The mating season has come round as soon as once more. The bees are buzzing, the birds are chirping, and Clock is positively champing on the bit. For days, he roamed the bluffs in a fruitless seek for a feminine. He didn’t mate in any respect final season and his rising desperation has now pushed him to descend deep into the forest. However to date, the one different animals he has encountered as we speak are a herd of edmontosaurs that paid him no heed, a younger tyrannosaur that merely noticed him from a distance, and an unfortunate turtle that he trod on.
However see! Across the subsequent tree stands earlier than him one other ankylosaur, a smaller one, which is sufficient to persuade Clock’s quite simple mind that it have to be a feminine. And a most uncommon one. Her head seems to be narrower than his. Her armour is finer and the scutes round her shoulders are far pointier. And most baffling of all, she has no club at the end of her tail. However none of that issues to Clock. Time now for him to placed on a seductive mating show . . .
There’s been no scarcity of Ankylosaurus toys over the many years, however the overwhelming majority of them frankly haven’t been all that spectacular. In my very own humble opinion, the primary really nice one was the 2004 Carnegie Collection version, and it remained on the prime of the heap till 2017 when the Wild Safari version arrived on the scene. Then in 2019, Sede from PNSO made her debut. And now for 2025, we now have an Ankylosaurus from the esteemed people at Eofauna. Clock, as I name him. Let’s see what this sprauncy chap is all about, we could?
From the tip of his nostril to the top of his tail membership, Clock measures barely greater than 23 cm lengthy and is 6.5 cm broad on the midsection. He additionally weighs in at 211 g, which makes him the smallest Eofauna toy up to now. By comparability, the Triceratops weighs 293 g and the Tyrannosaurus rex weighs 351 g with out its base. He definitely doesn’t appear small, nonetheless, particularly when in comparison with most different 1:35 scale Ankylosaurus toys, as you’ll see afterward.
Clock is sculpted along with his neck turned to the left, his head tilted to the left as effectively, and his mouth broad open. His limbs are firmly planted and his torso is shifted in such a means that his again is sloped barely to the appropriate. His lengthy tail is raised effectively off the bottom and swinging to the left. Whereas his stance could possibly be interpreted as him being able to defend himself towards assault, as depicted within the picture above or in his info card, he might simply as simply be standing earlier than a ripe berry patch and greedily munching on their wares.
Clock’s head is medium and really darkish brown with shiny black eyes, darkish gray for his beak, and darkish pink for the within of his mouth. His underbelly is a pale mild brown, which progressively offers approach to a darker shade alongside his flanks. The outer sides of his entrance limbs and his hind toes are painted a really darkish brown, with taupe gray claws. The underside of the final two thirds of his tail can be the identical shade of very darkish brown. His again is darkish brown with a big and really darkish streak that runs from the highest of his muzzle to simply earlier than his hip area. The highest of his tail is similar color. The numerous scutes making up his armour are darkish brown and his tail membership is a boring gray brown. Lastly, the horizontal stripes operating down his flanks and again are pale gray brown. It’s fairly the frilly color scheme and it really works very effectively for an Ankylosaurus. I can completely envision it trying this fashion in actual life.
Clock’s head is wider than it’s lengthy, has the nostrils situated on both facet of the arched snout fairly than on the entrance, and enormous postorbital and jugal horns jutting out on the again, all key options of Ankylosaurus. The within of his mouth is properly detailed, with a big, flat tongue and a textured palate, however no seen tooth. His beak and horns are grooved and the highest of his head is protected by many caputegulae (flat plates), together with a big oval-shaped one in between his nostrils. His neck is protected by two half-rings every made up of six keeled scutes. The outsides of his quick and muscular entrance limbs are protected by many small, oval-shaped scutes. His toes finish in 5 clawed digits.
As befits any correct Ankylosaurus toy, Clock’s torso is positively big, flattened, and wider than that of another Eofauna toy. His again is protected by bumpy armoured pores and skin and a number of rows of keeled scutes. The biggest and pointiest of those scutes are those operating alongside the perimeters of his hips; he’s noticeably spikier than each the PNSO and Safari variations. The scutes on prime of his hips are by far the smallest, and spaced the furthest aside. His flanks are protected by three rows of huge scutes. His chunky thighs much less so, that includes solely small, spherical osteoderms. The hind toes have solely three clawed digits.
Clock’s tail is lined on either side with spikes that progressively transition to smaller, extra rounded scutes. The famed and mighty membership on the tip is flattened and spherical like a boule of bread, and lined in lots of grooves and pits. Clock once more distinguishes himself from his PNSO and Safari brethren by having a considerably longer and extra tapering tail.
And whereas Clock’s underside could also be unarmoured, it’s nonetheless meticulously detailed with wrinkles on the throat, folds on the tail, and plenty of small, spherical scales on his stomach and limbs. It has lengthy been mentioned that the one surefire means for a T. rex to kill an grownup Ankylosaurus was to flip it over onto its again and chunk into the stomach, nevertheless it certainly will need to have taken an immensely highly effective and fiercely decided particular person to tug off such a feat.
How correct is Clock? That isn’t a straightforward query. Ankylosaurus is presently recognized from full skulls, neck bones, the shoulder girdle, humerus, femur, tail membership, and items of armour, which is de facto fairly good in comparison with scores of different giant prehistoric animals. It might undoubtedly be mentioned then that Clock’s head is appropriate, and so are his legs and the proportions of his torso. However we can’t be sure as to the size of his tail; it effectively could possibly be appropriate, or maybe it’s too lengthy. And except we sometime miraculously uncover a Ankylosaurus specimen that’s preserved on the similar stage of completeness and intactness as Borealopelta or Zuul, our understanding of simply how the armour on its physique was organized will stay speculative at greatest. Once more, Clock is without doubt one of the spikiest latest reconstructions of Ankylosaurus, however most assuredly a believable one. So actually, it’s fully as much as you to determine which toy you suppose is probably the most appropriate.
I’ve acquired a lot of Ankylosaurus toys through the years, however Clock is now the definitive one in my ebook. Good color scheme, dynamic pose, incredible sculpting, and scientifically correct inside motive. Most undoubtedly definitely worth the buy. Now what I would like is for Eofauna or another firm to make a Denversaurus, which simply so occurs to be the one giant dinosaur from the well-known Hell Creek Formation that doesn’t have a toy to its title.
This assessment is devoted to Mike Walley and Sue Judd of Everything Dinosaur. From the start, they’ve been my go-to supply for Eofauna merchandise, they usually have all the time been nothing however wonderful in that regard. Kudos and searching ahead to doing extra enterprise with you people! And better of luck along with your budding toyline, Evolution!
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