Collectors of extant animals are little question accustomed to Yowie Group, who’ve been producing animal collectible figurines for U.S. markets since 2014 and for Australia since 2017. Yowie Group is a relaunch of Cadbury Yowie, which produced toy animals and chocolate within the late 90’s and early 2000’s, earlier than Cadbury and Yowie parted methods. There are fairly a couple of Yowie toy critiques on the weblog, however they’re all from Yowie’s early years. Since their most up-to-date merchandise have been extant animals, they haven’t any presence right here, however there are some over on the Animal Toy Weblog. Their extant animal choices have been met with excessive reward. For small collectible figurines, equal to one thing like Safari TOOB figures, they’re remarkably properly made and sometimes depict obscure animals that had been beforehand non-existent in our pastime. The most recent collection is the Final Dinosaurs collection, Yowie’s first foray into pre-history since their relaunch.
The Final Dinosaurs collection consists of 17 collectible figurines, together with Yowie’s bizarre monster mascots which can be at all times disappointing to seek out. The lineup has its highs and lows and a few of their extra attention-grabbing figures embrace Kosmoceratops, Atopodentatus, and Cryptoclidus, however most are sub-par figures of your common prehistoric critters. Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and the topic of immediately’s evaluation, Pteranodon. Yawn! Yowie actually missed a possibility to showcase some attention-grabbing prehistoric genera and when in comparison with their varied extant animal collection this one comes throughout because the least exceptional, lowest high quality, and laziest.
Regardless of being a disappointment, I nonetheless had to purchase a few Yowies the final time I got here throughout them. I used to be curious concerning the toys, my spouse likes the chocolate, and my daughter likes each the toys and chocolate. Oh yeah, in case you didn’t know, these blind bag toys come packaged in plastic eggs which can be encased in chocolate. This time I ended up with the Pteranodon and Iguanodon.
The Pteranodon is marketed as a pterodactyl, so there’s a pink flag proper there. It’s mainly a small model of the Papo Pteranodon. The truth is, the image on the data booklet is of the Papo Pteranodon and Yowie used the Papo Pteranodon and Tyrannosaurus of their broader advertising and marketing for this collection. Yowie didn’t simply get lazy with the toys, however with the promoting too.
The determine is posed like Papo’s Pteranodon however in such a manner that it might stand on its ft, and it does stand properly by itself. The determine is fairly generic throughout although. It’s detailed with a unadorned physique and cracked leathery wings. I’m shocked it doesn’t have enamel and bat wings. The toy has a wingspan of two.75″ (6.9 cm) whereas Pteranodon had an estimated wingspan of 18″ (5.6 meters). This places the toy at about 1/80 in scale.
The one factor that may make it stand out is the paintjob, which is first rate for a toy of this dimension and likewise somewhat distinctive. The physique is chocolate brown with cream-colored wings. The propatagium and uropropatagium are the identical colour because the physique. The beak and crest are pink and orange, and the eyes are black.
The Yowie Pteranodon is a mediocre toy of a pterosaur that has been finished to loss of life. Though it ought to get a move for being a $3 child’s toy, Yowie has set a excessive commonplace in previous collection that it makes it tough to guage this one positively. That mentioned, it’s not an terrible little determine, simply boring. I do like the colours although, so I’m not disenchanted that I acquired it. The Yowie Final Dinosaur collection is at present out there in america at Walmart and a variety of different grocery shops and pharmacies. You may most likely anticipate a couple of extra critiques of those from me sooner or later.
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