Tell me about it! Not just that, but they're doing it at such affordable prices that even collectors in the West won't go broke! 😁

Papo was actually interesting in allowing two poses for the price of one! Sad to see where they are now 😪😪

@@DinosDragons yes i have a lot of papo models from past years... Great details and painting for the price. Most figure were not scientific accurate but were good looking.

I sure hope that the prices have gone up only due to size of the Pentaceratops and of course the most recent Apatosaurus! Otherwise, HLG would have lost its competitive advantage. I almost feel that HLG must have trawled through all the online comments about what people were complaining of about how companies and their offerings, and then come up with a combination that addressed just those points! So you see a combination of detail, colour schemes, paint application, and PRICE. Thank you, my trip was on the whole a successful one. I might share a little of it in the near future!

Thanks, for your support and kind words! I feel that if HLG has a successful run, they will continue production. The only thing I worry about with late run productions is the drop in paint application quality. HLG makes them more affordable than other companies of similar or even worse standard. I would recommend you get just one first. The Ouranosaurus is surely a winner! I don't think I've ever actually officially reviewed the EoFauna Triceratops, but I don't have it with me at the moment.

FWIW, if I could get just one, it would be the black. The orange is too homogenous for my liking, although it _is_ striking as you can see!

Exactly. There is something too homogenous about the orange that just takes away from the frill. If I could choose just one, it would be the Black. Indeed, I would not have guessed that the Papo would have any claim of superiority, but as you say, the lack of that distinctive hump does kill this one a little bit.

Indeed! If something isn't of the correct scale, putting the ever popular scales such as 1:35 just smack of laziness at best, deception at worst! What is sad would be enthusiasts, especially young ones, getting misinformed with an inaccurate picture of how these dinosaurs really looked like, especially in their relative proportions. The worst case I can think of is the CollectA Deluxe Styracosaurus. HLG colour schemes have been really pleasing. Both variants for this Pentaceratops and Ouranosaurus were hard choices to make. Thanks to their relatively lower prices I got them both. I hope that HLG continues on this trajectory! You've seen the HLG Apatosaurus by now and I can't wait to see what they come up with next! 😊

@@DinosDragons I'm expecting my Apatosaurus to arrive probably tomorrow. I went for the brown but found it a difficult decision, as I liked the grey/green as well. And I agree with you completely about inaccurately advertised scales misleading the young in particular. It would be so easy for companies to declare the true scale.

Thanks mate! I believe that HLG will give PNSO a good run for the money, particularly if they can keep prices for Western fans low. I am astounded not just by the sculpt and paintwork, but also how they've been able to keep prices low. Hopefully these are not just intentional loss leaders, but a consistent representation of future quality and price too!

@@DinosDragons I completely agree! I think that one of their rumored upcoming figures will be the large megaraptorid Maip Macrothorax and if they can keep the pricing around the same as their Pentaceratops then it should be a huge win again for haolonggood :)

They do for sure! Though I think the hindlimbs are a little overmuscles and some of the creases a bit too thick. But for their price, sculpt and paint combo, they cannot be beat!

I'm not into Schleich, but I know they definitely have a very huge following! 🙂

¡Gracias! Quizas compartir algo de mi viaje en el futuro. De hecho, siempre es controvertido cómo se reconstruye la musculatura de la pierna. Porque depende de las inserciones musculares, los ángulos de inserción y qué tan grandes las hagas. Pero en general, es un modelo espléndido con colores espléndidos, ¿no? 😊😊

Thank you mate! It was a very fruitful trip, some of which I might share here in the near future! It is possible of course that soft tissue fills out dips, fossae, and other depressions. Who knows what muscle might have crossed it, to be covered by skin. Still, the entire area I imagine would be pretty bony, and in areas like that the skin tends to hug close. But it really isn't that big a deal when you consider the total package. In fact I think the lack of a more prominent 'hump' would bother people more.

Hahaha! Well I'm hoping someone will make a decent 1/35 Daspletosaurus. Who knows, if PNSO follows the same pattern they'll give us a string of tyrannosaurids. Though I see HLG as having another crack at a tyrannosaur. They must regain their honour after their T Rex fiasco! 🤣

I think you hit it right on the head. As great as they're coming along, HLG still isn't on par with the PNSO models. Still, if they continue their trajectory, _AND_ maintain their affordable prices, I believe they are going to eventually bethe company of choice for most collectors who don't need the most subtle paint applications, the highest degree of sculpt, and closeness to the science. Even then, the last part is the easiest to fix, and if they get that down, they are certainly going to be neck to neck with PNSO. What I worry about mainly is some new CEO with a new change in direction messing things up. Hopefully, we can get a good many more models from them before that happens!

Thanks mate! I hope to put up something about it in a few weeks! 😁

As we now konw of course... it was Apatosaurus! And in roughly 1:35!!😁

Wow, you certainly got your wish haven't you! 😁 I just put up the HLG Apatosaurus and it's a thing of beauty! I do with this Pentaceratops could have been 1:35 as I want to show how much the Ceratopsians varied not just in crest morphology but size too! I get why they did this though. Pentaceratops _is_ a special rare one and they want to really showcase it with the detail and paint apps they can muster!

Wow Thomas, thank you for your very kind words! It was indeed a very happy break for me, and some quite relevant experiences I hope to share here in the near future! Well, it's been a few weeks, and by now I am sure that you have received your Pentaceratops, and are very happy with it! Really except for the scale, everything else is rather minor. You might already have ordered your HLG Apatosaurus as well. They are really revving things up, and with their affordable cost, will for sure be a boon to Western collectors who would ordinarily pay through the nose for Chinasaurs!

@@DinosDragons you’re most welcome. Yes, the Pentaceratops was appreciated for the effort on HLG’s part. Improvement? Sure. But it’s still good. Yes. Still waiting on the Apatosaurus. I knew there were minor issues(aren’t there always?) but it still looked pretty good. As to chinasaurs…..I work a job where, not daily, but frequently, I have to hear slurs as to there being a Made in China sticker on a product usually followed by a “I’m not buying that” or something as egregious. I live in a part of America that was always touted as progressive. What I found, since moving here, is that there’s a higher degree of racism and classism than when I lived in Virginia. The whole ball of wax, twine, entangled whatever has been continuously bothersome to me since the late 70’s when I had a Chinese friend from junior high who was treated poorly by some kids who, at that irrational time, decided all Asians were communist Vietcong and needed to hear hatred. That still translates very heavily, today. And, for that, if I could, I’d apologize for the idiocy of it. It’s a more complex puddle than I’ll ever be able to see clearly through. Unfortunately, it’s not bad enough that racism is still prevalent, now we have to wrestle with outlandish gender politics. Apologies. I got on a soapbox. It’s Memorial Day weekend and I’m having a bit of a party. It’s a day that means something to me. Most notably, the rights and freedoms of all people. Without losing our jobs because we didn’t call a female “them” because she doesn’t “identify” as female. I studied biology. What do I know? Apparently it’s all wrong. Crap! Back on the soapbox. Dinosaurs, Tom! Dinosaurs!

Thanks mate! It has been both a restful and most fruitful trip! Some of which I may share on this channel in the near future! 😁

@@DinosDragons we would love that !

It is way overdue! Can't believe no mainstream company has given us a decent one yet till now!

Well congrats on saving money! Though I think at the price point, at least one's worth a buy! 😊

@@DinosDragons Don't tempt me now :D

I would have said they still have some catching up to do, but after what they did with the Apatosaurus, I have to agree they are nipping right on the heels! They just need to improve their paint to get the subtle complexities that PNSO does, but price point and species choice wise, they have them beat.

@@DinosDragons yeah. And if haolongood starts cracking out lipped theropods then it’s over. 😅

It's always a good thing when you have reason to save money! 😊

I would think they would a most welcome addition, particularly if they could keep their prices low too! That would help those who can't afford PNSO's excellent models!

@@DinosDragons my thoughts exactly! I adore PNSO's models, though I wish the prices could be kept lower. Specifically the museum line- for example I love the giganotosaurus although that 80 AUD price is really putting me off. And this is someone who loves the posters and art, I wish they'd add bases than I feel like that would justify such the high price. I miss how they'd add very nice bases with older models, they were goregous. I hope pnso listens but I guess we'll have to see 🤷‍♀️

Well, the price increase for this might be put down to size. And then of course the HLG Apatosaurus. Time will only tell when they release future models of smaller size if this is just due to size. I hope so. I like that HLG are giving Western audiences a good taste of quality Chinasaurs without having to pay with an arm or a leg!

@@DinosDragons apatosaurus is 85 euros, t rex (it s also quite ugly) 75...prices are not so cheap....this brand now is as expensive as pnso and more than rebor...

Yes, I do wish it was 1:35. I want to have a nice collection of showcasing the size differences between genera too! If it's cheap in Korea though, you should consider picking it up.

Dinosaur sizes are estimates and all animals have a degree of natural variation in size. 1/30, 1/35, 1/40 based on an estimate, what does it matter.

@@BananaCake26 It's not really like that. You will never see a rhyno the size of an elephant. This animal is known to be 6 to 7 meters, max. And one meter males a huge difference. This figure is completely out of scale. Which scale? The one that comes in the box: 1/35. I collect extant animal figures, also. I don't want no rhyno bigger than an elephant...

if it brings u comfort the scale of pentaceratops is veeeery speculative esp because of some larger holotypes so a 6-8 m estimate is normal , making this a possible 9m super individual XD

@@antoniorocha3967 This animal is not known to be that size, a few individuals are *estimated* to be that size based on their fragmented remains. You can't compare this to extant animals for which we actually know the real measurements. And among extant animals there are many species with large intraspecific variations, or sexual size dimorphism. Of course you can reject this figure because it's not fully accurate to estimates of some fragmented individuals, but estimates are just that.

@@BananaCake26 Yes, but regardless you will never see a rhyno as big or bigger than an elephant. I don't want a pentaceratops bigger than a triceratops, because there is no evidence that it was the case. Fragmentary remains have a lot of problems, but we have good skulls of both pentaceratops and triceratops. And those are a great source for estimates.