Through the Center and Late Jurassic, the biggest predatory dinosaur in China was the fearsome metriacanthosaurid Yangchuanosaurus. Certainly, it’s certainly one of China’s most well-known and common dinosaurs, mirrored by the truth that PNSO has made a minimum of 4 toys of it. The primary one was a miniature whereas the second was far bigger and paired with Chungkingosaurus. After which in 2023, we bought a double dose with each Dapeng the Y. magnus and the topic of this assessment, Dayong the Y. shangyouensis.
Dayong, who was launched earlier than Dapeng, measures about 22.5 cm lengthy and stands 6.5 cm tall on the head, which makes him certainly one of PNSO’s smaller theropods. Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis was the primary species to be described again in 1978 and is estimated to have been 8 metres lengthy, whereas Y. magnus was described in 1983 and seems to have been greater than 10 metres lengthy. I don’t personal the Dapeng toy, however based mostly on the comparability photographs I’ve seen on-line, he and Dayong scale slightly nicely collectively.
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Dayong is sculpted in a horizontal strolling pose. His tail is lowered and swinging to the left, his left leg is prolonged again with simply the toe ideas touching the bottom, his proper foot is planted firmly, and his arms are dangling down slightly casually. His head is raised and seeking to the correct, and like all of PNSO’s meat eaters, he includes a hinged decrease jaw. And it opens significantly large, about 40 levels. Together with his mouth closed, he seems to be like he’s simply obambulating alongside, however with it open, he seems to be on the assault. Both manner, this can be a nice pose, very fluid, very sensible. Dayong can stand nice with none help, however after all PNSO has included a brief clear rod to be braced in opposition to his chest, and naturally I usually show him with it.
The bottom color on Dayong is beige with gray wash. The higher half of his torso is painted gentle brown with darkish and medium brown stripes. His tail options stripes of sunshine and medium brown and his fingers and toes are uninteresting brown with black claws. His head is airbrushed with darkish and medium brown, his eyes are orange, his mouth is shiny pink, and his enamel are white. It’s a reasonably good color scheme. One normally doesn’t consider the color brown as very thrilling, however this toy simply goes to indicate how a lot could be achieved with completely different shades. Though personally, I’d like it if PNSO ceased to make use of it so continuously on their merchandise.
Dayong’s pores and skin has a really nice scaly texture, so nice that it virtually feels easy in some locations. Dotting his physique from the beginning of the neck to the tip of the tail are small spherical osteoderms. And naturally, there’s wrinkles aplenty to be discovered all through right here too. Oh, and there’s the same old row of small spines working down the vertebrae and rows of scutes defending the toes. All sculpted to the same old high notch PNSO customary. They are surely on the pinnacle of their sport, no two methods about it.
The tail on this theropod is sort of lengthy, accounting for about half the overall size. The limbs are very muscular and the torso, whereas not significantly large, is deep, giving Dayong a rugged, highly effective look. His foreclaws are massive, curved, and really sharp, in no way acceptable for kids to be enjoying round with.
Dayong’s head is the proper form for a Yangchuanosaurus: deep with a sloping muzzle and two bumpy ridges working alongside the highest of the cranium. The enamel are properly rendered and pointy regardless of being principally lined by tissue. The tongue is lengthy and slightly flat and there are seen nostril holes within the palate. Certainly, the mouth seems to be nice whether or not it’s large open or closed shut. It’s a disgrace it took so lengthy for PNSO to return round to the growing consensus that theropods had lips, however now that they’ve achieved so, they actually do pull off that look magnificently. I look ahead to future lipped theropods from them, together with Tyrannosaurus rex, after all.
And naturally, Dayong comes with each a cool poster by Zhao Chuang and a booklet containing his biography, some details about his species, extra cool paleoart, and a how to attract part.
Dayong the Yangchuanosaurus might not be as massive and imposing as his cousin Dapeng, however he’s each bit as nice a illustration of the genus. Certainly, it’s troublesome to conceive of some other firm producing a greater model. And whereas all PNSO merchandise are dear, Dayong’s measurement makes him extra reasonably priced than most. Additionally takes up much less house on the shelf. Extremely beneficial.
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