Dino acquisitions

Here's the stampede! Some of these figures are going to get repainted, so consider these the "before" photos.

The first package contained a small JW Blue figure, originally made as a soda cup topper, hence the base (without which the figure would probably fall over, so I'm not going to try to detach it). The set includes a bunch of other dinos (and a ptero) from both JW movies, too, but this was the only one I wanted.

It's a little weird, for one it's missing sickle claws, but it can't have been very expensive originally if it's just a decoration for your drink to have at the movie theater, and I paid less than 5 euros total for it on ebay, so.

The second package was of the fluffier variation. These guys are both Safari Ltd Velociraptor figures, one is a mini figure. The bigger one looks really lovely, and at least with my knowledge on raptor anatomy I can't find anything actually inaccurate about it, it's got functional wings and everything. Which is surprisingly hard to find.

I don't know if the mini is intended to be an adult, having it sit on the shelf next to the bigger Velo I'll probably just think of it as a nestling. If it's an adult, it's missing an unlikely large amount of feathers on the face, has pretty small wings which may or may not be missing the primaries (long feathers attached to the second finger - a common flaw in feathered raptor depictions is stopping the wingfeathers at the wrist), and is missing a tail fan. But if it is intended to be a baby, its plumage could very well still be all natal down, and it's simply yet to grow those features. The set it came in seems to consist of adult animals, though they're not to scale with each other. No pronated wrists, so that's great!

Other minis from the set, they're all about the same size as each other as well as the JW mini figures. These guys are the tyrannosauroid Dilong, the oviraptorosaur Caudipteryx, and its fellow maniraptoran, therizinosauroid Beipiaosaurus. I don't know enough about them to judge their accuracy or anything, but the set was themed feathered dinosaurs, and all of them are that. All the bipedal minis are at least a bit in a tripod pose for stability, either with a tail or a forelimb, which I'm pretty sure is not accurate, but some of them are more subtle about it than others, like the Caudipteryx, which is in an upright pose for what looks like display behavior of some kind.

Well, okay, this one's not a tripod. A cute little gliding Microraptor, in a bit light colours according to current understanding of the animal, which apparently was iridescent black after analysis of fossilized melanosomes preserved on some specimens. But it's pretty, kind of like a pastel version.

And a Sinornithosaurus, another lovely little raptor. Apparently, the colours are correct! Don't know about their placement. The figure has a bit of a bald face like the mini Velo, and the primaries seem to actually attach to the wrong finger, but though the photos don't show it well from these angles there is a tail fan. This figure has the worst balance out of all of them and can't stand even as a tripod due to a warped leg (hence the pencil), but I'll see if I can do something about that.
Also, I felt inspired to draw my interpretation of what Sinornithosaurus may have looked like perhaps, so thanks for that, little raptor.

The set (or "toob", as they're packaged in a plastic tube) also included a bunch of dinos that don't have feathers:

Ceratopsians Protoceratops, Chasmosaurus, and Psittacosaurus, at least the last of which actually should have feather-like filaments/bristles on its tail. Anyway, by coincidence or not, the last two dinos that didn't seem to want to get shaken out of the tube and were tangled up in each other were the Protoceratops and the Velociraptor.

Also included were an Apatosaurus, a Pachycephalosaurus, and the obligatory (featherless) Tyrannosaurus.

And last but not least,

The Beasts of the Mesozoic raptor nestlings are even cuter in person than I could have imagined!

My photo doesn't do them justice, but there are better ones of them out there (and of the bigger Safari Velociraptor), while of the Safari mini figures I hadn't really found any close enough closeups, so maybe someone considering buying them will be able to use mine to check out what they look like in more detail. I don't regret getting them, for what it's worth, and despite any inaccuracies I listed they're still among the best featherdino figures I've found.