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Review: Dunkleosteus (Paleozoic Pals)

Genus: Dunkleosteus Brand: Paleozoic Pals Classification: Fish Age: Devonian Type: Plush

5 (8 votes)

Armored placoderm fishes have never been so cuddly! Manufactured by Jaag Plush and commissioned by the Paleontological Research Institute (PRI) comes this 16” long most famous of prehistoric fishes, Dunkleosteus. Ol’ Dunk is a popular fish, about as popular as a prehistoric fish can get anyway.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (2006)(CollectA)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

1.5 (24 votes)

CollectA nowadays is widely considered one of the top makers of high quality prehistoric toys, as demonstrated by their very awesome 2017 assortment. But that certainly wasn’t always the case. For this review, I’ll be taking another trip back in time to 2006, the year of CollectA’s humble beginning.

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Review: Stegosaurus (Deluxe by CollectA)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: CollectA Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.9 (15 votes)

Review and Photographs by Quentin Brendel (aka Pachyrhinosaurus), edited by Suspsy
The Deluxe Stegosaurus was the first of the few CollectA dinosaurs to enter my collection and it’s still one of my favourite. It originally attracted my attention since it was the only figure out at the time that had exactly seventeen plates, laterally-pointed thagomizer spikes, and throat armour.

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Review: Tylosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Tylosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Mosasaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.3 (19 votes)

Lizards have been around about as long as dinosaurs, and during their time on Earth their family tree has produced some weird side branches. One is snakes (yes, all snakes are lizards, but not all lizards are snakes). Another is the mosasaurs, a group of large aquatic lizards that included some of the largest predators of the late Cretaceous.

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Review: Dinosaur Boxset 2 (Toyway)

Genus: Camptosaurus, Corythosaurus, Euoplocephalus, Iguanodon, Placerias, Postosuchus Brand: Toyway Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Crocodile, Hadrosaur, Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod, Therapsid (non-mammal), Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic Type: Baby Dino, Figurine, Set

4.4 (8 votes)

Review and photos by Indohyus, edited by Suspsy
We’ve all seen them. The crude dinosaur toys that you get in small museum shops for extremely cheap prices, normally just bought by parents to keep their children quiet for a while. The last thing you’d expect is to put six of these together and sell them as a box set.

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Review: Einiosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

5 (26 votes)

Described in 1995 by Scott Sampson the Einiosaurus has been known to science for over 20 years but has never really caught on in popularity. Although not as iconic as Triceratops, or as flashy as Styracosaurus, the Einiosaurus has to be among the most bizarre looking ceratopsians.

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Review: Triceratops (Baby by CollectA)

Genus: Triceratops Brand: CollectA Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.5 (11 votes)

Review and Photographs by Triceratops83, edited by Suspsy
CollectA has grown over the years from a curiosity producing mediocre figures at best to a leading brand rivaling Safari as the favourite makers of toy dinosaurs. One of their earlier, and admittedly better efforts was the Triceratops baby, released in 2007.

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Review: Thylacoleo (Southlands Replicas)

Genus: Thylacoleo Brand: Southlands Replicas Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.9 (11 votes)

Australia was home to many amazing beasts during the Pleistocene epoch. There were echidnas the size of sheep, lizards the size of crocodiles, wombats the size of hippos, giant flightless birds, and short-faced kangaroos that stood up to three metres tall. The thylacine was alive and flourishing.

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Review: Huanghetitan (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

Genus: Huanghetitan Brand: PNSO Classification: Macronaria (basal), Sauropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.1 (24 votes)

In 2016 the PNSO (Peking Natural Science-Art Organization) line introduced large figures of often under-represented Chinese dinosaurs. The largest of the line is the obscure macronarian sauropod Huanghetitan, which lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous (some time between 125 to 113 million years ago) of what is now China.

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Review: Stegosaurus (Wendy’s Exclusive from Definitely Dinosaurs by Playskool)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: Definitely Dinosaurs, Playskool Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Action Figure

4 (8 votes)

Review and photos by Takama, edited by Suspsy
For my second Definitely Dinosaurs soft model review, I will be tackling their rendition of Stegosaurus. Right off the bat, this model is downright cute, and it is clear it was made for toddlers because of the bright colours and the hard vinyl plastic it is made off.

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Review: Velociraptor (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

4.7 (59 votes)

For a long time now, too long in fact, various collectable dinosaur companies have tried and failed to make a properly feathered and accurate representation of one of the world’s most popular dinosaurs; Velociraptor and its kin the stem-birds we call dromaeosaurs or “raptors.” When I first started collecting dinosaur toys the best representations included those by Bullyland and CollectA and while we commend their efforts to popularize feathered dinosaurs they ultimately failed to make convincing looking animals.

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Review: Triceratops (Carnage Dinosaurs by ReSaurus)

Genus: Triceratops Brand: Carnage, Resaurus Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

4.8 (5 votes)

Review and photos by EmperorDinobot, edited by Suspsy
Hello! This is your friendly neighborhood EmperorDinobot with another review! As you saw from my previous review, I absolutely love ReSaurus’ Carnage dinosaurs. It took me ten years to find most of them, but I finally succeeded!

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One of their weakest offerings, yet better than other concavenators commercially available. 4 stars

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I like it! With the wonky proportions and size, I wonder if it could function as a juvenile for a…

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I actually really like this one. The feet are a bit wonky but I like the lean build, pose, and…

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Review: Dunkleosteus (Paleozoic Pals)

Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (2006)(CollectA)

Review: Stegosaurus (Deluxe by CollectA)

Review: Tylosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Dinosaur Boxset 2 (Toyway)

Review: Einiosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Triceratops (Baby by CollectA)

Review: Thylacoleo (Southlands Replicas)

Review: Huanghetitan (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

Review: Stegosaurus (Wendy’s Exclusive from Definitely Dinosaurs by Playskool)

Review: Velociraptor (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Triceratops (Carnage Dinosaurs by ReSaurus)

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