All Megatherium Reviews

Review: Megatherium (Bullyland)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Bullyland Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.6 (10 votes)

With all that new JP, sorry, JW stuff around, let’s not forget that there’s plenty of retired figures not being reviewed yet. One of these is Bullyland’s Megatherium, released in 1998 and discontinued some years back. Despite representing a quite rare animal in the toy world, it probably wasn’t sold in big numbers, at least when one compares the chances spotting this on ebay or fleamarket sites with some other Bullyland figures as Stegosaurus or Tyrannosaurus.

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Review: Megatherium (Jurassic Hunters by Geoworld)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Geoworld, Jurassic Hunters Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4 (8 votes)

Since it’s first discovery in 1788, Megatherium has garnered much attention, not just from scientists but by the general public, it’s large size and fearsome claws drawing in many. In spite of the discovery of larger creatures over the centuries, this gargantuan xenarthran still has it’s fair share of art and models dedicated to it.

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Review: Megatherium (Marolin / VEB Plaho)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Marolin Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine, Monochrome, Oldies

2.9 (7 votes)

Megatherium is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals. The last Megatherium died somewhere at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, only 10000 years ago. Even hair and feces of this 6m long giant sloth have been found in caves in South America.

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Review: Megatherium (Marx)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Marx Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine, Monochrome, Oldies

4.4 (13 votes)

Before we begin with the review, I want to ruminate on some things, because this review is significant in a couple of ways. For one, it’s my 200th review for the Dinosaur Toy Blog. I’ve known it was coming for some time now and over the course of several months deliberated over which figure should be selected for the occasion.

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Review: Megatherium (Prehistoric Life Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Prehistoric Life, Wild Safari Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.8 (13 votes)

Back in the mid-2000’s Safari Ltd. released a series of mammals for what they dubbed the “Prehistoric Life Collection.” The series included popular animals like Smilodon and the woolly mammoth but also included some more obscure creatures like the Andrewsarchus, Arsinoitherium, Ambelodon, Doedicurus, and the giant sloth.

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Review: Megatherium (Prehistoric Mammals by Schleich)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Schleich Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Figurine

4.4 (8 votes)

Review and photographs by Indohyus, edited by Suspsy
In many ways, the giant ground sloths are similar to prosauropods in that they are a familiar group, but only one member gets love in toy form. The other group of giant xenarthrans, the glyptodonts, tend get at least get two representatives, but only Megatherium gets a toy form among giant ground sloths.

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Review: Megatherium (Tyco)

Genus: Megatherium Brand: Tyco Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Action Figure

3.7 (7 votes)

Dino riders is a much cherished series by many, who eagerly looked to get all the figures of the line. The first two lines are large, full of various dinosaurs, while the latter two lines are smaller and often rarer than the first two.

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Review: Prehistoric Life Toob (Safari Ltd)

Genus: Andrewsarchus, Arsinoitherium, Doedicurus, Homo neanderthalensis, Macrauchenia, Mammuthus, Megatherium, Smilodon, Woolly mammoth Brand: Safari Ltd Classification: Cat, Elephant, Hominid, Mammal Age: Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene Type: Set, Tube

4 (10 votes)

Safari Ltd has released several new tubes in 2010, or Toobs, to be funky but grammatically incorrect, each of which contains a selection of prehistoric critters. But before we pour these new toobs out for review, let’s take a look at one of the existing toob sets.

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