Papo 2020

[indohyus]

Glad that one company has done a prehistoric mammal. Has it been taken for review? That Megaloceros is beautiful

[hao_bao]

Woof! What happened to Papo? My quadrupedal spino looks like dogshit too.

Still no gallimimus and that giga is all kinds of wrong. I despair.

[hao_bao]

Eofauna and collecta seem over hyped to me.

That's objectively wrong, but ok.

Well I agree CollectA is overhyped. I personally think they look like bath toys. But Eofauna looks pretty good?

[Stegotyranno420]

Eofauna and collecta seem over hyped to me.

That's objectively wrong, but ok.

Well I agree CollectA is overhyped. I personally think they look like bath toys. But Eofauna looks pretty good?

Agree. Only a handful of collectAs stand out, usually only the sculpts

[terrorchicken]

Collecta has good sculpts but they are often ruined by the awful cartoon-like paint work.

[Shonisaurus]

Papo's dinosaur and other prehistoric animals figures are made of more flexible material, resistant to abrasions and with a very soft texture.

Collecta prehistoric animals and dinosaurs figures their material being rigid tends to be broken by a fall, is much less resistant to abrasions and its texture is quite rough.

[Stegotyranno420]

Collecta has good sculpts but they are often ruined by the awful cartoon-like paint work.

But most sculpts are outright ugly, especially their older pieces

[Loon]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

[Stegotyranno420]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

I and some of their newer figures like this one are innacurateley designed and very cartoonish

[Loon]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

I and some of their newer figures like this one are innacurateley designed and very cartoonish

Nothing really cartoonish, though I doubt our definitions of the word are the same. Also, nothing's particularly inaccurate, the feathers are speculative, not inaccurate.

[Stegotyranno420]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

I and some of their newer figures like this one are innacurateley designed and very cartoonish

Nothing really cartoonish, though I doubt our definitions of the word are the same. Also, nothing's particularly inaccurate, the feathers are speculative, not inaccurate.

The skull is inaccurate, and the feathers, if there was any, should be all over the rex as in the safari featherd rex

[Takama]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

I and some of their newer figures like this one are innacurateley designed and very cartoonish

Nothing really cartoonish, though I doubt our definitions of the word are the same. Also, nothing's particularly inaccurate, the feathers are speculative, not inaccurate.

The skull is inaccurate, and the feathers, if there was any, should be all over the rex as in the safari featherd rex

You mean like there ORIGINAL version?

http://dinotoyblog.com/2015/07/13/tyrannosaurus-rex-feathered-deluxe-by-collecta/

and not the UPDATED Version your showing that reflects the current consesnses?

[Loon]

The skull is inaccurate, and the feathers, if there was any, should be all over the rex as in the safari featherd rex

The skull's a little bulbous, I'll give you that. I'm not gonna get into a feathered Tyrannosaurus discussion, I'm sure there has been at least 10 on the forum today. But, until direct evidence of feather placement on Tyrannosaurus, if it had feathers, is found, this is just as reasonable a reconstruction as the Safari.

You mean like there ORIGINAL version?

http://dinotoyblog.com/2015/07/13/tyrannosaurus-rex-feathered-deluxe-by-collecta/

and not the UPDATED Version your showing that reflects the current consesnses?

I don't find the original to be too bad, honestly.

[Stegotyranno420]

The skull is inaccurate, and the feathers, if there was any, should be all over the rex as in the safari featherd rex

The skull's a little bulbous, I'll give you that. I'm not gonna get into a feathered Tyrannosaurus discussion, I'm sure there has been at least 10 on the forum today. But, until direct evidence of feather placement on Tyrannosaurus, if it had feathers, is found, this is just as reasonable a reconstruction as the Safari.

You mean like there ORIGINAL version?

http://dinotoyblog.com/2015/07/13/tyrannosaurus-rex-feathered-deluxe-by-collecta/

and not the UPDATED Version your showing that reflects the current consesnses?

I don't find the original to be too bad, honestly.

Yeah the really big one and the hunting one are the best

[Syndicate Bias]

I see we have opened that particular can of worms   

Maybe Papo will do a feathered Rex for limited edition

[tanystropheus]

I don't think anyone's arguing that older CollectA figures look good.

I and some of their newer figures like this one are innacurateley designed and very cartoonish

That dino screams euthanasia.

And here is the aftermath:

http://dinotoyblog.com/2016/03/12/tyrannosaurus-corpse-collecta/

[SidB]

Interesting. If CollectA at times appears stylized in such a fashion that it appears "cartoonish', remember that cartoons have an effective power to communicate the essence of the subject through their very stylization. This is a trait that makes them attractive to many people. The same can be said with Papo due to their dramatic poses. Some would decry the cartoonish aspect of the former, others the overly dramatic (at times) of the latter, Even Schleich has its own distinctively subjective approach to designing dinosaurs, an approach that sometimes attracts, sometimes repels. I think that it's so very difficult to capture, objectively, the total package of attributes and characteristics of animals that we have never seen and never will, in the flesh. But we will continue to try and no doubt will continue to scrutinize those who explore and test the boundaries of the real.

[Bokisaurus]

Interesting. If CollectA at times appears stylized in such a fashion that it appears "cartoonish', remember that cartoons have an effective power to communicate the essence of the subject through their very stylization. This is a trait that makes them attractive to many people. The same can be said with Papo due to their dramatic poses. Some would decry the cartoonish aspect of the former, others the overly dramatic (at times) of the latter, Even Schleich has its own distinctively subjective approach to designing dinosaurs, an approach that sometimes attracts, sometimes repels. I think that it's so very difficult to capture, objectively, the total package of attributes and characteristics of animals that we have never seen and never will, in the flesh. But we will continue to try and no doubt will continue to scrutinize those who explore and test the boundaries of the real.

Well said, and I agree with you.
Despite our own personal preferences  and favorites regarding the style of each figures we collect, it's is nice to have differences in how each one looks.
To me as a collector, it is these differences in style and interpretations that makes it exciting, accurate or not.
If all the figures looks the same and always striving to look as what we call the perfect version of the species, then it would be so boring and I would probably stop collecting.
😂

[Concavenator]

Well I agree CollectA is overhyped. I personally think they look like bath toys.

No wonder Anthony Beeson left the forum... 

[japfeif]

I never even cared about ever getting a Papo Giganotosaurus and even I am extremely disappointed. I can mentally justify their previous odd poses but they've gone way too far with this one. Its like they are pushing the limits of feasibility purely for the sake of it rather than for any aesthetic value. It would be forgivable if it looked cool, but it doesn't even do that, it just looks really lame with the little bent tail. Oh well.

Actually, as bad as the Giga pose is, it's *possible* that the tail isn't as short & stubby as it appears in the one pic we've seen. It looks to be coming straight out at us and that makes it look shorter than it actually is, maybe from a different angle the tail would be seen as being longer. Of course, then it would be angled sideways in an unnatural & I believe impossible angle, but it would at least not be so short & stubby (assuming of course that this IS the case and it's actually longer than it appears in the pic).