Review and photos by PrehistoryResurrection, edited by Suspsy
Today we will be taking a look at a new Jurassic World line which I believe has not yet been covered on the blog, as well as a new type of figure, which is an articulated stop motion type.
Described in 1979 by Jack Horner (and Robert Makela), the “good mother lizard” and its communal nesting sites in Montana were discovered just in time to corroborate the notion that dinosaurs were active, warm blooded, bird-like animals, that invested time in rearing their offspring.
The mating season has come around once again. The bees are buzzing, the birds are chirping, and Clock is positively champing at the bit. For days, he roamed the bluffs in a fruitless search for a female. He failed to mate at all last season and his increasing desperation has now driven him to descend deep into the forest.
Dawn breaks across the Egyptian marsh. Rays of sunlight begin piercing the treeline, and Ramses stirs as the warmth of the rays tickle the arch of his sail, working their way down his flanks. His six-foot long, toothy jaws open wide in a yawn, and he begins stretching his muscles, readying his body for a new day of activity.
The metriorhynchid Torvoneustes swam the savage seas during the Late Jurassic period around 145 million years ago. It was about 4.7 metres long, the same length as a very large American alligator and would have been a deadly predator of cephalopods, fish, and other marine reptiles—although like most other metriorhynchids, it would have in turn fallen victim to bigger pliosaurs.
A new Jurassic World film is on the horizon and with it we’re getting a fresh clutch of Captivz eggs from ToyMonster. Well, sort of. There are 13 figures in total with 6 of them being repaints of previously released figures and 3 of them being slightly different sculpts of dinosaurs we’ve seen before.
Make way for these heavyweights!
Yes, it’s a pair of Shantungosaurus, the biggest non-sauropod dinosaurs known to science. Haolonggood is really on a roll!
And as you can see, these are BIG toys.
Hope you’ve got room on the shelf!
For this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Mattel is releasing the Tyrannosaurus rex Convention Crasher set. The outer box is styled to look like an old television set, broadcasting a familiar breaking story.
The inner box is styled to look like a convention centre, with frightened attendees streaming out the exit.
Every Mattel Jurassic World Tyrannosaurus I’ve bought since 2018 was supposed to be the last one but when the company keeps releasing new and improved versions of one of your favorite pop culture dinosaur designs, it’s hard to resist. I now have 7 Mattel Tyrannosaurus toys but to be fair, that’s only a fraction of the number that Mattel has made.
While still relatively obscure when compared to the likes of Dimetrodon, which is arguably the most famous Permian period animal by far, Scutosaurus has had a fair bit of attention to bring it into the limelight, which is still more then most animals from the Permian period.
The very first illustration of Hypsilophodon that I ever laid eyes on depicted it as a very lizard-like animal perched high on a tree branch, an erroneous notion that arose back in 1912 and persisted until 1971 when it was finally debunked—although that didn’t stop children’s dinosaur books from continuing to portray Hypsilophodon as arboreal until well into the 1980s.
Torosaurus is a huge and awesome ceratopsid and this pair from Haolonggood do a great job reflecting that.
I reckon I’m going with the red version myself.
