Pachycephalosaurus (Favorite)
The bone-headed Pachycephalosaurus. These two-legged dinosaurs have a dome of bone on their head surrounded by a number of lumps and bumps. This figure from the Favorite Collection is posed mid-stridee...
View ArticleMicromachines dinosaurs (National Geographic Collection/ Micromachines)
Micromachines, a brand noted for their wide range of miniature automobiles, stepped outside the box when they produced a series of dinosaurs in association with National Geographic. Obviously they are...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)
Review and photos by Griffin8891 Pachycephalosaurus belongs to the general group of dinosaurs called marginocephalia which encompasses all the dome-headed pachycephalosaurs as well as all of the...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Jurassic Park, Series 2, by Kenner)
Following up on the Pachycephalosaurus theme started in the last blog entry, here’s a review of a quite different version of this dome-headed dinosaur. Both the review and photos are by Griffin8891 Now...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Battat)
North American Marcinocephalian Pachycephalosaurus has been reconstructed as a toy or model quite often. This review as the third in a row is the best example for this thesis. To put it bluntly at the...
View ArticleDracorex (CollectA)
The skull of Dracorex was found in the Hell Creek Formation in the United States and dates back to the Maastrichtian age at the very end of the age of dinosaurs. Its full name, Dracorex hogwatsia,...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park by Kenner)
Time – the ever-flowing river. Come with us now to a time before Walking With Dinosaurs, when the river flowed through a world easily impressed by CGI and when Spielberg ruled the Earth. Welcome…to the...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Papo)
Papo are much-loved for their highly detailed, Jurassic Park resemblin’ line of prehistoric creature figures; any number of them are perfect lookalikes of their movie counterparts, right down to the...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Dinotales Series 5 by Kaiyodo)
Pachycephalosaurus is the largest and most well recognized member of the dome-headed dinosaurs. It lived at the end of the Cretaceous 66-65 million years ago and therefore would have been amongst the...
View ArticleDracorex (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
Where reviews of new toys are concerned this 2012 release has somehow gone neglected. Now, amidst the flurry of reviews for newer models I’m writing one for this little guy. I’m writing of course about...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (CollectA)
With its wonderful knobby skull and domed cranium, Pachycephalosaurus is one of the most distinctive dinosaurs. Paleontologists are still divided over how precisely it used its noggin, although a 2013...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Version 1, Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)
Despite my lifelong love of dinosaurs, I never made make a point of acquiring Carnegie Collection figures as a child. I suppose I was far too busy acquiring Lego sets and Ninja Turtles. But when my...
View ArticleJurassic World Minifigures (Hasbro)
Review and photos by Nathan ‘Takama’ Morris, edited by amargasaurus cazaui and Suspsy The latest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise has finally hit theaters at the time of this writing. While...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Tsukuda Hobby Collection)
Among the many prehistoric toys of the 1980s’ were the distinctive dinosaurs of the Tsukuda Hobby Collection. I vividly recall coming across them at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto back in 1989 (I...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Electronic Deluxe by Chap Mei)
Rounding out my electronic Chap Mei toys is that scrappy (and in this case, rather scary) thick-headed lizard, Pachycephalosaurus! This rather dubious-looking dinosaur measures 25 cm long and stands 17...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Jurassic World Bashers and Biters by Hasbro)
Review and photographs by Takama, edited by Suspsy Pachycephalosaurus is common among dinosaur toys with almost every company (including the Chinasaur manufacturers) having at least one model of this...
View ArticlePrehistoric Tube A (CollectA)
Following in the footsteps of Safari Ltd and Papo, CollectA burst into the world of miniatures in late 2015. Today we’ll be looking at Prehistoric Tube A, which contains no less than ten figures of...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (Recur)
Thanks to Recur for the review sample. Earlier this year I filmed myself unboxing a delivery of Recur figures on Youtube. The video received a whopping 5,000 views in two months demonstrating that...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (UKRD)
Fans of the dome headed pachycephalosaurs are hard pressed to find toys representing this group with one exception, Pachycephalosaurus itself. While not as popular as the likes of Tyrannosaurus or...
View ArticlePachycephalosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Series 1 by Kenner)
Two Pachycephalosaurus toys would be released in conjunction with “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” the monstrously large adult “Ram Head” and this one, marketed as a juvenile. Seeing as how the genus...
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