What would you make in a new Dino Toy Company?

[PaleoMatt]

my company would be called FossilTech and would be as accurate as collecta! They would be 1:40 scale but 1:10 if smaller than 2 meters in length but a very small 1:40 version would be avaliable to order of our website to prevent a choking hazard in stores. My start up would be these 20 dinosaurs in alphabetical order:

Allosaurus 1:40
Ankylosaurus 1:40
Apatosaurus 1:40
Archaeopteryx 1:10
Brachiosaurus 1:40
Coelophysis 1:40
Compsognathus 1:10
Deinonychus 1:40
Dilophosaurus 1:40
Diplodocus 1:40
Giganotosaurus 1:40
Iguanodon 1:40
Parasaurolophus 1:40
Protoceratops 1:40
Spinosaurus 1:40
Stegosaurus 1:40
Triceratops 1:40
Troodon 1:40
Tyrannosaurus 1:40
Velociraptor 1:10

[Dilopho]

I'd make a Koolasuchus, Dilophosaurus and probably something like a spiked triceratops.

[PaleoMatt]

I think we should bring this thread back 

[Rogue1stClass]

I would make cheap, but accurate small scale toys for children, sold in sets with bits of terrain. They would be designed to be played with together, though not necessarily to the same scale, and be in relatively neutral poses with fairly muted colors. Each set would include dinosaurs that would be found together, with the first sets being animals from Hell Creek, Morrison, Flaming Bluffs and Dinosaur Park. Later sets would include animals from Britain, South America, and Africa. The first priorities on the design of the animals will be cost, playability, and looks, and I will attempt to meet those while being as accurate as possible. I would have three sizes in each set, a couple of big, showcase toys, a selection of medium sized ones, and some smaller ones to fill out the set

For the Hell Creek set:

Large
Tyrannosaurus, looking old, mean and craggy
Triceratops, likewise

Medium
Subadult Tyrannosaurs
Subadult Triceratops
Ankylosaurus
Edmontosaurus
Dakotaraptor
Quetzlecoatlus because why not?

Small

Pachycephalosaurus
Struthiomimus
Troodon
Acheroraptor
Hatching tyrannosaurs
Hatchling Triceratops

The large would be about 8 inches long, the mediums about 5, and the smalls about three.

Huh...ya know, typing it out, this actually might not be a bad idea...

[DinoG]

1:1 Ciro, the scipionix samniticus

[Plasticbeast95]

I would keep all figures in scale to each other, and make them affordable, so everyone can enjoy them, not just people with deep pockets.

[Federreptil]

If I were a new dino toy company the first thing I would find a way to make is a profit. Then having ensured my success, I would begin making things that worked in a market already semi saturated with other companies offerings...namely play diorama scenes built to scale for various standard toylines, as well as time periods . Ie....a sculpted water and rocks type setting with a cliff for pterosaurs, a jungle type setting, and a simple riverside or such, availible as jurassic or cretaceous settings,  availible in say a 1/40 scale and a smaller scale for the minis out there.  Then I would begin providing sets, that are made from lineages of dinosaurs. For instance, the ceratopsians...have a small set that provided a Yinlong, Psittacosaur, triceratops, Styracosaurus, and perhaps koreaceratops. For therapods, you could have Tyrannosaurus, Gigantosaurus, Spinosaurus, Velociraptor, and allosaurus.  If you purchased a setting piece, it would show on its backing the animals to collect for that piece to complete it.
  In addition I would offer a special bonus figure not availible commerically for redemption of box end or such, to go with each setting piece.
Then I would begin offering special pieces to add on for year two.The beauty of the idea is you could not only make settings for a given time period, but also a given place. So you could offer a setting piece for the dinosaurs of china, jurassic or cretaceous, or the feathered reptiles of china as a set to compliment the piece.South America, you could offer the giganotosaurus, carnotaurus, amargasaurus, saltasaurus etc.
North america, the hell creek setting......Utah, the Morrison formation setting, it goes on and on, and then you model dinosaurs that fit your pieces, and places. The net effect would create an educational, collectible, and highly playable toyworld of dinosaurs.

I like this program, but I think the first gap is the first goal: create a successful company with profit. We all can see how hard this is and how slow a collection will grow, if we look to Rebor. Not everyone like their interpretations and for me they are far away from scientific accuracy. But they have completed their first year and are still running. If you want a successful company with mass appeal you must get the children and more their financiers: the parents and grandparents. Shops in museums are not bad but you have to enter the toy stores. And than I have lost the last months my confidence in the success of educational concepts. I have seen too much Jurassic World, Schleich and WWD. And I wonder how Favorite and Kaiyodo will works outside of Japan.

But if I forget all my mental restrictions I would look to the model making of this fantastic guys for shapeways. Because I will find here modern interpretations, naturalistic style without cartoonish feets and variations in the poses. Because my ideal company will ask renown artists for the model making, will summarize palaeohabitats in one scale (1:35/1:40) and bring one species in different positions for a better pack/herd building. And maybe I will start with a mongolian scenery of feathered Tarbosaurus, Gallimimus, Gigantoraptor, Oviraptor, Psittacosaurus, Protoceratops, a very birdish Velociraptor and a Therizinosaurus like Krentz will do.

[CMIPalaeo]

This is something I've thought about a lot, so I've got quite a lot of thoughts on this. I would focus on having a huge number and diversity of taxa (like CollectA), all at high-quality at relatively low prices, with consistent scales across the board (like Carnegie had until its later years). The first series would launch with large numbers of figures, and each subsequent series would add several figures to the line. There would be several lines, focussing on different extinct animals: nonavian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, Mesozoic marine reptiles, Cenozoic mammals, protomammals/Mesozoic mammals, croc-line archosaurs, extinct humans and relatives, prehistoric birds, prehistoric marine mammals, prehistoric sharks, Holocene extinctions, and a line for basically miscellanea (invertebrates, fish, temnospondyls, turtles, whatever didn't fit with the other stuff).

Dinosaurs collection - Series 1
All figures (with a few exceptions) are available in 1:40 scale, although many are also available on other scales. Generally, anything above 3 m long in life is 1:40 exclusively, anything down to about 1.5 m in life is available in 1:20 as well as 1:40. Animals smaller than that are generally just a bit to small to get a detailed, playable sculpt at 1:40 so they're on 1:20 and/or 1:10 scale. Perhaps a couple of small dinosaurs would be released at life size.

This line launches in its first year with 70 figures so there's already a wide diversity, featuring both popular and very obscure taxa. The second series would probably add about 30-40 new dinosaurs, and each subsequent series would add about 15-20 new dinosaurs. Eventually, some animals would be discontinued, or made into website-only exclusives.

Plateosaurus engelhardti
Glacialisaurus hammeri
Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
Jobaria tiguidensis
Diplodocus carnegii
Suuwassea emilieae
Camarasaurus lentus
Giraffatitan brancai
Dreadnoughtus schrani
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis

Bravoceratops polyphemus
Triceratops horridus
Kosmoceratops richardsoni
Utahceratops gettyi
Nasutoceratops titusi
Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum
Einiosaurus procurvicornis
Protoceratops andrewsi (also in 1:20)
Aquilops americanus (only in 1:20, 1:10)
Psittacosaurus sibiricus (also in 1:20, maybe also in 1:10)
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis

Stegosaurus armatus
Tuojiangosaurus multispinus
Miragaia longicollum
Tarchia kielanae
Saichania chulsanensis
Gastonia burgei
Scelidosaurus harrisonii

Iguanodon bernissartensis
Zalmoxes robustus (also in 1:20)
Dryosaurus altus
Gryposaurus monumentensis
Edmontosaurus annectens
Shantungosaurus giganteus
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus
Olorotitan arharensis
Magnapaulia laticuadus
Hypsilophodon foxii (also in 1:20, maybe also available in 1:10)
Leaellynasaura amicagraphica (also in 1:20, maybe also available in 1:10)
Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus (also in 1:20, maybe also available in 1:10)
Fruitadens haagarorum (only 1:10, maybe also available in 1:1)

Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis
Coelophysis bauri (also in 1:20)
Liliensternus liliensterni
Ceratosaurus nasicornis
Rajasaurus narmadensis
Aucasaurus garridoi
Cryolophosaurus ellioti
Afrovenator abakensis
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus
Irritator challengeri
Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis
Allosaurus fragilis
Acrocanthosaurus atokensis
Sinosauropteryx prima (only 1:20, 1:10, maybe also available in 1:1)
Tyrannosaurus rex
Nanuqsaurus hoglundi
Lythronax argestes
Shuuvuia deserti (only 1:20, 1:10)
Deinocheirus mirificus
Gallimimus bullatus
Falcarius utahensis
Protarchaeopteryx robusta (only 1:20, 1:10)
Citipati osmolskae (also in 1:20)
Yi qi (only 1:10, maybe also available in 1:1)
Microraptor gui (only 1:20, 1:10, maybe also available in 1:1)
Velociraptor mongoliensis (also in 1:20)
Deinonychus antirrhopus
Anchiornis huxleyi (only 1:10, maybe also available in 1:1)
Mei long (only 1:20, 1:10)

[Kayakasaurus]

I suppose I would probably start with a Hylaeosaurs... Oh wait.

[PaleoMatt]

I suppose I would probably start with a Hylaeosaurs... Oh wait.

I'm looking forward to yours!

[Kayakasaurus]

I suppose I would probably start with a Hylaeosaurs... Oh wait.

I'm looking forward to yours!

Good to hear that! I'm trying to build up a little stock right now. And we have a Sauropod up next! That will probably be an early 2016.

[Halichoeres]

I hadn't seen this thread before! The part I like most about it is that I'm learning about new animals! A lot of collective knowledge here.

I suppose I would probably start with a Hylaeosaurs... Oh wait.

I'm looking forward to yours!

Good to hear that! I'm trying to build up a little stock right now. And we have a Sauropod up next! That will probably be an early 2016.

Oh, what good news! Will the sauropod also be 1:40?

[PaleoMatt]

I suppose I would probably start with a Hylaeosaurs... Oh wait.

I'm looking forward to yours!

Good to hear that! I'm trying to build up a little stock right now. And we have a Sauropod up next! That will probably be an early 2016.

How many figures do you plan on making a year and do you take requests?

[Kayakasaurus]

Oh, what good news! Will the sauropod also be 1:40?

Yes, I want to keep them a consistent scale to show how they vary in size, this sauropod for example, is quite large  .

How many figures do you plan on making a year and do you take requests?

How many different Dinosaurs depends on how soon I make the molds. The Hylaeosaurs mold was very complex, but a sauropod is a much simpler shape. As far as casts for each Dino, I'd like to make as many as I can, but I don't know how many that will be. They are definitely a limited edition. I take paintjob requests.

I don't mean to hijack this thread, we can continue on my thread. I will be posting new pictures soon. 

http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3984.msg117771#new

[Halichoeres]

I for one would go broke by starting with Paleozoic fish. Five people would buy my products loyally, but we'd go under within a year.

[CMIPalaeo]

Addition to my toy line; this is the kickoff to the line of Cenozoic mammals. All the mammal figures are on scale 1:40 AND 1:20, with some variations. This first series has 45 figures, the second series would have about 20-25 figures, and all subsequent series would add about 5-10 figures per year.

Megatherium americanum
Doedicurus clavicaudus
Macrauchenia patachonica
Smilodon populator
Phenacodus primaevus (only available in 1:20)
Eohippus angustidens (available in 1:20, 1:10, and 1:1)
Patriofelis ferox (only available in 1:20)
Onychonycteris finneyi (only available in 1:10)
Arctodus simus
Canis dirus
Mammuthus columbi
Bison latifrons
Mammut americanum
Castoroides ohioensis
Subhyracodon occidentalis
Archaeotherium mortoni
Procoptodon goliah
Diprotodon optatum
Thylacoleo carnifex
Gigantopithecus blacki
Platybelodon grangeri
Merychippus sejunctus
Stenomylus hitchcocki (only available in 1:20)
Aepycamelus giraffinus
Daeodon soshonensis
Obdurodon tharalkooschild (only available in 1:20, 1:10)
Mammut borsoni
Hippopotamus gorgops
Theropithecus brumpti
Enhydriodon dikikae
Deinotherium giganteum
Equus simplicidens
Cynodictis elegans (only available in 1:20, 1:10)
Hyaenodon gigas
Megacerops coloradensis
Moeritherium lyonsi
Sivatherium giganteum
Pachycrocuta brevirostris
Elasmotherium sibiricum
Megaloceros giganteus
Panthera leo spelaea
Mammuthus primegenius
Synthetoceras tricornatus (only available in 1:20)
Darwinius masillae (only available in 1:10)
Paraceratherium transouralicum

[tyrantqueen]

Just to be different, I would start by releasing one prehistoric genus for each letter of the alphabet, starting with A, through to Z. Just because it sounds fun

[Killekor]

I Will do 1:20 dinosaur models, so, Can be in the same scale Little animals like Epidexipterix.

1) Sinornithosaurus
2) Tanystropheus
3) Spinosaurus
4) Dunkleosteus
5) Microraptor Gui
6) Therizinosaurus
7) Pyroraptor
8.) Dreadnogthus Schrani
9) Zhenyuanlong Suni
10) Balaur bondoc
11) Miragaia
12) kosmoceratops Richardsoni
13) Yutyrannus Huali
14) Plesiosuchus

Hibryds series:

1) Indominus Rex
2) Stegoceratops
3) Spinoraptor
4) Ankylodocus
5) Deinoraptor Dromaeonychus (Velociraptor+Deinonychus+Dromaeosaurus+Microraptor+Sinornithosaurus+Balaur and many other Raptors)
6) Dimetroodon (Dimetrodon+Troodon)
7) Quetzaltylos (Quetzalcoatlus+Tylosaurus)
Exclusive Predasaur: Ticamasaurus "Killekor" (Tyrannosaurus+Camarasaurus)

Mitical dinosaurs series:

1) Fire Pyroraptor
2) Ice Criolophosaurus
3) Water Microraptor
4) Lava Spinosaurus
5) Knifes Therizinosaurus
6) Venom Sinornithosaurus
7) Creation Tyrannosaurus

Dragon series:

1) Wyvern

Killekor

[AcroSauroTaurus]

I am starting my own figure line, so does that mean I can't be included in this thread?

Here are my planned figures for wave 1. (the first two have finished sculpts, the third and fourth are in progress)
Enchodus
Sub-adult Sauroposeidon carcass
Acrocanthosaurus
Gigantspinosaurus
Coahuilaceratops
Menoceras
Triceratops
Shunosaurus
Saichania
Carnotaurus
Umoonasaurus
Gasosaurus

Its called Cretaceous Collectibles and more info can be found in my thread for it.

[Dilopho]

Exclusive Predasaur: Ticamasaurus "Killekor" (Tyrannosaurus+Camarasaurus)

I like the Wyvern idea! Oh, if Rebor ever did a Yi Qi they should name it Wyvern.....


...anyway you wouldn't be able to call it Killekor and you'd have to chance some design things because of copyright issues!