Recent Acquisitions

[suspsy]

Nice Christmas additions everyone!
Well, I finally got these today

A cold quarter pounder from McDonald's versus a freshly cooked prime rib.

[Stegotyranno420]

A cold quarter pounder from McDonald's versus a freshly cooked prime rib.

In my opinion, it's a hot Wendy's baconator vs a freshly cooked prime rib. They are both pretty good, one is bigger and much better priced, one is more quality but in scale and accurate. Depend one what kind of guy you are, both are great

[Crackington]

@Crackington - a nice bevy of animals. I hadn't seen the plant book before. How interesting!  Thank you for alerting me to its existence!

Thanks @ceratopsian glad to have helped! The book is newly published and I first heard of it in Mike Fredericks' review in Prehistoric Times.

I'm reading it now and it's very good outlining the key moments in plant evolution and discussing them through the prism of key fossils. Many of these are from the Natural History Museum collections, but there are also fossils from around the world (lots of photos and palaeo art).

I'd recommend the book - not sure where it was purchased from as it's a present, but you could probably get it from the NHM online shop if you'd rather Mr Bezos didn't get a cut 😉!

[ceratopsian]

@Crackington - thank you.  My eye must have skated over it when I read my PH.  That's the problem with formulaic titles that copy that British Museum original "History of the World in 100 Objects" style!  I tracked it down at Blackwell's for only 50 pence more than Amazon and I prefer to support a proper bookshop.  No sign of it at the NHM's on-line shop but who knows how they would go about re-stocking in Tier 4.

[Duna]

I have not put pictures of my last acquisitions ...

Just after Alcaiceria opened again its online shop, I ordered this figures in May:




And more recently, I order little by little some of the new PNSO. As I only collect common classic dinosaurs (and some special ones like the Bajadasaurus, or Qianzhousaurus), I'm not interested in the rest.
Unfortunately, the first I ordered in October, the Lambeosaurus, is lost in Madrid in "Post Hell" ... 



I'm quite deceptioned about the Spinosaurus. Too small for its price and those arms .... I like the rest a lot.

This two are for me the best of PNSO at the moment, along with Sede the ankylosaurus. Miragaia is a total beauty.




The other figures I'm buying are some vintage figures to complete my collections from 1993 (my first figures) which were not complete.

I completed the 1993 Official Danone Jurassic Park hard plastic collection, which I was missing 5 of the 12 and I was very lucky to get a few very rare color versions of some of them:




I also completed the 1993 UKRD medium sized figures, which I only had 3 of the 12. They were not hard to get.




And I also got myself in completing the 1993 UKRD small sized figures collection (a mini version of the others). I had none of them 30 years ago, but two years ago I got 3. It was quite hard to complete, specially one of the figures, the triceratops. I'm trying to get the second paint version of them, too.




More info in my collection post.

[EmperorDinobot]

It is my dream to acquire the full set of UKRD mini dinosaurs. I have a few of them. Among my first dinosaur figures.


That PNSO Miragaia is a thing of sheer beauty. I hate to sound rather crass, but I have strange feeling for that figure. I might have to start collecting PNSO figures from now on. I only have the Eurhinosaurus. Or was it Excalibosaurus? I'll look for it.


I have amassed quite the impressive haul this year, but have been unable to post them. I'll work on that tonight, as a matter of fact, since I'm literally out of a job.

[Duna]

It is my dream to acquire the full set of UKRD mini dinosaurs. I have a few of them. Among my first dinosaur figures.

I can help you sending what you are missing, if you wish. I have some spare figures of the first version and I wish to make others happy too.

[AcroSauroTaurus]

Papo Limited Edition Spinosaurus.

[Stegotyranno420]

Papo Limited Edition Spinosaurus.

Congrats bro. You are so lucky

[Shonisaurus]

B @Bokisaurus My congratulations on your new acquisitions sincerely it is perhaps the best tyrannosaurus made to date the PNSO tyrannosaurus on the other hand my congratulations on your new Rebor figures and the PNSO pachrhinosaurus. Nice pickup.

@Crackington My congratulations on your various acquisitions of prehistoric animals and also on the book.

@Duna and @AcroSauroTaurus As I mentioned before in other threads, my congratulations on your new acquisitions.

[Halichoeres]

@Crackington I've had my eye on that plant book myself! I've got a book shop gift card burning a hole in my pocket, this could be a good use of it.

[Crackington]

Thanks @Shonisaurus - I'm enjoying the models and book, hopefully the Collecta Mini mammals etc will appear in the DinoToyCollector site soon (thanks to @Halichoeres who I am sending some snsps).

The plant fossil book is a very good read so far and the author is referencing recent discoveries, so is up to date. @Halichoeres - I don't think it's quite that reference book for prehistoric plants you'd hoped for on your unique species thread, but would still recommend it. We need more of these.....

[Duna]

It's not a "new" adquisition, but hidden in a box in my wardrobe ...  Yesterday I was looking for a phone charger when I came across something that has been mine for 27 years ... my "101 dinosaurios" trading card complete collection, in fact the only trading card collection I have ever completed in my entire life ...







It's a lovely compilation of how dinosaurs were represented 30-40 years ago, you will recognize most John Sibbick's wonderful artwork. I think the collection was published in 1992 or 1993, with a blue slim cardboard box to keep the cards in. Each package of 5 cards cost in those days 25 pesetas, about 0,15€. In the back of each card there is a short explanation of the most interesting characteristics of the dinosaur (and non dinosaurs, of course), along with its maximum size, height, weight, aggresiveness and defensive abilities.

Just a few of them:








Hope you like it!

[Faelrin]

@Duna Good finding that. Those are lovely. I'm seeing some dinosaurs here I've never seen older takes on before. Really interesting. Also is it just me or is that T. rex look surprisingly modern? Look how bulky it is.

[ceratopsian]

@Duna - what a treasure trove!

[Crackington]

@Duna -  did you find the phone charger? 😉

Wonderful find in any case.

[RobinGoodfellow]

@Duna  ..now you have a new challenge in front of you:  to find a toy figure for each and every card.. 

[Duna]

@Duna -  did you find the phone charger? 😉

What phone charger? 

@Duna  ..now you have a new challenge in front of you:  to find a toy figure for each and every card.. 

What's a podokesaurus or a pheadrolosaurus??! 

@Duna Good finding that. Those are lovely. I'm seeing some dinosaurs here I've never seen older takes on before. Really interesting. Also is it just me or is that T. rex look surprisingly modern? Look how bulky it is.

In fact it's an albertosaurus, it has the same colors of the drawing of John Sibbick in the Encyclopaedia of dinosaurs, but in the same posture as the daspletosaurus of the same page of the book. The daspletosaurus is also exact to the book but in a different posture.

Searching a bit I've found almost all the cards in this web, so if you like to take a look at a few more, here you can:

https://www.dinofan.com/Collectibles/CollectiblesSetDetail.aspx?IID=1912


I have also discovered that some surprinsingly similar cards were released at about the same time by ORBIS, in at least 4 countries/languages. The artwork is very similar to John Sibbick's and so to the "101 dinosaurios" collection, but it's not the same, but is obviously inspired in a high grade (most dinosaurs share the same colors but with posture changed, and some with little modifications). The series consist in 96 cards with a quite distracting logo placed on the drawing.
https://www.dinofan.com/Collectibles/CollectiblesSetDetail.aspx?IID=117

[Halichoeres]

Oh, that's cool! I never had these, but I have the DinoCardz set which came out around the same time, with art by Dave Carrs. http://www.dinosaurs-on-stamps.info/stamps/dinocardz_01.html

[Duna]

Oh, that's cool! I never had these, but I have the DinoCardz set which came out around the same time, with art by Dave Carrs. http://www.dinosaurs-on-stamps.info/stamps/dinocardz_01.html

Oh, those are lovely, too!