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Brachiosaurus (Forange)
…ones. Following the inspiration of a lot of MOC (“my own creation”) build dinosaurs, Lego released a big brick build T. rex in 2019 as part of the JW franchise. If you liked that one, you may love this new behemoth – or not? First of all, this is no Lego, even if it looks like! Already decades ago Lego lost the patent rights to be the sole producer of the famous brick (which they did not invent in the first place by the way) but while they long t…
Wuerhosaurus (Haolonggood)
…variant but it’s really more of a purple. I chose this one because purple dinosaurs are a rarity while green dinosaurs are not and are especially common in stegosaur figures. Patterning is the same on both figures. The main body is purple with a peach-colored underside that radiates in stripes across the body. Darker purple squiggles and spots add further complexity to the figure. The plates are edged in purple with an orange center, looking some…
Stegosaurus (Boley by Gosnell)
…them. Gosnell and Boley have some decent-looking (if heavily inspired) toy dinosaurs, but Stegosaurus is ultimately a rather ugly-looking critter that comes across as exactly the cheap knockoff it is. If you happen to pick this up as part of a larger set, don’t worry about it; but on its own this toy does not come recommended. Boley’s dinosaurs can be bought through their Amazon page; Gosnell’s designs can also be found through eBay and other mark…
Microraptor (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)
…pread out globally in various museums. It’s also one of the smallest known dinosaurs, being only around the size of a crow. And with its full plumage and four wings, it would have been truly wondrous to see this unique little animal swooping through the Liaoning forests of China some 120 million years ago. A Microraptor is one of thirteen new Wild Safari toys for 2017. Appropriately, this individual has been captured in full flight with its front…
Diatryma and Phorusrhacos (Starlux)
…TF. I looked up this company and found that they had made a great array of dinosaurs as well as some very obscure and rarely depicted prehistoric animals. The overall quality in regards of accuracy, however, ranged from poor to more or less decent. Some of this could be excused by the time that the figures were made (from 1969 onwards), when technical limitations as well as outdated or unsufficient reconstructions made accurate modelling a hard jo…
Pinacosaurus (Unknown Company)
…, but it has the name Pinacosaurus stamped in all caps along with “Made in China” on its belly. Throughout this review I will be treating this model as if it’s a replica of Pinacosaurus because that is the name that was printed on it (though there are some websites that list it as an Ankylosaurus instead). Pinacosaurus was an ankylosaur that lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period, and it was a close relative of other spiky Asian dinos…
Triceratops (Mighty Megasaur by, Dragon-i / Adventure Wheels)
…not on the box, but on the tail, the product info states Dragon-i made in China. They made a series of dinosaurs under the Mighty Megasaur line, that have sounds, lights, and even movement. The original version is the same as the Walmart Adventure wheels other than the color (which is grey) and the box it comes in. About the toy: At 7.4″ (18.8cm) long and 3.2″ (8.1cm) high it seems to mimic the size of the CollectA Triceratops. The pose is rather…
Tyrannosaurus rex (Recur)
…rted in 2014, this series of prehistoric and modern animal toys is made in China by Shenzen Ankyl Toys Co., Ltd. Their modern animals range from domestic dogs and horses to sharks and whales, while their prehistoric line currently consists of over 30 beasts. First up is the flagship dinosaur itself, the immortal Tyrannosaurus rex. This is one of three different T. rex figures available from Recur, and it’s the newest, released in 2016. A fairly la…
Monolophosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
…ophosaurus which means single-crested lizard was found in 1981 in Xinjiang China. It consisted of an almost complete skeleton including the skull, lower jaws, vertebral column and pelvis. Unfortunately the rear of the tail, the shoulder girdle and the limbs were not found. Monolophosaurus lived during the Middle Jurassic aprox. 170 million years ago and it likely prowled the lakebeds and riversides of Asia. This carnivore is instantly recognizable…
Therizinosaurus (Bullyland)
3.8 (14 votes) Therizinosaurs were among the strangest dinosaurs ever, and I really like them very much. They were late Cretaceous theropods, yet herbovires, and their overall appearance is so strange and deviates from standard dinosaur scheme pretty much. Huge bellies, a beak and feathers make Therizinosaurs look like gigantic turkeys. Their lifestyle, however, probably resembled that of a panda or an also prehistoric ground sloth. Their claws i…
Dilong (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)
…gander at the Carnegie Dilong from 2005. Again. Dilong paradoxus lived in China in the Early Cretaceous, as did Caudipteryx and Beipiaosaurus (although perhaps not at exactly the same time), both of which have also subsequently made it into the Carnegie Collection. While it’s definitely a plus that this Dilong and the Beipiaosaurus are sculpted at roughly the same scale, Dilong was a somewhat more diminutive creature than Beipiaosaurus (or at lea…
Tyrannosaurus rex (Papo)
…ose. Like all Papos, it has “Papo”, the manufacturing date (2005), Made In China, and CE stampted on it somewhere (in this one on the inside of the right thigh). The Papo ‘Rex’ fits in with most of the other Papos in that it is not to scale. A close-up of the creature’s head show the bulbous bases of the lower jaw and the pyramidal ‘crests’ above the eyes, now considered by some experts to have actually existed. In my opinion, and I am no expert o…
Yangchuanosaurus and Chungkingosaurus Diorama (PNSO Scientific Art Models)
…gosaurus ( meaning Chongqing Lizard) was a late Jurassica stegosaurus from China’s Shaximiao Formation. It wasn’t the only stegosaur in the area. It shared its environment with at least two other closely related species of stegosaur and a host of other plant eaters, most notably the long necked sauropods like Mamenchisaurus. A smaller figure when compared to others from the series There are several fossil specimens assigned to this species, but al…
Microraptor with Forest Environment Accessory Pack (Beasts of the Mesozoic: Raptor Series by Creative Beast Studio)
…rrangement. It lived in what is now the Jiufotang Formation from Liaoning, China, and lived during what was the Aptian stage of the Early Creataceous period. The same formation also includes numerous other feathered theropods (including early birds), such as Confuciusornis, pterosaurs like Guidraco, other dinosaurs like Psittacosaurus, and various mammals and fish. This Microraptor has been reconstructed pretty faithfully, sporting the famous four…
Qianzhousaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
…ong tyrannosaurid lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern China. The long snout was very similar to Alioramus, however, the bones were fused, meaning this animal was an adult. Establishing the long-snouted tyrannosaurs as their own group, the alioramini, they were also widely dispersed across Asia. Safari’s 2020 Qianzhousaurus is a decent- sized figure, measuring about 9.5 inches (24 cm) long from the snout tip to tail tip. This m…
Kronosaurus (Unknown)
…urus was the most famous marine reptile. It was part of the elite group of dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals), sort of like the Mesozoic version of the Justice League. These assortments would be the core group to be featured in the 1950’s Marx set, the first real toy set to focus on prehistoric animals, This Mesozoic superhero group would feature icons: we see Tyrannosaurus rex, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Anklyosaurus, Hadrosaur (…
Tsintaosaurus (No company, exclusive to the Museum Of Natural History in Basel, Switzerland)
…model made more than 15 years ago on the occasion of a special exhibition “Dinosaurs from China”, after an example manufactured by their chief preparator. I still do not know if these models have been manufactured by Invicta, hence the strong resemblance, or another plastic factory. These plain black models did not sell well in their shop – “Those black models did not sell well in our shop – too big was the competition with the colourfully, if not…
Ruyangosaurus (Deluxe by CollectA)
…. . Ruyangosaurus giganteus was an Early Cretaceous basal titanosaur from China and one of the largest known Asian dinosaurs. Like most megalithic sauropods, it is known only from fragmentary remains, so its precise size is uncertain. The Sauropods by Asier Larramendi and Ruben Molina-Perez lists it nearly 25 metres/81 feet in length and 37.5 tons in weight, however, Molina-Perez has kindly informed me of the existence of a specimen whose descrip…
Lingwulong (PNSO)
4.4 (36 votes) Sauropods are well known group of dinosaurs for good reasons: they are the largest land animals to roam the planet and their long necks and tails make them easily recognizable. But not all sauropods are created equal, some are small and don’t have the long necks that have defined the group. The sauropod family known as dicraeosaurids , a sister group to the more familiar Diplodocidae, breaks from this typical sauropod image in many…
Agustinia (Schleich)
…rn! But now to the object of this review: Agustinia is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Period of South America. It contains the single species Agustinia ligabuei, a single specimen of which was recovered from the Lohan Cura Formation of Neuquen Province in Argentina, thought to date from the late Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous Period, between 116 and 100.5 million years ago. From above: The spines protrude…