Exhibit-Inspired Figures?

[Loon]

Yesterday, I went to "Antarctic Dinosaurs" exhibit at the LA Natural History Museum and was amazed by the life sized models of some of the species on display. This got me thinking...I would love to have figures based on these models; maybe they could be exclusive to the exhibit itself? It makes sense to me; who wouldn't want figures of the species they just go to see?

I know some Asian museums do this, but would love to start seeing it more often in the states.

[Dinoguy2]

I can think of a few US exhibit inspired figures. Off the top of my head...

Field Museum Sue figures by Safari

AMNH feathered dinosaurs Toob and Carnegie wave (they had tons of these in the gift shop when I visited the traveling Feathered Dinosaurs exhibit around 2006, including keychain versions of the Toob dinosaurs.)

Boston Museum - not directly tied to the exhibit per se, but many of the Battat designs are directly based on models and diagrams on display, most notably the big T. rex statue.

Arguably, the Carnegie Collection started out as an "exhibit" line, since it was intended primarily to have quality toys available in their gift shop. Some of the early models are based around the 80s displays (check the pose of the Allosaurus and T. rex. The green T. rex color scheme even resembles the old mural.)

[EverEvolvingSaurian]

That is actually a pretty cool idea! Some museums do this, but most to a lesser extent, where they sell figures of the species displayed in their exhibits, but those models are typically produced by safari and the like, and don't represent those specific exhibits. Correct me if i'm wrong, but museum specific models used to be much more common, and it would be really cool to see them again.

[CityRaptor]

Bullyland used to do that for several Museums here in Germany.  Figures like the quadrupedal Plateosaurus, Arizonasaurus etc.

And of course the Kleinwelkas.

[Halichoeres]

I would love to see more of this.

[Loon]

S @Stolpergeist I actually have both of those figures, well banjos on the way. The Kronosaurus is really a lovely figure.

[DinoToyForum]

S @Stolpergeist I actually have both of those figures, well banjos on the way. The Kronosaurus is really a lovely figure.

Pliosaurus! I wouldn't mind, but I did co-name that species.

[Loon]

S @Stolpergeist I actually have both of those figures, well banjos on the way. The Kronosaurus is really a lovely figure.

Pliosaurus! I wouldn't mind, but I did co-name that species.

Oops, sorry. Pliosaurus, that's right. Doris the Kronosaurus doesn't sound right. Don't know what I was thinking

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I bought the Pliosaurus when it was released, the artist of the full size sculpture, Tone Hitchcock signed it for me by request. Very nice guy.

[Shonisaurus]

I congratulate you for getting the Bristol pliosaurus. Mine unfortunately came with a flap off and I had to glue it with denture glue and it looked like new I have this figure on my desk. It is a beautiful figure although hollow but very attractive.

[Sarapaurolophus]

Bullyland used to do that for several Museums here in Germany.  Figures like the quadrupedal Plateosaurus, Arizonasaurus etc.

I was really disappointed in those, sadly. Getting a Liliensternus that doesn't look like a blob with rabbit legs was great but the figure couldn't compare to the lifesized model Quagga made for the museum
Such a missed opportunity.

[CityRaptor]

Well, yeah, as you said, it can't compare to a life-sized figure. Which is to be expected. A life sized figure would be much bigger, and also cost several hundred if not several thousand Euros.

[Sarapaurolophus]

Well, yeah, as you said, it can't compare to a life-sized figure. Which is to be expected. A life sized figure would be much bigger, and also cost several hundred if not several thousand Euros.

My gripe is more about the lack of accuracy to the big models the toys were based on. I am not expecting toys to look like a perfectly shrunken down version of a 2 meter model
But the Bullyland Liliensternus had a face like mashed potatoes. I am sure the artists did what they could, I just wish the museum line could have had better paint and details to look more like the Quagga models. That's on the company and the budget.
I will say, they got the poses and proportions down quite well. I just dislike everything else.

[Libraraptor]

Speaking of the Stuttgart museum Bullyland figures, I think the Arizonasaurus does best.

I´d like to add the information that Wolfhagen Protochirotherium had not been inspired by the figure in the actual museum.
There they have a figure that looks different; more like a frog than lika a Rauisuchid.

With so many well informed Germans around here, I can´t add anything else concerning Germany.

But the rare and mysterious White Post figures, of which I only own the Moschops, have been inspired not by figures in a museum, but in the dinosaur park.

http://dinotoyblog.com/2017/01/24/moschops-white-post/

[CityRaptor]

100 Euros for old Mastodonsaurus ? The last I saw was in a lot and sold ( although the seller was mentioning it in the title ) for around 50 Euros or so.  I think the one selling for 100 Euros is an anomaly. Sometimes an item is sold for much higher than it is usually sold for because the one buying it has too much money and too little common sense.

[Mononykus]

The Safari "Pterosaur" (basically an Anhanguera) was based on a life-size model made for an exhibit of Paul Sereno's African discoveries (those pterosaur remains were never described and probably too fragementary or non-diagnostic).

[Libraraptor]

Ah yes the Kronosaurus bias.
It's quite funny how many Kronosaurus toys there are, the classic Schleich one and two amazing ones by Safari Ltd. and Collecta.
Amazing as in they actually have proper jaw muscles unlike the Collecta Pliosaurus with its visible temporal fenestrae.
Meanwhile there aren't as many Pliosaurus toys as there should be considering the huge diversity within the genus.
At least the Bristol Museum's P. carpenteri adds to this diversity as well as this oddly highly sought after green P. funkei figure which I think is being sold in Oslo.
I hope there will be more museum exclusive Pliosaurus figures emerging.

Still got a Basel Tsintaosaurus in stock. PM sent

[Libraraptor]

Also has anyone here recently been at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart?

I have never been in Stuttgart myself but considering the other non-Museum Line museum exclusives by Bullyland can still be found at their respective gift shops I wonder if there is still a possibility to get fresh Museum Line ones.

I feel tempted to write the museum an email and ask them.

I would give it a try.

[postsaurischian]

I really wish they'd get rereleased and not just the Bullyland Ichthyosaurus.

For example the cheapest I have seen the Bullyland Mastodonsaurus online was for 100 € from a German seller on eBay and it seems like it has recently been bought by a collector.

All the interesting Bullyland figures got re-released in 2012. Mastodonsaurus was the first to be sold out again.
After the re-release I bought 3 of them. No one seemed to be interested in the last one I had and I sold it for USD 15 not even a year ago.

Also has anyone here recently been at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart?

I have never been in Stuttgart myself but considering the other non-Museum Line museum exclusives by Bullyland can still be found at their respective gift shops I wonder if there is still a possibility to get fresh Museum Line ones.

I feel tempted to write the museum an email and ask them.

I've been there regularly and they do not offer the out-of production figures anymore.
There was an Edaphosaurus nailed on one of the areas where they sell the figures. Unfortunately the staff didn't want to remove it.
As a museum exclusive they used to sell a mini version of their quadropedal Plateosaurus in plain yellow with black eyes.
They didn't have that as well when I visited the museum last time. They had very tiny silver Dimetrodon pendants. I bought one for my sister .

[postsaurischian]

Bullyland Chalicotherium arrived and it has the Museum Stuttgart's logo on its tag but I have no clue if it's tied to any exhibit on display.

There's no Chalicotherium at the Löwentor Museum in Stuttgart. Maybe a single bone I have overseen .
If someone is interested in Bullyland's mammals, it's best to get them here:
https://sandspielfiguren.de/einkaufswelt-sandspiel/tierfiguren/praehistorische-tiere-pflanzen/?p=1&o=1&n=12&s=1
They still have some left.

I took the following museum pictures in 2010 for a thread at DTF v.1 which was unfortunately destroyed by Photobucket.
Bullyland used the term "museum model" a few times too often, just as Schleich does (for example there has never been
any relation between Schleich and the Humboldt Museum in Berlin. Schleich just used the popular name).
These are a few examples for Bullyland's true Stuttgart museum figures:


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                                                                                         Arizonasaurus



                                                                                          Plateosaurus



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