David Silva's Beasts of the Mesozoic Tyrannosaur Series

[LeapingLaelaps]

I was honestly kind of hoping he would use snakes as inspiration for sauropod colors but... If he does use snakes for tyrannosaur colors my dream would be to have ones based on these two fellas:

[Appalachiosaurus]

I was honestly kind of hoping he would use snakes as inspiration for sauropod colors but...

Admittedly getting a little ahead of myself here, but if he does do Sauropods I'd love if he based them off of long-necked birds like Cranes, Water Fowl, and Herons.

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And I'd love some game fowl based Hadrosaurs and some turtle based Ankylosaurs

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[stargatedalek]

I'd rather turtles for sauropods, they are after all the modern animal group actually using their necks as display features.

[terrorchicken]

Aside from maybe big cats, I don't believe he's going to go with any mammal group.

cats?  Id personally find that too distracting. 

Snakes are fine as long as he doesn't do something too well known like coral snake or emerald boa.

[Jose S.M.]

I guess some of them are going to be feathered (besides Yutyrannus) so maybe he can be inspired by birds for those, although that may be repetitive since the raptor series was based on birds, . Well there are hundreds of birds to take inspiration from so it's not necessarily going to be repetitive.

[Faelrin]

@LeapingLaelaps What's that tiger like colored snake?

I do like some of the suggestions here though. A mix would be nice too (birds, snakes, monitor lizards, etc).

[LeapingLaelaps]

@LeapingLaelaps What's that tiger like colored snake?

I do like some of the suggestions here though. A mix would be nice too (birds, snakes, monitor lizards, etc).

That's a cape coral snake (Aspidelaps lubricus)

[Killekor]

I was honestly kind of hoping he would use snakes as inspiration for sauropod colors but...

Admittedly getting a little ahead of myself here, but if he does do Sauropods I'd love if he based them off of long-necked birds like Cranes, Water Fowl, and Herons.

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And I'd love some game fowl based Hadrosaurs and some turtle based Ankylosaurs

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I would actually like an inspiration like that for Coelophysis-like dinosaurs!

Killekor

[Sarapaurolophus]

Mah baby Dilong got in!

I'm going to have to wait pending their individual designs, but Dilong and Guanlong are both probably going on my list.

Yeeees 
I am already super excited for all the feathered ones.

As for snakes as the color inspirations, I too would have liked to see that on sauropods. But on the other hand, maybe their long necks and tails would have made this look too literal. Like Kaiyodo Dinotales Brachiosaurus is beautiful but every time
I look at it I see a snake stapled onto an elephant's body

With different body proportions the snake skins might look very appealing. And certainly less obvious with some tweaks here and there.
If he plans on going this route I hope it'll be the same for all of them. No exceptions for the feathered ones. Putting a reptile pattern on feathers might look very striking!

[Nanuqsaurus]

So, no Nanuqsaurus? Ah, alright then. I'll be here, waiting for the day my fluffy little polar bear lizard will finally be made in toy form.

[suspsy]

So, no Nanuqsaurus? Ah, alright then. I'll be here, waiting for the day my fluffy little polar bear lizard will finally be made in toy form.

The sad fact is that it's in the same class as Dynamoterror: only known from a few little bits and pieces. I get the impression that David only wants to do tyrannosaurs known from complete or near complete skull material.

[Halzk]

The sad fact is that it's in the same class as Dynamoterror: only known from a few little bits and pieces. I get the impression that David only wants to do tyrannosaurs known from complete or near complete skull material.

I was hoping for Dynamoterror but I expected that it wouldn't be made for this exact reason

[Appalachiosaurus]

So, no Nanuqsaurus? Ah, alright then. I'll be here, waiting for the day my fluffy little polar bear lizard will finally be made in toy form.

It probably wouldn't have feathers anyways given the scaly Teratophoneus.

The sad fact is that it's in the same class as Dynamoterror: only known from a few little bits and pieces. I get the impression that David only wants to do tyrannosaurs known from complete or near complete skull material.

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Moros is known from some teeth and a leg. I think it's more that he didn't want to overextend himself like with the Ceratopsian series.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Only just seen this so apologies in advance for the disjointed post. If the 1:35 scale figure had been Daspletosaurus or one of the others, I would have been interested, but as it happens now, all the Tyrannosaurids are just too big, I will aim to get at least one or two of the smaller Tyrannosauroids, maybe an Alectrosaurus

[Kaustav Bhattacharyya]

The heel region in the shadow image version of the series is a bit larger in the left leg especially and the left leg is a bit thinner too. Please correct this little issue in the final model. I shall be highly glad to see the newly discovered Daspletosaurus horneri (1/18th scale)and Zhuchengtyrannus (1/18th scale) to be included in the final list.

[suspsy]

Only just seen this so apologies in advance for the disjointed post. If the 1:35 scale figure had been Daspletosaurus or one of the others, I would have been interested, but as it happens now, all the Tyrannosaurids are just too big, I will aim to get at least one or two of the smaller Tyrannosauroids, maybe an Alectrosaurus

At 16", the 1:35 T. rex really won't end up being super big. This DitW T. rex I reviewed awhile ago is nearly 18" long, so the BotM one won't dwarf the CollectA and Safari and Papo figures all that much.

http://dinotoyblog.com/2018/11/12/tyrannosaurus-rex-dinosaurs-in-the-wild-by-ivs-group-ltd/

[Ravonium]

Only just seen this so apologies in advance for the disjointed post. If the 1:35 scale figure had been Daspletosaurus or one of the others, I would have been interested, but as it happens now, all the Tyrannosaurids are just too big, I will aim to get at least one or two of the smaller Tyrannosauroids, maybe an Alectrosaurus

At 16", the 1:35 T. rex really won't end up being super big. This DitW T. rex I reviewed awhile ago is nearly 18" long, so the BotM one won't dwarf the CollectA and Safari and Papo figures all that much.

http://dinotoyblog.com/2018/11/12/tyrannosaurus-rex-dinosaurs-in-the-wild-by-ivs-group-ltd/

To be fair, these figures are pricier for their size than those from the major companies, so I see where they're coming from (and I say this as someone who's planning to get the 1:35 T. rex).

[suspsy]

Well, it's official. The tyrannosaurs will indeed be coloured like snakes!

https://www.facebook.com/113487525333128/posts/3531339473547899/?d=n

[Ravonium]

Wait, even the feathered ones?

Also, unsure how to feel about the 1:35 T. rex being the Kickstarter exclusive this time around.

EDIT: As it turns out, both of these are clarified by the text of the FB post; thanks to stargatedalek and Faelrin for pointing this out; hopefully this will teach me to actually read the post next time instead of just briefly glancing at the picture.

[stargatedalek]

Wait, even the feathered ones?

Also, unsure how to feel about the 1:35 T. rex being the Kickstarter exclusive this time around.

A repaint of it will be the exclusive, not the only 1:35 Tyrannosaurus.

I for one like that the exclusives are limited to repaints only. Not everyone has access to buying through Kickstarter.