Overview and review of the BBC original 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs series cute finger puppet toys: Torosaurus, Coelophysis, Ornitholestes, Leaellynasaura, and Allosaurus. Originally posted on Youtube 19/05/2016
Concavenator is a genus of carcharodontosaurian that hails from Spain and was described in 2010, the same year I started collecting dinosaurs! Although only known from a single specimen it’s a nearly complete and articulated one. Concavenator is immediately recognizable thanks to two tall vertebrae in front of the hips that are thought to have supported a hump.Â
Review and photographs of Proganochelys quenstedti (Vitor Silva) by stemturtle, edited by Suspsy
More than twenty years ago, I saw a wonderful reconstruction of Proganochelys at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Ever since then, I have searched for a realistic model of that species for my collection.
Four new Jurassic World Wild Roar toys are presently showing up in Central America, so it shouldn’t be long before they appear elsewhere as well.
Baryonyx has been done many times now, but it’s clearly a popular predator.
Maiasaura, however, is a welcome first for Mattel.
Ever since the demise of the Carnegie Collection, Safari Ltd. has been gradually adding genera from it to their wonderful Wild Safari line. Saltasaurus is the latest such addition. Discovered in 1975 and named in 1980 after Salta Province in Argentina, it was a relatively small titanosaurian sauropod at just 10-12 metres in length.
After weeks of speculation, we finally have Haolonggood’s second take on Tyrannosaurus rex.
Both of these colour schemes are superb.
And in terms of anatomy, these two have proper postures, big and beefy bodies, thick necks, and the correct skull profiles.
Imagine yourself for a moment in a swamp. Not just any particular swamp. There’s mangrove trees with many vines hanging off their branches, tall reeds and cattails, and a strange assortment of prehistoric fauna. There’s a herd of ginormous Paraceratherium feeding on the trees, Phiomia fleeing from ravenous Titanoboa, Baryonyx fishing, and Beelzebufo hopping around.
It has gotten to the point where I wince a little whenever Mattel announces a new giant sauropod toy. It wasn’t that long ago that the Legacy Brachiosaurus was released, and I naively thought that such an enormous toy was a one-off release.
A few days ago, the first Columbian mammoth figure was reviewed at the blog, which reminded me how much I love mammoths, so I was inspired to review my oldest mammoth toy; the Dor Mei woolly mammoth. I can’t find much info about it online, other than that it’s supposedly from 1983 and part of a line called “Galaxy Fighters Warriors”, but I have no idea what that means or if it’s even correct.
Two new Hammond Collections toys have been revealed. There’s the JP3 Spinosaurus (or does the totally new design in Rebirth now officially mean it’s a mutant?).
And here’s the Stegosaurus from The Lost World.
About 1.5 million years ago, a population of steppe mammoths (Mammuthus trogontherii) entered North America from Siberia via the Bering Strait. As they migrated south into the warmer regions of the United States and Mexico, they soon gave rise to a new mammoth species, M.
The Haolonggood Huayangosaurus was a figure originally teased on the 2024 Haolonggood announcement poster and since it’s a genus for which figures are few and far between a lot of collectors were eager to acquire one, me included. But then came the bad news, the Huayangosaurus was a bonus figure included with the Argentinosaurus pre-order.
