191: My Ten Favourite CollectAs Part 1
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- A while ago I decided to celebrate some of my non-PNSO dinosaur models. I started with my top ten favourite Safari Ltd figures, and now I turn my attention to the other major player, CollectA.
CollectA is well-known for its rendition of little known dinosaurs, or being very fast with those newly announced or published. I don’t have nearly as many CollectAs as I do Safari Ltds, but I’m excited to show you some of the ones I’ve loved for years. Not all strictly adhere to scientific accuracy, but they are all special in some way.
As with the Safari Ltds, I’ve had to split it into two parts. This is Part 1, with Part 2 coming soon!
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That Argentinosaurus looks amazing!! I had to pick up the figure after the review. I will pair him with the hunting Mapusaurus. I also may pick up more that were on the list, I didn't realize how many amazing figures collecta has. Thanks for sharing your favorites, love your list!!
Thank you, it was a pleasure to do this video and look through what I have and CollectA has a lot! What a great idea for Mapusaurus! I think I'll get their small, green mouth open one. Scales are off, but nice to have them together! 😁
i am extremely surprised and pleased that you have included Metriacanthosaurus in this list because i also love this definitely underrated figure
I'm absolutely delighted to hear that! It's indeed a tiny figure that is of a very high quality, and sadly it's not as glamorous as the other theropods. Yet even at its small size, CollectA bothered to sculpt it with such detail, and that is a credit to the company!
Love these quick-hit videos to introduce models many of us haven’t seen. Can’t wait to see part 2! Might need to track down a few of these.
Thanks Michael! It was a pleasure to do them, and gave me the perfect reason to relive many happy memories and acquisitions over the decades! 😊
Well this top 10 was pretty dope and very well done,also this video was really great
Thank you, I enjoyed doing this video!
CollectA is without a doubt one of the best dinosaur figure companies out there. And throughout these years they've gained the love they deserve. I'm sure you have figures from various companies, so I would love to see you do this video series again my dear sir ❤ eagerly waitingfor the part two.
Thanks mate! Been behind on my responses, but by now I think you've seen the 2nd part to this. These are worthy companies that make both accurate, detailed, and affordable dinosaurs for children, and I definitely am very grateful to them as well as Safari Ltd for what they've delivered over the years!
I really like these top 10 fav vids you do! I like to see more. Im waiting CollectA to do Teratophoneus. Also Marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) from prehistoric mammals is one obsucre species Id like to see from CollectA!
Come to think of it, I requested Safari Ltd for the Tyrannosaur Teratophoneus. I wish I had the contact info on CollectA about what some of us fanatics are waiting to add to our collection.
@@dylangeltzeiler946 Big thank you for requesting that! Lol. Teratophoneus is my fav prehistoric animal so this means a lot to me XD
@@venator7251 In this case, your welcome. Plus, the Teratophoneus is one of my favorite species of Tyrannosaurs that lived. Just Incase, here’s a list of one of my favorite species of the known Tyrannosaurs. Proceratosaurus, Guanlong, Xiongguanlong, Dilong, Eotyrannus, Suskityrannus, Lythronax, Teratophoneus, Nanuqsaurus, Appalachiosaurus, Nanotyrannus, Alioramus, Dryptosaurus, Yutyrannus, Alectrosaurus, Daspletosaurus “Horosus & Torosus”, Gorgosaurus, Albertosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus & finally T.Rex AKA Tyrannosaurus Rex. “Especially the very recent 2 renamed Tyrannosaurus Species, T Imperator & T Regina.” Including the 2 recently discovered Thanatotheristes & Dynamoterror. Ohh, I almost forgotten, Including Raptorex & Timurlengia too. Phew.
@@dylangeltzeiler946 Yeah Tyrannosaurs are awesome! Probably my fav Dinosaur group 🤔 also with some Tyrannosaur names, their meanings are quite hardcore which I like lol. Like Teratophoneus meaning "Monstreus Murderer" and Lythronax meaning "Gore King" :D
@Dylan Geltzieler You certainly seem to know your tyrannosaurs and have named off more than I could probably have thought off the top of my head! With so many to choose from, some of them backed with quite credible fossils, I really would like to see some of the more obscure ones on your list. Lythronax and Teratophoneus I've been particularly interested in.
I really like your top 10 videos. Very interesting for know your favorites dinosaurs figurines from different companies.
Thank you! It ws a pleasure revisiting some of these figures that played a big part on my dinosaur learning and collecting journey. There are really other great companies besides PNSO, though sadly let down by paint apps, but the difference in price could help pay for custom jobs to make them on par!
Agreed CollectA has changed alot within decade,and have some of the most accurate and just so many good figures in general,also thos video was amazing.
Also my favorite CollectA figure has to be their Roaring T-rex
Oh yes that is a very good figure! I actually also have the Hunting T Rex... these small ones were really good sculpts with slighly less flamboyant and more believable paint schemes!
Well, I picked the favorites before on the video of Safari Ltd, now I’ll do it again on this video of CollectA. Let me see. 1:23 #10 Beishanlong, #7A Regaliceratops & for now 8:45 #6 Brontosaurus. “To Be Continued”
Excellent choices all! 😁 Hopefully you have some of these wonderful models!
Collecta has just recently released their new Deluxe Edmontosaurus! It's absolutely fantastic and I think you'll love it. It's massive, has complex paint techniques and the sculpt is truly amazing
It's definitely worth having a look at! We get them later and more expensive than you though, so it will take a while before I get a crack at it!
for me the collectA delux carnotaurus is the best collectA model....although i also own metriacanthosaurus, and brontosaurus.....also waiting for your review of Eofauna Diplodocus and safari patagotitan...saurapods are also my fvrt dinosaur group.
I never did get the CollectA Carnotaurus, though I might if prices come down for me. Unfortunately, we get EoFauna and other Western brands much later than you, and I'm sure you've already seen some EoFauna Diplodocus reviews out by now! I don't like the Safari Pagatotitan, so I probably won't get it.
@@DinosDragons you will definitly gonna like CollectA Carnotaurus..the way it is sculpt is deferent than most of the collectA figures...it support best quality base CollectA offered so far..which means the hindlimbs are proportionate to the rest of the body.
I am constantly disappointed that we never get a CONSISTENT scale from large to small from a company like PNSO or Nanmu - because it would be such an amazing thing to be able to build a to-scale diorama featuring some of the smallest and largest denizens of that ecosystem. I know that's difficult - because it necessitates a large enough scale to be able to sculpt *any* detail on the smaller taxa - something human-scale or smaller - and in doing so you also have to simultaneously bump up the size of the largest members too - the sauropods. And when you're talking about an animal the size of Argentinosaurus or some of the longest estimates for Barosaurus, you are talking about absolutely MONSTROUSLY huge animals, which means even if you are at a 1:25 scale, you re talking about models well over a meter long, perhaps over 2 meters for the longest dinosaur reconstructions - needless to say most people don't have that kind of space in their house to dedicate to such massive models, which forces the maker to either go with smaller scale models - 1:40 or smaller - or use different scale systems for different groups of animals, which is always disappointing.
But just once I WISH we'd get a completely standard 1:25 to 1:35 scale for an entire collection, from the very small theropods to the massive sauropods. At this scale, yes, the sauropod models would be insanely big but that's FINE as far as I'm concerned - there'd be a market for them, I think - they just wouldn't suit everyone and so the maker could also offer the sauropods in a 1:50 to 1:80 scale or something to keep the size down for people without as much space. Even at 1:80 scale, the largest estimates for Barosaurus would still have the length at about 0.6 meters or over a foot and a half long, which is plenty large for small-scale collectors.
But SUPPOSING we had a standard of 1:30 scale, I think it could JUST barely work:
Barosaurus lentus (largest estimated length) would be 5 ft or 1.52 meters long. Huge but *just* barely in the realm of manageable for people with the space for it.
Allosaurus would be just over 1 ft / 0.3 meters long - slightly larger than the current PNSO offering.
Coelurus would be tiny - about 3.2 inches long or a handful of centimeters - JUST barely doable but would lose some detail due to the tiny size at 1:30 scale.
So yeah I think 1:30 scale COULD work to recreate, say, the Morrison formation fauna at the same scale - the tiniest dinosaurs WOULD be extremely small models here but it's JUST doable - just on the edge of viability while having SOME amount of detail possible. If you get any smaller than that, you lose the smallest members of the faunal assemblage and that hurts the ability to really showcase the sheer SIZE of the biggest sauropods.
Totally get you. For the longest time I loved my Carnegie Collection for keeping to the 1:40 scale, and it was such a special thing to have everything laid out and know that they were of the same scale (so I thought as a kid; I later realised many of them weren’t exactly 1:40).
The only solution I would find idea would be to have different scales for different size ranges of animals. I was really unhappy that PNSO went to 1:45 for large marine animals and Mamenchisaurus. Now I hope they will stick to it, while the rest can be 1:35. For better detail on some of the smaller ones though, like the dromeosaurids, I would accept a larger scale, maybe 1:20.
As for Argentinosaurus my favourite sauropod of all time, I once asked a sculptor how big and how much it would cost to do a 1:40. Assuming the estimated 40m length, 1:40 means the model would be 1m (3.25ft)! I was quoted about USD$3000 for that… and that’s not even factoring in the shipping fee and taxes. 1:40 at least scales with my Carnegie models, although if I were to go for the more commonplace 1:35 now, it would work out to 1.15m (3.75ft).
I keep thinking the only way we could have good large sauropods would be if PNSO were to do hollow vinyl figures again, like their Huanghetitan. Yet I doubt prices would be as cheap, given that the price of everything has increased.
The only other solution I can think of would be to get a mix of different models from different toy companies. The problem is all that research to match scales, plus the different aesthetics in sculpt and paint that might be quite jarring. If I were rich, I could also get someone to mod existing smaller dinosaurs at the right scale to look like the species I want.
I only hope that CollectA can give us another large size sauropod, but even that would likely be smaller than the 1:35 most of us want!
so.,.,, no safari deinonychus? 🥺😭
I dont have it. I had to make make a decision between that and the CollectA, so I chose the CollectA. 😁I might get the Safari some time down the road though.
Where's the Iguanodon? 😳
Sadly, I don't have it 😞
@@DinosDragons But it would be in your top ten, right? :P