The Identification thread

[brontosauruschuck]

Does anyone know anything about this figure? It was one of my first dinosaur toys. I don't think mine was actually Imperial, but it might have been a knockoff. https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1979-T-REX-IMPERIAL-TOYS-7957-9-TALL-EXCELLENT-CONDITION/113937785807?hash=item1a8738a3cf:g:aZIAAOSwx1RdtFfi

[Libraraptor]

As to the "Imperial" figures, imo it´s hard to figure out which are real and which are fake. Sometimes I doubt if this decision even makes sense, since to me they´re awful, yet charming critters.

[brontosauruschuck]

I'm kind of curious what dinosaur they're going for with it. It looks like an alligator kangaroo grasshopper.

[Dinoguy2]

I'm kind of curious what dinosaur they're going for with it. It looks like an alligator kangaroo grasshopper.

At some point during my childhood I remember deciding that this was Dryptosaurus, because it had 5 fingers.

(Because of Knight's painting, I guess).

[Lanthanotus]

I bought these two via a fleamarket site, because I deemed them tin models as I have seen them in @UK `s collection thread. However, I realized these are different and I wanted to ask for help to identify them. I am torn in between "modern" hardware store decoration that just imitates vintage style or genuine vintage of some sort. The material is casted tin (or some other metal that color), one piece, not stamped iron and no fittings of parts. Despite being very flat, the figures are "3D", legs and muscles are sculpted in the mold. No imprints of any sort are to be found on the figures, just some ballpoint number which I suggest were made as a price once (though not the one I paid and very high for some vintage made decorations). The figures are comparably big, the T. rex around 17 cm, the sauropod like 21 cm in direct line and quite well painted, just not where the feet meet the bases.
And yes, that T. rex is a vegetarian.....thanks in advance for your input

[brontosauruschuck]

I'm kind of curious what dinosaur they're going for with it. It looks like an alligator kangaroo grasshopper.

At some point during my childhood I remember deciding that this was Dryptosaurus, because it had 5 fingers.

(Because of Knight's painting, I guess).

[Libraraptor]

Would anyone be able to identify the company behind these?
All that is written on the stamps is that they are Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus and produced in 2004.

Wow, that´s hartmut Haubold´s highly underrated book in the background!

[Libraraptor]

The illustrations in it are quite nice.

Yes. I like that book.  Especially how sober and laconic it was written.  Feathered Troodons at the cover in the earliest 90s and it did not seem special to him in any way

[Halichoeres]

Here they are with a yet another paint job, sold in the US under the brand "Environments:"

https://www.discountschoolsupply.com/play-learn/dramatic-play/play-sets-figures/soft-touch-baby-dinosaurs---set-of-6/p/31338

[Shenuday the Great]

These guys were my dinosaurs when I was younger. I've seen all of their molds online under Imperial, but in different colors. They're made out of a much harder material than the other Imperial toys I have.

Where the Imperial logo should be (based on the toys of the same mold), there is nothing but skin texture, although the oval that contained the logo on the other toys is still present. I would say it wore off, but the skin texture appears perfectly fine. Possibly knockoffs, or another company may have been given the molds by Imperial. If they are knockoffs, they're very good ones.

Triceratops

Tyrannosaurus   

Apatosaurus

Hope one of you guys can confirm their identity. 

[Halichoeres]

@Shenuday the Great I don't think those are valid image URLs. You might find this thread useful: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=173.0

PS welcome to the forum

[Shenuday the Great]

Oh, sorry about that!

[Halichoeres]

These guys were my dinosaurs when I was younger. I've seen all of their molds online under Imperial, but in different colors. They're made out of a much harder material than the other Imperial toys I have.


Hope one of you guys can confirm their identity. 

@Shenuday the Great I'm not an expert on Imperial, but I used to have the Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus. It is possible that they had multiple molds, but mine doesn't match. Aside from mine having the oval "Imperial" stamp with the crown insignia, it lacks the snakelike belly scales. The seam is also in a different part of the torso. I'm afraid I don't have photos of the underside, but the two figures look pretty different in this lateral shot:

[Shenuday the Great]

This was the toy I was referring to:


It is the same mold as mine, aside from the Imperial stamp. Although the color scheme on yours is very similar to mine.

[Halichoeres]

Oh, I was not familiar with that mold! It looks very similar to your green one, I agree. I wouldn't have any idea how to distinguish a knockoff from the genuine article. There's an old thread with a bit of information about the line here (http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3592.0) but it is littered with the carcasses of deleted Photobucket accounts.

[Shenuday the Great]

Oh, I was not familiar with that mold!

Understandable. All three of the molds seem to be part of a strange line by Imperial; they're very different from the other Imperials I own and have seen. They also seem to be a lot more rare. Thanks for the link.

[Loon]

Is anyone familiar with these figures? They came in a lot with some Colorata figures, but don't say Colorata on them.


Also, from the same lot, I got these weird Diplodocus (?) skulls. They're definitely a rougher material, almost like 3d printed, but I'm not sure.

[sauroid]

Is anyone familiar with these figures? They came in a lot with some Colorata figures, but don't say Colorata on them.


Also, from the same lot, I got these weird Diplodocus (?) skulls. They're definitely a rougher material, almost like 3d printed, but I'm not sure.

first pic are Kaiyodo, Bandai and Kabaya

[Halichoeres]

Is anyone familiar with these figures? They came in a lot with some Colorata figures, but don't say Colorata on them.

More specifically, clockwise from top left:
Kabaya Tyrannosaurus (one of several), Furuta Triceratops, Bandai Triceratops, Kaiyodo Triceratops (Dinotales 1), Furuta Pachycephalosaurus. The Kabaya is from a different set from the DinoWorld ones, obviously larger and they came with a piece of a large Seismosaurus. The Furuta figures came with a trading card.

[Libraraptor]

No clue what this is, but I just bought this little sauropod.