up a surprising number of actinopterygians:

Schleich prehistoric fish, cf. Potanichthys. About 1:4 as Potanichthys. It's a bummer that it doesn't scale well with any other Mesozoic swimming critters I have, and it's missing its anal fin, but I'm still pretty happy to have it. By far my favorite Schleich figure (yes, more than the Dunkleosteus, and even more than the Kentrosaurus).


Lepidotes, a stem-gar, accessory to the Kanna Dinosaur Center Expo Spinosaurus. It's pretty nice, if not nearly as detailed as the dinosaur it accompanied. I appreciate that it was actually intended as a particular genus, and is a passable depiction thereof. If I could afford a dozen Kanna spinosaurs, I would have tried to put together a whole school. Scale 1:20-1:25.


With some other "fish."


Fish prey accessory to the Bandai Pteranodon. The pterosaur is pretty ugly (does anyone want it?), and honestly this fish is pretty middling, but there's so little out there (though this year has been comparatively good with a whopping two new actinopterygians). I'm calling this one cf. Gillicus based mostly on its overall shape and the fact that it occurs in the same chalks as Pteranodon. If it's Gillicus, it's around 1:75.


Being terrorized by Cretoxyrhina.


PNSO Glyphoderma. The nicest placodont figure to ever be mass-produced. I hope this line of minis goes big, like Dinotales-back-in-2001 big. I'm really digging the focus on Chinese taxa, too. They're underrepresented, but maybe not for long. About 1:8.

On that note, can we please stop using the term "chinasaur?" It's always been offensive, and to some extent it's always been nonsensical (the most vaunted US and Japanese lines are still manufactured in places like Shenzhen, after all). PNSO makes the phrase downright ludicrous.


Maybe one day someone will make a Placochelys that actually looks like a Placochelys.


CollectA Thalassomedon. Might be my favorite from their 2016 lineup. The skin texture reminds me a bit of a beluga or sperm whale, although less pronounced. The limbs might be a bit over-extended, but I don't really know plesiosaur biomechanics, so I'm not sure. About 1:35-1:40, one of the rare CollectA Deluxe figures that land in that range.


Some elasmosaurids.

[Dilopho]

Being terrorized eaten