PNSO 2023? Updated august 28 with extant animals !

Any news for PNSO 2023 here?

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It's time to welcome Mungo the Meraxes

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Great! A Game of Thrones model!
Could it be the closest representation of a Lusovenator? A "Portuguese" Dinosaur?

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Lusovenator

Well... Lusoventor was a 3,5 meter long Portuguese dino who lived from the End of the Jurassic to the dawn of cretaceous. Meraxes was a 9 to 10 meter long Patagonian dino who lived at the end of the Cretaceous.

Ok they were both carcharodontosaurids but they weren't playing exactly in the same team

Kikimalou wrote:

Well... Lusoventor was a 3,5 meter long Portuguese dino who lived from the End of the Jurassic to the dawn of cretaceous. Meraxes was a 9 to 10 meter long Patagonian dino who lived at the end of the Cretaceous.  

Ok they were both carcharodontosaurids but they weren't playing exactly in the same team

I'm quite optimistic and partial towards those dinos of my country.
Recently, I saw a lifesized reconstruction of an Iberospinus and I started checking which Baryonyx figure could act as an Iberospinus. The PNSO Miragaia had a incurable effect on me. I was not ready to like it so much. Now I try to see Portuguese dinosaurs everywhere, I'm even avoiding my mirror.

A bit late but let me present you Mila The Mapusaurus

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Roger wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Well... Lusoventor was a 3,5 meter long Portuguese dino who lived from the End of the Jurassic to the dawn of cretaceous. Meraxes was a 9 to 10 meter long Patagonian dino who lived at the end of the Cretaceous.  

Ok they were both carcharodontosaurids but they weren't playing exactly in the same team

I'm quite optimistic and partial towards those dinos of my country.
Recently, I saw a lifesized reconstruction of an Iberospinus and I started checking which Baryonyx figure could act as an Iberospinus. The PNSO Miragaia had a incurable effect on me. I was not ready to like it so much. Now I try to see Portuguese dinosaurs everywhere, I'm even avoiding my mirror.

I looked a bit about Iberospinus and there is not a lot of bones dicovered, I guess a Baryonyx would fit

By the way I also noticed it was discovered in the Papo Seco formation

PNSO extant animals series for 2023 ? in individual boxes like that
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Antartic fur seal
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Atlantic puffin
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Bactrian camel
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Bison
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Blue whale
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Brown bear
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Chinese pangolin
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Colossal squid
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Common bottlenose dolphin
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Crabeater seal
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Fire salamander
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Manta ray
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Gray wolf
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Great whitre shark
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Hammerhead
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Horse
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Humpback whale
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Komodo dragon
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Lynx
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Mountain goat
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Narwhal
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Orca
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Pig
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Pygmy three toad sloth
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Red fox
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Sheep
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Sika deer
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Spemrwhale
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Walrus
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Whale shark
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Wow

I'm not sure I was ready for that!
All those figures are beautiful and some like the sloth look absolutely real.
There's still a beautiful fox and pangolin for my collections and loads of other fantastic models. Thanks for bringing us the paradise and I'm super curious to know more about them.

Some outstanding and some rather less so, my highlights would be the pangolin, the sloth, and the komodo dragon in that order. The cetaceans also all look nice, admittedly with a non expert eye - which makes me wonder something....

I look at that horse and think 'oh dear' - the anatomy's all seriously off, like they sculpted parts from several different reference photos of different animals in different poses then cobbled it together into one creature which in total does not accurately represent a horse.
And what I'm thinking is, perhaps I only recognise all the faults in that horse because I spend so much time around real horses, I know their anatomy and the way they bend and move. Are there equally glaring errors in other species on this page, and I'm only not spotting them cos I'm not so familiar with the animals?
Where I'm thinking 'cool dolphin, unusual pose!', is a dolphin person thinking 'but the proportions are all off, and they can't physically bend like that!'. Where I look at the Komodo Dragon and think it's a neat little sculpt with superb detail and texture, are reptile people looking at the same image thinking 'the leg joints are all wrong and the scales aren't that shape there'.
There's so much room for things to look wrong to people who know better, in major ways or in subtle details, and often I wonder if it's my own lack of knowledge which makes me judge a model as being better than it is!

Wow!! I don't have any extant animals from PNSO but some of these are really incredible! Others not so much... I really love the mountain goat, puffin, sika deer, fire salamander, pangolin, and sloth

Some really lovely and unusual models but would agree with George about the horse and not sure about the Lynx either,the hind legs look rather odd!

Does anyone know what scale they will have?

George wrote:

Some outstanding and some rather less so, my highlights would be the pangolin, the sloth, and the komodo dragon in that order. The cetaceans also all look nice, admittedly with a non expert eye - which makes me wonder something....

I look at that horse and think 'oh dear' - the anatomy's all seriously off, like they sculpted parts from several different reference photos of different animals in different poses then cobbled it together into one creature which in total does not accurately represent a horse.
And what I'm thinking is, perhaps I only recognise all the faults in that horse because I spend so much time around real horses, I know their anatomy and the way they bend and move. Are there equally glaring errors in other species on this page, and I'm only not spotting them cos I'm not so familiar with the animals?
Where I'm thinking 'cool dolphin, unusual pose!', is a dolphin person thinking 'but the proportions are all off, and they can't physically bend like that!'. Where I look at the Komodo Dragon and think it's a neat little sculpt with superb detail and texture, are reptile people looking at the same image thinking 'the leg joints are all wrong and the scales aren't that shape there'.
There's so much room for things to look wrong to people who know better, in major ways or in subtle details, and often I wonder if it's my own lack of knowledge which makes me judge a model as being better than it is!

There is evidently an effort to depict motion in the figures, which is good, although it doesn't always result in a natural look. This is too apparent in the horse.
There are other figures that don't seem very natural, notably the hind left leg of the lynx, which almost adopts an unnatural plantigrade posture for a feline, even when walking on the snow. It should have a posture more similar to that of a wolf. Perhaps it's a readjustment to help the figure balance on three legs. There are other implausible aspects, but there is a relatively good artistic quality in most of the models.

Thank you, Kiki, for sharing these pics. I am very happy that PNSO created another animal figures line, not the prehistoric monster figures only.

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There is evidently an effort to depict motion in the figures, which is good, although it doesn't always result in a natural look. This is too apparent in the horse.

PNSO has high ambitions regarding motion and unusual poses - if we remember e.g. cheetah, gazelle, giraffe or gnu from the African set, lying calf from the Zodiac set...

Wonderful animals, especially the seals. ^^

That's good news! The bison looks very nice, but the figure I would consider buying in the future is the Pygmy three-toed sloth. Gotta see when it gets released... :)

It's good news!
Chinese pangolin, mountain goat, pygmy three-toed sloth
Red fox, Sika deer, could please me depending on the size

This is exciting but not good news for my wallet.

Some of the models look wonky... some look great. For me the antarctic fur seal, camel, brown bear, pangolin, crab eater seal, salamander, wolf, humpback, komodo, lynx, mountain goat, narwhal, orca, sloth, fox, sheep, sika, sperm whale, and walrus look good. Probably won't get all if those though. For me the puffin, bison, squid, dolphin, white shark, manta, hammerhead, horse, and pig look too odd. There are a few that you can't see much of either to make a determination like the blue whale and whale shark.

I like that they tried to make these animals with movement, theres just a few that didn't turn out well. Can't wait to see them in person!

It's true that some of them look promising (I have more or less the same inclinations as Paige) and some of them also seem a bit weird to me.
I already had that feeling with the previous series, I'm more sensitive to plastic beauty than convoluted poses.
The one that intrigues me is the blue whale, it looks very good in the photo but I'm afraid I'll be disappointed by the reality.
To be continued...
The previous series wasn't on a precise scale Ricardo.

Whatever their set up is for photographing aquatics, they nailed it, those look really cool no matter how the sculpt is done!

I agree with everyone pretty much, some of these are real strange and some are amazing! There is a definite stylization going on. They got a little carried away with muscles and skin folds. This is a brand that usually does extinct creatures, right? Usually dinosaurs and their relatives? I wonder if their artists are less practiced in some of these groups of animals. I can imagine if you are a specialized reptile sculptor, domestic mammals (for example) might be a different set of skills or you might not understand how they are out together as well.

The fire salamander is my favorite, they actually are quite bumpy and wrinkly so that worked out, haha.

Some are very tempting (puffin, salamander, sloth..)but I don't like too much spectacular but unnatural standing of others (sharks, sika, horse, lynx, pig..) and odd watches of others (wolf, fox, dragon..)

Thank you for sharing Christophe!

It's great that there is a company that dares to be a bit different. I agree that the sculpting is hit and miss. I like the Bactrian camel, mountain goat, narwhal and the face of the brown bear, while the sika deer, colossal squid, manta ray, dolphin, walrus and horse seem particularly odd to me. The sika deer is an example of a pose that may be physically possible but not one I can imagine they ever have. The horse is a case where the skin folds and muscles aren't in quite the right places. And the hammerhead shark has got eyes at the front of the cephalofoil rather than at the sides, haha. Sometimes the lack of realism works for me: the pig looks a bit odd but at least it makes it quite cute.

As Jill mentions, it may be that the sculptors are more practised in making prehistoric animals. Because we don't know exactly what they looked like, the sculptors have more artistic freedom in modelling the poses, muscles and skinfolds of the animals. With extant animals, too much artistry can look a little strange.

The PNSO models seem to be marketed for collectors rather than children. They come in a luxurious-looking box and are relatively expensive. I am therefore surprised that they focus mostly on species that are commonly made by other brands (often better and cheaper). I'd have thought that they would sell less common species better to collectors.

The boxes that they sell these models in are similar to those from their Living Animals Series, so they may have a similar size. This would mean that the models are fairly large, similar in size to the hippos and rhinos of the major brands. I hope we get more detailed information about their sizes.

Where is the best place to buy PNSO?