Hailing from the Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase in Utah, Lythronax, the “gore king,” is likely one of the extra just lately found North American tyrannosaurids. It’s estimated to have been as much as 8 metres in size and a couple of.5 tons in weight, making it comparable in measurement to the higher recognized Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus and considerably smaller than Tyrannosaurus rex, in fact. Lythronax lived between 81.9 and 81.5 million years in the past, which makes it the oldest recognized member of Tyrannosauridae.
The Dinosaur Toy Weblog has already had opinions of Lythronax toys by CollectA and Creative Beast Studio. And now, courtesy of PNSO, we now have Keynes. Launched in 2023, he’s sculpted in a striding pose along with his left leg prolonged again in mid-step, his tail swaying to the left, his arms swept again, and his head angled upward and to the left. He stands nearly 9 cm tall and is 26 cm lengthy. The included assist rod goes towards his chest, though he stands very nicely with out it.
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Keynes’ base color is, not surprisingly, mild brown, with medium brown markings operating down his neck, torso, and tail. Olive inexperienced is utilized on his again and uninteresting grey-brown is utilized to his underbelly, arms, and toes. His claws are very darkish gray. Heat brown patches are seen on the edges of his neck and cranium. His orange eyes are surrounded by darkish brown and the top of his muzzle is darkish brown with off white wash. Lastly, his mouth tissue is shiny pink and his enamel are tan. It’s a fairly flashy color scheme by PNSO requirements, and it seems to be lifelike.
Like different PNSO tyrannosaurs, Keynes’ pores and skin is roofed in teeny, tiny scales and complimented by an important many wrinkles, significantly on his neck and round his midsection.
Keynes’ toes have textured soles and rows of scutes. His limbs are bulging with muscle and his neck is tremendous thick, far more so than on the equally sized Tristan.
Keynes’ forehead options thick postorbitals and raised cornual processes. The entrance of his snout is roofed within the thick, cornified scales which can be included on all prime tier tyrannosaur toys these days. His hinged decrease jaw opens to a 40 diploma angle, giving us a wonderful view of the inside of his mouth, from the tongue to the nostril holes. His enamel are satisfyingly sharp and, sadly, absolutely uncovered to the weather. I actually can’t watch for PNSO to place out extra theropods with lips.
Lythronax might be distinguished by its strong construct, which Keynes most undoubtedly possesses. Extra importantly, it had solely 11 enamel in its maxilla, which Keynes additionally possesses. And like T. rex, it had a very huge cranium with ahead going through eyes, as proven within the picture beneath.
It’s additionally price noting that, whereas Keynes isn’t the most important of the PNSO tyrannosaurs, he’s actually one of the crucial imposing. A troublesome and trucculent brute, absolutely able to taking over prey the identical measurement or bigger than himself. The recognized contemporaries of Lythronax included the hadrosaurs Acristavus and Adelolophus, neither of which have toys but, and the ceratopsids Diabloceratops and Machairoceratops, which do certainly have toys.
The accompanying poster is but once more one thing of a letdown in my eyes, because it’s merely a picture of the toy as an alternative of some authentic paleoart. Equally, the primary part of the booklet solely accommodates extra toy photographs and a diagram of the recognized fossil stays of Lythronax. The how-to-draw part has good illustrations, although, and my older son appreciated the poster.
Keynes the Lythronax is a terrific toy. Simply superior to the CollectA model and definitely akin to the bigger Beasts of the Mesozoic one. Yow will discover him on the market in quite a few on-line shops. Right here’s hoping that PNSO tackles Bistahieversor, Dynamoterror, and Teratophoneus sooner or later.
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