PNSO—New for 2020

[Andreioli]

Works both ways for me, if it's 1:35 would look in scale with Safari's Edmontosaurus and Gryposaurus and if it's 1:40 it will go together with Battat Parasaurolophus and Carnegie Corythosaurus!

That Carnegie Corythosaurus is such an old representation of the species, maybe we'll get a modern figure of it too...
Or better yet a Magnapaulia.

[Mattyonyx]

Speaking of Corythosaurus...
https://www.facebook.com/1565285753750119/posts/2806822376263111/
This poster is similar to the one that showed the first look to the Lambeosaurus: does it mean it will be the next figure?

[Shonisaurus]

I am glad that PNSO made a beautiful corythosaurus if it is like the one shown in that photograph. Hopefully they keep making hadrosaurids, by the way. And when will a tsintaosaurus make PNSO? It is my preferred hadrosaurid, along with the oloritan, velafrons and charonosaurus.

[Andreioli]

Speaking of Corythosaurus...
https://www.facebook.com/1565285753750119/posts/2806822376263111/
This poster is similar to the one that showed the first look to the Lambeosaurus: does it mean it will be the next figure?

It could definitely be 

[postsaurischian]

Curious if the Tuojiangosaurus and Lambeosaurus are sculpted by Zhao.
They seem seem a little different in terms of how the musculature is sculpted.
Does anyone know?

As far as I know ZHAO Chuang wasn't the sculptor of any of PNSO's figures and models. He's not a sculptor, he's a painter.
I also was a bit disappointed to learn that, I had always thought he was the sculptor.
REBOR wrote that there are different sculptors working for PNSO whose names shall not be revealed (which I still think is a bit of a pity).

Of course the Lambeosaurus is another must-have - good to know what #32 is.

[Jose S.M.]

Works both ways for me, if it's 1:35 would look in scale with Safari's Edmontosaurus and Gryposaurus and if it's 1:40 it will go together with Battat Parasaurolophus and Carnegie Corythosaurus!

That Carnegie Corythosaurus is such an old representation of the species, maybe we'll get a modern figure of it too...
Or better yet a Magnapaulia.

Yeah it's very old but to me it's still the best mass produced Corythosaurus, of course I would be more than happy to get an update on the genus.

[MLMjp]

To my Bullyland Lambeosaurus: I´m sorry little one...

That Lambeosaurus is amazing. If Mattel ever allows me to get back to collect "regular" dinosaur figures I definitely need to get it.

[Renecito]

Curious if the Tuojiangosaurus and Lambeosaurus are sculpted by Zhao.
They seem seem a little different in terms of how the musculature is sculpted.
Does anyone know?

As far as I know ZHAO Chuang wasn't the sculptor of any of PNSO's figures and models. He's not a sculptor, he's a painter.
I also was a bit disappointed to learn that, I had always thought he was the sculptor.
REBOR wrote that there are different sculptors working for PNSO whose names shall not be revealed (which I still think is a bit of a pity).

Of course the Lambeosaurus is another must-have - good to know what #32 is.

But there are pics of him sculpting. He says he's a painter and an sculptor too. Is this something like Milli Vanilli?

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Now I know that Everything Dinosaur will only be getting the Microraptor next month and won't get my favourite Stegosaur and those beautiful Hadrosaur figures until next year I am torn between my loyalty to ED and my desire to get some if the figures that have excited me most in a while. I think I will wait to see if I get this job or not. If I do, i will buy from China and hopefully get the beauties next month, if I do not I will have to wait and admire these beauties from afar.

Also I will note that I love that this line is full of Ornithiscians and is relatively theropod free. Large theropods have started to bore me again and whilst I will be getting the Safari ones, I am much more excited by Hadrosaurs, Stegosaurs, Ankylosaurs, Ceratopsians, Iguanodontians than in any large boring scaly theropods. Feathered theropods and small theropods are a different matter.

[KeU]

On hand pictures.
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7028353395

[Jose S.M.]

Looks pretty nice. Up close some wrinkles in the neck are more visible and the scales remind me of the ones on Spinops (not that noticeable until you get up close), the patterning reminds me in some parts to a giraffe.

[Loon]

It actually looks a lot better in hand. The pattern blends a lot more than in the promo pics.










Here's hoping the next figure isn't green.

[Faelrin]

It looks so much better in those in hand pics, though I was in love with it the moment I saw it this morning. I agree the paint looks to be blended better in these pics. The detail looks much easier to see here too. It's not as subtle looking as it appeared at first to me, judging from the pics on Everything Dinosaur.

[PhilSauria]

Really liking this Hadrosaur and the one on the poster.

They look very elegant and have something of an Antelope vibe to them. I've placed an order for the Lambeosaurus.

[BlueKrono]

Whoa. Its four ankles are so spindly! Were they really thought to be that slight?

[acro-man]

As far as I know ZHAO Chuang wasn't the sculptor of any of PNSO's figures and models. He's not a sculptor, he's a painter.
I also was a bit disappointed to learn that, I had always thought he was the sculptor.
REBOR wrote that there are different sculptors working for PNSO whose names shall not be revealed (which I still think is a bit of a pity).

It's true that the scaled-down toys are not made by ZHAO himself, but his colleages. And there are several of them.
Still these toys are heavily based on ZHAO's original large sculptures and under his consultation.
ZHAO's large sculptures are more like in the 1:20 ~ 1:1 range for museum and exhibition uses. And he really doesn't have time to make smaller versions for each of this large ones. I am not sure if all or just some of the toys are based on ZHAO's works, but I did see a 1:20 Tuojiangosaurus by him in the last exhibition I visisted, whose pose is identical to the toy version. Didn't see any Lambeosaurus though.

But that's not the main reason why the Tuojiangosaurus has an inconsistent style from the others.
PNSO actually made it on purpse.
A partial quote from a PNSO guy, that the Tuojiangosaurus and relatives had head armours and uniform neck plates to protect the vital parts, but the body skins are unknown. At first, they wanted to borrow the smaller scales from the more general Stegosaurs to make the body skin. But eventually they followed Mr. Ouyang's (head of a museum) advice and made a bolder and more creative version based on the evident that Stegosaurs unearthed in Sichuan Province had large Osteoderms who resemble more an Ankylosaurus than a Stegosaurus.
And here it is.

[Shonisaurus]

Regardless of whether Zhao Chuang's tuojiangosaurus and lambeosaurus are sculpted or not, they look like exceptionally outstanding figures to me.

I really like the lambeosaurus for the extremely elegant and detailed modeling, posture and painting it is my favorite PNSO figure this year.

On the other hand, the tuojiangosaurus of PNSO 2020 is another figure to take into account and is honestly a figure that does justice to that stegosaurid whose paleo-artistic representations to date were not satisfactory for me in the toy / collectibles market and in any case the figures They were quite small as was the case with his PNSO tuijiangosaurus in mini version.

[ceratopsian]

Thanks for that insight @acro-man.  Most interesting.

[Dinoguy2]

Whoa. Its four ankles are so spindly! Were they really thought to be that slight?

Lambeosaurs were quite gracile compared to other hadrosaurids. Here's a photo of an L. magnicristatus skeleton; keep in mind that this is a larger species and actually more robust than L. lambei. https://a4.pbase.com/g5/55/932755/2/119325146.XbZUwrLp.jpg

And Matt Dempsey seems to think highly of the figure. Given that he's an expert on ornithopod anatomy and biomechanics, I'll take his word for it.
https://twitter.com/Sketchy_raptor/status/1318139228203745280

[KeU]

It's true that the scaled-down toys are not made by ZHAO himself, but his colleages. And there are several of them.
Still these toys are heavily based on ZHAO's original large sculptures and under his consultation.
ZHAO's large sculptures are more like in the 1:20 ~ 1:1 range for museum and exhibition uses. And he really doesn't have time to make smaller versions for each of this large ones. I am not sure if all or just some of the toys are based on ZHAO's works, but I did see a 1:20 Tuojiangosaurus by him in the last exhibition I visisted, whose pose is identical to the toy version. Didn't see any Lambeosaurus though.

But that's not the main reason why the Tuojiangosaurus has an inconsistent style from the others.
PNSO actually made it on purpse.
A partial quote from a PNSO guy, that the Tuojiangosaurus and relatives had head armours and uniform neck plates to protect the vital parts, but the body skins are unknown. At first, they wanted to borrow the smaller scales from the more general Stegosaurs to make the body skin. But eventually they followed Mr. Ouyang's (head of a museum) advice and made a bolder and more creative version based on the evident that Stegosaurs unearthed in Sichuan Province had large Osteoderms who resemble more an Ankylosaurus than a Stegosaurus.
And here it is.

Awesome!
We can always count on you for PNSO information.