Help to Identify these little figures?

[foxilized]

Hi,

I had these little guys since I was a kid. They all were bought in Spain around the 80's. (a few in the very early 90's)

I could identify some of them thanks to some websites but I would apreciate your knolwledge here, about the name of the collection they came from (or what company are they a knock-off of). ALSO, if you see any specially valuable or rare guy in there






























(notice the triceratops here has ONLY 1 horn in the doreheard instead of 2):











a second shot of the yellow Tyrannosaurus (dunno, looks so "retro" to me, I would love to know the origin):











I am HUGELY interested in knowing something about this little guy in the egg... It's an obvious sauropod though it's labelled as "allosaurus", well... It's made of soft rubber and it's actually some kind of water-thrower. You full it with water and squishing it, trhows water through the mouth. Do you know something about this one? I am pretty sure there was a entire collection of these throwing waters babies in eggs.





PD: I am not really sure if the figures that are in each individual photo belong to the same collection, so maybe two figures in the same pic aren't necessarily related... sorry about that...

[Pangolinmoth]

Wow!! A blast from the past. I used to have so many of those growing up. No idea what they are, prob lots of Chinasaurs, but I had that squirtgun and the feathered Pteradactyl,. And that greenish ornitholestes guy with big feet is super cool!

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I had a lot of those as well..mostly random Chinasaurs..so no clue who produced them orig. many can still be found.

The water squirter...had to have come out at least in 92' that's when I got mine at a Dinamation exhibition....though it's not tied to the company..just something sold in the gift shop they put up specially for the exhibit. It's prob a made in china piece as well...possible ordered through Oriental Trading ..that company gets a lot of odd things and the occasional neat looking dinosaur.

[stoneage]

The top picture botton figure looks like a playvision mini series Cynognathus.

[stoneage]

Picture 17 appears to be MPC figures.

[stoneage]

Picture 21 looks like Ajax figures.

[tomhet]

The Cynognathus is not PlayVision, it's Mech

You have a big arrangement of recasts from different companies and a few chinasaurs.

[foxilized]

Thanks to all of you, really

Is there any page (in this forum, or in any web about dino miniatures) dedicated to the MECH or PLAYVISION companies? I would like to know more about that Cynognathus of mine.

Also, I would love to know what companies are the rest of my figures ripping-off, you know... so if you guys or anybody else knows something else, I would very much apreciate it.


Yeah, the figures in the first photo are all from the same collection -just can't remember exactly what- but maybe some short of promotion with some candy or chocolate or something, and they appear to be recasts of severeal different companies... It's a cynognathus, and I still keep the little paper with the catalog and also a Diatrima and a Coelodonta were made there... never got them though... Is that cynognathus any rare or valuable?

The ones from the second photo were sold in newspaper kiosks around 1983 or 1984. The first one I had (and my first dinosaur ever ) was the little brontosaurus. I think I chewed its head off at any time The figure at the bottom is a NOTHOSAURUS, is that any rare?

The gree Ornitholestes (or maybe Oviraptor, not sure) you mention, Pangolinmoth, If i'm not wrong was a promotion of yoghourts and milk company, around 1993 inspired by Jurassic Park mania. I got that one only, dunno what else figures could be...

I would love to know something about the pics 10, 11 and 12, because they look totally like a knock-off of some old company, but I just can't identify them. I think these came as a promotion with chewing gum in the late 80's or early 90's, but can't remember...

The stogosarurus I am too pretty sure is just a Chinasaurus but it's one of the best ones I ever saw... Minus the oversized head, it looks just perfetc. Can't remember the origin, at all... It's strange, I usually remember that, but not with that one... Though I remember I built a diorama for him, I made a swamp-like floor with clay over a wood plank and added some little plants made of green wool. ;D:)

[tomhet]

Well, there are two sites you should visit, one is Randy Knol's site, by far the most complete so far:

www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com/

And the Realm of Rubber Dinos, quite interesting if you ask me

www.rubberdinosaurs.com/

Have at it!

[Dan]

Aug 3, 2009 17:20:52 GMT Blade-of-the-Moon said:

I had a lot of those as well..mostly random Chinasaurs..so no clue who produced them orig. many can still be found.

The water squirter...had to have come out at least in 92' that's when I got mine at a Dinamation exhibition....though it's not tied to the company..just something sold in the gift shop they put up specially for the exhibit. It's prob a made in china piece as well...possible ordered through Oriental Trading ..that company gets a lot of odd things and the occasional neat looking dinosaur.

I knew that hatchling looked familiar! Dinamation. That must be where I got mine.

[sbell]

Your Cynognathus (and the Coelodonta and Diatryma) are from a company called Mech. They have been available in many forms--give-aways with a series of stickers for a collector book, individually in bins, or in toobs as a set.

As for value, it's pretty minimal--they are still widely available (though not always easy to find) and are about $1 each. That said, there are some nice ones.

[foxilized]

Apparently, the spanish collection my cynognathus belongs to:



was a mixture of molds from different companies. Mech for the Cynognathus and Diatryma, Panini for the tylosaurus, and some more I can't identify yet.

But I did identified the pteranodon and also the triceratops;



It is a knock off of the DIENER triceratops and pteranodon from the year 1981 or 1982... Very weird collection, not too much info about that Diener... But is the very same mold, even my triceratops has only 1 horn in the forehead instead of 2, just like the Diener one. It's the same mold, no doubt.





Do you guys know something about those DIENER designs?

What I really wanna know is if these DIENER designs were unique or were knock offs of some older company. They look familiar to me (the Tyrannosaurus also had a higly retro style, also the ankylosaurus looks fairly close to other companies, therefore I imagine they are knock offs but I really wanna know WHICH COMPANY are they ripping off...)

Any sharp eye around?

[nobs]

I remember the "DIENER" guys, being the prizes in the flintstones cereal boxes. Their colors were much more drab though, think green and brown, like on BDUs.

[sbell]

Aug 21, 2009 14:57:01 GMT nobs said:

I remember the "DIENER" guys, being the prizes in the flintstones cereal boxes. Their colors were much more drab though, think green and brown, like on BDUs.

Diener is a German eraser manufacturer--the ones you have are the most common; they did have a much more interesting line at one point that included mammals, early amphibians and early reptiles. The full set can sell for surprisingly high amounts (some, like the Eryops and Edaphosaurus, can sell on their own for a high amount).

Also, you mentioned Mech figures (Cynognathus & Diatryma) and Panini (Tylosaurus)--those figures are one and the same; Panini distributed the Mech figures as part of a collection of stickers/sticker book. The molds themselves have been used by many companies--I myself have 3 different versions of the Tylosaurus, and I know that there are many others out there.

[foxilized]

3 different tylosaurus? Wow! What are the differences?

Hm, I suspect the DIENER triceratops is some kind of simplified copy/knock-off of the original MARX triceratops. Could be? They look fairly close, to me.

[sbell]

Aug 21, 2009 16:15:28 GMT foxilized said:

3 different tylosaurus? Wow! What are the differences?

Hm, I suspect the DIENER triceratops is some kind of simplified copy/knock-off of the original MARX triceratops. Could be? They look fairly close, to me.

The top one is the original Mech

[therizinosaurus]

Actually, yesterday I was going through a box of old figures and found a Tylosaurus the same color as my mech one, but about a millimeter or 2 smaller. It does seem the panini/mech figures get copied/recasted a lot.

[Griffin]

Yeah wow I have almost all of those. I love that little nothasaur from pic 2. I also used to love the lambiosaurus from pic 9 as well but it was teal and lime green.

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

I have an iguanodon in the same fashion as the lambeosaur but it is blue adn green.

[Megaraptor]

I gots the wierd feathery pterosaur, the head-turned-backwards sauropod and the dimetrodon in one of the pictures.