Edaphosaurus (Diener Industries)4.5 (4)
Edaphosaurus was a sail-backed genus of synapsid that lived during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods in what is now the famous Texas Red Beds in North America. Remains…
Edaphosaurus was a sail-backed genus of synapsid that lived during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods in what is now the famous Texas Red Beds in North America. Remains…
If you grew up between the 1960’s and 1990’s you no doubt had at least a few Diener brand erasers in your toybox or backpack. They were ubiquitous through the…
Older collectors no doubt remember the Land of the Lost TV series that ran from 1974-76 and younger collectors are probably aware of the 2009 film adaptation of the show,…
Review and photos by BlueKrono, edited by DinoToyBlog If I were asked to pick a favorite dinosaur toy it would be a challenging query, but I think the one I’d…
I cannot believe it, my 300th review! How can it be that a single person has written 300 toy dinosaur reviews in 13 years? Well, aside from just enjoying it…
Review and photos by BlueKrono, edited by DinoToyBlog. The dinosaurs created by the Marx Toy Company in the 1950s hold a unique title: the first mass-produced plastic dinosaur toys. All…
The Sphenacodon was part of Marx' first wave, produced from 1955 onwards. This species is not a very common choice for toy producers. Since the Sphenacodon was of the earliest…
Cynognathus is not a very common choice for toy producers. This Cynognathus was part of Marx' first wave, produced from 1955 onwards, so it may be not surprising that it…
"If MPC Ran the Zoo"... Macrauchenia looked like it could have inspired some of the creatures in a Dr. Seuss book, if its history of paleoart is anything to go…
Can you detect the tiny ear conches? A firm from the German Democratic Republic, VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) Plaho, released a series of highly collectable die casting plastic dinosaur figures in 1967.…
MPC's fifth group of prehistoric animals included one truly original mold in the form of Diatryma (ie Gastornis), one of the earliest plastic representations of this icon from the post-Mesozoic…
Today, dinosaurs have become a permanent fixture in our pop culture, from toys to multi-million blockbuster movies, dinosaur seems to be everywhere. But there was a time when dinosaurs and…