Dinosaur Toy Blog

Review: Linheraptor ( Beast Of the Mesozoic: Raptor Series by Creative Beast Studio)

4.8 (48 votes)

Review and photos by Bokisaurus

Hello dinofans, and welcome to another review. Sit back, grab a coffee, and hopefully enjoy the review.

Today, the vast Mongolian desert is a desolate and harsh environment. Breathtakingly beautiful, the landscape stretches as far as the eyes can see. Red sandstone cliffs glow in the afternoon light casting ghostly shadows in the sand.Signs of ancient river beds abound, a reminder of its distant past.The eerily enchanting landscape is today devoid of any signs of large animals, it is simply too harsh.

Review: Wuerhosaurus (Vitae)

4.6 (8 votes)

Wuerhosaurus is one of those obscure names I often saw in books as a kid, but mostly just to complete an alphabet of dinosaur names. We don’t know exactly what this fragmentary stegosaur looked like, but Vitae’s model is well-detailed and adequately accurate for our current understanding.

Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Skeleton by Figure Miyage)

3.8 (4 votes)

Review and photos by Charles Peckham, edited by Suspsy

Ueno Park is a 113 acre public park in Tokyo. Similar to Balboa Park in San Diego or Central Park in New York City, Ueno Park has several museums and other attractions within its boundaries. In 2017, gashapon company Figure Miyage created a series of figures paying tribute to the eclectic features that can be seen in Ueno Park, including a figure of the Tyrannosaurus skeleton that is displayed in the National Museum of Nature and Science.

Review: Atopodentatus (Age of the Dinosaurs by PNSO)

3.7 (19 votes)

Review and photos by Ravonium, edited by Suspsy

In 2014, a group of Chinese paleontologists working in Yunnan Province discovered a near complete skeleton of Atopodentatus, a new genus (and likely, lineage) of Sauropterygia (the main group of Mesozoic marine reptiles) with an odd and somewhat creepy skull unlike that of any other known vertebrate.

Review: Brachiosaurus (ANIA/Animal Adventure by Takara Tomy)

3.9 (8 votes)

Brachiosaurus marks the fourth prehistoric animal Takara Tomy produced for their Animal Adventure (ANIA) line, following Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus. The figure is a decent – if unremarkable – depiction of the long-necked giant, which I think it’s safe to say has eclipsed Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus as the default iconic sauropod.

Review: Albertosaurus (Jurassic World, Battle Damage by Mattel)

4.2 (23 votes)

As much as we all love Tyrannosaurus rex I think even the most diehard tyrant lizard fans among us will admit it, T. rex is overdone. Even if you don’t agree, you must surely acknowledge that Rexy’s popularity comes at the expense of other large theropods, especially other tyrannosaurids.

Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Sofubi Toy Box by Kaiyodo)

4.9 (35 votes)

Review and photos by Cretaceous Crab, edited by Suspsy

As soon as I saw this figure starting to pop up on social media and online toy venues, I knew I had to have it. I mean, look at it! Released in 2018 from Kaiyodo’s Sofubi Toy Box series, this Tyrannosaurus rex comes in three different color schemes: the orange and striped version(018A) featured in this review, an olive green version(018B), and a reddish-brown version(018C).

Review: Gigantoraptor (DinoWaurs Survival)

4.4 (7 votes)

It always seems that whenever you start collecting something where you don’t know what is in the packaging, be it a blind bag, booster card pack etc., there is always a certain figure or card they are specifically looking for, such as a rarity or favourite. This review will cover the figure I was hunting for, and eventually got: Gigantoraptor, the giant oviraptor of the Gobi Desert.

Review: Elasmotherium (Deluxe by CollectA)

5 (27 votes)

Bront’s breakfast is suddenly and rudely interrupted as a large cave lion leaps from the tall grass onto his back and attempts to sink its teeth and claws into his hide. But his matted fur coat provides more than enough protection and Bront angrily bucks his attacker off.

Review: Fukuiraptor (Prehistoric World by CollectA)

4.6 (20 votes)

Japan isn’t usually the first country to come to mind when we think of dinosaurs; we all know the famous fossil bone beds and the dinosaurs they contain from western North America, China, or Argentina, but most people, even dinosaur enthusiasts, would be hard pressed to name a single Japanese dinosaur.

Review: Balaur (Beasts of the Mesozoic: Raptor Series by Creative Beast Studio)

4.8 (48 votes)

An unfortunate case of science outpacing merchandise, this highly-detailed and articulated dino-bird still has many merits.

Balaur bondoc is a good example of how quickly scientific understanding can change, as well as how risky reconstructions from partial fossil remains can be. Discovered in 2009 on Hateg Island in Romania, the “stocky dragon” was initially described as a robust dromaeosaurid with double sickle claws.

Review: Stegosaurus (2019)(Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)

4.7 (17 votes)

Review and images by Patrx, edited by Gwangi

Stegosaurus is one of those prehistoric creatures that just seems to have always been there, in the public consciousness. However, like most other dinosaurs, its known remains are never complete enough to assemble a reconstruction without combining several skeletons and trying to adjust them to suit one another.

Review: Carnotaurus (CollectA Deluxe)

4.5 (30 votes)

Review and photos by Bokisaurus

Hello dinofans, and welcome to another review! I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying spring. Today we will review one of 2019’s new figure from CollectA. Enjoy.

Since making its film debut in Disney’s animated movie Dinosaur way back in 2001, Carnotaurus’s popularity have soared, in fact so much so that it is now among the most famous dinosaur of all times.

Review: Psittacosaurus (DinoWaurs Survival)

3.6 (7 votes)

The more I go into the DinoWaurs Survival line, the more I love the diversity of it. It’s not just the giants and often repeated species like Tyrannosaurus, but everything from Permian synapsids to plesiosaurs. Another thing I like is that they give the smaller species a chance to shine, such as today’s subject: Psittacosaurus, a genus so common that it is used as a bio marker in stratigraphy.

Review: Woolly Mammoth (Favorite Co. Ltd.)

4.4 (12 votes)

Review and images by PhilSauria, edited by Suspsy

There can’t be that many of the major brands producing prehistoric animals in plastic that don’t have a woolly mammoth in their range, and the subject of this review is Favorite’s contribution to the herd (This is my third mammoth review here – coincidence or type casting or maybe I just have a lot of mammoths?).

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