P304: PNSO Tyrannotitan (Mateo 魁纣龙玛特奥 Review)
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Here’s almost a blast from the past. Remember back when PNSO gave us a deluge of carcharodontosaurids and tyrannosaurids in an endless stream? I’d always thought they would produce Tyrannotitan for sure, but they didn’t. Now comes this one, in the same aesthetic, including the lack of lips, and it may as well have been one that was originally to be released then.
The paint application is shockingly beautiful for PNSO, and especially on a theropod, very welcome indeed. Apply that to a canvas of exquisite detail, and you have a model that is worth a place on your shelf, especially if you don’t already have the other giganotosaurini from PNSO.
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Mateo is just so pleasing to look at. That colour scheme and the quality of the blending is simply superb.
PNSO's carcharodontosaurids are each so unique yet look wonderful together. The different poses set them apart, yet when you put them together, they really look like one big happy family. Well done, PNSO!
they completed carcharodontosaurids now (unless concavenator is coming too) and tyrannosaurids too, i just want them to do abelisaurids now, or smaller theropods in general. dilophosaurus, ceratosaurus, or even cryolophosaurus. maybe some more bizarre looking theropods like gigantoraptor
I think they might get to Concavenator but not anytime soon after this one. I have a feeling this Tyranotitan should have been released along with the rest but PNSO realised that there were far too many people getting more and more impatient lol
Daily reminder that PNSO hasn’t even made animals like Dilophosaurus or any eudromaeosauria but have produced even the scrappiest carcharodontosaurid 😢
@@simonecappiello3937 like Tyrannotitan and Mapusaurus. And not carcharodontosaurids, but Saurophaganax and Zhuchengtyrannus are also very fragmentary.
There ain’t no rush
They're still not making the baryonyx and irritator either
@@AndyCog_1710 Mapusaurus is not scrappy, it's known from bonebed of multiple individuals. It just lack well-complete skeletons of a single individual, like Giga and Meraxes have.
@@user-db9hi7uu3n oh you’re right about that! I guess I should’ve just said we don’t have a clear picture of it. 😅 But yeah, that’s not the same as scrappy, my bad.
At first glance, with the colors and the patterns, you'd think you were looking at a Haolonggood figure. Lol! Such a nice surprise from PNSO to use these jewel-tone colors on a larger theropod. I like it! I think I'll include it with my next order. Very nice review again!
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Those colours are a winner for sure! I really hope that PNSO has taken a page from HLG's book and will be waving that page quite a while yet. I love PNSO and even I am finding it hard to not to feel like exasperated with the same general pattern and colour palette.
Just ordered this guy. Hoping they continue to experiment with these more vibrant colour schemes
Yes PNSO could do a lot more than they have. Just look at Zhao Chuang's artwork!
So, this dude has a lot of appeal regardless of the lip’s issue. I’m a lip guy. Given whatever lifestyle various dinosaurs may have had, perhaps not all were lipped. If their mode of predation was to seek out aquatic life, perhaps like extant crocodilians, there were toothsome wares on display at all times as the enamel encountered enough moisture to not require a lipped cover. The really great thing about this figure, forgetting about lips, is the sculpt and paint apps. Very nicely done and the pose, as hinky as it might be for balance, is still a mid-step in action moment I like to see.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply! I like the balanced view you take and the openness to embrace possibilities. Indeed, one of the fascinating thing about paleontology is how much the science progresses, and then the understanding deepens over topics that were once thought impossible to even guess at.
Some of books 30 years old all state that we will never know the colour of dinosaurs. Nowadays with the idea of preserved melanosomes that is a possibility still, arguments against considered.
Who knows what we'll discover. And to get emotionally invested in one idea without flexibility brings lots of feeling that is rather stressful.
It's enough to focus as you have, on the sculpt and paint apps. And that as I can agree, is wonderful.
Just got Acrocanthosaurus from PNSO after your review. You always go beyond just reviewing the figures
Thank you! I do hope that you like it. Many of these animals look actually way better in hand! But with PNSO it's always a gamble that the later run paint apps are still as good.
Absolutely love the colourful tones on this figure, reminds me of an illustration by Luis Rey of a purple Eustreptospondylus that featured in the 2002 book ‘A Guide To Dinosaurs’ by Michael K. Brett-Surman. Brings back a rush of nostalgia from my childhood, I just had to find and flip through that book again. I find it interesting that almost all the dinosaurs in my old books are depicted with lips-I wonder why the lipless condition became popular in recent years? Such a shame because I much prefer the lipped look… If this figure had lips it would’ve been a 10/10 figure for me… Still, I may have to get it-I don’t own any of PNSO’s carcharodontosaurids yet, and this is my favourite looking one out of the bunch.
While part of me tends to prefer a more “natural” camouflaged colouration for predators, the bold colours really bring back those nostalgic memories of those wonderfully colourful illustrations. Also I suppose a blue structural colouration is not impossible for dinosaur scales, and I imagine for a predator of this size, stalking prey without being seen would be unlikely even with camouflage-the ability to chase down and tackle the prey would be the main evolutionary priority for such an animal (If a slow moving sauropod spots it, its not like it’s going to escape). Plus I speculate that if they hunted nocturnally in low light conditions then any bold colours aren’t going to be seen anyway (especially the case for structural colours), and so during the day when they’re not hunting they’d presumably have free range for highly visible forms of intraspecific communication. Perhaps this helps to explain how so many predatory dinosaurs seem to have visual display crests, which you would think would give their position away to any prey.
If only I could also rationalise the lipless condition to myself haha. Perhaps with the mouth open it’s a little more ambiguous as to whether those upper teeth hide behind a lower lip... In any case I think It’ll end up in my collection!
A brilliantly informative and entertaining video as always!
Wow thank you for a very thoughtful comment!
Yes, I can certainly imagine Rey’s work in this, since I have Thomas Holtz’s excellent Encyclopedia and that’s where I first saw his absolutely flamboyant dinosaurs.
Actually, lips had been the default many years ago, modelling on modern day lizards who do have a kind of hard ‘lip’. For whatever reason, from the 60s it seemed more common to shift towards modelling on crocs, which don’t have them. And then Jurassic Park way back in 1993 probably helped to gain massive mindshare for the lipless look.
It’s only recently that the pendulum seems to be going the other way again!
Besides the liplessness, for this you would definitely need to suppress your instinctive rejection of the blue and otherwise very gaudy appearance here. Take this as an example of a flight of fancy if you can 🤣 I am not sure how obvious the crests would be as a weak point to being spotted. These are relatively small in size, unless they were vividly coloured. But then again if we’re talking about night hunting that should not be a factor.
Just get it if you like it, and enjoy your collection. I feel that soon, the same fate will befall subsequent runs where paint applications get worse and worse, and less complex. The only rationale you need is if you like it! 😁
While you had to flip through your Brett-Surman, I think I’ll have a quick look at the Holtz encyclopaedia now before bed.
Amazing model and excellent review, ,...I am in love with the paint scheme,I am waiting for mine
Hopefully you have received yours by now, and it's every bit as nice as you hoped it was! 😁
Just completed my carcharodontisaurs with this one by pnso. Now we need all the allosauroids. Nobody, on this scale, beats pnso as far as detail.
The thing is, will PNSO go back to that well so soon? In fact, I would be happy just to hear _something_ from PNSO at this point!
TYRANNOTITAN MY BELOVED
Glad you're happy! If you like this model, get it before subsequent runs start shortchanging the paint apps!
one truly magnificent model! sadly i will have to pass because i collect figures in formations (to limit myself how much and where i spend my money) and none contain tyrannotitan, but maybe i might get it in the future, the colors truly beautiful, pnso reached a point where there is nothing to comment on, you just straight up say "its amazing"
Indeed, I find out how limited my vocabulary is whenever I am looking at a HLG model. It's almost like I can just show it to you and play some music in the background... except for that I am so delighted it would be impossible to shut up!
Collecting by formation is actually a good idea, but it would be even better if all the animals in your formation were in the same scale! Just being on the shelf would create a diorama! 😁
It's interesting that the allosauroids didn't just die out in the late Jurassic ,but continued on.
It definitely is! I used to think that they all died out by the end of the Jurassic. But some of them survived quite late. Possibly the relative geographical separation prevented destructive competition with the tyrannosauroids?
Yeah, people on Facebook or complaining of it being lipless honestly I think it’s pretty cool
Yes on the Chinese forums as well. I think many people would be happier if they just took it as an opportunity to save money!
@@DinosDragons not to mention it’s also a good price $42. It’s not too bad.
My second favorite Shark Tooth Lizard.
This definitely goes right into the top 3! PNSO gave their carcharodontosaurids some nice paint apps!
나도 주문했다 마음에 든다 카르카로돈토사우루스 2.0도 출시해줬으면 좋겠다
If they do, it might just be a repaint. I am hoping for a better sculpt though... the head starts to appear a little too long to me right now.
The figure looks amazing with a unique color palette. It seems like they are drawing inspiration from Haolonggood, which is a good thing. And I'm glad that PNSO decided to update their colors rather than release brown-based figures. Although this species is incomplete, I'm relieved and happy that PNSO has almost completed the carcharodontosaurids. As far as I know, PNSO is the first and only company to complete this clade and provide figures for each genus within it. Please correct me if I'm mistaken, my dear sir.
Many collectors complain about PNSO releasing many theropods, but I'm actually happy that we get the chance to have these high-quality figures representing lesser-known and underrepresented dinosaurs. I appreciate your great review, my dear sir. You are the best! Thank you!
Very good point, and a well put viewpoint from the opposite spectrum! Yes I keep in mind that as much as I may have a preference, others will have a different one. And so companies like PNSO will be alternately pleasing some and then others at different times. I do like that they have given us a large selection; the complaint with carcharodontosaurids seems to be how closely they resemble each other, almost possibly being substitutes, when they could be giving us more variety, even within Theropoda.
I don't really know if other companies have released so many carcharodontosaurids. Off the top of my head I think CollectA has had a few. But I'm not an expert collector; I just happen to seem to be a completist because I'm such a fan of PNSO and HLG! 😁
Ain't a huge fan of the PNSO Giganotosaurus, but this Tyrannotitan is a work of art, do you think that this Tyrannotitan is worthy enough to become a "Giganotosaurus" in my PNSO collection?
Theropods experts and enthusiasts might have a different opinion, but for myself, any suggested differences are so minuscule that they wouldn't really show up in the external appearance of the animals. There are small details in the anatomy, such as lack of pneumaticity in Tyrannotitan, but again not visible from the outside, though there are suggestions that Tyrannotitan may have been more robust.
By the way there is alot of recent studies that show theropod dinosaurs actually did not have lips like lizards.
For every study that claims they must have been lipped, there are those who claim they are unlipped. The lipped ones seem to be more promiment of late though. Which studies are you referencing in particular?
Fantastic, no doubt it's going in my "to buy" list.
Don't wait too long. If PNSO follows its previous pattern, first run models are fantastic; each subsequent run looks worse and worse, paint application wise.
@@DinosDragons I was not aware of that, thanks for the heads up!
Fantastic figure. Impressive colors. Even without lips, they are among the best PVC theropod models.
I'm not too fussy lips or lipless, so I can enjoy them as such a lot more easily!
I just cannot keep up with the barrage of artistry being released- it's going to leave me bankrupt! i haven't even started collecting them yet so i've been trying to save every release. This one looks like it's at a disco!
There are two sides to this. The fact that you can see all these models arrayed together means you can see which you like best and just get that. On the other hand, it just might make you want to collect them all! 😅
The figure itself isn't bad at all but it's missing a lot of feature from what makes it tyrannotitan and why am inclined to not buy this one
But am glad you reviewed this figure because aside from a few inaccuracies it does have a pretty splendid paint job.
What are some of the features you mean?
@@DinosDragons the dorsal column articulates in an arch and a noticeable notch over the posterior dorsals
Credit to SpinoInWonderland for this information, they explained it more in depth on discord I just paraphrase what they said
Feeling a bit of deja vu from these carcharodontosaurids.
Exactly! And they conveniently leave out Concavenator, the one carcharodontosaurid we all want!
I don’t really find the color palette appropriate for such a large predatory animal, but I’m assuming this is due to competition with HLG and community feedback. The lipless appearance really doesn’t bother me, and it actually fits in really well with the other carcharodontosaurs.
Especially considering the pigment limits and the special challenge for blue that I spoke about in my Part 2 HLG Mamenchisaurus video. I think that without using outlandish colours, but simply using different choice of natural tones and more interesting patterns, PNSO could still give us something realistic, but not dead boring like we have been getting.
Now pnso should make more Abelisauridae dinosaurs. Pycnonemosaurus, skorpiovenator, so many beloved Abelisauridae!
I would be especially delighted with a Carnotaurus remake! 😁
If anything, idk like to see PNSO release an updated model of the Acrocanthosaurus. Finer scales and such.
New Carcharodontosaurus would be more fitting. Old one is completely out of scale.
Acrocanthosaurus? It already has the fine scalation… It could use lips though.
I feel like the Acrocanothsaurus has a skin aesthetic closer to the current type. I would like to see an updated Carcharodontosaurus though! Just a bit bigger would be nice!
I happened to catch something. The head was taken from older skull reconstructions of Giganotosaurus. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You may very well be right! There are many skeletals that have floated around from time to time, and they all seem to borrow from one another, which is inevitably considering how fragmentary these dinosaurs are in general.
¡Menuda sorpresa ha sido este Tyrannotitan! Sobre todo por la falta de tejido extraoral que "parecía" ser la tendencia de PNSO en sus terópodos, pero tal vez sea por el motivo que comentas, que fuera un modelo ya preparado de hace tiempo y que no se publicó hasta ahora y mantiene la tendencia de aquel momento. El pintado, si mantenemos la teoría de ser un modelo de la época de la salida al mercado de Mapusaurus y Meraxes, tal vez tenía otro acabado en su forma original, quizá era de un color más "convencional" y al ver lo bien que les está funcionando sus modelos más coloridos, le dieron un update de color que encajara con el mercado actual. Aun así, añado únicamente como una opinión personal, no me gusta que un animal de estas características tenga una coloración tan "exótica"... Cierto es que PNSO iba en una línea "aburrida" de coloración de sus figuras, usando siempre colores pardos, pero también pienso que el equipo de PNSO han demostrado en muchas ocasiones su capacidad de hacer variaciones muy estéticas y elegantes usando los "colores de siempre". Aunque entiendo perfectamente que haya personas a las que les encante este tipo de coloración, obviamente 😊
Ya que opiné sobre el color... También me encantaría ver un Concavenator de la mano de PNSO, aunque si van a hacerlo igual que el paleoarte promocional que sacaron hace tiempo, por favor, que no lo hagan jamás. No hace falta un avestruz con dientes, gracias 😂
Como siempre, un gusto ver tus vídeos, amigo 🙏🏼
¡Tienes toda la razón y estoy 100% de acuerdo con la coloración natural! Podemos tener una coloración más realista y ésta era muy fantasiosa, casi hasta el punto de la ridiculez.
Lo que encuentro decepcionante es la falta de creatividad a la hora de aplicar los colores naturales. Seguramente podría haber otras cosas además de las rayas.
Además, si nos centramos en los colores naturales, el gris también es un color que se encuentra en los animales grandes. ¡Piensa en todas las variaciones y mezclas que se podrían conseguir a partir del gris!
@@DinosDragons Totalmente cierto, el gris es un color muy poco aplicado a las figuras en general. Alamosaurus tenía todo el gris que PNSO llevaba sin poner a sus figuras desde Sinraptor, pero creo podrían hacer bellísimos trabajos de pintado si se lo proponen. El gris combina perfectamente con los pardos y los blancos. Meraxes también es un bello ejemplo de ello 😊
All these are pnso models?
Yes they are!
🥹♥️ no more words
Haha, some of these models I almost feel like I can just shut up, add some music, and then upload the video. They speak for themselves!
@@DinosDragons Yeah 😌
Beautiful paintwork and details but going to pass. I’m too short on space to add a lipless theropod.
The consolation is that this one really is very similar to all PNSO's already splendid carcharodontosaurids. So you can think of it as a repaint you can afford to skip!
The Tyrannotitan figure looks very cool, the only bad thing is that it doesn't have oral tissue. All the best DinosDragons 👋
Thank you! Well I guess it just means that you get to save money! 😁
Looking at the model, you wonder how the animal in real life didn't topple over, due to the seemingly imbalanced weight distribution. It looks like there's a lot more mass infront of the hips than there is behind it. I mean, these models themselves tend to come with a little standard to help support the front end of the dinosaur. And especially with the addition of the head, which extends far beyond the hips, and looks rather heavy; the thought does enter the mind: wouldn't the animal struggle maintaining a balanced stance and/or gait?
The neck seems to be too short to go up in a more vertical position, like how an ostrich neck goes straight up, for example. And I doubt that a slightly more erect anterior posture would do much in terms of weight distribution. Perhaps I'm underestimating the weight of the tail muscles, or the inherent load-bearing capacity of the legs. Carcharodontosaurs would've been relatively slender, isn't it?
The appearance of uneven weight distribution is an illusion until you see inside the animal. Dinosaurs had a lot of air pockets within their upper bodies, necks, and head along with other weight reducing functions that allowed for their expansive size. The legs and tail portion of the animal on the other hand does not and is just dense muscle, so while the front half appears more massive in the outside it's actually evened out with the back half, with the reduced mass created by the pockets of air created by their respiratory system. It's also how sauropods got so huge too. Birds have this too and used it for flight.
Keep in mind that when you are looking at a model, it is an inanimate object that has to stay in static balance or topple over. Where the c.g. is is of course imporatnt, but live animal is in constant dynamic balance, making adjustments to weight, muscle activation of the postural muscles, and other biotensegrity factors that allow it to stay in balance.
In addition, other physical factors, including varying densities in different areas as @Stratos.2 explained, also make a difference.
@@Stratos.2 Yes, I'm aware of the fact that dinosaur bones are 'hollow', and that they'd have air sacs like modern birds. Modern birds, by the way, have huge air sacs in their abdominal and posterior thorax. So the area behind the hips; where a dinosaur's tail would 'start'. Again, I don't know how a Theropod dinosaur's air sacs would be distributed in the tail, but if it's anything like a bird; the largest sacs would be either over the hip region, or behind it. Still, the lungs and anterior thoracic air sacs would be quite voluminous, of course. It's like I said; perhaps the tail muscles were heavier than an external observation might indicate. Anyway, thanks for the response. It's just an interesting topic.