CollectA—New for 2020

[Halichoeres]

Minizoo has -  Allosaurus
                  - Lisowicia
                  - Saltriovenator
                  - Mapusaurus
                  - Megalodon
                  - Microraptor
                  - Pleuroceras
                  - Redlichia

But I'm gonna get me one of those centipedes!

Thanks for the heads up! So far nobody has the first batch in North America, as far as I'm aware.

[Mattyonyx]

I've been recently informed that there's a very high chance the new CollectA Models won't arrive in Italy this year. Luckily, Collecta kindly sent me a sample and it's none other than Saltriovenator! Here's an unboxing video we made for our Italian fans, I know many of you may not understand a word but at least you can see it on video.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=792678954833535

[suspsy]

I've been recently informed that there's a very high chance the new CollectA Models won't arrive in Italy this year. Luckily, Collecta kindly sent me a sample and it's none other than Saltriovenator! Here's an unboxing video we made for our Italian fans, I know many of you may not understand a word but at least you can see it on video.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=792678954833535

Feel free to submit a written review of it to the blog if you so desire.

[ceratopsian]

@Mattyonyx: I enjoyed watching the video and testing my Italian!  What a good idea to send you that particular model. I too find that very often promo photos just don't do their models justice.

[Mattyonyx]

@Mattyonyx: I enjoyed watching the video and testing my Italian!  What a good idea to send you that particular model. I too find that very often promo photos just don't do their models justice.

Glad you liked it! Yes, it was a great honor, and our fans really loved to see an Italian Dinosaur in toy form. For example, the camera angle on the stock photo makes it look like it has a small head and overly large feet, which isn't the case.

I've been recently informed that there's a very high chance the new CollectA Models won't arrive in Italy this year. Luckily, Collecta kindly sent me a sample and it's none other than Saltriovenator! Here's an unboxing video we made for our Italian fans, I know many of you may not understand a word but at least you can see it on video.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=792678954833535

Feel free to submit a written review of it to the blog if you so desire.

It will be a pleasure. For now, we put the Unboxing Video on our newly created YouTube Channel.
https://youtu.be/jGxIPfqh1jE
I'm preparing a full video review, we'll take a couple of picture that I can use for a written review.

[Flaffy]

@suspsy Managed to find these 2 in store, most definitely a repaint.



On another note: Wow, CollectA's really pushing for the Hong Kong market it seems. I wonder how they'll manage to sell all these figures.

[suspsy]

@suspsy Managed to find these 2 in store, most definitely a repaint.

Yeesh. That really is a shame, especially if you were a biologist devoted to studying one or both of those species. They are most assuredly not anatomically identical. If CollectA wants to do more repaints of extant animals, they should turn the black bear and the American alligator into a Kermode and an albino. Those would work perfectly fine.

[Shonisaurus]

The saltriovenator looks great and considering that unfortunately we know almost nothing about that theropod from the few remains found it makes an exceptional dinosaur figure anyway. Thanks for the video, but on the other hand, if not many Collecta models arrive in Italy this year, I suppose they will not reach many nations of the European Union either, and I suppose not in mine either. This coronavirus pandemic is not only destroying the human species but it is also going to destroy the economy and the way of survival of all nations in the world. The situation is unfortunately tragic.

[japfeif]

Just received a nice batch of the 2020s from the good folks at Brown House Treasures! Arrived today!

Megalodon
Allosaurus
Mapusaurus
Lisowicia
Microraptor
Saltriovenator
Pleuroceras ammonite
Reclichia rex

Awesome stuff! As predicted, the Lisowicia is fantastic! Now just need the Caviramus, Orthoceras, & Belemnite once they reach the US shores! (Won't be getting the horseshoe crab or the nautilus,  as I'm not grabbing the extant critters.....)

[Halichoeres]

After 11 days of my package from MiniZoo languishing in a processing center, I finally saw this update this morning:



But alas, the mail came and no package with it. One of the more trivial consequences of the US postal service being sabotaged, but still...

[bmathison1972]

After 11 days of my package from MiniZoo languishing in a processing center, I finally saw this update this morning:



But alas, the mail came and no package with it. One of the more trivial consequences of the US postal service being sabotaged, but still...

@Halichoeres did you order express delivery? If so, it come from a different carrier. When I ordered my last CollectA batch, I paid for express, and the first delivery attempt was in about a week. But the first attempt didn't come from my regular carrier, it came from a special service within the post office (I didn't get it, because this express service couldn't access my building, but that's another story). In short, if this is coming Express it might still be on its way

EDIT: I forgot to mention, it comes by this special delivery if your local post office did not receive it before the morning truck headed out. It may still come today

[Halichoeres]

After 11 days of my package from MiniZoo languishing in a processing center, I finally saw this update this morning:

But alas, the mail came and no package with it. One of the more trivial consequences of the US postal service being sabotaged, but still...

@Halichoeres did you order express delivery? If so, it come from a different carrier. When I ordered my last CollectA batch, I paid for express, and the first delivery attempt was in about a week. But the first attempt didn't come from my regular carrier, it came from a special service within the post office (I didn't get it, because this express service couldn't access my building, but that's another story). In short, if this is coming Express it might still be on its way

EDIT: I forgot to mention, it comes by this special delivery if your local post office did not receive it before the morning truck headed out. It may still come today

B @bmathison1972 I cheaped out and ordered standard airmail. They claim to have attempted delivery last night and that they 'could not access the delivery location,' but the building has 24-hour door staff, so it sounds like somebody just scanned it that way because their shift was over.

[bmathison1972]

After 11 days of my package from MiniZoo languishing in a processing center, I finally saw this update this morning:

But alas, the mail came and no package with it. One of the more trivial consequences of the US postal service being sabotaged, but still...

@Halichoeres did you order express delivery? If so, it come from a different carrier. When I ordered my last CollectA batch, I paid for express, and the first delivery attempt was in about a week. But the first attempt didn't come from my regular carrier, it came from a special service within the post office (I didn't get it, because this express service couldn't access my building, but that's another story). In short, if this is coming Express it might still be on its way

EDIT: I forgot to mention, it comes by this special delivery if your local post office did not receive it before the morning truck headed out. It may still come today

B @bmathison1972 I cheaped out and ordered standard airmail. They claim to have attempted delivery last night and that they 'could not access the delivery location,' but the building has 24-hour door staff, so it sounds like somebody just scanned it that way because their shift was over.

yeah that's the same message I got. But mine apparently came from someone other than my regular driver. I just called and had them hold it at the office and I picked it up myself the next day.

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Saw Andys Review of the new Allosaurus a few days ago. Hm. I know, its something different inhand and also we are in this Situation, but it looks really sloppy. Would not be that bad, i would try to Repaint it. But the engravings on its Chest. It is so big. The CE Mark destroys the whole figure. Man :/

[postsaurischian]

 Finally all new CollectA figures are available in Germany:
https://www.spielzeug-guenstig.de/Spielfiguren-CollectA-Neuheiten-2020.html#Start

[Shonisaurus]

Finally all new CollectA figures are available in Germany:
https://www.spielzeug-guenstig.de/Spielfiguren-CollectA-Neuheiten-2020.html#Start

That is good news. All the Collecta news for 2020 have arrived in Europe.

[ceratopsian]

The new CollectA models are now up on the Everything Dinosaur site.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Anyone how quickly Parcelforce is to the U.S. currently?

[ceratopsian]

From the U.K. you mean?

I don't know but you could message Everything Dinosaur.  They would have recent experience.

Anyone how quickly Parcelforce is to the U.S. currently?

[Shonisaurus]

I recommend that you buy at everythingdinosaur.co.uk the treatment with the client is excellent at least my personal experience is one hundred percent positive they are very good professionals, and apart from all that the humane treatment is hardly surpassed by another store of dinosaurs online.