CollectA—New for 2020

[tanystropheus]

I like the Caviramus. The color, despite what everyone is saying, is not too bad in my opinion, I like it.

It's definitely not bad and I tend to be rather picky when it comes to color schemes.


P.S. I just realized I totally missed the Bajadasaurus. Amazing!

[japfeif]

Given that no other marine animals appear on that leaked list, no whales, no sharks, no fish of any persuasion, it seems likely that the horseshoe crab and the nautilus must indeed be the Sea Life addition for 2020.

Which is pretty cool. The king crab and the octopus will enjoy the company.

Well I was gonna mention this when I first saw these guys on the list , as both the chambered nautilus AND horseshoe crab are extant species living today, why are they even being considered here?? I mean, they are totally cool and I may grab that nautilus, but as this forum  (and the toy lines discussed here) are for extinct species....I'm not sure why these two figures are being included in a line for dinosaurs, etc.

And as for the Megalodon, I for one am glad to get this guy. As the only other Megalodon I have is that abomination from Safari (absolutely hideous with those teeth & mouth...a piece I always kinda hide in the back of my shelves behind other figures haha),  I'm happy to be getting this one, which looks MUCH better (and I don't collect PNSO).

[Stegotyranno420]

No one is going to talk about this:https://drive.google.com/open?
id=1FRfg4npudLqDCO4asj9dT9hFGWpuRK3d

What exactly is there to talk about?

I noticed how the Saltriovenator and the Safari Ceratosaurus were remarkably simmilar. So I made a picture in Photoshop about the simmilarities, and I tried to put a link, but I don't think it showed.

[tanystropheus]

Given that no other marine animals appear on that leaked list, no whales, no sharks, no fish of any persuasion, it seems likely that the horseshoe crab and the nautilus must indeed be the Sea Life addition for 2020.

Which is pretty cool. The king crab and the octopus will enjoy the company.

And as for the Megalodon, I for one am glad to get this guy. As the only other Megalodon I have is that abomination from Safari (absolutely hideous with those teeth & mouth...a piece I always kinda hide in the back of my shelves behind other figures haha),  I'm happy to be getting this one, which looks MUCH better (and I don't collect PNSO).

So you don't collect PNSO (yet, you felt obligated to get the horrendous Safari version) and that's your rationale for not getting the superior (as far as paint app, texture quality and articulation) PNSO budget Megalodon? To be fair, the CollectA is the only well-made, mass retail 1/40 scale Megalodon (both PNSO Megalodons appear to be out of scale).

[John]

Given that no other marine animals appear on that leaked list, no whales, no sharks, no fish of any persuasion, it seems likely that the horseshoe crab and the nautilus must indeed be the Sea Life addition for 2020.

Which is pretty cool. The king crab and the octopus will enjoy the company.

Well I was gonna mention this when I first saw these guys on the list , as both the chambered nautilus AND horseshoe crab are extant species living today, why are they even being considered here?? I mean, they are totally cool and I may grab that nautilus, but as this forum  (and the toy lines discussed here) are for extinct species....I'm not sure why these two figures are being included in a line for dinosaurs, etc.

And as for the Megalodon, I for one am glad to get this guy. As the only other Megalodon I have is that abomination from Safari (absolutely hideous with those teeth & mouth...a piece I always kinda hide in the back of my shelves behind other figures haha),  I'm happy to be getting this one, which looks MUCH better (and I don't collect PNSO).

CollectA having the nautilus and horseshoe crab included in their prehistoric line reminds me of when Safari Ltd. released a modern coelacanth fish as part of the Wild Safari prehistoric line as an example of a living fossil.

And I think that by waiting for the CollectA megalodon shark instead of impulsively going for those out there now like the PNSO ones,you will be getting a much better deal in the long run.

[Stegotyranno420]

Am I the only one who thinks the Saltriovenator is a partial knockoff safari ceratosaurus.

[suspsy]

Am I the only one who thinks the Saltriovenator is a partial knockoff of the safari ceratosaurus.

Yes, I'd say you are. There's no resemblance whatsoever between the two aside from the fact that they're both part of the ceratosaur family.

[Stegotyranno420]

Am I the only one who thinks the Saltriovenator is a partial knockoff of the safari ceratosaurus.

Yes, I'd say you are. There's no resemblance whatsoever between the two aside from the fact that they're both part of the ceratosaur family.

Yeah but they are in the same pose, but are flipped, just the Schliech's new giga and Collecta's new Mapusaurus

[Shonisaurus]

Given that no other marine animals appear on that leaked list, no whales, no sharks, no fish of any persuasion, it seems likely that the horseshoe crab and the nautilus must indeed be the Sea Life addition for 2020.

Which is pretty cool. The king crab and the octopus will enjoy the company.

And as for the Megalodon, I for one am glad to get this guy. As the only other Megalodon I have is that abomination from Safari (absolutely hideous with those teeth & mouth...a piece I always kinda hide in the back of my shelves behind other figures haha),  I'm happy to be getting this one, which looks MUCH better (and I don't collect PNSO).

So you don't collect PNSO (yet, you felt obligated to get the horrendous Safari version) and that's your rationale for not getting the superior (as far as paint app, texture quality and articulation) PNSO budget Megalodon? To be fair, the CollectA is the only well-made, mass retail 1/40 scale Megalodon (both PNSO Megalodons appear to be out of scale).

The PNSO vinyl megalodon is the best megalodon made to date in the market for the prehistoric toy / animal collection figure. Exceeds the rest of the figures.

The megalodon of Collecta 2020 looks good but has a defect that is the articulated jaw. The articulated jaw is fine for theropods but for other prehistoric animals it can turn them into prehistoric animals or imperfect dinosaurs, apart from the seams that are observed in those figures because of the articulated jaws. They are great for the gameplay of children but disastrous for many of us who are collectors of dinosaurs and other prehistoric toy animals.

Without going further the baryonyx of Collecta 2019 (magnificent figure of course) gives itself its articulated jaws which does not happen with its Carnotaurus of Collecta 2019.

[Stegotyranno420]

How do you enable attachments

[suspsy]

Am I the only one who thinks the Saltriovenator is a partial knockoff of the safari ceratosaurus.

Yes, I'd say you are. There's no resemblance whatsoever between the two aside from the fact that they're both part of the ceratosaur family.

Yeah but they are in the same pose, but are flipped, just the Schliech's new giga and Collecta's new Mapusaurus

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

[Stegotyranno420]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

[The Prehistoric Traveler]

The orthoceras is indeed wrong. Suckers evolved later in coleoids. Quite a stupid mistake. It's a shame because i really wanted to have one. Now not so much.

[gursar]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

based on controversial similarities of the pose, accusing CollectA of producing a knockoff figure is a little bit unfair, in my humble opinion.

[GojiraGuy1954]

The orthoceras is indeed wrong. Suckers evolved later in coleoids. Quite a stupid mistake. It's a shame because i really wanted to have one. Now not so much.

You just love to nitpick, don't you.

[The Prehistoric Traveler]

The orthoceras is indeed wrong. Suckers evolved later in coleoids. Quite a stupid mistake. It's a shame because i really wanted to have one. Now not so much.

You just love to nitpick, don't you.

If you think that pointing out such an important point of their basic anatomy is a nitpick okay then pfff. Then why not produce a T. Rex model with wings? Complainers will be the ones that like to nitpick.

[Ravonium]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

based on controversial similarities of the pose, accusing CollectA of producing a knockoff figure is a little bit unfair, in my humble opinion.

And it's not like the pose is particularly unique either...


While the suckers are definitely a problem on the Orthoceras, I think they're a symptom of the more general problem of the tentacles themselves being more like those of a coleoid than a nautiloid (thick, not many of them)

[Stegotyranno420]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

based on controversial similarities of the pose, accusing CollectA of producing a knockoff figure is a little bit unfair, in my humble opinion.

Its okay, I understand where you and Suspy are coming from.

[suspsy]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

based on controversial similarities of the pose, accusing CollectA of producing a knockoff figure is a little bit unfair, in my humble opinion.

Its okay, I understand where you and Suspy are coming from.

A position of common sense? The simple fact of the matter is that there's zero basis for one toy being a "knockoff" of the other. And that's the last thing I have to say on this subject. Moving on.

[Stegotyranno420]

So what? Theropod toys are frequently posed with one foot forward and their tails raised. So are skeletal mounts in museums for that matter. It doesn't make one a knockoff of another.

Okay, you could say what you think, I respect your  thinking, but that would not change me. Sorry.

based on controversial similarities of the pose, accusing CollectA of producing a knockoff figure is a little bit unfair, in my humble opinion.

Its okay, I understand where you and Suspy are coming from.

A position of common sense? The simple fact of the matter is that there's zero basis for one toy being a "knockoff" of the other. And that's the last thing I have to say on this subject. Moving on.

Okay, but you got yourself in this mess.