Review and photographs by Indohyus, edited by Suspsy
Over the last few years, toy companies have become more and more willing to be adventurous with their choice of species to be immortalized in plastic. CollectA is a great example of this, with one of the widest varieties of dinosaur and other prehistoric animal figures around.
Review: Mercuriceratops (CollectA)
4.4 (19 votes)
Review and photos by Bokisaurus, edited by Suspsy
Without a doubt, CollectA has emerged as the leading toy company when it comes to producing ceratopsian figures. They love ceratopsians, and lets face it, who doesn’t? To date, they have, if I am correct, released 14 species, more than any other company.
Without a doubt, CollectA has emerged as the leading toy company when it comes to producing ceratopsian figures. They love ceratopsians, and lets face it, who doesn’t? To date, they have, if I am correct, released 14 species, more than any other company.
Review: Saurolophus (Tyco)
3.1 (7 votes)
Saurolophus was a genus of late Cretaceous hadrosaur that had a large distribution, occurring in both North America and Asia. Despite its wide range, and thus the large assortment of material we have for it, Saurolophus has never been a popular dinosaur.
Review: Ceratosaurus (IToy)
4.5 (6 votes)
Review and photos by Paul Carter AKA Carnosaur, edited by Suspsy
I-Toy is a fairly new toy and model maker from China. They have been getting the attention of dinosaur collectors lately with their new Resurrection series.
I-Toy is a fairly new toy and model maker from China. They have been getting the attention of dinosaur collectors lately with their new Resurrection series.
This new Ceratosaurus is the second figure they released, the first being a Jurassic Park-styled Velociraptor.
Review: Carcharodontosaurus (original version) (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
2.3 (21 votes)
When a dinosaurs has a name that means “shark toothed lizard”, you would probably expect the toy depicting that dinosaur to be scary and intense. Carcharodontosaurus was an apex predator and carnivore that frightened most of the local fauna in its day.
Review: Pteranodon (Tyco)
2.8 (4 votes)
A couple days ago I received a package in the mail. I could start off a lot of reviews this way but inside this package was something special, an old friend I hadn’t seen in over 20 years. This package might as well have been a time capsule.
Review: Dimetrodon (Recur)
4.1 (27 votes)
In 1845, a fragment of upper jaw bone was discovered in the Maritime province of Prince Edward Island. At the time, it was hailed as Canada’s first dinosaur, but paleontologists eventually determined that it was in fact a synapsid which they named Bathygnathus.
Review: Dimetrodon (Pelikan)
3.5 (4 votes)
Straight from the depths of my cabinet I present to you yet another oddity: A Dimetrodon figure that originally was intended to serve as a rubber. Pelikan is a German company making stationary such as pens, biros, ink erasers or – erasers. I have it since I was a schoolchild and saved it across the times from its fate, for to me it was too interesting to end as chips of rubber.
Review: Pteranodon (Jurassic Park Series 1 by Kenner)
2.6 (8 votes)
Shrieking out of the sky and swooping in from 1993 comes the “Jurassic Park” series 1 Pteranodon. Although Cearadactylus was featured in the book “Jurassic Park” the original movie didn’t feature pterosaurs at all.
Review: Allosaurus Assault (Jurassic Park by Hasbro)
4.1 (29 votes)
Review and photos by Paul Carter AKA Carnosaur, edited by Suspsy
In 2011, prototype images of an Allosaurus, a Carnotaurus, a Pachyrhinosaurus, and a Stegosaurus for the Jurassic Park toy line began floating around the web.
Review: Smilodon (Prehistoric Mammals by Schleich)
2.9 (8 votes)
Around 2003, Schleich released six prehistoric mammals, two Woolly Mammoths (adult and calf), Megatherium, Machruchania, Cave Bear, Glyptodon, and Smilodon. Some of these figures appear to be modeled after the BBC show, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts.
Review: Pachycephalosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Series 1 by Kenner)
3.6 (8 votes)
Two Pachycephalosaurus toys would be released in conjunction with “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” the monstrously large adult “Ram Head” and this one, marketed as a juvenile. Seeing as how the genus features prominently in the movie it makes sense that it would feature in the toy line as well but in the case of the juvenile we’re looking at today it may seem somewhat familiar.