While companies like PNSO and Haolonggood might be in vogue these days there are some niches that are still dominated by the old standbys. In the case of dromaeosaurs, Safari is the only company that’s consistently delivering accurate figures of our favorite maniraptoriformes.
Type: Figurine
Review: Tyrannosaurus (‘Cartoon Series’ by Wing Crown / Gosnell)
3.8 (4 votes)
Review and photos by Hubert, edited by DinoToyBlog.
Finally, to round up the 7 inch ‘Cartoon Series’ by Wing Crown, here is the Tyrannosaurus, without which no set of dinosaur toys would be complete. And also, to conclude my overview of the 7 inch series, at the end I will take a brief look at some of the many other sizes, variants, and styles of figures in the Wing Crown ‘family’.
Review: Triceratops (‘Cartoon Series’ by Wing Crown / Gosnell)
3.3 (3 votes)
Review and Photos by Hubert, edited by DinoToyBlog.
My overview of Wing Crown’s 7 inch ‘Cartoon Series’ continues with their Triceratops. This is definitely my least favourite in the set and I think the ‘cartoonification’ went a little too far.
Review: Woolly Rhinoceros (Mojö Prehistoric by Mojö Fun)
5 (5 votes)
Before we begin the review, I would like to extend my gratitude towards Happy Hen Toys for sending this figure along as a review sample. Check out their large selection of animal and dinosaur figures by clicking the banner below.
In 2011 my first review for the Dinosaur Toy Blog was posted, it was of the AAA woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis).
Review: Spinosaurus (Electronic Keychain)(Jurassic Park 3 by Tiger Electronics)
3 (3 votes)
Review and photos by Paleodude, edited by Suspsy
With the influx of Spinosaurus toys from Mattel following the species’ reintroduction to the silver screen in Jurassic World: Rebirth it’s hard to keep track of all the bits and pieces produced of the T.
Review: Tyrannosaurus (Osborne) (Recur)
4.7 (7 votes)
According to my DinoToyCollector profile I have 38 Tyrannosaurus rex figures in my collection, and I know that’s not all of them. Like many collectors, Tyrannosaurus is probably the last dinosaur I need more of on my shelves, and yet I keep getting more.
Review: Megalosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
5 (6 votes)
I got into the dinosaur collecting hobby around 2010, and from then until 2023 the 1974 Invicta Megalosaurus stood as the sole representative of the first dinosaur described by science in my collection. For shame! But 2023 saw the release of the PNSO Megalosaurus and my thirst for a modern figure of this important animal was quenched.
Review: Carnotaurus (Haolonggood)
4.6 (5 votes)
I was fond of the South American abelisaur known as Carnotaurus from the moment I learned about it back in the late 1980s. And really, who wouldn’t be? With its short, boxy skull, prominent pointed horns, and almost preposterously puny arms, it is easily one of the weirdest-looking theropods, and thus one of the coolest.
Review: Styracosaurus (ANIA by Takara Tomy)
3.8 (4 votes)
Takara Tomy is a brand stretching a wide range across toy production, from miniature cars to blockbuster IP tie-ins, to wildlife and extinct life replicas. Beginning in the early 2010s, Tomy began releasing the ANIA “Animal Adventure” series, a line of palm-sized action figures featuring extant and extinct animal life.
Review: Jaekelopterus (Prehistoric World by CollectA)
5 (7 votes)
The genus Jaekelopterus contains two species from the Early Devonian; fossils of J. rhenaniae were originally discovered in the Rhineland of Western Germany while those of J. howellii were originally discovered in Wyoming, USA. Jaekelopterus rhenaniae is not only the largest eurypterid, it is the largest known arthropod…EVER!
Review: Concavenator (Haolonggood)
4.8 (6 votes)
Concavenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurian that hails from Spain and was described in 2010, the same year I started collecting dinosaurs! Although only known from a single specimen it’s a nearly complete and articulated one. Concavenator is immediately recognizable thanks to two tall vertebrae in front of the hips that are thought to have supported a hump.
Review: Proganochelys (Vitor Silva)
5 (6 votes)
Review and photographs of Proganochelys quenstedti (Vitor Silva) by stemturtle, edited by Suspsy
More than twenty years ago, I saw a wonderful reconstruction of Proganochelys at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Ever since then, I have searched for a realistic model of that species for my collection.