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They aren’t toys, they’re ‘museum quality replicas’!

As if running a blog dedicated to plesiosaurs isn’t geeky enough, I admit to being a toy collector as well. It isn’t a secret that I run a second website (dinotoyblog.com) (and forum) dedicated to dinosaur figures, and since launching that site it has become apparent that there is a surprisingly large community of dinosaur toy collectors.

New plesiosaur replicas for 2010

Several notable plesiosaur figures were released for 2010. Safari Ltd produced a Walking With Dinosaurs inspired Liopleurodon replica and a ‘toob’ containing an array of small marine reptiles and other prehistoric marine critters. Papo produced an unusual Plesiosaurus.

‘Sea Monsters – Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep’ book review

I recently read and reviewed Mike Everhart’s new book for the online Journal Palaeontologica Electronica, I reproduce it here:

Sea Monsters – Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, is the official companion to the recently released IMAX movie of the same name.

‘Sea Monsters’ movie released

The newest film offering from National Geographic opened to 78 IMAX theaters across the United States, the largest ever opening for an IMAX movie. ‘Sea Monsters’ is set in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea, and follows the journey of a growing Dolichorhynchops.

Hive Studios release plesiosaur animations

On Monday the 18th of June, Hive Studios announced the first installment of their animation library featuring some amazing animations of prehistoric animals, including some plesiosaurs.
The plesiosaurs are Cryptoclidus, but it’s also worth checking out the Allosaurus and Othnelia animations too.

They aren’t toys, they’re ‘museum quality replicas’!

New plesiosaur replicas for 2010

‘Sea Monsters – Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep’ book review

‘Sea Monsters’ movie released

Elasmosaurus to feature in new exhibit (PART 2)

Hive Studios release plesiosaur animations