Brontozaurus' collection

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Jul 17, 2010 16:35:18 GMT Himmapaan said:

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.

That's not a WwD diplodocus actually, it was made by toyway long after they made the WwD toys.

It's nice, but they got the front feet wrong and the head is reminiscent of a sock.

[Himmapaan]

Aha, thank you. Libra mentioned the WWD Utahraptor together with it and I asumed it was also WWD. I did think its colour wasn't that of the WWD one.

Hehe, is the head quite so bad? I think I might forgive it as long as it has cheeks rather than a long open mouth like a carnivorous head...

[brontozaurus]

It basically IS a WWD Diplodocus. The line's exclusive to the British Natural History Museum. I got it there on a trip in 2007. It came with a Kentrosaurus, which was kind of weird, but oh well.

Despite the flaws, I actually rather like it. This is what happens when your previous dinosaur toys were principally Chinasaurs and yowies.

[Himmapaan]

Hurrah, cheeks! ;D

And after all, the head could easily be customised to refine it a little, so I still like this one very much.

I wonder if the Natural History Museum will still have it. For shame that I failed to grab it before.

[brontozaurus]

Another bunch of photos. This time it's about Yowies, rather than Transformers. Unlike most people on this board, I collected my Yowies first-hand (i.e. by buying them within their chocolate shells). The collection's rather incomplete, but one of my goals is to get more (particularly from the second series, which had the most dinosaurs).

I call it It Came From Lightning Ridge! on account of all three of these species being found at that locality.

First, Rapator. This one was made in series 2. In series 1 there had been the Australian Allosaur, which I had wanted SO badly. I never got it, though. When I got Rapator, I was so happy, because to me he was the Allosaur of series 2. Of course now both are thought to be synonymous with Australovenator, so either way I may have the same dinosaur.

Like all Yowies, it has an action feature. Moving the tail moves the head. This was the most common type.

It's got more dark blue on his right side than its left.

Fulgurotherium, from series 1 (sold as 'Fleet-footed dinosaur', so you know). Kind of boring. It had a series 2 'counterpart' in Atlascopcosaurus. I find it strange that there was no Leallynasaura.



FInally, also from series 1, Steropodon, the first Mesozoic mammal found in Australia. It also had a counterpart in series 2, Kollikodon (sold as Hotcrossbunodon)

It has the same action feature as Rapator.

[Megaraptor]

May 8, 2010 10:18:51 GMT brontozaurus said:

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]

Wow, I thought I was the only one with a Transformers Geek Mode.

[fooman666]

great collection,i see many things that i have myself ;D

[brontozaurus]

I did some minor reorganising of the Australian section of the display.



What happened was that I wanted to display the marine reptiles, who'd been in storage since I experimented with hanging stuff from thread. I put them on the rocks, and moved the Nanatius and sat it in the grass tree. This was actually more difficult that it looked, as it caused the tree to fall over. This morning I stuck the tree down with a sticky dot and it's stayed up since. I also added some extra yowie models from the collection, such as a second dromaeosaur to feed on the Timimus (who was relegated to being a corpse because I was fed up with it falling over all the time).




Oh, and my latest acquisition (made several months ago but I never posted anything about it), Transformers Cybertron Repugnus

[foxilized]

It's a Concavenator!!

[sbell]

Nov 13, 2010 17:27:39 GMT foxilized said:

It's a Concavenator!!

I had the same thought!

[stoneage]

Where did the grass tree come from?

[brontozaurus]

Nov 14, 2010 21:23:25 GMT stoneage said:

Where did the grass tree come from?

The grass tree came from another Yowie series. Alongside the Lost Kingdoms, there was the Adventures series, which focused on the Yowies themselves and their adventures in protecting the environment.

The second series had plants, which were just about the only ones I ever got. I must have gotten about ten billion water lillies and about nine thousand grass trees.

[brontozaurus]

The Dinosaurs! magazines were (and still are, to an extent) my main reference point for anything palaeontological during my childhood. So it is sometimes a bit weird to see them contradicted by recent findings.

Majungatholus came up a fair few times, once as this description and another time in a piece on how island dinosaurs were smaller than their mainland relatives.

Now I have a toy of it, and it is now not a pachycephalosaur nor called Majungatholus.

[sepp]

Dec 12, 2010 11:09:08 GMT brontozaurus said:

The Dinosaurs! magazines were (and still are, to an extent) my main reference point for anything palaeontological during my childhood. So it is sometimes a bit weird to see it contradicted by recent findings.

Majungatholus came up a fair few times, once as this description and another time in a piece on how island dinosaurs were smaller than their mainland relatives.

Now I have a toy of it, and it is not a pachycephalosaur.

I remember that magazine! I had a picture published in it in the "mail" section ;D I miss that magazine

[brontozaurus]

I didn't even know there was a mail section. Mine never came with one, save for the questions on the back cover.

[Horridus]

Mine neither! Hey, good to see it again. I might dig out mine from the loft when I get home, I have the complete set still.

Maybe I can find the issue in which David Norman confirms that he doesn't believe non-avian dinosaurs had feathers (predating the discovery of Sinosauropteryx)...tee hee.

[brontozaurus]

I've got every issue bar the eighth, though I know I had it at one point in time. Shame, really, because the artwork for Deinonychus they used is one of my favourites.



Meanwhile, the two new arrivals settle in. I might have to do some rearranging if I get more, but the generally small size of CollectA toys is somewhat beneficial here.

[Libraraptor]

Yes, I always enjoyed the dinosaur magazine, too. One day, however, I gave all my issues away, due to my believe I had "grown out of that phase". Wuhahaha!!!
I like your pic of the Majungasaurus laughing at its obsolete portrait!

[brontozaurus]

After obtaining the CollectA Polacanthus and Lexovisaurus, and then having to do some shifting to get them to fit in the display, I pulled everything off the shelf, dusted it, then put it all back.



My aim was to create more space in the international section, because the better CollectA toys are swiftly becoming plastic crack to me whenever I visit the museum.



This failed.



On the other hand, I did manage to create some space in the Australian section, anticipating the upcoming Australovenator (and the other Aussies that CollectA has done, who will probably all end up on this shelf sooner or later).

I'm not entirely happy about how the international section turned out, largely because the Diplodocus and Agustinia are overshadowing a lot of things. I think I'll rearrange it again later.

[brontozaurus]

Let's play a game. What is the key difference between the Furuta Spinosaurus (on the right of the photo) and the other theropod toys?

I'm surprised that such an accurate reconstruction of Spinosaurus was sold with cans of soft drink. It's like if chocolate bars came with Wild Safari toys.