"Feathered Dinos" Topic

So, I was just seeing a documentary about Anchiornis, and it occured to me that feathered dinossaur models still don't seem very common.

I've already seen some feathered models, mostly of dromeossaurids, as expected, but I don't know how common they are, particularly among toymakers.

So what feathered dinossaur models and manufaturers are out there?

Judging by previous reactions here and elsewhere, you might not see too many because people still think dinosaurs (one S on the saur) should just be cold-blooded lizard-monsters from movies and defunct kid's books, rather than real animals.

It's as if, on the discovery that hyenas bring down most of their own prey and lions scavenge off them, people cried out "No no no! Lions are good and noble and hyenas are dastardly villains! I saw it in The Lion King!"

Anyway, rant over. And that said, there are some. Most notably Khurasan's 15mm prehistoric range by Michael Lovejoy, with feathered Deinonychus and arm-feather options for the Tyrannosaurus.

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For larger, plastic toys (Schleich, Papo etc.) you might want to search here:

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Warren B.
minisculpture.co.uk

Thatīs a shame. Reptiles can have pretty cool colour patterns, but birds are astounding in that regard and feathers allow for even more variations. I guess plastic toys will phase over slowly as they are sold a lot in museum gift shops, but the Dino fever is over.

Surprised that Khurasan seems to be the only one to do fethered dinos though.

The public want spectacles, not science, so if you show them a blockbuster they will not bother to look behind it, especially after a lot of kids are inspired to take up paleontology after Jurassic Park and find how few positions are vacant.
They just won't keep up, as is evidenced by the amount of time travel films that still show the present being altered by a character travelling backwards in time, or kaiju size creatures that stand up even though we all know they couldn't, they can barely even live. They couldn't be stuffed learning anything about the things in the media.
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will slip them all by until noone cares about dinosaurs any more.

Here is a picture from BBC

Yutyrannus
A newly described relative of Tyrannosaurus rex is the largest known feathered animal – living or extinct.
The feathered meat-eating dinosaur lived about 125 million years ago and is estimated to have weighed a whopping 1,400kg as an adult.

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Mick

I have seen a few feathered dinosaur toys in my search, but not many. I think Safari Ltd has one or two.

I have been gathering together some dinosaur figures and prehistoric terrain features for a scenario I am working on for Giant Monster Rampage that allows for a more pulp style of play.

-Ken
Radioactive Press