Just bought this figure and I think this is the best accurate T-rex model. The details, textures, and colors are all excellent too. Great job by PNSO!

Another stellar review! This is the first review I’ve seen of the “new and improved” Wilson and it’s even nicer than I’d expected. Easily, the most accurate T. rex figure to date. The teeth looked a little off-putting in the publicity stills but in-hand not so bad. A must get! Thanks, and Happy New Year!

Great review as always, and thanks for including the Zhao Chuang bits! During a conversation with one of our fans, the question of the scales' size emerged. Since even the "island" scales, Based on Bell's Paper, measure about 5 mm, the ones we see on the actual figure are probably still too large. That said, this figure is fantastic, and even the currently debated features are so well executed they're beautiful to look at.

I just love your attitude to your reviews. It’s a pleasure to see how you comment so many details not because they are beautifully made (and that too) but comparing to the newest scientific researches. I like paleontology very much but my knowledge is still minor but your reviews help to lift it up. Really thank you also for the nice capturing, closeups and comparisons with other models. And I find really interesting that your channel includes both dinosaurs and dragons. P.S. your English is getting better and better. At least I can understand it pretty clear, lol :’D

I wonder when we will get a Tyrannosaurus Rex figure that looks just like the new Sue T-rex model at the Field Museum.

Just got my Wilson today, and i have to admit this is my current favorite figure, he's so bulky and very nicely made

Just ordered mine, can't wait to get it. I could live with the lack of lips and feathers since these two features are still subject to debate. The presence of gastralia, on the other hand cannot be contested and is taken into account in this bulky figure, a big plus point for me.

I am new on collecting PNSO Models and I must say this piece is stunning! I just received mine 2 days ago and I was very happy because I'm a huge T-Rex fan... your review was awesome!!

Normally I don’t buy T. rex figures because how common they are and of how bland T. rex is comparably to other more ornate theropods or its relatives (I can practically hear the mob coming my way, but I’m sorry Tarbosaurus is more interested, there I said it) but honestly I might actually pick this guy up. I’m loving this more bulky look you don’t usually get in rex figures (minus the Safari rex, inaccurate feathering or not I still love that figure).

Great review! Im waiting for mine to come.

I’ve been waiting for your review since the moment I heard about this model. Of course you did not disappoint. Excellent review and detail as usual! I can’t wait for mine to arrive!

Those reticulate scales are beautiful, even if they're bigger than they would have been in life, and they cover the bottoms of the feet like they would have on the real animal! I love how you point out the little details like the claws being blunt. They remind me of the claws on my dog, which makes sense when those are walking claws.

Thank you for a wonderfully well-researched, knowledgable review. I learned a few things as well as being entertained. All this enhances the model for me a lot. I am waiting for my model to arrive soon. This might well be my favorite representation of Tyrannosaurus rex in a toy model until now. I like the featherless and lipless appearance, but I can’t be bothered to have any preference for either ‘for’ or ‘against’ - as long as the scientific reasoning is sound and the figure is well-modelled, with attention to detail and with good proportions. (Although I do feel that feathers on Tyrannosaurus rex don’t “feel” right - but then again, what do I know...) I also love the big barrel chest and a non-protruding pubic bone, and its bulky, beefy appearance in general. The longer you study the details on this model, the more you can appreciate the study that has gone on in designing it. As just one example, I love how the two bundles of caudofemoralis(?) muscle can be seen on the underside near the base of the tail. This indicates a high attention to scientific accuracy, I think. Edit: I found an argument by Mark Witton that goes against the way this animal’s mouth/teeth are portrayed. He points to the fact that animals don't close their mouths as far as dinosaurs are often shown. Showing a dinosaur with mouth closed as far as the bones allow - to the point that the jaw bones would be touching at any point along their length - is not realistic. The muscles and skin would not allow for the teeth to overlap much with the bones of the jaws when the mouth was closed. This seems to negate the only good argument against lips, as brought forward by the scientific consultant of the PNSO Tyrannosaurus rex model, when he indicates how the teeth of the lower jaw would fit into holes in the upper jaw and thus protecting the teeth in the lower jaw. Since, if the teeth in real life would not be able to overlap much with the jawbones when the mouth was closed (I think the drawing at 3:29 illustrates this beautifully), then the newest PNSO Tyrannosaurus model is wrong in that regard as well. (In that model, when the mouth is closed, the teeth in the upper jaw protrude almost as low as the underside of the lower jaw!)

Wow this model truly looks beautiful, it's near perfect. I'll be certainly picking it up. Thank you for the eofauna giga comparison I asked for as well!

Nice review! watching it as I admire my very own Wilson that just arrived in the mail today. PNSO really did exceed my expectations, and then some!

*The Greatest Tyrannosaurus Rex figure of 2021* ,and even without of feathers it still looks beautiful,and this review is pertty great,and lovely.

About the exposed teeth, people argued that they should be completely covered, and that exposed teeth only occurs in animals that live in the water, but they must have have forgotten all about saber-toothed animals. Lots of extant and extinct animals have portruding canine teeth, and in many cases, those are their most valuable tool and weapons. Musk deer, warthogs, walrusses, beavers, gorgonopsids, saber toothed marsupials, and many other animals. So I don't really see why that's even an argument, that "the teeth couldn't have possibly been exposed", as some have said. Google a Ceratosaurus skull and look at the images; those teeth are so long it's almost silly to suggest they were fully covered by lips. They'd almost certainly be at least partially exposed imo. I'm new to your channel, watched a couple of your videos and I must say that you're probably the best reviewer I've seen on here. Very informative. Love this Tyrannosaurus by the way. I don't really have an expensive Tyrannosaurus in my collection, which is kinda crazy now that I think about it, but for some reason I've never really purchased a really high quality Rex before. The best ones I have are from Papo, and some smaller sized models. I do own a Rebor Tyrannosaurid, but that's Yutyrannus. For some reason I just dislike the typical Jurassic Park models, and many Tyrannosaurs are modelled after the JP Rex. I love JP, but when it comes to models I just don't really care all that much about the movie renditions. There are still some other contenders I'm considering, but I do like this Tyrannosaurus rex model, quite a lot. Something about it; it just looks like a real animal. I might have to pick this up.

I think lipnessless don't makes sense, it's just to make the animal "scarier", they can't even drink water, but i liked the figure so much

Fantastic review and fantastic way to start the year with this beautiful, big-arsed bad boy! Oh my credit card can feel the T-Rex bight coming!

Excellent review, I've actually ordered one when I saw this! It looks as good here as I hoped from the first publicity photos, loved the previous Wilson but glad I waited, this one is so much better, keep up the great work 👍😊

i just ordered it and im waiting for it to come.....all this time i wanted the famous t rex to get one up to date accurate figure and it's finally here godamn it! what i love is the robust neck...every time i see a t rex it's neck looks so weak while we are talking about the strongest bite to ever exist on land this neck NEEDS to be robust

Very good review and very accurate what do you said Tyrannosaurus rex can lift 400 pounds of weight with its arms and it did not had feathers despite that yes if you look at the poster of it the artist did put feathers on the poster model but the figure itself does not have feathers which is very weird

Got mine today and it is a PERFECT trex model

Sorry for not commenting on this when it first came out, but I'm very tempted to pain this figure when I get in hand to that of the original Jurassic Park animatronic. Anyway, great review, chap!

I love your channel and your great reviews! Thank you.

The best T. rex figure currently on the market, even tho it's very expensive I hope I'll be able to get it one day Edit: or maybe they'll do a smaller version, who knows

This review is nice and no idea why the older toy companies would make T-Rex a giant feathered Predator or even another Jurassic Park/World design.

I have a great Tyrannosaurus rex model from Master Fossil/GRIFFON ENTERPRISES. For example, it reproduces the shape of scales from known skin prints. Even the teeth in cross-section have the correct shape - the front ones are like a chisel, the middle ones are like a banana. I have not seen such thoroughness in the transfer of details anywhere else. But your review makes you think about buying a model from PNSO.

lol i know im well over a year late on leaving this comment, but whatever i also have this model, and next to my 2020 essien, its easily my favourite pnso. the scale of the... well... scales is something that does kind of bother me. if i had more experience with modifying figures, i feel that it could easily be fixed with some sanding and some modelling material like sculpey. of course you might as well add lips (if you choose to.) its something i can deal with until im able to fix it, and by then they might have released another rex. great video as always!

Your reviews are so awesome please do a review of the 2021 PNSO Carnotaurus when it comes out

oh my jesus im a fan of pnso

Well I’m actually glad they did not put lips into it

I love this figure. Such a beautiful highly detailed Trex. The pose is perfect. This is the best overall dinosaur figure out now. Glad there is no lips. That would only cover up those awsome teeth. I had to wait 3 months for this guy to come home. But the wait was worth it. PNSO really hit it out if the park with this figure. The craftsmanship is stunning and perfect. 5/5.

I absolutely appreciate the fact that PNSO made this 1:35 scale T.rex based from a 12 m. specimen and not by Sue or Scotty because the majority of Adult T.rexes would have been at this size when compared to Giganotosaurus and Spinosaurus. Also, quick question. Will you be picking up the GR Toys Carcharodontosaurus?

This review really shows that the lip debate isnt' nearly as conclusive as some people want to say it is. Don't get me wrong I like my rex with lips too, but this figure is not any less accurate because of it's exposed teeth. It all comes down to when we find conclusive evidence

I wonder why they never look totally like the prototype

That might be the best statue figure of Trex

Currently I'm holding out from buying this figure as I think the scales are too big and should be more like on their Zhuchengtyrannus as most scales should not be seen at that 1:35 scale, and they did update their Tyrannosaurus rex before and the laying down Tyrannosaurus rex has the scale detail I want. Yes I'm picky I know.

I may be wrong as I'm not a biologist but IIRC there are some bird species, mainly eagles and owls, which have both scales and feathers on their legs and feet (the vast majority of birds have fully scaled feet and legs with no feathers at all). So imprints of one may not be conclusive evidence for the absence of the other. The debate about feathers on tyrannosaurids is going to continue for a long time because, unlike with small theropods, of which exist many complete or near complete specimens, the majority of large tyronausaurid fossils are very fragmentary. And even if evidence for feathers is found, many will deny it, because they want to imagine dinosaurs as the movie monsters they grew up with, instead of the animals they were. Personally, scaled, feathered or both, I only care about the most accurate scientific understanding. Sadly, this is a very difficult thing in paleontology, given the fragmentary nature of fossils.

My favorite Tyrannosaurus rex figure it’s by far the best of the best

I guess it should be high time for gastralias to be featured in other theropods, no? I’m curious if that makes any sense xD

Little arms are for mating. I don't know why the females didn't get big allosaurus arms. More mystery.

The small arms of a T-Rex were most likely used in grasping for mating.

Great thing you've compared this with Eofauna's giganotosaurus, i was really looking forward to see it. And it looks perfect. Although i think this is a bit too expensive, i must agree that this is a scientific model and it's worth the price. I will wait till the post service goes back to normal (it's chaos, here) and i will surely get this one. Still, although this is the ultimate Rex, if Eofauna comes with one of their own, i'll have to buy it. I buy everything from Eofauna...

Lizards teeth don't overlapped while theropods teeth are completely overlapped. The dentary slide past each other. We can't see any lizards skull that have their teeth overlapped the same way the theropods does.

Just ordered this and I can’t wait

Will you be doing a review of the pnso giganotosaurus? I love your in depth reviews. Thanks!

I thought the upper mouth holes were chalked up to a juvenile second row of teeth. At fields and the Smithsonian they both talked about it.

But that article that bell put out still doesn’t rule out feathering if there’s any they’ll be on the back or dorsoum

whats the difference between PNSO 2020 and 2021 T-Rex model?

Plus the pnso Tyrannosaurus rex Wilson book that comes with the new Wilson the Tyrannosaurus rex has some feathering on his neck

So is this worth getting or should we wait for the new female T Rex coming out in Aug 2021

Hola, cual tiene mas precisión científica? Pnso, safari o collecta??

Fantastic!

When did u get ur trex and how long did it take to ship

Does it stand well without the plastic rod

the best t rex toy ever best than a normal Tyrannosaurus wilson

I love the look of this, and many other, of the PNSO dinosaurs. However, I’ve ordered this one as well as two other PNSO figures from China to the tune of almost $200.00 and I never received one of them. The “vendors” went from having multiple items for sale to nothing over night. No response to emails and no refunds were provided. eBay had to step in and refund me. Not the vendors, eBay. I like the figures but I’m no longer interested and will not be placing anymore orders for them.

Classic tyrannosaurus

YEEEEEES FINALLLYYYYY

I love this model. Unfortunately it's very front heavy. I keeps falling over, because the front foot starts bending from all the weight. Pity...

freakin awesome!

Can anyone tell me how can I get this in South east asia? In my country we don't have ebay.

MUST, GET!...

Have you used the 2018 collecta Tyrannosaurus rex

The fat belly is impressive. This new design would add at least a ton in weight.

After a quarter of a century of jurassic park t-rexes stealing what audiences think of when you say t-rex, this is refreshing, powerful, up to date and CHUNKY. Even a trike would never get close to one of those.

Is AMNH 5027 a male t rex?

The trexs body mass would kill it if he tripped

cool!

How much is it?

Fun fact:t.rex possibly ate fruit but definetly ate meat.

So you see.....

If I saw the t rex in real life I'd laugh.

I would buy this figure if it had lips. Enamel on teeth requires all of them to be moist not just the lower ones.

Wher are the feathers? WHERE ARE THEY,this is the worst T. rex ever it has feathers and lips

No offense dude