The Dinosaur Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2025 sponsored by Happy Hen Toys is now open!
It’s time to get creative again and begin planning and building your ‘dinoramas’ for the latest contest! And thanks to the fantastic folks at Happy Hen Toys we’re delighted to announce there are generous prizes this year.
We’ve already posted about the upcoming 1/18 scale Stegosaurus, Andrewsarchus, and Smilodon for Creative Beast Studio’s Beasts of the Mesozoic and Beasts of the Cenozoic lines. Now let’s check out even more exciting new poseable figures that will be coming out this summer.
Furcatoceratops is a recently discovered centrosaurine ceratopsid from Montana’s Judith River Formation. The holotype specimen is an 80% complete subadult that includes much of the skull, both the left front and hind legs, parts of the pelvis, and a good many vertebrae and ribs.
PNSO’s first toy for the year is Judith the Spiclypeus, a chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation in Montana (heh).
The blue and orange on her head go well together. Quite a sharp beak there too.
Perhaps the most surprising addition to the Hammond Collection so far, today we’re looking at the Scutosaurus. Scutosaurus has never appeared in any Jurassic media aside from the Jurassic World: Alive augmented reality game but the Permian pareiasaur has popped up repeatedly in Jurassic franchise toy lines.
More Jurassic World: Rebirth toys have been revealed. First is the Launch n’ Battle Vehicle with Velociraptor set.
Micro Adventure Playsets, reminiscent of Mighty Max. Surely I’m not the only one here who fondly remembers those?
Tyrannosaurus rex.
Out of all the exciting releases unveiled by Haolonggood in 2023, there were few I anticipated more than the nodosaur Edmontonia, which began arriving to vendors in June. Named after the Edmonton (Horseshoe Canyon) Formation in Canada where the type species was discovered, Edmontonia isn’t one of the most famous dinosaurs, nor even necessarily one of my own favorites; yet it’s known from enough substantial fossil remains to make common appearances in dinosaur literature growing up (especially in Dorling Kindersley publications, featuring the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s life model).
While the merchandise accompanying the release of the various Jurassic Park films ranged between everything from watches to bed-sheets, the most exciting items for me were of course the dinosaur figures. So I was happy to find this cool little Velociraptor figure with a big The Lost World logo on the packaging at a Copenhagen dinosaur exhibition back in 1998, only to find when I opened it that it was… A rubber pencil eraser?!
Check out this whopper of a set!
With 3145 pieces, it edges out T. rex Rampage as the biggest Jurassic-themed LEGO set. Like previous brick-built skeletons, it is poseable, although it looks like you may have to be careful to avoid pieces coming off.
Before we begin the review, I would like to extend my gratitude towards Happy Hen Toys for sending this figure along as a review sample. Check out their large selection of animal and dinosaur figures by clicking the banner below.
Xenoceratops is a genus of centrosaurine discovered in the Foremost Formation in Alberta, Canada, and that lived during the late Cretaceous.
In these days when dinosaur toys only get more and more hyperrealistic, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when they could be inaccurate not just by following outdated science, but also due to complete disregard for any kind of scientific considerations.
Before I start this review, I would like to thank our generous friends at Happy Hen Toys for providing this review sample. Of all of Haolonggood’s 2024 releases, this is the one I was most excited for, so I am honored to have been able to receive it as a gift.
