Compare the solicitation photos here to the product they sent me. www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/180420?o=4?KZfaq&

This review might come off harsh to some people who are into the line, but it absolutely addresses the criticisms I find in BotM. The articulation is great for range but it doesn't look fluid at all. The paint is sometimes too ambitious, and that reflects in the hodge-podgy layering. A lot of people in the community definitely praise these and they are absolutely a big step for the community, but the love for it is most likely because we've had such a low bar for models let alone articulated ones.

Who isn't into dinosaurs on some level?

Dinosaur figures are some of my favorite to collect, even today, and it is refreshing to see an outside perspective on a figure like this. I find BotM overall to be very hit-or-miss, and while I've found some I really enjoy, you definitely hit the mark on a lot of my own criticisms for the line. The narrow jaw gape and lack of downward neck movement still baffle me! Mattel's Hammond Collection tends to run circles around BotM articulation-wise, and part of me hopes Creative Beast Studios could learn from them. Anyway, good review, happy to see you stick to your guns.

I love Dinosaurs personally. Dinos and Space were 2 of my favorite things as a kid and still are today as an adult. Your hiya godzilla reviews reminded me to start looking into dino figure lines. Gonna be collecting some soon haha but regardless thanks for the review! Appreciate the will to take a look at stuff like this. Keep it up Anthony and take care

Hi, David here, you're not getting any more free figures. Bye

David Silva did work for Neca and maybe McFarlne dragon line. As an adult collector I have the vintage Definitely Dinosaur line from when I was a kid and several boxes of Kenner and Mattel Dinosaurs.

yes there are bunch of Adult Dino Collectors out there lol, mostly coming from Jurassic Park. Mattel even have an adult collector oriented subline for their Jurassic Park/World, called the Hammond Collection.

I love Dinosaurs. As a child I wanted to become a Dinosaur when I grew up. Some dreams just aren't meant to be.

I'm 35...and yes, im into dinos, lol.

given that Silva has had multiple extremely successful kickstarters for this line now and the fact that ivy league universities have rapidly growing paleontology departments in the last few decades... i'd assume, yes, there are adults who are into dinosaurs.

I backed the kickstarter years ago for a few of his first run of velociraptors. I wasnt super impressed with the final paintjobs, but it was WAY better than this.

Dinosaurs are always awesome. Gotta love big beasts. Loads of fun for big diorama displays.

These dinosaur articulated figures that have been coming out especially the hammond collection are exactly what i wanted as a kid. Always sucked how little poseability dinosaur toys had back then. But yea $90 for this is crazy

As someone who likes getting accurate dinosaur figures, I'm saying this in a nice way. Absolute heresy having the wrists of the figure pronated for the whole video. It's okay for a Jurassic Park/World toy, but not for something that's going for more accuracy. I know the wrists can pronate on the figure, but they couldn't be pronated on the real animal. For a dinosaur to pronate their wrists, they'd have to break them first.

I do buy dinosaur figures (when I think they are good). I have learned thru experience that articulated dinosaurs that have body parts that are accurate to scale are a nightmare to stand on a shelf. My recommendation is an almost fix figure (except for the articulated jaw and bendy wire tail). The latest figures from Nanmu and Rebor are the best in my opinion

Alternate feet is a phrase I thought I'd never hear in my life, and it sounds hilarious

As someone who does collect the current Mattel line and these, I will say the Mattel is really inconsistent quality-wise. The paint is almost uniformly bad with minimal and inconsistent apps, often times stopping before the tail. No paint on most claws too. Lately, they've been doing less paint, likely as a cost-cutting measure. Their "collector" line, Hammond Collection, has wildly inaccurate sculpts more often than not. Their general line is even worse. Yes, Mattel's stuff, even their collector line, are much cheaper. But, you do get what you pay for. And for a company as large as Mattel, there's really no excuse for how many corners they seem to cut on their figures. Only recently have they made a concerted effort to improve their collector line after a few years of harsh criticism. And even then, they continue to fall short with silly gimmicks no one asked for and/or inaccurate sculpts with minimal paint. I think BotM are doing some great work with plenty of room for improvement. The note about the articulated tail I think is bit silly though because bendy wire anything tend to wear down and degrade over time. Does it look better right out of package? Probably. Will it look just as nice a few years down the road when the rubber wears down and the wire starts to poke/pierce the sculpt? Probably not.

In my mid 30s and I still love dinosaurs. Collected most of the Mattel Jurassic Park line (Hammond and Amber collection) and really enjoyed the recent Dinosaur Battlefield line from Axy Toys. You’re never too old to enjoy dinosaurs and space stuff. Edit: after watching the rest of the review, $90 dollars?! The Mattel Jurassic Park T-Rex is ~$50 bucks, it’s 24 inches and the paint is way better.

I'm some form of adult and nobody asked me what my favorite Dinosaur is lately and that makes me sad. I don't collect dinosaurus figures, though.

I like dinosaur toys, Anthony. In fact, I just picked up my first two dinosaurs from Mattel, because I found them with good sales. I picked up the Tyrannosaurus from the Hammond collection, and the Dreadnoughtus from Jurassic World. I don’t think you stop thinking dinosaurs are cool just cause you grow up. That’s the same thing as anyone asking us why we’re still into action figures as adults. For me, it’s the thought of these animals predating us on the planet, and how different everything was back then that is fascinating.

If the creator of the line wants the company to survive, he'll work tirelessly to develop the ultimate dinosaur figures. This level of critique would send me to the lab and I won't leave until I got a figure of the year.

I know people that really want more well-articulated dragons, so it doesn't surprise me that there's a community for dino figures. Those solicitation photos are like night and day between the actual product tho. Really don't like when companies don't advertise the final product accurately...

These figures might not make sense to people who aren't familiar with the dinosaur action figure landscape. Other figures, like the Jurassic Park toy line, are just movie monsters loosely based on dinosaurs. If someone thinks this figure doesn't look like what they expect it look like, is because their expectations are based on movie monsters, not actual dinosaurs. Beasts of the Mesozoic figures are scientifically accurate. On top of it, they can be posed, granted maybe not as much as one would like, however other scientifically accurate dinosaur figures are just statues with zero articulation; maybe the jaws move on them but that's it. These figures are awesome compared to other offerings. The sweet spot for these BoTM figures is the roughly $50 ballpark ceratopsian line.

I’m an adult who collects dinosaurs and my expectations aren’t very different from other collectors. I own one of the ceratopsian figures from this line and it’s awesome, but I just can’t justify the prices on these tyrannosaurs. People heap tons and tons of praise on this line because they’re scientifically accurate, and also because there really isn’t any other options for us for accurate dinosaur action figures. The designs are very pretty but the articulation is just terrible. David Silva used to make statues and resin kits before moving onto action figures, and his strengths translate way better to static art pieces.

I'm not into dinosaurs, but that Hammond Collection Trex Mattel put out is fucking fantastic and should be owned by every collector of well made, highly articulated and affordable action figure.

I wonder why we're even questioning whether there are adult collectors of dinosaurs. As if it was childish. If we wanna go that route, than let's agree that all toys are childish. To each their own. To me action figures of muscular dudes parading around in skin tight spandex is way more childish than figures of extinct animals.

I actually dig this, a cool articulated dinosaur line that could compete with Mattel’s Jurassi… 90 WHAT?!

I don't have any, but I'd make the shelf space for some if I found one I'd like.

Man, Dinoriders 2.0 has me jazzed, I'm really looking forward to this line.

While I am not into collecting dinosaur figures, I don’t trust anyone who says they don’t care about Dinosaurs.

You think this is bad for $90? Wait till you see Arctic figures...... he gets so much praise from people and his figs are held together with strings for articulation, lackluster paint, and he charges $300 and up lmfao.

For what it’s worth, I really enjoy watching your reviews for odd figures like this, even if the figure’s not great. I feel like for a lot of figures, I have a decent idea of what to expect; but every now and again, it’s nice to get a taste of what else is out there

I have lots of dinosaur toys. There's so few decently articulated with decent sculpts but these scratch the itch for now.

Idk about dino action figures, but dinosaurs are sick and I wouldn't be opposed to picking up a quality and accurate figure of one of my favorites

Nothing will come close to my Extreme Dinosaurs T-Bone action figure with Dino Vision!.. Good times 👌🏼

It looks like the cardboard when I'm trying to test my airbrush.

“Where’s that part?!?!” “Forget it.” 😂😂😂

Well, as someone who collects action figures as a hobby and is a working paleontologist, I gotta say that dinosaur action figures are a bit tailor made for me 😂. I like BOTM but the review nails my main problem with the figures which is the eyes being so lifeless, especially compared to the paint masters. FWIW, the paint schemes for the Cyberzoic ones look much better on the prototypes but I'm still wary on how they'll look in hand. Carnivorous dinosaurs have a digitgrade stance.

I feel like this review is exceptionally harsh given IMO, these figures are easily on par with the likes of MonsterArts and Hiya Toys, including negatives. Overpriced? No, not really given the size and comparing it to any of the standard MonsterArts releases. Then when it comes to paint issues, they are miniscule compared to many of Bandais offerings. Lastly the remark about the eyes not looking amazing when again, I haven't seen any company that makes articulated creature figures do a particularly great job either. They are almost always off or painted questionably. TLDR: I have bought many MonsterArts figures and have grabbed a few of these and I like monsters more than dinosaurs, but I'd pick these over most other companies releasing similar figures.

yeo i didnt expect this at all! but yeah there is a solid adult collector community for dinosaurs, but the models generally go for less secondhand than retail and articulated ones are the minority.

Yes I love this line and the Papo non-articulated Dinosaurs. I mainly have the Raptors, but my son (14 yrs old) likes the ceratopsians and the upcoming smilodon.

I would love to see you review the 1/35 T. rex

I am 28 years old and into dinosaurs. Have been since I first watched Jurassic Park when I was like 5 years old. I love dinosaurs! I love that you never stop learning about them, it's ever changing, ever evolving.

Damn dawg that PR definitely got fired 😂😂😂

22:24- Anthony proceeding to show how bad the thing is even during the epilogue 😂

I tend to overspend for a figure (esp import) to have a better peace of mind, cause theres always some certain aspect from said figure that can outweight the flaws, while cheap figures tend to skimp on all aspect. But I can't for the life of me figured out what are the postive aspect of this figure other than WOW, "an articulated dinosaur!" lol. Love this kind of unique reviews from you Anthony, as you didn't really collect this type of figures.

Yup I definitely still collect dinosaur stuff here and there mainly from Mattel's Jurassic Park/World. There's a couple other companies that make good stuff too just can't remember the name of them. Not BotM though.

Who the hell *doesn't* like dinosaurs? I mean, they're *dinosaurs* . It's not like they stop being fascinating at some arbitrary age. Quite the opposite, in fact, since new discoveries are made constantly.

If I had a Turok figure, I would buy this. Wait, $90.00? Nevermind.

I know a bunch of people who are into dinosaurs as adults. The Jurassic World films helped make that happen more than ever lately.

While it's fair to dislike the style of the paint job, it's unfair to extend that dislike to criticisms of quality. As someone who also customizes figures, I've looked into the process that's been posted on social media for BOTM. These figures are meant to have a handpainted look to them. It was a conscious decision to not use air brushes, because that's not what the creator was going for. All blending is therefore either washes or dry brushing. Personally, I like the look and the complexity of the patterns, though I can see why it's not for everyone. Also, as a side note, usually the painted prototypes were finalized before the artist was hired to paint the box art, not the other way around.

I’ve got a couple of the ceratopsians and I’m pretty happy with them. The paint is inconsistent though, and I think it’s harder to execute on a large bipedal dinosaur than stocky quadrupeds, part of the reason I stayed away. Solicitations didn’t inspire tons of confidence

mattel hammond collection is cool. Got a bunch on a deep sale and gave them to my kids.

I collect dinosaur toys, and have been doing so longer than most people reading this comment. Hell, I am a damn dinosaur lol. Having said that, if you compare this to an equally priced figure from Mattel’s answer to “high end” dinosaur toys, the Hammond Collection. Their HUGE brachiosaurus can pose ALL SORTS of ways, look up down, graze, stand on two feet like in the JP movie, squat, nice paint apps, ‘glass’ like eyes, for a few dollars LESS than this figure 😮. I just hope on the future the BOTM line improves on articulation, since they’re soon to sell replacement feet/necks for this body type. Right now their main focus is on the Cyberzoic line (think Dino-Riders, with dragons included).

I bought 2 of these at $16 because of this review. I want to repaint one, but I don't know how. Food for thought I guess.

It is more logical that as an adult you collect something that is scientifically proven than a figure of a guy in yellow tights with claws jajaja

I'm glad that a reviewer is finally digging into the garish paint apps and poorlooking articulation of the line. There are a decent amount of adult toy collectors into dinosaurs, Mattel's Hammond Collection line is mostly targeted towards adults, and Silva just had his forth successful Kickstarter for dinosaurs, but there really is very little competition in the market. Mattel's toys have bad sculpts and are movie monsters, while Creative Beasts Studios has some very accurate sculpts, so most reviewers handle the BOTM line with kid gloves since it is basically the only option we have for articulated scientifically accurate dinosaurs. My one disagreement with you is that the whole tail should be bendy. Bendy wire doesn't have a place in adult collectibles.

I have one massive Jurassic Park T-Rex, so that my Classified Joes and Action Force can fight it on my shelves. That's the limit of how into dinosaurs I am. 1/18 scale is cool though and it looks okay for eating tiny guys. Great revieeew!

I don't know how disappointed he would be if he saw the hoodie neck articulation Yutyrannus. Thank you Anthony for helping me save money.

Have a few of the beasts(tricertops line and t-rex line) also a few raptors! I supported the lines via Kickstarter! Also the new line is based on Dino-Riders from the 80's!!!

It’s not rude at all… it’s making sure people don’t get ripped off. 👍

This is a great fresh of air. Dinosaurs are #2 of my collection going back as a kid. Great review Anthony, hope to a Mattel Hammond Collection in the future.

It do seem like a bit of a let down fir the price point, i did back 1 of the new Kickstarter with the armour and figure so hopefully those will be bettwr then this but Dinoriders 2.0 is why i backed it

Love Dinosaurs!!!

Dude you didnt review or pose the alternate legs. Dammit

That review was painful to listen to. Anthony was brutally honest. Seems like the selling point is these are scientifically accurate dinosaurs. I think the general audience is happy with the Jurassic Park dinos from Mattel.

Anthony would u ever check out any of Super 7’s tmnt figures? Those are easily the best toy adaptations of them imo especially for Bebop and Rocksteady

Well, it's obvious that Anthony is big time now, that his name is being mentioned in all the action figure circles. They didn't even that he does not interview people. The PR guy probably just searched for the best and hottest review channel and contacted Anthony. NOT THE MAMMA!!! lol

A lot of comments saying folks love dinosaurs, I personally don't get it. Not a fan at all, they do nothing for me

Maybe the base can connect to the base from other dinos.

Didn't expect you to review this or for me to watch it hahaha still, I would get dinosaur figures for a character to mount, but not like a full line of them

I have never stopped being into dinosaurs and may go broke because of it, also I have a yuty and two small triceratops from this line. as far as the paint goes, I do agree that there are some glaring issues. the yuty i got was practically shedding paint chips when I unboxed it. i managed to get the tails on without heating it, but have trouble standing up my yuty. I've been watching the line for a while now and do agree that the price is just a bit too steep. the cyberzoic line does seem to be an improvement from what I've seen, but I'd definitely wait if any new buyers are on the fence.

I am mad because I had a 500 dollar pre order and it still hasn't shipped and it's been more than 2 years I think

Phew!! Almost backed that Kickstarter too, just for the Dino-Riders nostalgia but they just don’t look right to me, especially for the price.

For $90 when you can get blade master weng for £100 it’s nowhere near worth it. Even without the accessories the painted weng body alone beats this

I love dinosaurs, would def buy dinosaur actionfigures that are posable and look good. Cybernetic Dinosaurs??? YES PLEASE.

I grabbed a few Mattel Amber Collection Dino figures and 2 of the Super Colossal Figures for a Marvel Savage Land Display. I believe TOTAL I paid around $100-120 (on sale/clearance) for them. The Tiger Raptors maybe look better than that figure and were quite a bit cheaper.

Def into Dinosaurs, I just wish Mattel would step up their JP stuff for more adult collectors and not just kids (I like where they where going with Amber collection (6" scale) vs Hammond collection (3 3/4" scale). I really wanted a 6" scale T-rex! And Beasts of the Mesozoic is making more of armored dinosaurs (more like dino-riders) and not so much robotic dinosaurs.

I'm more into dinosaur humanoids or mechas

I would like some for a savage lands display

As a kid, I loved dinosaurs... I still do. I can see a market for those still enjoying it. The Mattel's Hammond Collection T-Rex looks leagues ahead better than this and it is less expensive... and it is bigger! Sure, the eyes aren't the best but it is the closest to the "puppet/animatronic" used in the 1993 classic at an "affordable" retail price. I don't have it because it does take a lot of space so imagine the Brachiosaurus with the elongated neck. I understand that "indies" are trying to break in... but first impressions exist for a reason. If it was 45 or 50 dollars (Canadian), I would be like "Good, I can get a good dinosaur and paint it if I want to". But this is not it.

Mattel is doing way better dinosaur toys than these guys and for a fraction of the price. I love what they are trying to do with this line, but they should just be making statues for what you're getting.

I used to like dinosaurs but when they mostly got feathers I stoped caring 😞

Yup iam an adult that collect dino figs ie takara tomy line.

This review shows exactly WHY I didn't go all-in with the whole articulated dinos from Beasts Of The Mesozoic. You are better off with a Nanmu or Rebor model (Better paint, Better overall look, admittingly with zero articulation maybe except for a moving jaw). To recommend are : REBOR Smilodon (all 5 versions including a BBTS one), REBOR Deinosuchus and Sarcosuchus (2 versions of each), NANMU Tyrannosaurus Rex The Blackrock Tyrant Deluxe Edition (and the 2 other versions).🐅🐊🦖

This line suffers from severe toxic positivity. Expect people trashing you in the comments

I'm not into dinosaur figures, BUT I'm into dinosaur Transformers figures. Love them. And I also kinda wanna buy some good dinosaur figures here and there.

This is what happens when a figure customizer, figure designer/creater and painter gets a review sample and is told to be brutally honest. Lol.

The price does feel a bit too steep in someways. I got the trex version and it is slightly hit and miss. Some of the details and parts of the paintjob really impressed me. More than any sh monsterarts at a similar price range. It seems to have a really good shelf presence too. That being said the display stand is underwhelming. The articulation felt a bit more limited than I would like and some painted areas were not great. The Lythronax clearly has a ambitious paintjob but with this particular dinosaur the flaws are more noticeable.

27 and still into dinos, never collected them on the figure side of the love. this is not changing my mind, when you said $90 i couldn't believe it cause this doesn't look worth $90

I honestly think itd probably be pretty cool, if the paint was more realistic.... also, not a big fan of the long, straight tail segmants. Sik

I love dinosaurs and I think is always fun to oose characters running from them or fighting, but this is not worth the price point, I think there's a lot of potential but they need to listen to fair criticism

$90 for this is insane

I myself do not collect dunosaur figures, but my buddy has a bunch of plastic dinosaur and Pleistocene mammal figurines. They're very realisticーto modern understandingーand they're admittedly pretty cool. I will say that the popular conception of how a tyrannosaurus rex looked is now known to be somewhat erroneous. According to modern scholars, they actually looked kinda' fat... dumpy even lol Check out the modern version of a reconstructed t-rex. It's kind of hilarious.

Shame to see the short comings of this figure. I have the linheraptor from BotM and it seems better in all areas than this apart from some loose joints.

This figure would be ten times better if the tail was bendy wire

I like dinos. I don't buy dino collectibles cause they are expensive. For example, a Jurassic World T-Rex figure costs like 3 times a regular figure's price.

Mattel is the current license holder for Jurassic Park/World toys, yes. A lot of their stuff is more kid focused but they do have the Hammond Collection which is generally targeted toward older collectors with more articulation, better paint, etc while still fitting into the 3.75-inch scale of the rest of the line.

Not into dinosaurs. I'm more of a monster guy. Someone should start a line of Dungeons and Dragons monsters. Maybe Neca could do that since they're already doing such an awesome job on those D & D figures.