So far, for 2026, PNSO has only announced and released one figure, the articulated Tyrannosaurus (Lanzhousaurus was announced in 2025). This has left some collectors awake at night in a cold sweat. When is the next PNSO release? Will they only make articulated dinosaurs now? Is PNSO done making figures altogether? I’m not one for doom and gloom conspiracy theories and I genuinely think PNSO will be back with new figures, both static and articulated, but while we wait for their return it seems like a good time to go back and look at some of the older figures that haven’t received a blog review yet and today, we’re looking at Rosana the Miragaia, released all the way back in 2020!
It’s also timely to look at a Miragaia because the genus might be in trouble. In 2024, the paper titled “A new specimen of Dacentrurus armatus Owen, 1875 (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Spain and its taxonomic relevance in the European stegosaurian diversity” proposed that Miragaia is a junior synonym of Dacentrurus, due to the similarity between it and newly described material from Dacentrurus. Before the new specimen was described, Miragaia and Decentrurus were both known from basically opposite ends of the body. Front portions of Miragaia and the back portions of Dacentrurus. I’m not sure what the scientific consensus is now but in 2025 the paper was countered with another that rebuked the claim, titled “Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence from the most complete stegosaur from Europe”.
Should Miragaia be found to be in the same genus as Decentrurus it would mean that the lovely sounding Miragaia name (meaning “wonderful Earth goddess”) would be dropped in favor of the less appealing Dacentrurus name. A Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus or Trachodon/Edmontosaurus type situation. It would also mean that reconstructions of Dacentrurus are all now inaccurate, because they lack the long neck of Miragaia. This would of course render the Dacentrurus toys by CollectA, Battat, and Haolonggood obsolete and then our Miragaia toys would effectively become Dacentrurus.
Assuming it is valid, Miragaia longicollum is a species of late Jurassic stegosaurid described in 2009 and known from the Lourinhã formation in Portugal and possibly the Morrison formation in the United States. In Portugal it would have lived alongside the previously mentioned Dacentrurus, as well as Stegosaurus, Draconyx, Lusotitan, Lourinhasaurus, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, and Torvosaurus and a number of other genera. The Lourinhã formation was featured in the 2011 documentary, Dinosaur Revolution.
The PNSO Miragaia measures 9” (22.86 cm) long along the curves of its body and to the tip of its tail (not the end of the thagomizer spikes). The actual Miragaia is estimated to have measured 20’ (6 meters) which puts Rosana at 1/26 in scale. PNSO advertises the figure as being 1/35 in scale.
When Rosana was announced six years ago it was met with a good deal of shock. No Miragaia had ever been reconstructed with such long plates. PNSO had clearly based their model off of a reconstruction by Ashley Patch. On social media she says that it was not a collaboration but that she was happy to see her reconstruction used as a reference. She said that she made the reconstruction with the help of Francisco Costa, who had shared unpublished material with her. He is also the author of the 2025 paper validating Miragaia. Costa, along with Octávio Mateus, are behind The Miragaia Project which aimed to assemble and display a Miragaia at the Museu Geológico de Lisboa, in Lisbon. That project wrapped up in May and interestingly, the end result looks like an intermediate between the Carnegie Collection Miragaia and PNSO’s.
Regardless of how it is restored the fact remains that there is enough of Miragaia to know that it had a long neck (with at least 17 vertebra), and paired, triangular plates along the neck, but there’s not enough past the shoulders to know what the plate and spike size and arrangement was precisely like.
The PNSO Miragaia is positioned in forward stride, with the head and neck held stiff and high, the tail swung low, and both the head and neck veering rightward. It’s dynamic enough that it looks good from every angle, especially when focusing on the arrestingly tall and thin spikes running down the back.
Being one of PNSO’s older models this figure has the dreaded “corncob” texture that was common in their earlier releases. Basically, the basement scales are too large and pebbly. Aside from that the figure is morphologically sound. The head is appropriately small, long and narrow with a beaked mouth and gular armor is sculpted running down the underside of the neck. The forelimbs have five digits each, with two being reduced in size and clawless. The hindlimbs possess three digits on each. The plates and spikes are detailed with faint grooves as well as shallow cracks and indents to make them appear worn and weathered. All bodily orifices are accounted for.
Rosana is painted in a blend of oranges and yellows, with the orange being strongest along the back and fading off down along the limbs. Dark, wormy stripes and squiggles run down the body, and the paintjob is overall very similar to that on PNSO’s Machairoceratops. In the years since this figure’s release, I’ve grown rather weary of these types of markings, which Haolonggood has also used heavily. That, along with it being so similar to another PNSO figure, make it hard for me to like it. That said, the transition from yellow to orange on the plates and spikes are positively breathtaking, evoking a beautiful Mesozoic sunset, and that makes up for the paintjob elsewhere. Additionally, the tallest plates and spikes are tipped in dark brown, and the black eyes are encircled with pink. The beak and claws are tipped in dark brown and the paint application on these smaller bits is not as good as on more recent PNSO models.
Rosana the Miragaia may harken back to PNSO’s cruder days is some respects but remains a bold, exciting, and visually interesting figure unlike anything else available. Additionally, it is still the most recently made and accurate Miragaia and is worth acquiring for those needing this genus in their collection. And should Miragaia be lumped together with Dacentrurus then it will automatically be a more accurate version of that genus than any other that’s available, thanks to the long neck and the lack of shoulder spikes.
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