New DinoToyBlog entries

[DinoToyForum]

e-mail has been sent, if anythings not quite right just give the word and I can get on it

I didn't receive it yet. Could you diuble check you sent it to the right address? Thanks!

[stargatedalek]

I re-sent, it was definitely the right address (it showed your site image just fine), so it must have been an error on Gmails end

[DinoToyForum]

I re-sent, it was definitely the right address (it showed your site image just fine), so it must have been an error on Gmails end

Weird, still nothing...
The email address is certainly working because I received a submission from someone else recently. Maybe the attachments are too big and it isn't sending properly...

[stargatedalek]

I sent again, I used image location codes so if it was an issue with attachments it should work now

[DinoToyForum]

New review by Suspsy: http://dinotoyblog.com/2014/12/10/therizinosaurus-deluxe-version-by-collecta/

[triceratops83]

Great. Now I want that Therizinosaurus. Love the look on his face.

[suspsy]

Whenever I look at that loveable face, I picture it singing, "TROLOLOLOLO LOLOLOLO!"

Look it up on YouTube if you don't know what that is.

[Patrx]

Something that bothers me about that Therizinosaurus (and to a lesser extent, CollectA's smaller version) is the blue and green body feathers. The way they're sculpted makes them look like simple filaments. Maybe the ones on the wings could carry a structural color like blue or green, but the simple feathers would probably be colored by pigment alone, yes? Unless I'm missing something.

[stargatedalek]

last I knew green wasn't necessarily a structural colour in feathers
and as for blue, we can look to our deceased mammalian friend the blue-buck to see how that can be achieved without structural colour

[Patrx]

last I knew green wasn't necessarily a structural colour in feathers

A bit of research shows that you're right! A group of pigments called porphyrins can produce green:

and as for blue, we can look to our deceased mammalian friend the blue-buck to see how that can be achieved without structural colour

Hah, sort of! Evidently, that coloration was derived from yellow and black hairs - which somehow looked blueish altogether?

[stargatedalek]

yep thats how the blue-buck did it, a very interesting trait, and some people say paleontology has no bearing on modern science, pah!

[Manatee]

New review by Suspsy: http://dinotoyblog.com/2014/12/10/therizinosaurus-deluxe-version-by-collecta/

Wow, that thing is out of scale!
Five stars from me.

[DinoToyForum]

Thanks to Stargatedalek!
http://dinotoyblog.com/2014/12/14/walking-with-dinosaurs-3d-mini-figures-vivid-toy-group-ltd/

[Concavenator]

How about a summary about CollectA's released for 2015? 

[triceratops83]

Collecta's also releasing a baobab tree!

[DinoToyForum]

http://dinotoyblog.com/2014/12/15/saichania-world-of-history-by-schleich/

[DinoG]

Collecta's also releasing a baobab tree!

Very happy about that I love Collecta's trees!!!

[DinoToyForum]

http://dinotoyblog.com/2014/12/20/mosasaurus-collecta/

[suspsy]

This was a fun toy to review. I really want someone to make a Hainosaurus and a Globodins with tail flukes.

[DinoToyForum]

This was a fun toy to review. I really want someone to make a Hainosaurus and a Globodins with tail flukes.

Thank you for reviewing it!