Good news for those hoping to own an articulated 1/18 scale woolly mammoth figure: the campaign is presently at $176,643 USD, meaning just $8,357 is required for it to succeed!
The bad news is that the extended deadline is fast approaching. Collectors only have until October 10 to help make these magnificent mammoths a reality!
Yes indeed, the campaign has been extended to October 10, and as of this post, it is at $159,474 USD, meaning it just needs another $25,526 to achieve its goal!
Here are the add-ons and reward tiers. Those fossil magnets are pretty cool.
Many readers will be familiar with the Fauna Figures site set up by our very own Sean Bell in 2019. The blog was a follow up to his online store of the same name, and explores his extensive toy collection, which ranges broadly across time and taxa.
What’s this then? Haolongood has revealed images of a species that wasn’t shown on their big teaser poster earlier this year: Triceratops!
It appears that these two are based on “Yoshi’s Trike,” MOR 3027, which has the longest horns of any Triceratops specimen in proportion to its size (although it wasn’t fully mature when it died, so it may have grown into them more had it lived).
Eofauna’s second prehistoric toy for next year is yet another famous face: Ankylosaurus!
Granted, Ankylosaurus has had plenty of toys over the decades, but very few truly good ones. This definitely looks like a good one.
Funko has revealed three new POP! figures for their Jurassic World series, only this time, they’re the bare bones.
Well, bare bones still embedded in rock! These could pass for non-JW dinosaurs. They are slated for release in November.
There are just 9 days left until the Prehistoric Elephants Backerkit campaign ends. At the time of this posting, it is at $119,127 USD, which is unfortunately short of the $185,000 goal. So if you want these figures and you can afford to back them, now is the time to do it.
Earlier this week Eofauna teased something new for early next year with a partially redacted photograph. It was clearly a fifth proboscidean, but we wondered which one could it be? An American mastodon? A gomphothere of some sort? Or perhaps even a dwarf mammoth?
Schleich’s 2025 prehistoric assortment will include their first ever Carcharodontosaurus. They did a fairly decent job with the head; you can immediately tell it’s the shark-toothed lizard. This is probably the best out of the four.
There’s also a new Dilophosaurus, but it frankly looks like a step down from the previous version.
The Haolonggood Xenoceratops pair has been revealed!
If I must choose, I would go with the grey “Yang Lin” version of the alien horned face, especially with that blue and green frill!
With yet another Jurassic World film coming out next year, Mattel sure won’t be stopping with the dinosaurs anytime soon. Three of these upcoming toys are familiar faces, but there’s also a couple of newbies.
Wild Roar Ceratosuchops. Nice colours.
Behold the painted prototype of Creative Beast/Eons’ Prehistoric Elephants Moeritherium!
The colour scheme is reminiscent of the Moeritherium that was featured in the BBC series Walking with Beasts. Both were clearly inspired by the common hippopotamus.
And here’s some other pleasing news: the Backerkit campaign is doing well thus far.
