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Review: Glyptodon (Prehistoric Mammal Series by Schleich)

Genus: Glyptodon Brand: Schleich Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4.9 (8 votes)

I want you to close your eyes, close your eyes and travel back, back to a distant era. It’s 2002; Spider-Man is #1 in the box office, the X-Files broadcasts its two hour finale, the UK is declared free of foot-and-mouth disease and Schleich, a company now notorious for its abominable depictions of prehistoric life was actually a competent company worth collecting.

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Review: Ornithocheirus (CollectA)

Genus: Ornithocheirus Brand: CollectA Classification: Pterosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.5 (16 votes)

Ornithocheirus shot to fame in 1999 when it starred in an episode of the fabulous BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs. Since then, however, scientists have determined that the pterosaur featured was in fact a species of Tropeognathus. The best-known Ornithocheirus species, O.

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Review: Smilodon (2015 version by CollectA)

Genus: Smilodon Brand: CollectA Classification: Cat, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4.2 (11 votes)

Smilodon, the legendary sabre-toothed cat (not tiger!), is rivalled in popularity among prehistoric mammals only by the woolly mammoth. Despite the fearsome appearance of its huge canines, they were actually quite fragile and could not have withstood the stress of struggling prey.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Jurassic Park 3: Re-Ak A-Tak by Hasbro)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Hasbro, Jurassic Park Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Action Figure

2 (19 votes)

Review and photographs by Jordan Bestwick, edited by Plesiosauria.
For my first ever post for Dinosaur Toy Blog, I was not sure what to review. But with Jurassic World having recently come out and seeing some great previous reviews of toys in the Jurassic Park series, I eventually decided to start with one of my favourites when I was a child.

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Review: Daeodon (CollectA)

Genus: Daeodon Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammal Age: Miocene, Oligocene Type: Figurine

4.8 (17 votes)

The carcass is days old, decaying, and beset with insects, but that means nothing to the marauder. He seizes the prize in his monstrous jaws and crunches down decisively. Bone fragments, crushed marrow, rancid meat, and still-wiggling maggots all disappear down his throat.

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Review: Tanystropheus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Tanystropheus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Reptile (other) Age: Triassic Type: Figurine

4.3 (14 votes)

One of my favorite critters from the Triassic period has to be Tanystropheus. In a period renowned for its strange non-dinosaur Archosauromorphs the Tanystropheus is certainly among the strangest. Superficially similar to a plesiosaur this animal appears to have been semi-aquatic, with webbed feet instead of flippers.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Feathered Deluxe by CollectA)

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

3.6 (45 votes)

Having gorged himself on flesh and liver of hadrosaur, the sovereign rises to his full height. He raises his fiery red crest, opens his blood-streaked jaws, and bellows a warning to the landscape. He then retreats to a shady grove a short distance away.

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Review: Velociraptor (Creative Beast)

Genus: Velociraptor Brand: Creative Beast Studio Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous

3.2 (6 votes)

Review and photographs by Laura Jennings aka Droemar, edited by Plesiosauria.
Creative Beast offers a wide selection of interesting model resin kits in addition to a poseable Velociraptor and Oviraptor available in various plastics at 1/12th scale. I ordered the basic raptor, because I was enchanted with idea of being able to use it as a drawing maquette, but I also requested the Oviraptor tail and wing because they fit my personal aesthetic for how raptors should look.

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Review: Woolly Mammoth and Baby (Playmobil)

Genus: Mammuthus, Woolly mammoth Brand: Playmobil Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Action Figure, Figurine

4.7 (10 votes)

In 2011, Playmobil’s Stone Age line took its fans to the ancient world of cave people and prehistoric beasts. And just as you can’t have a dinosaur line without T. rex, you can’t have a Pleistocene megafauna line without Mammuthus primigenius, the iconic woolly mammoth.

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Review: Guidraco (Supreme Version by CollectA)

Genus: Guidraco Brand: CollectA Classification: Pterosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.9 (15 votes)

Review and photos by stargatedalek
This is my third review for the Dinosaur Toy Blog and I feel honored to be reviewing this absolute gem from CollectA for 2015! I would like to apologize beforehand about the state of the room, my regular office was in use today.

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Review: Megalodon (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Megalodon Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Fish, Shark Age: Miocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

2.2 (17 votes)

MEGALODON! The undisputed monarch of all sharks. Possibly the largest and most powerful flesh-eating animal to ever inhabit Earth’s seas. Star of cheesy novels, cheesier made-for-TV movies, and even cheesier pseudo-documentaries. And surprisingly enough, underrepresented in the world of prehistoric toys. For a long time, the proper scientific name for this animal was Carcharodon megalodon, however, it has recently been reclassified as Carcharocles megalodon.

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Review: Smilodon (Carnegie Collection by Safari ltd.)

Genus: Smilodon Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Cat, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4 (7 votes)

This is the first Smilodon review on the DTB, so I think it is only fitting that I start with the original Carnegie Smilodon. When Safari launched the Carnegie line in 1988, Smilodon was in the first group of scientific models released.

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Thanks! I surprised I reached 300 before you did, it took me a long time to catch up with you!

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Thanks! I like that name, Triggybank, it's a dinosaur of many names.

why wouldn't you recommend this to an "intellectually mature and serious collector"?

Proportional issues aside, I genuinely think this is the best-looking Guanlong on the market right now, after the Beasts of…

I just recently picked up one of these guys too. Incredible to think this is actually a first for the…

I actually got one and its a Amazing toy but Australian collectors can get it alot easier but yeah Ebay…

Great review Gwangi and well done on it being your 300th! Another name for the toy springs to mind by…

I absolutely had this bank as a child.

not at all...this schleich figure is instead the disproportionally one, the head is way to big like half the size…

Congratulations on your review total! And thank you for writing them. I find this really appealing - it reminds me…

Congrats on hitting 300! I’m presently at 297 myself.

Review: Glyptodon (Prehistoric Mammal Series by Schleich)

Review: Ornithocheirus (CollectA)

Review: Smilodon (2015 version by CollectA)

Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Jurassic Park 3: Re-Ak A-Tak by Hasbro)

Review: Daeodon (CollectA)

Review: Tanystropheus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Feathered Deluxe by CollectA)

Review: Velociraptor (Creative Beast)

Review: Woolly Mammoth and Baby (Playmobil)

Review: Guidraco (Supreme Version by CollectA)

Review: Megalodon (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Review: Smilodon (Carnegie Collection by Safari ltd.)

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