Walking with Dinosaurs by Toyway

[frank08]

I don't have any Invicta figures, but I do have the Toyway diplodocus and I can probably find the Schliech Allosaurus.

[WalkingWithBeasts]

I don't have any Invicta figures, but I do have the Toyway diplodocus and I can probably find the Schliech Allosaurus.

Invicta figures vary in price on eBay, some going quite cheap.

[frank08]

I will look, but in the meantime, you can enjoy my newest paleoart. You are free to use these whenever you want.

"Nothosaurus Swim"

"Nothosaurus on the Beach"

"Into the Jaws of Death"

"Proterosuchus Eating"

I hope you like them!

[Shonisaurus]

The nothosaurus swimming has been great. Did you make them on a beach the diorama?

[frank08]

Thank you and I went to the beach. It was hot and my camera case got a little wet but it was well worth it. It's like I traveled back to the Triassic era. When I was little, I repainted the Nothosaurus red (I don't know why I did that now), but it still looks good. Maybe I will buy that toob again. My dog chewed up the Henodus turtle but I can just get a new one and pretend that the chewed up one was bitten by a large Ichthyosaur. That picture will look great but I have to rebuy that toob to take it. I like shooting at the beach or in my yard so the shot looks like a still frame of the animal in the wild. I was originally going to make the Nothosaurus stick its head out of the water for a breath of air, but then I realized that it looked great underwater and that I should take a picture of it underwater. I think that if you camped out in the Middle Triassic at the shore and a Nothosaur swam near land, it would look like that in real life.

Just one week until my Toyways get here!!!! Time flies everyone!

[frank08]

Have you noticed that The Collecta Liliensternus looks like the Liliensternus from the arena walking with dinosaurs? I don't know if that can be considered the same continuity.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Have you noticed that The Collecta Liliensternus looks like the Liliensternus from the arena walking with dinosaurs? I don't know if that can be considered the same continuity.

I don't think so, there's quite a few differences in the skull alone since the Bullyland one is based on the model in the natural history museum in Stuttgart (and also not made by Toyway so it's not really fitting in this thread I guess?) but you probably could customize one if you really wanted.

[SBell]

I don't know if anyone has mentioned these (here) yet, but I just kind of stumbled upon these while browsing different species of marine reptiles (such as Liopleurodon): https://toyanimal.info/wiki/Quick

They have figures of the Diplodocus, Liopleurodon, Rhamphorhynchus, and Tyrannosaurus. If I had to guess these would also be pretty hard to find and/or get these days. I think it is also particularly interesting that they made a figure of the podlet Diplodocus, and not the adult.

Good call to mention them here in passing. They aren't Toyway but they are official WWD. B @Bokisaurus did a special review of these on the Dinosaur Toy Blog, well worth checking out: http://dinotoyblog.com/2017/12/25/walking-with-dinosaurs-miniature-set-quick-bbc/

Ha! Those were mine until I sold them to Boki--and if you think the Toyway figures are hard to find (and therefore expensive) good luck with this foursome. I got mine from France, and that (or Belgium) would be your best bet, since that's where Quick sold them.

[frank08]

My Toyway T. rex came!

[Duna]

Hello, I'm new to writing in this thread, but I've read it many times. I grew up with Jurassic Park and of course the WWD series. I never knew there were figures made for the series until I found the blog and the forum. In Spain the documentaries were very succesful too, but as I learnt this year, the Toyway figures (only 10 released here) were only sold in ToysRUs and maybe the Natural Science Museum (I'm not sure about that). And they were quite expensive, about 18-24 euros.

I found this year a tyrannosaurus in mint box (with the sticker from the Spanish retailer in Barcelona for the sale in this country) and as I saw very little figures in eBay (some never appeared) I decided to sell it. But with a very good twist of luck I found an Iguanodon in a lot in my country (the seller thought they were Papos). The Iguanodon seems to be now very scarce (as other figures were in the past) so I was over the moon. Then my dreams have come true and this last week a surprising amount of WWD have appeared in eBay from nowhere, all of them excepting the now elusive Iguanodon that I was so lucky to find.
I bought 8 figures from a seller that are still on their way. I'm only missing the Laellynasaura, sadly.

And who would dare to open a pristine collection box? 



I decided that I wouldn't find a tyrannosaurus figure in a better condition, most of them are quite battered. So I opened it




Now with the also pristine iguanodon:





By the way, just for the curious ... In the Spanish dubbing, the narrator talked about Velociraptor hunting iguanodons. I was shocked to see a velociraptor half the size of an iguanodon which was anatomically very different and also seemed to live in the early ¿Spain?  I just found recently in this forum that it was not a velociraptor, but a utahraptor in the original English version, hehe. I can't understand why it was translated by velociraptor ... More than 20 years of my life with that question in my head.

You can listen to that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOe1WjDb5dA

[Faelrin]

@Duna Thanks for sharing your find. Never did see what those boxes looked like before. I didn't even know they came in boxes too. Is there anything on the back?

Also do you intend to keep the box even though you opened it? It looks like you took great care of it when opening it up.

[Duna]

@Duna Thanks for sharing your find. Never did see what those boxes looked like before. I didn't even know they came in boxes too. Is there anything on the back?

Also do you intend to keep the box even though you opened it? It looks like you took great care of it when opening it up.

You are a great observer! Yes, I opened it carefully so it remained the most intact possible.

In the back of the cardboard there are beautiful pictures from the real show and some of the other dinosaurs of the collection. In my box the Spanish retailer put a sticker with some information about the collection in Spanish and Portuguese but covered all the nice information about the species, they shouldn't have done that ... but that seems to be how all Spanish and Portuguese boxes were distributed.
By the way, the cardboard box is very big, but I will keep it, yes.

[Halichoeres]

I'm like you, I open everything. The only figure I've ever bought and not opened was the Inyector Centrosaurus. Nice find!

[Faelrin]

@Duna Thanks for sharing what the back of the box looks like. Absolutely wonderful. Makes me want to hunt for the box to pair with my Allosaurus but that may nearly as hard as tracking down the Ornithocheirus at this rate, lol. I guess you are very lucky for finding that however, and in such good shape after all this time.

[Duna]

@Duna Thanks for sharing what the back of the box looks like. Absolutely wonderful. Makes me want to hunt for the box to pair with my Allosaurus but that may nearly as hard as tracking down the Ornithocheirus at this rate, lol. I guess you are very lucky for finding that however, and in such good shape after all this time.

Never lose the hope, this may be your lucky day! I've sent you a private. 

[Duna]

I think it would be nice to post this here.

A closer look at the "Nayab"? placerias. I highly recommend this figure, it's very well sculpted and displays very well with the Toyways, and of course, the Postosuchus.
It's hollow, light and has a C1 marked on the belly. I found this figure in many lots, some are just green and brown with the fangs not painted, and some are painted (fangs in white, head in black and eyes in yellow).








And my repaint of the European iguanodon to look like the "American" in the series .... If only they would have painted it like that ... 
I'm not an expert in painting but I tried to replicate the pattern shown in the documentary. I bought a figure with a lot of wear and instead of restoring it to its original colours, I decided to repaint it new, using cheap acrylic colours.

[Roselaar]

That repainted Iguanodon looks gorgeous!

[sauroid]

yes i agree the Iguanodon repaint is very nice (it also reminds me of the old CollectA Iguanodon). Duna have you considered repainting your extra Placerias into a more "realistic" looking figure?

[Duna]

yes i agree the Iguanodon repaint is very nice (it also reminds me of the old CollectA Iguanodon). Duna have you considered repainting your extra Placerias into a more "realistic" looking figure?

Yes, I have thought about it ... but I think I need better skills to paint it like the one in the series. I think it could look superb with aerograph.

[Shonisaurus]

I'm glad you have the pleasure, I also recommend it to me they sold it to me at everythingdinosaur at a laughable price including shipping costs. Nice repainted the iguanodon. My congratulations Duna.