Before we begin the review, I would like to thank the generous folks over at ToyMonster for sending me this figure to share with the blog. Today we’re looking at the second to last figure from a batch of toys that ToyMonster sent me all the way back in June 2024.
Review: Kronosaurus (Marx)
4.9 (7 votes)
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 settle on would be the Marx Kronosaurus. A relic of Marx’s early dinosaur lines, the swan-necked prehistoric reptile has a history going back almost a century.
Review: Pteranodon (ANIA/Animal Adventure by Takara Tomy)
3.7 (6 votes)
Takara Tomy is a millennial industry giant of toy production, whose products have probably found their way into everyone’s homes at least once. Naturally, my introduction to the brand came through their ANIA “Animal Adventure” line of palm-sized action figures featuring extant and extinct animal life.
Review: Lokiceratops (Frederik) (Prehistoric Animal Models by PNSO)
5 (6 votes)
The year 2024 saw a steep decline in the number of models produced by PNSO, 7 models compared to 15 in 2023. Now we’re a month into 2025 with radio silence from PNSO, which has led some to worry about the company’s future.
News: Upcoming releases from LEGO (New for 2025)(Pt.3)
5 (1 votes)
Images of new LEGO Jurassic World toys have also dropped. Keep in mind that the figures will be included with sets, of which we do not have images just yet.
Quetzalcoatlus. A straight repaint of the Dominion version.
Titanosaurus.
News: Upcoming releases from Mattel (New for 2025)(Pt.7)
0 (0 votes)
Images of a slew of new Jurassic World toys have dropped in the wake of the JW: Rebirth trailer (my own reaction was decidedly meh). As before, there’s the Tyrannosaurus rex, a new specimen this time. First we have the Power N’ Devour toy.
Review: Diabloceratops (Beasts of the Mesozoic by Creative Beast Studios)
5 (7 votes)
Diabloceratops is a dinosaur in a curious position. Despite relatively little fame or pop culture presence, the “devil-horned face” has been a popular choice of genus for toy companies; Safari ltd., Collecta, Schleich, Mattel, and recently Haolonggood, among still others, have all taken a crack at the animal, with surprisingly good results in general.
News: Upcoming release from Schleich (New for 2025)(Pt. 2)
5 (1 votes)
Images from the Nuremberg Toy Fair have revealed that Schleich will also be releasing a toy of Megalodon midway through this year.
It looks, well, a lot like previously released Megalodon toys from other companies. That’s not to say that it’s a bad sculpting job, of course.
Review: Tyrannosaurus (Monster In My Pocket by Matchbox, Series 6)
2 (3 votes)
Monster In My Pocket was a toy franchise that released waves of, you guessed it, pocket sized plastic-monsters throughout the 90s. Several of the series included dinosaurs or near-dinosaurs, and some of the later series consisted almost solely of dinosaurs. The figures all seem to have come in at least three colour-variants, and included cards.
Review: Maip (Deluxe by CollectA)
4.4 (5 votes)
“Maip” may sound like an odd name for a dinosaur at first, but it is in fact a reference to a malevolent entity in Tehuelche mythology that is described as “the shadow of death that kills with cold wind.” That therefore strikes me as rather appropriate for a large and powerful meat-eating theropod.
Review: Chasmosaurus (Tyco)
4.8 (6 votes)
So, friends, here I am again. It took a little longer, that’s for sure. I was busy writing and marketing my first book about my own and other people´s fascination for prehistory (The Dinosaur Toy Blog and Forum play a big role in it!) and had the usual private and professional struggles.
Review: Apatosaurus (1992)(UKRD)
3.7 (3 votes)
Other reviewers seem to have stopped covering UKRD figures years ago, but there are still a lot of them left to go, so I guess that’s my lot in life. While they may seem like mass-produced dreck to most people, I find them interesting and charming because they often reflect outdated or downright bizarre ideas and vintage palaoart, usually (with some notable exceptions) based on John Sibbick’s paintings from the 1985 book Enyclopaedia of Dinosaurs by David Norman.