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Dinosaur Bath Buddies (Little Hero)
…joys taking his bath with the Classic Big Four: Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus rex. These Bath Buddies, as they’re called, are made by a company called Little Hero. They are made of soft, rubbery plastic and each feature a tiny hole at the front of the mouth for water-squirting purposes. These being baby toys, I’m really not going to dwell much on scientific accuracy in this review. First up is Brontosaurus. This iconic…
Ankylosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)
4.6 (34 votes) With the 2017 Tyrannosaurus and 2018 Triceratops, Safari Ltd has made a good start on reconstructing a 1:35 version of the Hell Creek formation of the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) of Laramidia. To help round out the Hell Creek fauna, they’ve just released a new, updated Ankylosaurus, another giant contemporary of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. Let’s take a look! Like the other Hell Creek animals, this Ankylosaurus was sculpted…
Diabloceratops (Collecta)
…rosaurine – more reminiscent of the much later, larger chasmosaurines like Triceratops – but of course, it could have had a ridiculously tiny nub for all we know. The scaly skin is pleasing enough, without being quite as convincing, somehow, as Safari’s efforts – nevertheless, such fine detailing is always commendable. While it doesn’t quite make me want to declare its unexpected greatness through a megaphone in the midst of a crowded shopping str…
Einiosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
…rs but has never really caught on in popularity. Although not as iconic as Triceratops, or as flashy as Styracosaurus, the Einiosaurus has to be among the most bizarre looking ceratopsians. Imagine something like Centrosaurus, except with a bottle opener on its head instead of a spiky tyrannosaur deterrent. Indeed, the curved horn of Einiosaurus makes a strong case for the hypothesis that these head ornamentations were not primarily used for defen…
Tyrannosaurus rex (2016)(Museum Line by Bullyland)
…n 2016 for Bullyland’s Museum Line, and this year they will be joined by a Triceratops and an Archaeopteryx. One thing I have noticed people complaining about is that it seems like Bullyland is regressing when it comes to the accuracy of their models, but honestly, I’m not too familiar with the line to determine if this is true or not. What I will say is that this T. rex is definitely not a masterpiece. From nose to tail tip, the T. rex measures a…
Amargasaurus (HG Prize by Sega)
…ry expensive to acquire. There are four figures known from this prize set: Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus(with two versions), Stegosaurus, and Amargasaurus. Each of these figures got multiple paint variants. T. rex leads the pack with five known paint variants, followed by Triceratops with four. Stegosaurus joins Amargasaurus with having only one known paint variant. As mentioned before, these SEGA prize figures are huge, so they do take up a lot of d…
Stegosaurus (Walking With Dinosaurs by Toyway)
…y lines when three species must be immortalized in plastic: Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus, them being the most popular and well-known dinosaur species. With the exception of Triceratops, the Walking With Dinosaurs line is much the same, and I will be talking about one of these in this review: the Jurassic giant, Stegosaurus. As an introduction to the species is most likely unnecessary due to the enormous fame of this animal, we’ll go…
Tyrannosaurus rex (Corpse by CollectA)
…who always ended up with a full belly after successfully hunting down poor Triceratops and other helpless plant eaters. In my young mind, it was hard to imagine the mighty T. rex on the other end of each fight or hunt: the loser or even the prey. Mr. T is always the champion. Of course, this is not how nature works. Truth is, even the biggest, most powerful, and most fearsome predator will eventually meet its match, and the end result is clear. De…
Bothriolepis (Kaiyodo)
…d fishes that lived all over the world while the ancestors of you, me, and Triceratops were just barely starting to crawl out of the water. Despite their abundance, they went extinct almost 300 million years before Triceratops showed up. Antiarchs don’t get made into toys very often, but Japanese manufacturer Kaiyodo made a version of the best-known genus, Bothriolepis, as part of its Dinotales line, which we’ll take a look at today. Antiarchs fir…
Styracosaurus (World of History by Schleich)
…by a variety of spikes on its frill and a long nasal horn that would make Triceratops green with envy. When it comes to toys, almost every company has made one at some point. It’s no surprise that it is usually overshadowed by Triceratops in books. Styracosaurus has also appeared in some movies, the most recent of which being Disney’s Dinosaur, which had a ripple effect on the dinosaur toy industry as a whole. The dinosaurs in the movie were for…
Apatosaurus (Papo)
…even greater tail, is the quintessential sauropod. Along with Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus rex, it is one of those iconic dinosaurs that everyone recognizes instantly. Although it was long thought to have been the same animal as Brontosaurus, a 2015 study has concluded that the two were in fact separate genera. The 2015 Papo Apatosaurus is meant to represent a juvenile. As such, its main body is slighter smaller than that of the Tri…
Pachyrhinosaurus (‘Patchi’, Walking with Dinosaurs the Movie 3D, by Vivid Toy Group Ltd)
…etaceous of North America. Slightly less iconic than some of its brethren (Triceratops, Styracosaurus), the genus surfaces only rarely in dinosaur toy form, although more so in recent years (See figures by CollectA, here, and Papo, here). With its starring role in Walking with Dinosaurs the Movie 3D, this is sure to change its popularity, as Pachyrhinosaurus becomes a household name. For example, Safari Ltd have already announced a Pachyrhinosauru…
Torosaurus (Sue at the Field Museum by Safari Ltd.)
…ne correctly which is something Safari itself would fail to do on its 2007 Triceratops and many companies continue to do wrong. Indeed the forelimbs are worth mentioning as like so many other dinosaurs the ceratopsians had some weird hand modifications that allowed them to walk as quadrupeds. Toy producers seldom take these strange characteristics into account and opt out for more elephantine limbs in their dinosaurs but this Torosaurus even in it…
Styracosaurus (Carnage Collection by ReSaurus)
…scale to one another, including old favourites Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Velociraptor (the latter, by then, a household name). But there were also some more obscure characters in the line: Giganotosaurus, Protoceratops, Deinonychus, and to be scrutinised here now, Syracosaurus. The first thing one notices upon first glance is the stunning colour scheme; the Styracosaurus sports one of the more adventurous colour palates in th…
Velociraptor (Procon/CollectA)
…’s first ever dinosaurs: Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, T. rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, and Pteranodon. They were a mixed bag in terms of quality. Of CollectA’s first six, only the Stegosaurus and Pteranodon were fairly decent in my opinion. The Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Brachiosaurus were flawed abominations that appear to have popped out of some child’s cartoon, and the Velociraptor is an obviously copy of the Jurassic Park characters, only…
Torosaurus (Collecta)
…ort tail, which is often made too long in chasmosaurine models (especially Triceratops, although obviously that’s the most common anyway). The legs are about the right length, too, although the pelvis doesn’t appear to be large enough, giving the animal rather skinny thighs – the Favorite resin Triceratops shows how it should be done. The feet are wrong, too, but then ceratopsian feet are hardly ever sculpted correctly – although it possesses the…
Tyrannosaurus (Desktop model by Favorite Co. Ltd, sculpted by Michael Trcic)
…higher in the air. It was intended as a companion piece for his “running” Triceratops kit, and the Triceratops in his Favorite line also appears to be charging in an active gallop, so it stands to reason the two should make excellent opponents in a display. Whatever the case, it seems clear these original sculptures were a strong influence on the design of the Favorite statues. Today, we might find such acrobatic displays laughable when one consi…
Torosaurus (Replica-Saurus by Schleich)
…tologist Othniel C. Marsh shortly after. The animal was closely related to Triceratops and some paleontologists, most notably Jack Horner, have even proposed that all fossil specimens attributed to Torosaurus in fact represent the adult male form of Triceratops. Size comparison of Torosaurus with a six foot man The Schleich Torosaurus was a 2000 addition to the Replica-Saurus line, and one of my personal favorites. This figure is 7.5 inches long a…
Tyrannosaurus (World’s Fair Mold-A-Rama model by Sinclair)
…d of. The complete set included a must-have Tyrannosaurus, a must-have-too Triceratops, a Corythosaurus, a “Trachodon”, an Ankylosaurus, a “Brontosaurus”, a Struthiomimus and also of course the good old Stegosaurus. The exposition toured through the States during the next few years and, simultaneously entertaining and educational, it was another direct precedent for ‘Jurassic Park’ in terms of the succes of ‘dinomania’. Photo by flickstadt (from F…
Anchiceratops (Kaiyodo Dinoland Natural History)
…ies. In fact it could be considered one of those classic ceratopsians like Triceratops, Styracosaurs, Centrosaurous, and Chasmosaurous that were once more well known in earlier decades. But unlike the others that still maintain some level of popularity today, poor Anchiceratops seems to have vanished from the spotlight. In the toy world, its presence barely register with only a few figure ever being made, one of them is this figure we are reviewin…