Solely two years after it confirmed up in Jurassic World Dominion, the fan favourite Therizinosaurus lastly joined Mattel’s Hammond Assortment line of extremely articulated motion figures final 12 months. I’ll be straight to the purpose in saying that that is simply considered one of my prime favorites within the line, and I believe the most effective by way of articulation, and display likeness. Therizinosaurus is an iconic theropod as nicely, resulting from its large claws, and has been round in varied paleo media lengthy earlier than Jurassic World Dominion launched, similar to within the Strolling with Dinosaurs particular episode The Big Claw, Speckles the Tarbosaurus/Dino King, and Ark: Survival Advanced, if no more. It was no shock to see this unusual large herbivorous theropod lastly acquired its due within the Jurassic franchise as nicely, if partly from its recognition amongst dinosaur followers. With 18 evaluations on the weblog prior for Therizinosaurus, it in all probability wants no additional introduction in its anatomy, historical past, or paleoenvironment right here, however simply in case, I’ll hold it transient.
Therizinosaurus hails from the Nemegt Formation in what’s now current day Mongolia, and lived throughout the last stage of the Late Cretaceous interval, the Maastrichtian, 70 million years in the past. It was a temperate river delta with monsoons, and cooler dry, and scorching and moist seasons. It lived alongside the massive tyrannosaurid Tarbosaurus, the unusual ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus, the ornithomimid Gallimimus, the hadrosaurid Saurolophus, the tiny single digit alvarezsaurid Mononykus, ankylosaurids Saichania and Tarchia, pachycephalosaurs Homalocephale and Prenocephale, and lots of others. Therizinosaurus is usually identified from its arms, arms, fingers, and claws, but in addition ft, and toes. The cranium, and far of the remainder of the skeleton is lacking. Most reconstructions of the pinnacle are subsequently based mostly on its relative Erlikosaurus, which did protect with a cranium. It’s price noting that so far as the anatomy goes on the Jurassic World Dominion design, and subsequently this determine, the cranium form is totally speculative, and deviates barely from Erlikosaurus, being a lot deeper. One notable side that’s incorrect is the position of the primary digits on the ft. They need to be weight bearing, and never like the standard theropod placement. The coat of feathers, and partial scaly physique integument is solely speculative, although the therizinosaur Beipiaosaurus was discovered with a full coat of easy feathers (with quite a few specimens preserving various quantities of plumage), so it’s attainable Therizinosaurus could have had feathers as nicely, and lots of paleo artwork reconstructions do function it with them.
Onto the determine itself, it’s one of many tallest ones within the line, about 10 inches/25.4 cm tall, in a impartial place, and about 19 inches/48.26 cm lengthy when the neck is posed all the best way down, and the tail is posed straight out. It’s only dwarfed by the Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. Fantastic feathers have been sculpted from the again of the pinnacle, down the again of the neck, again, arms, thighs, and tail. Wrinkly pores and skin covers the underside of the neck, stomach, tail, whereas positive pebbly scaly pores and skin is on the legs and arms, with bigger chicken like scales on the digits. The coloration is easy however interesting. It’s primarily a darkish blue, and gray, with a pink wash overlaying the feathers on the again. The mouth and beak is painted in a vivid yellow shade, and there’s additionally a teal shade on the crests of the cranium. The positive tooth contained in the mouth are molded individually, leaving the gums white. The tongue and roof of the mouth are pink. As soon as once more the glass eyes have returned, however are presumably one of the best they’ve performed them but (though nonetheless go away some room for enchancment). The pupils are simply seen, and do appear to “watch” because the determine is moved round. I do assume perhaps the decrease jaw shade might have been blended higher into the neck shade, nevertheless it’s such a minor factor. The remainder of the determine in any other case appears to be like nice, and is extremely trustworthy to the movie design.
So far as the articulation goes, it has a lot. The jaw can open or shut, and the pinnacle is on a ball joint and will be moved throughout. The neck can twist round, and whereas it may be pulled up or again fairly far, can solely go down somewhat bit as compared. The arms are articulated on the shoulders, elbows, and wrists like most of Mattel’s bigger theropods, however not like the rest within the line to date, it has articulated claws. Whereas it may need made extra sense for the digits themselves to be articulated, it may need been simpler to do it this fashion, or was extra possible. In any case they are often posed up and down fairly a bit, they usually may even rotate a full 360 levels round. There’s fairly a bit it will possibly do with them in consequence. The legs have articulation on the hips, knees, ankles, and the underside half of the ft, and have fairly a little bit of bending and rotation amongst all of the joints. So far as the tail goes, I haven’t been in a position to get it to rotate, and I’m unsure if it does. That mentioned it’s sort of a bizarre mixture of a hole rubber pores and skin, with an inside jointed skeleton of kinds. A few of their current giant figures have been utilizing this type of articulation these days, and I do know the Brachiosaurus did within the neck as nicely from what I recall. It permits it to get a fairly good bend on it, however I in all probability wouldn’t advise leaving it like that long run, because it does appear to trigger a kink within the pores and skin (assume the outdated Kenner T. rex figures).
This Therizinosaurus is a should have for any followers of the Hammond Assortment, Mattel’s mainline, or articulated dinosaurs normally (I imply it in all probability scales decently with the BotM Tarbosaurus for instance). I’d even advocate selecting it up, even when you have the earlier Dominion toy of it. It’s a large step up from the earlier Dominion toy within the proportions, colours, and the articulation (though the unique toy did have fairly a bit within the limbs). If you’re tremendous behind on it (like I used to be), don’t sit an excessive amount of longer on it. It’s nonetheless accessible on Amazon (for MSRP right now), and Large Dangerous Toy Retailer, maybe different retailers in case you are fortunate. I managed to get mine like a month in the past or so on sale on Amazon for an excellent bit off, nevertheless it seems it’s again as much as full MSRP right now. Alternatively you might strive ebay or the like. It’s surprisingly going for relatively cheap costs there proper now. Lastly I apologize for the standard (messy background) of among the photos. The lighting setup in my present residing association isn’t probably the most excellent at occasions (neither is the restricted area to work with).
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