Mojo Fun has revealed a new prehistoric toy for next year: the Middle Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus.
Despite having appeared in the BBC Walking With Dinosaurs series back in 1999, Cryptoclidus has never gotten a toy from any of the major companies until now.
The latest reveal for the Jurassic World Hammond Collection is not a dinosaur and has not yet made an appearance in a movie or a TV series, but it is most definitely welcome: Scutosaurus.
Looks fabulous!
Many of us will recall the old days when the term “prosauropods” was used to describe the likes of Plateosaurus, Massospondylus, Melanorosaurus, and other early long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs thought to be the ancestors of the great sauropods like Brachiosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Diplodocus.
CollectA’s first two reveals for next year are most exciting indeed! Feast your eyes on the very first toy of Furcatoceratops!
And look, no more filaments on the hindquarters! This ceratopsian will be part of the Popular series.
And here’s the Deluxe 1:20 scale Jaekelopterus, biggest of all known arthropods!
First off, sorry for the image quality, I’ll replace them as soon as better ones become available, but wowsa! Mattel sure has some rare and unusual genera in store for us next year!
Hypsilophodon. Been a very long time since this little herbivore got a toy.
Collectors of extant animals are no doubt familiar with Yowie Group, who have been producing animal figurines for U.S. markets since 2014 and for Australia since 2017. Yowie Group is a relaunch of Cadbury Yowie, which produced toy animals and chocolate in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, before Cadbury and Yowie parted ways.
The entries are listed on the forum, and as always, there’s some real gems! Voting for your top three is open until November 10. Best of luck to all contestants!
Vintage diorama by Jay Matternes, made for the Smithsonian.
I have a doozy for you today, a remarkable figure of C. corallestris, a semi-aquatic species of Compsognathus with fin-like hands. At least, that’s what palaeontologists thought when they described the type specimen in 1972. The interpretation didn’t last long though.
Here’s yet another addition to the popular Hammond Collection: the “Ghost” Atrociraptor.
And here’s the Roar Command Tyrannosaurus rex. According to the packaging, you’ll be able to record your own roaring sounds and then have the toy play it back.
Heil, Frederik the Lokiceratops! This is the very first toy of the species, which was only announced to the world back in the summer of this year. The Norse god of mischief would be amused by that fantastic frill!
Rauisuchus is a genus of pseudosuchian that lived in the late Triassic of what is now Brazil. It is also the latest pseudosuchian and Triassic taxa offered from Mattel, who has miraculously produced more of these animals than any other toy company I can think of.
Sometimes in our clamour for the most spectacular, expensive, hot new dinosaur figures, we can forget there’s still plenty of joy to be found in plain, cheap, cool old dinosaur figures. And you can’t get cheaper than free! The German Margarinefiguren, or Margarine Figures, by Wagner, came free with packets of ‘butter’ (and maybe other products, I don’t know) in the 1950s.
