Collectors of extant animals are little doubt aware of 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 just a few Yowie toy opinions on the weblog, however they’re all from Yowie’s early years. Since their most up-to-date merchandise have been extant animals, they don’t have 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 nicely made and sometimes depict obscure animals that had been beforehand non-existent in our interest. 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 search out. The lineup has its highs and lows and a few of their extra fascinating figures embody Kosmoceratops, Atopodentatus, and Cryptoclidus, however most are sub-par figures of your normal prehistoric critters. Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and the topic of as we speak’s assessment, Pteranodon. Yawn! Yowie actually missed a possibility to showcase some fascinating 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 in regards to 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 crimson flag proper there. It’s mainly a small model of the Papo Pteranodon. In truth, the image on the knowledge 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 approach that it may well stand on its toes, and it does stand nicely 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 tooth 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 measurement and in addition slightly distinctive. The physique is chocolate brown with cream-colored wings. The propatagium and uropropatagium are the identical coloration because the physique. The beak and crest are crimson and orange, and the eyes are black.
The Yowie Pteranodon is a mediocre toy of a pterosaur that has been carried out to dying. Though it ought to get a go 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 upset that I obtained it. The Yowie Final Dinosaur collection is at the moment out there in the US at Walmart and a spread of different grocery shops and pharmacies. You’ll be able to most likely anticipate just a few extra opinions of those from me sooner or later.
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