Brontozaurus' collection

[brontozaurus]

While I have loads and loads of dinosaurs, I choose to keep most of them in storage in various boxes in my room. However, for quite a few of them, I have a full shelf I use to store them on.



It's divided into two sections. On the left side of the zebra rock is the international section, which is where the majority of the dinosaurs are.




On the other side of the zebra rock is the Australian dinosaur section. I'm particularly fascinated with Australian dinosaurs since they are very interesting. Also, they aren't made as toys very much, which means that any that I can get are very special.




It's mainly Yowies. In case you don't know, Yowies were sort of like Kinder Surprises, except that they had realistic animal models inside. Generally, they had some sort of moving feature (most commonly, moving one part would cause another to move). The Yowie dinosaurs were all from the Lost Kingdoms series, specifically A and B (Series C was everything from the Miocene onwards, plus a few international dinosaurs). I didn't get many of B, which sucks, because B had the most interesting prehistoric creatures.



An asterix denotes Yowies. The Muttaburrasaurus you can see (the one which looks like the WWD show one, not that they made a toy of it in that line) is not a yowie, but the Muttaburrasaurus behind it is. There's also a Serendipaceratops (not a yowie) behind the Timimus, but you can't see it except for it's back.

The tuatara is there because I like them, and because they're living fossils whose ancestors lived alongside the dinosaurs.



My camera sucks, I know, but this is me trying to give a better view of the back corner of the Australian section, including the Serendipaceratops. Since there's not much material known (I think it was just an arm bone or something), it's been reconstructed as basically a Protoceratops. There was a Yowie version as well, which likened it more to Leptoceratops (and the Yowie Serendipaceratops was bipedal, too).

[Libraraptor]

Very nice! Love the WWD Utahraptor and Diplodocus! What's that colourful guy sitting on its back?
I think you should allow your other, boxed - in dinosaurs more runout, too! ;D

[tiermann]

Some great stuff there. Did you see that Animals of Australia line has a batch of Oz dinos now?
Allosaurus, Serendipaceratops, Muttaburrasaurus, Minmi and Leaellynasaura
TGF Toys has them online in a group pack for $9
Not the most detailed ever but if you have a special interest in Australian then worth looking at

[brontozaurus]

Jul 20, 2009 12:11:08 GMT Libraraptor said:

Very nice! Love the WWD Utahraptor and Diplodocus! What's that colourful guy sitting on its back?
I think you should allow your other, boxed - in dinosaurs more runout, too! ;D

The colourful guy on the Diplodocus is a Coelophysis. It was part of a pack of models which were bits of card slotted together. There's another one in there, a purple Torosaurus on the left.

Jul 20, 2009 15:16:35 GMT tiermann said:

Some great stuff there. Did you see that Animals of Australia line has a batch of Oz dinos now?
Allosaurus, Serendipaceratops, Muttaburrasaurus, Minmi and Leaellynasaura
TGF Toys has them online in a group pack for $9
Not the most detailed ever but if you have a special interest in Australian then worth looking at

I've got those. I found them at the National Museum of Australia being sold separately for AU$2 each. I've also seen keychain versions and the group pack you described.

I think they're pretty cool. The Serendipaceratops is the weakest, I think-it's got an obvious seam line down the middle, and it's eyes don't quite match up. All the rest are great, though.

[bokisaurus]

Nice collection ;D Interesting choice of figures to display I, too, keep the majority of my collections in bins ;D
So, being a down under dinosaur fan, do you have all of CollectA/Procon figures? They have 3 Australian dinos this year, a muttaburasaurus, Rheoto, and the yet to be seen minmi ;D Where is your Carnegie Krono? He is Australian, yah? ;D
TS Toys ( WWD wannabe) and Invicta and Wild Republic Muttaba? All fine figures ;D

[brontozaurus]

I wish I had that Procon Rhoetosaurus-I like that particular dinosaur because it has a cool name.

My Carnegie Kronosaurus is not there because I don't have one. I wish I did, though.

I did some reorganising this morning of one corner of the display, removing the Imaginext Allosaurus, putting a cast that was being used as a base on the side, and then putting in my WWD Torosaurus, who had been sitting on my chest of drawers until then.



I did some more shots of the other parts of the display. It's also where I keep some fossils, as you can see.





I also collect dinosaur Transformers, who sit on one of my bookshelves.


L-R: Universe (2008) Special Edition Overkill (repaint of Classics Grimlock), Universe (2008) Dinobot, Animated Grimlock, Animated Snarl, Animated Swoop, Universe (2004) Triceradon.

I aim to collect at least one representative of all the dinosaur/prehistoric reptile species that have been represented in Transformers. So far, I have Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus (I refuse to count Dinobot as a Velociraptor like his card says), Triceratops, and Pteranodon.

[brontozaurus]

I hope double-posting isn't too bad, but I couldn't really avoid it unless I wanted this thread to continue being stuck on page 6, where nobody would see it.

I rearranged my collection a while ago, to reflect some new purchases. I also wanted to make where I stick the replicas, rather than just any dinosaur toy (so the Imaginext Allosaurus is now relegated to another shelf). My other priority was rearranging the fossils so the dinosaurs weren't stepping on them.





The Australian section is still on the right.

I haven't gotten any new Australians, though. My ultimate aim is to add a Carnegie Kronosaurus to the collection. I know it isn't considered accurate, but I really like how it looks.

My two most recent acquisitions are the CollectA Deluxe Agustinia and the JP2k9 Triceratops.

The little pink clay sauropod is supposed to be Saltasaurus. I made it years ago in a high school club.


Recently I've toyed with the idea of hanging the flying pterosaurs and marine reptiles from the shelf with thread. Previously they were sitting on other dinosaurs or on the floor. The Famemaster Pteranodon here is currently the only hanging one. The others I plan to hang are the JP/// Alpha Pteranodon, the Yowie Kronosaurus, Long-necked Plesiosaur, and Australian Icthyosaur, and a Panini Icthyosaurus. I recently spotted the Schleich Quetzalcoatlus (the big white one) at a store near uni. Come end of the week, I may pick it up to use as a centrepiece for the flying reptiles.

[fossil]

Great collection! I see many I don't have and several old friends. Good display.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

I recommend the schleich kronosaurus - it isn't very accurate either, but it looks really good!

[brontozaurus]

May 5, 2010 21:33:48 GMT [][][]cordylus[][][] said:

I recommend the schleich kronosaurus - it isn't very accurate either, but it looks really good!

I personally think it looks pretty blah, but I haven't seen it in person.

In other news, the flying harness didn't support the Pteranodon for a very long time. I may get more success with suspending Yowies, what with them being much lighter.

What would you guys recommend for trying a flying harness?

[Megaraptor]

I reccomend ordinary picture hooks and fishing wire for the Yowies. Just deconstruct them, put the wire in their body cavity, snap it back together, and hang it for instant awesome hanging Yowies!
And on the subject of transformers, if I remember correctly there have been transformers made in the shape of Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodon Archaeopteryx, Pachycephalosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Velociraptor and Allosaurus, from Generation 1, Generation 2, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Armada, Universe, Energon and Animated.

[Griffin]

There is def an ankylosaurus transformer that has been made and re-released in a different color as well. I can't remember which set it was from though.

[brontozaurus]

May 7, 2010 6:07:04 GMT Griffin said:

There is def an ankylosaurus transformer that has been made and re-released in a different color as well. I can't remember which set it was from though.

[TransformersGeekMode]

That would be Bazooka, from the Japanese-only Beast Wars Neo line. Bazooka was a bright orange ankylosaurus. He was later released in the US under the Dinobots subline in a silver deco with the very unfortunate name of Slapper.

The Beast Wars Neo toys tend to be very interesting 'shellformers', i.e. their beast modes are often just shells covering the robot. Triceradon (the brown-green Triceratops on the right, originally Guiledart in BWN) is very much like that. Much of the dinosaur body ends up as a giant shoulderpad for one arm (which he stores missiles in), and the head ends up as one hand. He has an interesting feature in dinosaur mode-you can push the nose horn to have him stick his tongue out and roll his eyes into his head, and he's got flaps on the belly which have ribs under them. Basically, he can play dead.

[/TransformersGeekMode]

[Griffin]

Yup that was him. Looked up the name. heres a pic if anybody cares.

img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/heer0san/BWNeoBazooka.jpg

[brontozaurus]

I took some photos of Beast Wars Neo Dead End the other day. I still find it amazing that someone actually said 'Let's make an ammonite Transformer', and it got made.






This is what he looks like without the shell halves on.

[Griffin]

Cool stuff. I think it would be cool if they did a trilobite transformer as well.

[brontozaurus]

The Schleich Spinosaurus has been deposed from the shelf.



I limited myself to creatures from the Mesozoic before (except for the tutataras on the rock), but I like the Dimetrodon so much I wanted to put it on display. Plus the Schleich Spino is basically a Dimetrodon masquerading as a Spinosaurus anyway.

[brontozaurus]

I think from now on I'll do periodical lots of photos of the more unusual pieces (mainly Transformers and Yowies, but also any other less seen ones I find).

Today's subject is the Beast Machines Dinobot, Airraptor. The mold originated as the Predacon (bad guy) Archadis in the Japanese Beast Wars Neo line. The main differences between Archadis and Airraptor are the paint-while the overall scheme is similar, Airraptor is much brighter, and has yellow instead of gold.




He's pleasantly poseable in beast mode. The neck is ball-jointed, so he can look around. The jaw can open and close. The wings can move up and down. Thanks to being the robot arm, the tail can also move around. The legs have ball joints, but only at their bases, so he can't really spread his legs.

Those things under his wings are feather bombs. Press the yellow button on the back of the wings and they drop.

More than that, the whole wing extends outwards, revealing a pair of guns.


Some nice under-wing detail.


He has a very asymmetric transformation. The back and wings rotate, with the wings folding across the chest. The legs rotate around, and the Archaopteryx legs fold up to let the robot legs fold down. The animal head becomes one arm while the tail becomes the other-rotating the tail piece around is geared to fold a pistol into Airraptor's hand.


The other difference between Airraptor and Archadis is the spark crystal. Airraptor has the Dinobot symbol. This was accidentally used in a reissue of Archadis.

[Himmapaan]

I'm late with this, but I just wanted to say how much I love that WWD Diplodocus! I don't suppose there's ever a chance of my getting one these days.

[Griffin]

Airraptor is a cool idea but I'm sorry I just can't stand his robot mode.