Leyster's Collection

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I enjoyed reading on your blog entry about some design decisions. Especially the fact they use larger paws without diluting the effect thickening the legs. It is always quite controversial but these tricks are everywhere in this toy industry. On some extant animals, it was common to see figures with noticiably large heads and the necks and limbs were thickened to pretend the proportions were better, the result was basically a small body but the idea was clearly a bigger head to bear a larger face. Here it is also a question of attractiveness even if the good balance of the model seems to be the main goal. Bases are not very popular among kids, thus, presenting the figures without them, turn them more commercially attractive. Southlands presented a fantastic alternative with their grey kangaroo where the base can be easily removed but it is conceptually more complex than what it seems.

Roger wrote:

I enjoyed reading on your blog entry about some design decisions. Especially the fact they use larger paws without diluting the effect thickening the legs. It is always quite controversial but these tricks are everywhere in this toy industry. On some extant animals, it was common to see figures with noticiably large heads and the necks and limbs were thickened to pretend the proportions were better, the result was basically a small body but the idea was clearly a bigger head to bear a larger face. Here it is also a question of attractiveness even if the good balance of the model seems to be the main goal. Bases are not very popular among kids, thus, presenting the figures without them, turn them more commercially attractive. Southlands presented a fantastic alternative with their grey kangaroo where the base can be easily removed but it is conceptually more complex than what it seems.

That's really interesting, I didn't knew those background infos. So it's not something that happens only in dinosaur figures, after all. It's quite frustrating.

Binomial name: Dilong paradoxus Xu et al. 2004
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Coelurosauria->Tyrannoraptora->Tyrannosauroidea->Pantyrannosauria
Time: Aptian (Early Cretaceous)
Formation: Jianshangou Bed of Yixian Formation (present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: Safari LTD, 2009
Sculptor: Doug Watson
Scale: 1:12 for IVPP V14243
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Probably the worst offender, colour-wise, of the quality degradation of the Feathered Dinosaurs Toob.

Binomial name: Concavenator corcovatus Ortega, Escaso & Sanz 2010
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Allosauria->Carcharodontosauria->Carcharodontosauridae
Time: Barremian (Early Cretaceous)
Formation: Rambla de Las Cruces II Sequence of La Huérguina Formation (present day Spain)
Manifacturer and date of release: Carnegie Collection of Safari LTD, 2013
Sculptor: Forest Rogers
Scale: 1:22 for MCCM-LH6666
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Even if it lacks... whatever left those knowbs on the ulna (I am for feather-like structures), the Carnegie Concavenator remains one of the best representations of this genus. It even has the scute-like scales on the underside of the tail, preserved in the fossil! Also I really like that Rogers gave it a single, fleshy structure on the back instead of following exactly the outline of the skeleton. The main critic I have is that maybe the hindlimbs are a bit too short, compared to the most recent skeletals, but before rigorous ones were made there was a total havoc of skeletals that were also quite different one from another, so I really can't fault Rogers.

Here you can read my more estensive review of this model

Another great review! It is amazing how Iberian penninsula is a little square and so many dinosaurs were found here. Recently the Iberospinus was added to the list, it was found close to Sesimbra, Portugal. OK, it is not related with our friend from Cuenca you're presenting.

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Another great review! It is amazing how Iberian penninsula is a little square and so many dinosaurs were found here. Recently the Iberospinus was added to the list, it was found close to Sesimbra, Portugal. OK, it is not related with our friend from Cuenca you're presenting.

Well, Iberospinus it's Barremian, so they might have met... thus not so unrelated

Deleted the Neovenator post from some days ago, since I already posted it. Coping and pasting from DTF seems more troubling than I expected (or I'm even more incompetent than I supposed lol)


Binomial name: Triceratops horridus Marsh, 1889
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Neornithischia->Marginocephalia->Ceratopsia->Neoceratopsia->Coronosauria->Ceratopsoidea->Ceratopsidae->Chasmosaurinae->Triceratopsini
Time: Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Evanston Formation, Laramie Formation, Lance Formation, Hell Creek Formation (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2017
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:24 based on the "Kelsey" specimen on which the model is based on.
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I always liked the active pose of this model. Plus the horn lenght and quills remember me of some much beloved Cheung Chung Tat artworks.l)

Today is my birthday, so here is a special model, my favorite one among my collection:

Binomial name: Giganotosaurus carolinii Coria & Salgado 1995
Classification: Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Allosauria->Carcharodontosauria->Carcharodontosauridae->Carcharodontosaurinae->Giganotosaurini
Time: Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Candeleros Formation (present day Argentina)
Manifacturer and date of release: Vitae, 2017
Sculptor: Cheung Chung Tat
Scale: 1:26 for MUCPv-Ch1
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Should I save only one model of my collection, it would be this amazing beauty, currently towering over my other 1:25-1:30 models. You can read my review (first review I ever did) here

Such a stunning Giganotosaurus! My top 2 favorite dinosaurs are gigas & spinos

What a great idea to show your favorite figure in your birthday. I think it is a luck to find figures of this quality in pvc.

Thank everyone for stepping by!

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What a great idea to show your favorite figure in your birthday. I think it is a luck to find figures of this quality in pvc.

Yes, it's truly amazing, it never ceaseas to impress me. Even more considering that is perfectly balanced, where smaller figures with oversized feet are not.


Binomial name: Dimetrodon grandis Romer & Price 1940
Classification: Eupelycosauria->Sphenacodontia->Sphenacodontoidea->Spenacodontidae->Sphenacodontinae
Time: Kungurian (Early Permian)
Formation: Clear Fork Group of the Arroyo Formation (present day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Carnegie Collection of the Safari LTD, 2001
Sculptor: Forest Rogers
Scale: 1:20 for UCRC 1002
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Really beautiful model.

Beautiful model!

Binomial name: Bothriolepis canadensis Whiteaves, 1880
Classification: Placodermi*->Antiarchi->Bothriolepidoidei->Bothriolepididae
Time: Frasnian-Famminian (middle-upper Devonian)
Formation: Escuminac Formation (present-day Canada), Catskill Formation (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2001
Sculptor: Eiichiro Matsumoto
Scale: 1:5
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*This, is placoderms are even a monophyletic group...

Funny little thing. I'm surprised there's not more placoderms around (escluding, you know, the one everybody knows...)

Yes rather few available placoderms..

nice figure

Binomial name: Chungkingosaurus jiangbeiensis Dong et al. 1983
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Thyreophora->Stegosauria->Huayangosauridae?
Time: Oxfordian (Late Jurassic)
Formation: Upper Shaximiao/Shangshaximiao Formation (present day China)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2019
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: surprisingly, 1/20 from the femur of CV 206. Small thing.
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And my review of it and the Yangchuanosaurus it cames with

Binomial name: Atlasaurus imelakei Monbaron et al. 1999
Classification: Dinosauria->Sauropodomorpha->Bagualosauria->Massopoda->Sauropodiformes->Sauropoda->Eusauropoda->Neosauropoda
Time: Bathonian-Callovian (middle Jurassic)
Formation: Guettioua Formation (present day Morocco)
Manifacturer and date of release: Eofauna, 2019
Sculptor: Shu-yu Hsu?
Scale: 1:40
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I have some dubts on the proportions due to comments about the skeletal used by people more versed in sauropods than me, but neverthless an impressive model. Although I would have preferred thant they didn't use that strange grey drybrush on the sides and the tail.

I thought the sculptor was a Spanish man but it seems I am wrong. I love Eofauna models.

Two wonderful models!