Type: Figurine

Review: Spinosaurus (1992) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Spinosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Spinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.7 (14 votes)

For today’s review, we are going to travel back in time, to such an unimaginably distant era that the world as we know today it simply didn’t exist… specifically, the year 1992. For lovers of carnivorous dinosaurs, this was a simpler and more innocent time. Tyrannosaurus rex ruled with comfortable certainty as the biggest and baddest of them all; Archaeopteryx was the only dinosaur with feathers; a certain movie that was to forever confuse Deinonychus with Velociraptor in the popular imagination was still a year away from release; and we imagined that a relatively obscure carnivorous dinosaur called Spinosaurus looked something like this…

Today I am reviewing the original 1992 version of the Carnegie Collection Spinosaurus, which was in production until 1996.

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Review: Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk) (Prehistoric Times by Bullyland)

Genus: Megaloceros Brand: Bullyland Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4 (5 votes)

I am sure most collectors are aware that Bullyland has produced an interesting collection of prehistoric mega fauna, mammals, and terror birds. One overlooked mammal by most toy lines has been the Irish elk. It was nice to see a company take a chance on an animal that rarely sees any toy love.

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Review: Nasutoceratops (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Nasutoceratops Brand: Wild Safari Classification: Centrosaur, Ceratopsian Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (19 votes)

Dinosaur lovers have been blessed with an abundance of new ceratopsians out of North America lately and among them is the increasingly popular Nasutoceratops or “large-nosed horn face”. While the nose is indeed large, the pair of “Texas long-horns” on the head also helps make this a unique looking dinosaur.

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Review: Velociraptor (2015) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.5 (19 votes)

So this is it – the very end of the Carnegie Collection. At least we got our feathered Velociraptor before the final bow. It’s by no means perfect, but it should at least prove more popular than last year’s bafflingly despised T. rex resculpt.

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Review: Saurophaganax (CollectA)

Genus: Saurophaganax Brand: CollectA Classification: Theropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.6 (16 votes)

History: Saurophaganax is not a well known theropod dinosaur from the late Jurassic, even though it was originally found in the early 1930’s. Considering how large this dinosaur was, which has been estimated to be around 43 feet long, you would think it would get a little more press.

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Review: Yutyrannus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Yutyrannus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (27 votes)

Review and photographs by Tallin, edited by Plesiosauria.
Approximately 125 million years ago, Northern China had a similar temperature to today – it was cold – at least by Mesozoic standards. Indeed, the Yixian Formation of China shows that the climate of this part of early Cretaceous China would have had an average temperature of only 10°C.

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Review: Amargasaurus (Deluxe version by CollectA)

Genus: Amargasaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Diplodocoid, Sauropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.9 (21 votes)

Review and photographs by Tallin, edited by Plesiosauria.
One of the most recognisable of the sauropods, Amargasaurus cazaui has been well represented in toy form, with examples from most of the major brands. This is the second Amargasaurus that CollectA have released, this model dating back to 2012 and part of their 1:40 scale line – four years since their first attempt at recreating this beastie.

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Review: Alamosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Alamosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Sauropod, Titanosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3 (27 votes)

Review and photographs by Tallin, edited by Plesiosauria.
One of the last and most massive of the sauropods, Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, was a colossal titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. Its reign lasted right up until the K-T extinction and it lived in the same environments as Tyrannosaurus rex – it has been found all over North America.

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Review: Camarasaurus (Tip Toi by Ravensburger)

Genus: Camarasaurus Brand: Ravensburger, Tip Toi Classification: Macronaria (basal), Sauropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.8 (4 votes)

A TipToi is an orange electronic device by German company Ravensburger that looks like a gigantic pen. With its rays it scans micropatterns on fields triggering certain sound sequences the pencil reveals. Each program has to be loaded directly into the pen via USB link from the internet.

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Review: Woolly Mammoth (Prehistoric life collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Mammuthus, Woolly mammoth Brand: Prehistoric Life, Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4.6 (11 votes)

Many years ago when I was a small child, I thought all of the ancient mammoths where the Woolly Mammoth. I later learned that it was a diverse branch with many different members. The first mammoth bones I had ever seen in person were at the Mammoth Site in South Dakota, where a majority of the mammoth remains are of the Columbian variety, but there are also a few remains of the Woolly Mammoth as well.

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Review: Therizinosaurus (World of History by Schleich)

Genus: Therizinosaurus Brand: Schleich, World of History Classification: Therizinosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.8 (22 votes)

Review and photos by Tallin, edited by Plesiosauria.
As one of the strangest looking dinosaurs discovered it is unsurprising that Therizinosaurus and its kin have been represented in toy form by most of the major companies, sometimes more than once or in different scales. CollectA and Safari Ltd have several examples of this strange therapod family in their ranges, and we have thus come to expect a similar shape for members of the therizinosaur clade: a pot-belly, small head and stumpy legs (reflecting fossil evidence from a variety of finds over the years).

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Review: Pachycephalosaurus (CollectA)

Genus: Pachycephalosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.9 (17 votes)

With its wonderful knobby skull and domed cranium, Pachycephalosaurus is one of the most distinctive dinosaurs. Paleontologists are still divided over how precisely it used its noggin, although a 2013 study by the University of Wisconsin concluded that it did indeed engage in intraspecific conflict.

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Type: Figurine

Review: Spinosaurus (1992) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk) (Prehistoric Times by Bullyland)

Review: Nasutoceratops (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Velociraptor (2015) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Saurophaganax (CollectA)

Review: Yutyrannus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Amargasaurus (Deluxe version by CollectA)

Review: Alamosaurus (CollectA)

Review: Camarasaurus (Tip Toi by Ravensburger)

Review: Woolly Mammoth (Prehistoric life collection by Safari Ltd)

Review: Therizinosaurus (World of History by Schleich)

Review: Pachycephalosaurus (CollectA)

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