Papo - new for 2019

[Shonisaurus]

I love the alberto, I think it might be one Papo's best theropods!

It is not albertosaurus is gorgosaurus according to the Papo catalog. I hope it is a theropod as beautiful or even more than the promotional and exhibition photos physically as I have said before.

Papo should be thanked for not limiting its theropods to tyrannosaurus rex or other relevant theropods and focusing on "cousins" of tyrannosaurus rex. A 10/10 for Papo in relation to this great choice.

[AcroSauroTaurus]

I love the alberto, I think it might be one Papo's best theropods!

It is not albertosaurus is gorgosaurus according to the Papo catalog. I hope it is a theropod as beautiful or even more than the promotional and exhibition photos physically as I have said before.

Papo should be thanked for not limiting its theropods to tyrannosaurus rex or other relevant theropods and focusing on "cousins" of tyrannosaurus rex. A 10/10 for Papo in relation to this great choice.

Well, Gorgosaurus might be a species of Albertosaurus.(which is what I consider it to be.) So either Gorgosaurus or Albertosaurus libratus works...

[stegosauria]

Thanks for the photos of the Gorgosaurus, Syndicate Bias! It looks pretty good.
Thanks also both to Syndicate Bias and Shonisaurus for the information about the release date of Spinosaurus. I didn't know that.
It's sad that the release date has been delayed. I hope that it will be released in August, also because in September there's the BotM campaign! Now I don't know what in that case i should get!

Killekor

@Killekor I hope you know that this Spinosaurus is a limited edition and at EverythingDinosaur the reserve are already closed. I know that urzeitshop and minizoo also have reserve list but I don't know their status.

[Killekor]

Thanks for the photos of the Gorgosaurus, Syndicate Bias! It looks pretty good.
Thanks also both to Syndicate Bias and Shonisaurus for the information about the release date of Spinosaurus. I didn't know that.
It's sad that the release date has been delayed. I hope that it will be released in August, also because in September there's the BotM campaign! Now I don't know what in that case i should get!

Killekor

@Killekor I hope you know that this Spinosaurus is a limited edition and at EverythingDinosaur the reserve are already closed. I know that urzeitshop and minizoo also have reserve list but I don't know their status.

Thanks for warning me S @stegosauria ! Luckily I've reserved one Spinosaurus when ED opened their reserve list, so I have the opportunity to buy one. But thank you very much for your kindness!

Killekor

[HappyHen]

Responding to:

"https://www.happyhentoys.com/papo-55077-spinosaurus-new-2019.html
They didn't waste any time pricing it lmao"

It's Kevin (the owner) of Happy Hen Toys.

We have been requesting updates directly from Papo and here is the latest update.

1) The projected U.S.A. - MSRP will be $54.99 (we will likely sell it for less - but that's the number we posted on our website until we get better info)

2) The new Spinosaurus will be a boxed item (not bagged like the typical Papo dino)

3) The release date is still projected to be Sept, 2019

4) Papo says it will be a "limited edition figure" but won't define for us what that really means.

5) For the first time ever, Papo asked us to pre-order our desired quantity, however, they said there is no guarantee that we will actually get that quantity.

6) Given that we do not know how many we will actually get and don't want to overpromise / disappoint, we are not taking pre-orders, however you
can send an email to [email protected] and we will put you on the list to be notified first. 

I will post any updates as they become available.

Kevin

[dragon53]

HAPPY HEN:

Thanks for the update. I think I was the first person to email you asking about the Papo Limited Edition Spinosaurus.

[Shonisaurus]

@HappyHen Thanks for the information provided and welcome to the forum.

From what I see the spinosaurus will come in a box, like its first fruits that they sell at Christmas. I guess it will not be a box as luxurious as Rebor, PNSO or Nanmu Studio (indominus and indoraptor).

[Faelrin]

@HappyHen Thank you for the information regarding the much anticipated Papo Spinosaurus. Welcome to the forum too.

Good to know that this figure will be boxed though, considering the potential price (and of course the size), which should keep the figure in utmost condition when being shipped (hopefully anyways). Although perhaps the box should have been expected as other limited items from Papo have been boxed so far.

Now I have to wonder what will be cheaper financially for me (since I'm in the US). Get it off ED or Happy Hen? I'm already on the reserve list for it on ED though, just in case.

[postsaurischian]

    I'm glad I'm not interested in that Spinosaurus at all. To me it looks bad and completely incorrect.
        I can't understand all the buzz, especially since we have one from PNSO and even the upcoming REBOR model seems to look much better.
        To me Papo's selling policy is ridiculous .... but of course I know that it will be successful .

[suspsy]

Words can hardly describe how relieved I am to no longer be a collector of Papo products. But to all those who do desire this Spinosaurus, I wish nothing but the best of luck.

Sounds like it'll be needed.

[Shonisaurus]

Honestly I am waiting as a gift from Heaven (metaphorically speaking) the spinosaurus in charge of urzeitshop (Miron) and the spinosaurus in charge at dinotoyblog.com (Mike and Sue). I sincerely understand that there are many people in the forum who do not like Papo's spinosaurus but in my case I am totally enthusiastic and sincerely delighted I am very happy that Papo does a limited edition spinosaurus that does not disappoint me as his allosaurus repainted and tyrannosaurus rex brown running . In the past, I have proffered rude criticism towards that brand of toy / collection dinosaurs as well as Schleich and in my case I am totally sorry. And honestly it is perhaps the best theropod that Papo has done along with his tyrannosaurus rex classic version running and I cross my fingers so that this version of Papo is correct and at least the same as the promotion and exhibition photos. If so, it would be a large figure that would at least match in genius the rest of spinosaurus of the other toy brands including Rebor vinyl spinosaurus (another company that I have great appreciation even if their figures are far from the scientist).

I really like the spinosaurus of Papo 2019 from the first moment and it would have to be a complete hypocrite and false if I said something different. Honestly I like it more than other versions like Safari and even improves its version of Schleich. On the other hand other companies such as PNSO or Rebor are expensive brands whose figures are more related to resin figures (although they are PVC) are very adult collector brands both in its scientific version (PNSO) and in its pop art version (Rebor) .

Papo has made a great effort when commercializing this replica of a rare carnivorous theropod and we should sincerely thank Papo for his vigilance in making this figure. I sincerely, if you do not disappoint me and do not differ from the promotional or exhibition brands, I will put you on dinotoyblog.com when a five-star note is published. It is at first sight a magnificent figure and the most important scientific considering that Papo is not a company dedicated to making prehistoric animals one hundred percent scientific and most importantly the spinosaurus although we found the complete skeleton we would not know what that emblematic would really be like Theropod and most importantly we will never know in spite of scientific advances as would most of the dinosaurs and prehistoric animals among which I would cite tyrannosaurus, triceratops or smilodon. We do not have a video recorder or a camera that supports the iconic animals that preceded us in this world.

I think it's frivolous to pretend to make even scientific conjectures about how certain prehistoric animals would be when we do not know for sure how they were really historical characters like Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great or kings of the Middle Ages. Who can claim that the descriptions made by historians of historical figures are distorted or even idealized? Has anyone seen those historical characters? The same can be said with more reason of prehistoric animals that have disappeared tens of thousands of years in the best of cases and in the normal hundreds of millions of years as the spinosaurus whose remains still do not give a definitive view of such theropod.

What has been said I hope with joy that this theropod is commercialized in the two shops mentioned (I am going to buy a copy of each store because I do not fit in with just one spinosaurus). Respect and understand the criticism of this figure of Papo forum members but I do not share unless I disappoint the figure as it happened with the repainted allosaurus of Papo, but we must also emphasize that the PNSO spinosaurus (I have it fortunately on my shelves and by the way outstanding figure) disappoints in terms of the paint touches used that differ from the figure of the box and prototypes.

[Killekor]

I 100% agree with Shonisaurus. we don't know anything for sure about most dinosaurs, and we can't really criticize a figure if the speculation that it propose is "highly unlikely". I understand if a figure is without a doubt inaccurate (like in the case of a jp raptor figure), but if we talk about speculating the posture, the skin (if it hasn't been found), the feather presence or missing parts of the skeleton (like in the case of the Dunkleosteus body) I find quite unuseful to criticize too much a figure. It could be or it could be not as the theory proposed in a paleoartistic work says.
I find highly ironical that we are talking about Spinosaurus, knowing it's long history about how it's reconstruction changed over the years and that how it's legs, posture etc are a complete speculation.
I'm not saying this to defend the Papo Spino, but to point out this fact. I'm not a maniac of scientific accuracy (and sincerely there's nothing which I care less in a dinosaur toy), so I really like that figure and I'll get it. I understand that there's people that don't like it because they simply don't like that reconstruction or for other reasons, but I don't understand if someone says «I don't like it only because it's certainly wrong» because the word "certainly" in paleontology doesn't exist (at least for me).

Sorry in advance if I've been rude. I don't want to offend anyone.

Killekor

[HappyHen]

@HappyHen Thank you for the information regarding the much anticipated Papo Spinosaurus. Welcome to the forum too.

Good to know that this figure will be boxed though, considering the potential price (and of course the size), which should keep the figure in utmost condition when being shipped (hopefully anyways). Although perhaps the box should have been expected as other limited items from Papo have been boxed so far.

Now I have to wonder what will be cheaper financially for me (since I'm in the US). Get it off ED or Happy Hen? I'm already on the reserve list for it on ED though, just in case.

I just spoke to the USA distributor for Papo.   He confirmed:

1) It will definitely be in a gift box.

2) Projected release is still September, 2019

3) It will be limited edition.  He says Papo confirmed they will only do one production run and only
produce the quantities that are pre-ordered by distributors.  It will not be in the Papo catalog going forward
and distributors will be limited to what they pre-order.  So it appears as if this truly will be a
limited edition figure - not available after the initial production run sells out.

Info is based on what I was told.

Hope that helps!

[Shonisaurus]

@HappyHen Thanks for the information and welcome to the forum!

[Killekor]

Thanks for the news @HappyHen! They're really interesting!
So the sculpt itself it's limited, right? I'm happy to have reserved one!

I have a question: the price of the figure (54,99$) will be the same both in America and Europe? Or the shipping and custom fees increase it's price in the American toy stores?
Thanks in advance and welcome to the forum!

Killekor

[HappyHen]

Thanks for the news @HappyHen! They're really interesting!
So the sculpt itself it's limited, right? I'm happy to have reserved one!

I have a question: the price of the figure (54,99$) will be the same both in America and Europe? Or the shipping and custom fees increase it's price in the American toy stores?
Thanks in advance and welcome to the forum!

Killekor

@Killkor

If you email [email protected] we will put you on the list to be notified as soon as they arrive (unless you email, we don't have a way to notify you (although I will post notice to the forum
just to let people know it has finally arrived)

Concerning the $54.99 MSRP - that is the preliminary price figure we were told - it has not be "officially" posted to an "official" price list so we will see if that turns out to be the final price.  (THEIR decision
to put it in a gift box drives up the MSRP as not only do they actually need to make the packaging, but it drives up the cost because of additional transit / storage costs due to the increased unit size)

They do not give us the EU price so not sure what EU pricing will be.  I can tell you that we consistently try to be price competitive (lower than Ama$on in the U.S.).  Who knows at this point what
the USA tarriff structure / import duties will be in September (LOL).  We will just have to wait and see!


HappyHen

[Syndicate Bias]

I guess I'll have to set aside $150 just for two Spinos by the looks of things.

[Killekor]

Thanks for the answer and for the info, HappyHen! I actually live in Europe, so I'll not preorder anything from American toy stores because of custom fees. I asked about the price in Europe because I've reserved a Spinosaurus from Everything Dinosaur and I wanted to understand better what the price of the figure will be in Europe.

Thanks again!
Killekor

[Atokensis]

Any news or new photos on the Pentaceratops? We have yet to see how it looks on all fours.

[Ceratopsianking]

I like the Pentaceratops, but that pose is so weird for a Ceratopsian, Some Papo dinosaurs like the Cryo have a similar pose but this just doesn't good. I'll still probably get it even for its horrible pose