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Tuojiangosaurus (Jurassic World Epic Evolution, Strike Attack by Mattel)
…es the Shaximiao Formation, a middle to late Jurassic formation located in China. They’ve released many dinosaurs known from the Shaximiao, including Chialingosaurus, Gigantspinosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Gasosaurus, and Yangchuanosaurus. Today we’re looking at their latest addition to this assortment, the Tuojiangosaurus, part of Mattel’s Epic Evolution line. The Mattel Tuojiangosaurus is a Strike Attack toy, meaning it’s one of their smaller toys….
Nothosaurus (Schleich)
…Triassic, and is found across the globe, from North America to Europe and China. It may have led to latter marine reptiles like plesiosaurs, or at least it’s group, the nothosaurs, may have. There are a small number of models of this animal, and this one by Schleich is the biggest yet, at 8.7″ long and 3.5″ wide. Let’s see how they did! L: Let’s start with the positives (which won’t take long). The patterns on the body are done nicely, perhaps no…
Chialingosaurus (Jurassic World Dino-Escape, Fierce Force by Mattel)
…ialingosaurus kuani was a stegosaurian that lived 160 million years ago in China. It is one of the oldest species of stegosaurs known and would have resembled Kentrosaurus in appearance. You would be forgiven for having never heard of it, not many have. It is an obscure dinosaur known only from fragmentary remains and its inclusion in the Mattel Jurassic World toy line has me wondering if Mattel sometimes chooses their dinosaurs by picking names f…
Megalosaurus (2021)(CollectA)
…one knows when precisely humans first discovered the fossilized remains of dinosaurs. Indigenous North Americans probably came across them in places now called Alberta or South Dakota or Utah. In China, “dragon bones” were recorded as being discovered all the way back during the Western Jin Dynasty between 265 and 316 AD. And for all we know, Neanderthals were occasionally stumbling across dinosaur fossils in Eurasia more than 100,000 years ago. B…
Triceratops (Tomy)
…bulk out my collection, I came across this toy Triceratops in a big box of dinosaurs I bought off of eBay. Although it is clearly a Cheaposaur I found it unique enough to hang on to and investigate further. The only markings on this thing say “Made in China” but there is some other lettering that is indecipherable from years of play. I’ve asked around the Dinosaur Toy Forum on a few occasions with no successful leads. I’ve browsed the other dinosa…
Brachiosaurus (DINOS! Mega-Mesozoic Fun)
…ario. I haven’t determined the actual manufacturer, but it originates from China like so many other dinosaur toys. According to the tag that came attached to it, the line is called DINOS! Mega-Mesozoic Fun, and it consists of both large dinosaurs made of foam-filled, rubberized plastic like this one and smaller, hard plastic ones that are clearly bootlegged from Papo and Schleich products. The first thing to note about this sauropod is that it is…
Sinotyrannus (Jurassic World: Gigantic Trackers by Mattel)
…rus, Daspletosaurus, and Gorgosaurus. Like Yutyrannus, it was a denizen of China during the Early Cretaceous and was likely the apex predator of its time, preying on smaller herbivores like the ankylosaur Chuanqilong and the ceratopsian Psittacosaurus. And like so many other very cool but not very famous dinosaurs, it has not received a toy from CollectA or Safari Ltd. or even PNSO (yet), but it did get one from Mattel earlier this year. The 2023…