>What's New?-Mattel showed off a new wave of Hammond Collection dinosaurs, but weirdly, Scorpius is the only one that's gone up for preorder anywhere, and even weirder, it's only been on Walmart's site instead of Target getting first dibs like it usually does. The Wave includes Scorpisu, Indominus, Mutodon, the JWR Dilophosaurus, Hypsilophodon, and a life-size Delores.- Nanmu Spinosaurs should be shipping soon followed not long after by their nile crocodile. Their Allosaurus only recently went up for preorder so don't expect it until October. After that their Jurassic World Rebirth Tyrannosaurus is expected to go up for pre-order. -Creative Beast Studio is shipping out their most recent wave of Beasts of the Mesozoic figures, with the wave of Cyberzoic figures expected to ship next month. They are taking preorders for their new wave of BotM/BotC figures, which should ship this summer. The wave includes the Woolly Rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis), Spicomellus, Moeritherium, Kentrasaurus, Kelenken, the Dire Wolf (Aenocyon), Ceratosaurus, and Acrocanthosaurus as the first giant theropod since the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Speaking of the Rex, the T. rex 2.0 is expected to go up for pre-order when the Acro Wave ships and is hinted to include a Trike 2.0 and the long-awaited juvenile Trikes; no other species have been confirmed with that wave.previous thread >>11724781
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>>11750659Has anyone made a titanboa yet?
>>11750718Rebor did one a while back
>>11750659Forgot to bring up the Blockees 1/35, 1/64, and nonstandard scale lines
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Dinosaurs are cool
Got home and started taking some pictures, and formed some more solid thoughts on these guys. >PachyThis was the only pic I could think of that looked interesting for Pachy. Pachy looks great but I'm struggling to find nice poses for the bonk boy. Ankles are still shit even this far out after the soak, so I guess they're just like that now. Basically can't get any standing poses out of him without the stand, or leaning him back. But the stand is really loose too for some reason? Only BotM where the stand didn't feel sturdy as fuck. I still like it, but I wish it felt as good to handle as it looked. Unrelated but good god was it a bitch to get this pose to stay long enough to take a picture
>>11751470And already fucked it up. Goddamn it.
>>11751473>SmilodonIt's nice, but I keep catching myself wishing it featured a few things that it simply doesn't. It is so tantalizingly close to being able to do a lazy cat flopped over pose, but the shape of its body always keeps it from laying down quite right. I keep finding myself wishing it could do the shoulder thing. You know the thing, every cat does it. Also, its legs do not have a lot of in/out positioning, though I am wondering how much of that is just that I got the 1/18 instead of the 1/12.
>>11751479Remember to keep your cats indoors, anon, or you are the problem.
>>11751480>GorgoLove this fella like you wouldn't believe. You can certainly tell that it's missing some of the newer engineering with how the ankles work, though. Compared to my Allo, this guy is extremely limited. And his ankles were already loose out the box. Then I popped one of them off. Once. Now its ankle is feels like it's barely even connected. But it LOOKS so good, man, every flaw hurts because it's otherwise so damned good.If not for the flaws, it would absolutely be my new favorite. Also, maybe it's the forward-facing eyes, maybe it's the mouth-shape,or maybe it's some other third thing, but this thing's face just has so much more personality than the Allo's does.
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>>11751498Nice to finally have some stuff in scale with eachother that actually coexisted. And now I need to go watch Prehistoric Beast again.
>>11751500The large fellows.
>>11751629And he's giving him a cozy back-scratch. They're such good friends!I heard they're doing acupuncture next.
>>11751479Smilodon seems a little small for S. populator.
>>11751658Probably just the angle of the picture, took another quick pic and used yours as a reference and it seems a slightly oversized, actually. Which seems to be a general theme for CBs figures, from what I've seen. The Achillobator is bigger than most estimates of even Utahraptor's top size, for instance. They seem to lean towards slightly oversized or at least 'theoretical max" Worth saying after a lazy measurement, the height of the human figure at 1/18 translates to a flat 6 feet tall.
>>11751670To be fair the Achillobator reuses a lot of Utahraptor parts
>>11751671True enough, though they could have artificially scaled it down with a shorter tail. I don't have enough of them to compare, but it seems like that's something they do with some of the earlier members of the raptor line and the small members of the tyrannosaur line.
For fun, let's say you have the power to implement exactly one (1) JW Evolution exclusive dino/design to the Hammond Collection, which one do you choose?
>>11751479>though I am wondering how much of that is just that I got the 1/18 instead of the 1/12.The 1/12 has the same issues. The elbow joints are super limiting, and the shoulders don't have the range they should have to pull off the sort of grappling techniques that S. populator would have been capable of.
I'm enjoying the Andrewsarchus.
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>>11751860why does the Stego looks like he's too high to care?
>>11751861An armored throat means the attack is mostly a nuisance
>>11751861>ayyy man, haha, you gotta try these leaves man...
>>11751860What's that wolf in the background?
>>11751807Utahraptor would probably be the most popular choice. However one i would like personally is the Albertosaurus but as long as it has this coloration from the first game.Spinoraptor would be cool too
>>11751332>Opinions on HC baby Triceratops?Adorable, I'm glad I have one, wish I had a few to make a family.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there any brand currently making decent quality dino figures that aren't "scientifically accurate" designs catering to the paleo community? Ideally it'd be something in the same vein as the "Dinosaurs Attack!" trading cards, with the old school conception of dinosaurs as "terror lizards," etc.. I'm just nostalgic for the Madeinchinasaurs I had as a kid, I guess.
>>11751332>Opinions on HC baby Triceratops?It's a cute little toy. I kind of wish I had grabbed two more.>>11751807Easily Yutyrannus. The JWE 2 Yu is the best looking Yu and I love it so much.>>11752089That's the hasbro timber wolf from one of their GI Joe sets. It's 1/12, but it's a great little figure. Their animals are all pretty solid.>>11752128Hasbro is doing a Deinonychus in a GI Joe 2 pack with a Cobra scientist so that might be something you are interested in.
>>11752216honestly who would win?
What's a good, inexpensive Dino ($15 ideally, or less) that articulates some, but I don't really need anything - it's just a background prop for a Spider-Man, or other figures, to sit on top like PICREL or to fight.
>>11752304If they were all at their realistic maximum sizes... hard to say. Andrewsarchus could probably obliterate the bones of the other carnivores if it can get a hold of them, but a polar bear probably weighs about the same and while it's bite isnt anywhere near as powerful, it has the ability to grapple which Andrewsarchus can't do because of its ungulate feet. Smilodon is probably 400 kilos lighter than either the Andrewsarchus or the polar bear so despite being a grappler and a megafaunal specialist, I dont think it stands a chance in a free for all without its pack. The Timber wolf is in an even worse position a good swipe from the Smilodon or polar bear will gut it and a bite from the andrewsarchus will be instantly fatal. The juvenile Trike probably still has the mass to deliver a lethal hit with its horns, but all of the predators hunt horned/antlered animals so they'd be intelligent enough to avoid being gored. In the end I'm probably gonna go with the polar bear, but it just takes one good bite from the Andrewsarchus for things to go a different direction
Came to a realization earlier today. My first two larger BotM figures are>Blue>Dark colors and Red highlightsAnd so I lazily threw together a dumb shitpost that mildly amused me.
>>11752307I don't think there are any dinosaurs that big for only $15
>>11752402kek
>>11752307You could try some of the mainline mattel stuff, but that Allosaurus was $35 so wanting something like it for $15 probably isnt feasable without going to like a second hand store
>>11752736Thanks for replying.Not even at Ross or Burlington? I'm pretty sure I walked by some Jurassic World toys just because I don't collect them (and my nieces and nephews had other interests) before the holidays but I do find some now, when I go look, just smaller sized than I remember. The kind that sell for about $5-10 at Target. >>11753047Thanks. I guess I should try thrift stores since it's also nothing urgent. I bought the 9" Yeti and a 12" (hard plastic) Godzilla that work as background for under $10/$20, so I just hate paying that much more for something I won't keep up on continuous display.
I've finished Jurassic park and The Lost World and while I enjoyed both books I have to ask why does Mister Crichton hate Stegosauri so much? No other animal got insulted this much in the books.
>>11753735Stegosaurus was seen as "the retarded one" back then because of its small head
>>11753608top right makes me want this figure. Such a cool pose that other toys can't pull off I almost bought this but decided I'd just find it on the aftermarket
>>11753819It's probably my favorite articulated dinosaur ever. They Indominus was kind of annoying to pose but the T. rex is great
>>11753977I love these two
>>11753856*their Fuck
>>11753978I kind of wish the Stegosaurus was a little smaller. Don't get me wrong, it looks fucking awesome, but it doesn't seem like a fair fight when put against the Allosaurus.
>>11754069I get why they went with Apex... but I really do wish they'd just made it the size of the average Stenops. I get that making it the big makes it easier to swap out the plates to sell it as Ungulatus since they dont have to change anything else about the sculpt, but Apex is twice the size of the average stenops. At this size the 1/35 scale stego will be usable as an average specimen of Stegosaurus stenops.
>>11751396>>11751401>>11751403when do these come out
>>11754069Just yet another braindead monkey paw decision by creative beast
>>11752736This one is probably also not big enough? It's currently $17 free shipped on EBAY - and yes, I realize it's Fischer Price, I do like the color however again it's background fodder for one display/photos
>>11754375These are $22 free shipped but I wish it wasn't so dark and would probably put some kinda wash on it - maybe some blue highlights or something?And the Ross near me had one as big as this Mattel but they fucking wanted $29 for it, from a supposed $59 MSRP.
>>11754356It's not braindead at all, it means that they dont have to pay to do tooling to make the sculpt larger and more detailed when they do ungulatus since they'll be able to reuse everything except the plates just like how they reused everything on Allosaurus jimmadseni for fragilis except the head, even though fragilis is generally larger than jimmadseni.Apex might be the only stenops of that size we know so far, but it's unlikely to have been the only 7 ton stenops to have ever existed so it's not as if CB was making shit up, it was just doing what's cost effective.
>>11754383Who's the Turok looking guy?
>>11754404The new Hiya G.I. Joe Spirit Iron-Knife. Probably one of their best figures yet for the line, now that they fixed the neck and made the hair a softer plastic so it doesnt obstruct head movement. They are annoying to get because Hasbro doesnt allow them to be sold in the US so you have to get them through chinese stores for a mark-up.https://gundamit.com/hiya-toys-1-18-exquisite-mini-series-g-i-joe-spirit-iron-knife_p4829.html
My Dilophosaurus has arrived and after just unpacking it I have mixed feelings. I can only compare it to the hammond collection (and schleich, but what sense would that make?)>1. Boxlooks better and unpacking it is smoother than the hammond ones>2. SmellThere is a really strong plastic smell after unpacking it, HC Allosaurus and Stegosaurus got that too but not as strong and it was gone way faster. Which is wierd considering both are a lot bigger than the Dilophosaurus>3. figureFeels fantastic, paint job is perfection, I think there is not s single mistake made, which is a first for me with toys in general. You can really see the price difference here.>4. articulationIt's insane how a few more joints give that much more possibilities with poses, 3 vs 2 neck joints should not be that big of a difference.>5 jointsMost joints work well but I got a quite loose ankle and tight as fuck knees, so in that regard it's on the same level as HC figures.
>>11754383crocodile
>>11754532But the thing that keeps me from really enjoying it is that his damn jaw isn't straight. It does look like his right jawpin isn't fully in the socket but even when I squeez it together it doesn't get straight. I now closed it's mouth as tight as possible and it's straight, I hope it will fix itself when I leave it like this for a few days.
>>11754421thank you for your detailed answers. Also they do really look like a family. Their facial expression are matching.
>>11754532>>11754552That looks good except towards the back where the clear separation for the articulation is as obvious as it is on the diaper on a McFart or the weirdness going on in the crotch (or worse, upper thigh cut) of the newest reissue (or whatever it was) Mafex Spidey.
>>11754544She's another Hiya G.I. Joe figure. A little small for a 1/18 crocodile, but she's a solid figure.>>11754555Yeah, so long as you ignore the feet, the HC stegos make good companions to BotM Steg
>>11754552Have you tried using a hair dryer or boiling?
>>11754137no one knows. They haven't been approved by Universal yet, and we've only scene unpainted prototypes so far for the 1/35 and 1/64 lines.
>>11755125Oh yeah... that happened Hasbro has never recovered their mojo
>>11754748no, I don't have a hair dryer and I'm scared of putting my, expensive, plastic dino in boiling water.
>>11755225You can get a hair dryer off Amazon for $15, and if you're gonna continue buying creative beast shit you're gonna need it.
>>11755290>and if you're gonna continue buying creative beast shit you're gonna need it.So even in this price range I can't expect a flawless toy? That's silly.
>>11755316The real pill to swallow is that they're often worse. The high prices are partially because they're made by a small company in numbers significantly lower than mainstream. Something like a hammond collection figure may have flaws, but one thing you can guarantee is that 99.99% of those figures will be identical and function as they're supposed to. You said your Dilo had great paint, but Creative Beast dinos have had notoriously inconsistent, often downright bad paint jobs throughout the line. Joints are often stuck, or in many cases poorly engineered so they don't often much motion at all despite technically being super articulated. It might sound like I'm being overly negative but even now brand new figures they have coming out are chock full of issues, and for every one perfect release they have there's ten or so with a lot of issues. The good news is they've been improving over the years, so you're coming in at a decent time. I'd recommend asking around for what people largely consider the best releases, and always waiting for figures to actually be released and checking out reviews before buying.
>>11755225Microwave water and then put the offending joint in for 30 seconds.>>11755316Are you serious? You have to hit Hiya figures, SH Monsterarts digures, and Mythic legions figures with hot air or hot water to free up the joints this is standard for most high end figures.
>>11755225I'm the one who asked you originally. Personally, I prefer to use a hair dryer. I don't boil. I've heated plenty of figures, you're not going to damage them. It softens the plastic after being under the heat for 20-30 secs. You should be all good imo.
>>11755316CB figures can have a number of issues, but needing to heat up your expensive figure to losen the joints can hardly be considered a fault of their own. It's a borderline ubiquitous fact about most expensive toylines and even some not so expensive ones that you need to heat up their joint to be able to free them up to move better. Many even require the adddition of silicon shock oil to truely get them free. My SHMA Destroyah is $45 more expensive than my stegosaurus and my Super7 Destroyah was $100 cheaper than my stegosaurus, but they both required being nuked with the hair drier to free up their joints and a little bit of shock oil to make sure they stayed free. My nanmu Tyrannosaur was good, but the carnotaurus was practicaly frozen solid. These are all just things you have to deal with when you get figures shipped from asia and the containers they are in swing wildly in tempurature.
>>11755543>silicon shock oilEnjoy your cracked joints. Use silicon grease instead.
>>11754552Try emailing David. He might send a replacement head if he has any spares.>>11755411>this is standard for most high end figuresIncorrect. It's standard for NECA and their ilk, but actual high end toys are either engineered to have proper tolerances out of the box or already have their joints lubed up at the factory. Needing to heat up a high end toy is an aberration, not the norm.>Hiya>Mythic Legions>high endkek
>>11755722I've never had any issues with shock oil eating away at plastic and causing cracks.
>>11756142Some plastics are more susceptible than others, but oil always has a chemical reaction with plastic. Even the shock oils that advertise themselves as 100% silicon, aren't. Grease is more annoying to apply since it's far less viscous, but it is completely safe.
>>11756153>>11755543Didn't look at this picture until now. That is the exact brand of shock oil that shattered my Hobby Base joints.
>>11755290You can find working hair dryers at thrift stores for like $4-5....
>>11755125>>11755125I unironically loved pic related because it's so ugly that I had no reservations about playing with it super roughly, which made for fun I hadn't had since I was a kid. Still have it stored somewhere.
>>11755125>>11756633I have the green T. rex because i find ugly toys kind of cute (i also have the Papo Protoceratops for the same reason).Also the coloration and the open wound makes it look like a zombie T. rex which is pretty cool.
>>11756633Same for me and the McDonald’s colored Allosaurus.
>>11754756thank you sir
I'm still disappointed that even the lower end Mattel Jurassic World toys on clearance sell out quickly.
>>11759210It's already consistently one of the cheapest lines out there, especially with the constant and massive amount of new molds.
I like these guys
>>11759224These were at Ross while I was in a different county for something else, and Google Maps showed me four different Ross' with three miles of the Walmart I wanted to check out. I am hunting for a specific hasbro figure that's been popping up at Ross but also want a dinosaur big enough to stand a 6" inch Spider-Man on top. I think these are the just reboxed of the $24-$29 figures at Walmart and Target? Because I can't find this packaging on Amazon or BBTS. They were $12.99. I returned the green one because the ruffle would limit where I could stand Spidey and I took the TRex home but will probably put a red wash on him. I was actually hoping for a Fisher Price since those would be brighter and more fake looking.
There's also this option
>>11758301Has there ever been a pterosaur toy that properly folds its wings backwards instead of sideways?
>>11761503I don't think so. It's pretty mechanically difficult to pull off. If someone ever does pterosaurs with properly folded wings, the wings will probably be an alternate set that you swap out, like what Hiya is doing with the male Muto
>>11761503The Kenner TLW pteranodon.
>>11761503The SHMonsterarts Singular Point Rodan sort of does that
Gundamnit sent me my payment request for the Nanmu Spinosaurus!
>>11762328how big is he compared to the HC one? Once you got him can you put him on a slide and take a picture?
>>11762341The Nanmu is supposed to be 16.54L x 5.11H inches, while the HC is 25L x 11H inches, but I'll post pictures comparing them when the Nanmu arrives.
I didn't realize that Scorpius would be so large.
>>11759758I hope Lenny of Hasbro GI Joe team joining BFS means he'll push them to get the Dinosaucers license finally.
>>11762328It still blows my mind that Nanmu came out with an amazing Giganotosaurus design only for the actual movies to make a Giganotosaurus that's extremely inferior, and now everyone has to follow that crappy design instead. Bunch of bullshit.
>>11765152It really is a damn shame. The Nanmu design looks so good
>>11765537A Nanmu statue i would like articulated is Mordred. I think it is as stupid as it is cool
>My Nanmu Rex shippedFinally. Never POing from BBTS again.
>>11767341>spending $30 more to get a figure 4 months late.NEVER order Chinese dinosaur figures from BBTS. Doesn't matter the brand, you will be paying way more than the cost of shipping from sites like Lanatime and Gundamnit, and you will not get your figure for months. The only reason to order from BBTS is because you missed out on the preorder window on Lanatime or Gundamnit.
>>11767349yeah, it's my fault for not doing the research beforehand and assuming "well they got my SHFigurarts to me in a timely manner, clearly they'll get this to me quickly too" Didn't learn that it was a bad idea until other people started getting theirs and I started asking about it.
>>11767341She here
>>11769510Few early negatives: I have hair-dried the fuck out of her and those ankles are still scary tight. Which, granted, better than loose, but still.Speaking of, exactly one neck segment on my is also pretty loose right out of the box. In fact.Otherwise, I am seeing very few negatives. Like, maybe some wrist articulation would have been nice but that is a nothing complaint.
>>11769512>in factfailed to finish my thought there. A lot of the joints were actually surprisingly free right out of the box. Basically everything that wasn't attached to a leg. Returning to topic: >No one is to make fun of my 3-fingered freak child
>>11769513Funny enough, my BotM Deinonychus would be almost perfectly to scale with her if they were JP raptors.
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>>11769517Another of those figures that are both bigger and smaller than I was expecting it to be. Like, I was expecting its size to lean closer to my Achillobator. Couples well with my Gorgo at this size, even if it's still noticeably smaller.
>>11769519I need some unga bunga cavemen figures of some kind. Keeping my eye on that boss fight studios Conan for that role
>>11769525Overall, I adore her. Honestly, my only real sour spot with this figure is how long it took for it to get here, but that's my fault for ordering her from BBTS. Easily new favorite dino figure I own.
>>11769510Hell yeah
>>11769526cool pics anon
>>11755125So this is what would've happened to Fang if she got the Plague of Madness....actually now that I've said that I would fucking kill for a Primal toyline.
>>11769526is that the repaint of the green JP2 one?
>>11773284Yes, in JP the green rexes are male and the brown ones are female
>>11773485I thought they were all girls?
>>11773284from what I understand the two have a slightly different head-sculpt. Male has scarring around the mouth and a slightly different snout-shape, I believe? I keep seeing different people saying that this one is either it's the JP1 Rexy, or the JP2 Doe. I think its colors are more in-line with Rexy. Honestly kind of wish I'd gotten both, now. Or at least ordered the Buck from a different store while BBTS was taking a goddamned century. >>11773485Not entirely accurate. The one from Rebirth wasn't green but is confirmed to be male>>11773711Did you not watch the first movie?
>>11773727>Did you not watch the first movie?I've watched and read all the jp and jw things. But wasn't it the raptors that reproduced and I think the Maiasaura but not a t-rex.
>>11773731The entire scene in the first one where they explained that the frog DNA lets them all spontaneously change sex. It never specifies that this only applies to Raptors, the raptors are just the ones who are implied to have done it in the first movie. >wasn't it the raptors that reproduced and I think the Maiasaura but not a t-rex.JP2. The two rex parents with the baby rex. Did you think they were lesbian rexes who chose to adopt?
>>11769519Yeah, Nanmu's 1/35 scale figures are closer to 1/32 than they are 1/35. That's been an issue since before they switched from doing statues to articulated figures.>>11773284The body is a simple repaint, but the Buck has an altered headsculpt and dulap as well, though the dulap isn't as big as it should be. >>11773727>The one from Rebirth wasn't green but is confirmed to be maleEmber's more dull than the Buck, but he's a bit greener in color than Distortus.
David confirming no more upgrade kits. The Trike is getting a whole new skulpt, not just an updated head
>>11773857The frill is bigger in the new Trike
>>11773859Cyberzoic Austroraptor
>>11773860Appalachiasaurus
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>>11773866Alioramus
>>11762341Nanmu Spino finally arrived, so as promised here it is with the HC Spino
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>>11774244God the paint is so good on this guy
