Indeed! I believe PNSO delayed till they could create something they were happy with. Which makes me really excited for their next release of any well known genera, such as the eudromaeosaurids. Those are going to be killer quality!

It's disappointing that they went on a huge theropod streak and they only started to give them lips by the very end and sadly we only get three lipped theropods

@@starbirds2464 Yup, it's so frustrating. The Carcharodontosaurs, Tyrannosaurs and Megalosaurus would've been absolutely perfect with lips. Hopefully PNSO will re-release them with lips over the next 18 months!

​@@starbirds2464Yep! I really would have wanted lipped Albertosaurus!

@Killershrewfan This is one inexplicable strategy I have zero clue about. I cannot imagine what PNSO were thinking. Spread them out, and you get excitement for each and more sales. Cluster them together, people develop an indifference and adopt a wait and see approach. I have heard a plausible theory however: PNSO wanted to get rid of all the unlipped theropods they had on their docket so that they could start releasing lips. Imagine starting to releasing lipped theropods, and then you get a release that was unlipped. Makes sense to me! But yes, to your point, comparing the two, I really like this better. Zuul was disappointing for the shockingly plain paint application especially for the scutes!

Yes I neglected to mention that this one actually has leg proportions that should have been more robust, as might be expected from a heavier more mature individual. Quite a few viewers have pointed that out, and I think they would certainly agree with you!

Thank you very much! It's really nice to hear specifics from my viewers, and it definitely brings a sense of satisfaction to me! I hope future videos will meet up to your standards! 😊

@@DinosDragons ❤️

¡Jaja gracias! ¡Es sólo que hay tantos modelos producidos tan rápido que tuve que ponerme al día después de mis vacaciones! Tienes mucha razón. La mayoría de la gente mira los colores amplios. No se detienen a apreciar los pequeños detalles y la sutileza que PNSO infunde a sus modelos. Creo que si puedes apreciar cada modelo por sí solo, ¡realmente te gustará la mayoría de lo que PNSO ha ofrecido hasta ahora!

@@DinosDragons Totalmente de acuerdo, ha sido una mejora increíble en el pintado de fábrica de sus actuales modelos. PNSO no deja de sorprender 🤩

Sorry, what Suchomimus fiasco do you mean? Either I never knew of it or I'd forgotten in completely. In any case you are right, this one captures I feel that really interesting skull shape I associate with Yangchuanosaurus! Glad you have a model that you like... I'm still looking for _the_ definitive 1:35 Carnotaurus for myself!

@@DinosDragons Was referring to when people assumed the Sinopliosaurus was what the Suchomimus leaks were talking about.

Thank you for your support and understanding! I did pay the 'price' for my break though... who knew we would hit by a barrage of so many offerings from what I can only guess are the two biggest competitors in terms of a Chinese company! The skull depth is certainly eyecatching, and at a stretch I would say almost reminiscent of an abelisaurid aesthetic. I would certainly love some of these rather well-known but poorly represented thyreophorans! Kentrosaurus, Polacanthus, and Scelidosaurus are just a few!

Yes indeed, the shape on this is really weird and I'm glad to have a model that captures this! Otherwise all theropods would really look like carbon copies!

Yeah funny how yangchuanosaurus had a head reminiscent of an abelisaurid like carnotaurus despite being closely related to allosaurus

Yes indeed! It should certainly placate those who were crying for blood with the Y. _shangyouensis_ !

Thank you! Actually on some comments from other viewers, the hindlimbs could be more robust, but overall I'm very happy with it!

¡Gracias por tu apoyo! De hecho, creo que el anterior Yangchuanosaurus _shangyouensis_ fue excelente. Es muy delicado y me encanta lo finos que son los detalles. ¡Pero definitivamente era necesario darnos este Yangchuanosaurus más grande!

@@DinosDragons sí ese también era excelente ,me refería a que estos dos últimos son un gran avance respecto del primero que lanzaron con diorama en la línea de museo

I would definitely get the _magnus_ first if I was short on cash, except that given PNSO's history of each production run rapidly deteriorating in paint application, I wouldn't delay on the _shanyouensis_ either! I love the latter for its delicacy, complemented with an excellent paint job that I don't imagine will last through many cycles before they become a lot more simplistic.

Now that I have had both for a while, I definitely agree. The smaller one looks better to my eye!

Creo que no es tan probable. Para Yangchuanosaurus, ambas especies son morfológicamente muy diferentes. La diferencia de tamaño es muy obvia. En otros géneros, a menos que exista una distinción muy clara entre dos especies, puede que no valga la pena. ¿Quizás Triceratops _porsus_ y _horridus_ o Edmonotosaurus _regalis_ o _annectens_ ?

Thank you mate! you too! Well I was not able to do a direct link to his comment, but in my description box I put down his name. But you will have to try searching for it manually I'm afraid 😥

No worries it will give me something to do at the airport :)

Thanks for dropping in John! Yes I read that description and I must have been asleep at the wheel. Now that you point them out, the proportions are pretty obvious. Which are some of the theropod models you have deemed so high that you actually have them in your collection. I would be curious to know!

@@DinosDragonsFrom PNSO I already have Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis, Saurophagnax (which I use as largue Allosaurus fragilis or A. amplexus), Meraxes and Mapusaurus (Could be used as Giganoto). I consider them almost perfect, in terms of anatomy and proportions (if I consider Saurophaganax is based on some big Allosaurus specimen instead of the Oklahoma material). Right now im waiting to receive PNSO Megalosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Suchomimus and Acrocanthosaurus. After watching your videos for each like 5 times, Im confident they are pretty accurate too, although for the Acro I have some little doubts im going to give it a chance. Tyrannosaurus and Torvosaurus looks good too but because of the colors im going to pass for now, one by one, space is finite haha. For other collections I have Sideshows dinosauria Styracosaurus, Carnotaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, Allosaurus vs Camarasaurus, Dilophosaurus, Deinosuchus vs Parasaurolophus and Velociraptor vs Protoceratops. And Schleichs old figures from the 90s and 2000s.

I wouldn't put it past them, but hopefully after a string of non-theropods first! I wouldn't mind a lesser produced theropod clade member though!

Haha yes indeed!

I would have previously said I don't think they're likely to do that, but I've since learnt my lesson. I'm keeping my mouth shut on this! 🤣

Yes, I would love to see some diversity in their theropods... but maybe after another ten more on-theropods or so! 🤣

You need to scroll through the comments to look for John Avery. Unfortunately I couldn't pin his comment for some reason. It was certainly unexpected, but given the small size of the _shangyouensis_ and the point PNSO made to have it on the name, I should have suspected as much. Good call! As far as ontogeny, I believe it traces back to Carrano et al 2012, in which they suggested a phylogeny for tetanurae. They suggested both Y _magnus_ and _shangyouensis_ were named mainly due to differences in size, and that the maxilla of Y. _magnus_ had an extra fenestra in the antorbital fenestra, while _shangyouensis_ had only one. However they argued due to the tendency for older theropods to be more pneumatized, and that intraindividual differences in pneumatic features exist. So all this wasn't enough to differentiate the two. The obvious conclusion was that the smaller was less grown up. Accordingly reconstructions also who limb proportions more similar to juvenile theropods, while _magnus_ more robust. I didn't pick up on this, but it was pointed out again by John Avery in his reply to another comment.

@@DinosDragons unfortunately i scrolled through the comments in the torvosaurus review and could not find the comments, it's alright though

Haha check online! i think they have an Aliexpress store.

@@DinosDragons Okay.

Good question. Although Yangchuanosaurus aside, I can't think of any major dinosaur with enough differences in terms of size and morphology that might justfy such separation. Triceratops _horridus_ vs _porsus_ maybe? That said I would rather they diversify more across genera and clades first!

Titanovenator is too poorly known for my liking. It's not even been officially described, so without seeing the fragments it's hard to tell if they would fit within this. I think you may be able to modify the skull sufficiently to get it more abelisaurid-like, but I foresee the largest challenge would be the ridiculous arms. Abelisaurid arms and fingers have very characteristic proportions, and I think you would have to sculpt from scratch and replace the ones on the Y _magnus_ . I think the head of Y _shangyouensis_ is going to be very challenging to do, for example you would need to retool the snout extensively. If you ever do it, put a video up! I would be interested to see what creative people can do! 😁😁

Bandwagon comment. Plenty of PNSO figures are other colours too.

Haha true at least they have been branching out as of late

Not all their figures are brown based

Haha I think as soon as we find fossilized melanosomes of red, purple and green for theropods, PNSO will be all over it! 🤣

@@DinosDragons yeah pnso needs to make more green dinosaurs green and brown are the basic colours

its most likely the pose to be honest, its slightly rearing up to the hip its definitely shorter than a tyrannosaurus but either way the estimates fit 1:35

@@firegator6853 sort of, but i do feel like the neck and body are a bit too "long"

​@@Bota7120l-l-leaked Spino? Where?

@@Bota7120 thats just how the proportions of this animal are

@@firegator6853 not really, the skeletal shows an animal wi,th a less elongated torso, and a shorter neck too. which seems more plausible to me

Well considering they started doing lips in response to the Cullen et Al paper, which focussed heavily on Tyrannosaurs, I think a lipped Wilson in the next few months is very likely.

@@joelww2501 I really do hope so.

I would not be surprised! But they will probably release it strategically in some significant date. And also not too close to Cameron which many have paid a lot for so recently! 😁

I believe Ceratosaurus has central osteoderms in the spinal area. Imagining keratin over that could possibly result in the type of spines you see in some lizards, and so theropods have often been reconstructed thus. No evidence directly with respect to Yangchuanosaurus AFAIK.

@@DinosDragons Thank you much!

Thank you I did! Reall paid the price for my holiday, but in sum it was worth it!