Exciting New Additions to the CollectA Model Range
CollectA have announced that there will be a number of new additions to their range of prehistoric fauna and flora model ranges, including a number of new 1:40 scale models plus the introduction of cave people, in a first for this company.
CollectA Prehistoric Animal Model
The CollectA prehistoric animal model range has proved to be extremely popular amongst collectors and fans of dinosaur models.
These new models including Argentinosaurus, Mapusaurus and an exciting replica of the mysterious Deinocheirus will be released in the early spring and into the summer of 2012.
List of Models Due to be Launched in 2012 including CollectA Dinosaurs
New prehistoric animal models due to be launched.
Table credit: Everything Dinosaur with thanks to Anthony Beeson
We have provided a brief note next to each of the models to help readers, other items will be available as boxed sets. Pictures should be with us shortly and we look forward to writing about these new and exciting additions which will be in stock with Everything Dinosaur next year. It will be fascinating to see how the fossil material for Deinocheirus has been interpreted, this animal is only known from a pair of huge, forelimbs over eight feet in length.
The CollectA Range
Accompanying the release information there was a statement provided by Anthony Beeson, all round good guy, and one of the principals behind the CollectA range. It is Anthony who continues to strive hard to get as many British dinosaurs represented in this range and we are delighted to see the long overlooked hypsilophodonts get their chance to be in the spotlight.
Anthony’s statement:
“2012 sees CollectA enter its sixth year of existence in producing models of prehistoric fauna and flora with the introduction of two new series and the creative expansion of a third. In an attempt to likewise educate and to provide the greatest amount of creative play both the new series will, it is hoped, be well received.”
The polymath added:
“As a child growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s I always found it annoying that no manufacturer ever produced anything for my toy carnivorous dinosaurs to eat. Herbivorous dinosaurs could be catered for by the bushes and trees produced for modern zoo and farm animals, but meat-eaters were apparently not allowed food. This situation has continued until now for, as a result of this omission, CollectA is the first company to introduce an innovative new series entitled Dinosaur Prey to complement its carnivorous dinosaurs and to add a new educational element to building a prehistoric diorama or landscape.”
Anthony added:
“Dinosaur Prey will include dead animals from different geological eras and will feature evidence that we can ascertain from the fossil record of wounds that might have been inflicted on them by carnivores during conflicts. Allied to this new series is the introduction of a new standard size CollectA Tyrannosaurus rex that comes complete with its prey, a dead Struthiomimus.”
We at Everything Dinosaur can see Anthony’s point, when we work on exhibitions for museums, the carnivores are very often depicted with their “victim” – very often the carcase of dinosaur that the animal would have been feeding on.
Anthony goes on to state:
“A problem with producing scale models of dinosaurs are the many important but small creatures that were a prominent part of any prehistoric landscape but that have been too small to realistically be commercially produced for sale in retail outlets as individual figures. It has been my wish for some time to solve this problem and with this in mind in 2012 I have designed and CollectA starts a second innovative new series entitled Dinosaur Families featuring family or clan groups of small dinosaurs in scale with the larger animals in the range. I have chosen Hypsilophodon, one of my favourite “British” dinosaurs to commence the series and, by request, the newly discovered ceratopsian Koreaceratops. The figures are presented in family groups on landscaped bases also ornamented with an example of prehistoric flora.”
An Illustration of Koreaceratops
Koreaceratops illustrated.
Picture credit: Julius Csotonyi
To read about the discovery of Koreaceratops: Swimming Ceratopsians – New Species of Horned Dinosaur.
This year CollectA is also pleased to expand its innovative and ground-breaking collection of Prehistoric Flora that it first introduced in 2009. As with the original two examples, these new additions are intended to add yet another element of educational interest and enjoyment in studying and playing with dinosaurs and to complement the animals in both the standard and deluxe ranges and help in the building of prehistoric dioramas. As with the earlier examples they are also intended to provide “food” for the herbivores! The plants are equipped with bases that may be joined to those of the Dinosaur Families to form landscaped scenes.
Anthony outlined CollectA’s plans stating:
“The 2012 standard dinosaur range includes the recently discovered ceratopsian dinosaurs Utahceratops and Kosmoceratops together with the marine reptile Dolichorhynchops and the South American giants Argentinosaurus and Mapusaurus. In the Deluxe 1:40 range I am pleased to present updated and considerably improved models of Neovenator and Amargasaurus, together with my idea of the enormous but little known Deinocheirus. Joining the current Deluxe 1:15 Tyrannosaurus rex is a new and huge Triceratops that we hope is our most accurate model of the species to date. In the Prehistoric Animals range we introduce a model of the North American Megacerops, also known as Brontotherium, that we hope will find favour.”
Everything Dinosaur’s Illustration of the Marine Reptile Dolichorhynchops
“Doli” to his friends!
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur/Mike Fredericks
We are all looking forward to these new model introductions.
To view Everything Dinosaur’s existing model range including the models and figures in the CollectA Prehistoric Life/Age of Dinosaurs range: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models/Age of Dinosaurs.
To view the CollectA scale models: The CollectA Deluxe/Supreme Model Range.
Thanks for making this website. I’ve been searching for a good dinosaur forum for a while now and I really appreciate all the work. thats been put into the website.
You are most welcome, we are a team of teachers, geologists, palaeontologists, fossil hunters and we post up things that we think are cool. We try and post everyday, we have a few articles awaiting posting up.
hy-collecta has got better each year since they started with dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts-this year from the photos seen shows that there new releases are the best yet and maybe even better than carnegie and bullyland-who release less dinosaurs each year-collects quality is gone up each year and the photo previews show that interesting first as far as i know for mass produced figures-t rex with a dinosaur in its mouth and dead triceratops are something that should have been done years ago by other companies
Thank you for your kind words – greatly appreciated.
also-i always suggesed to other dino toy sites that museum figures with something different such as a resting dinosaur or a dinosaur with something in its mouth -would have been great to see and i hope the trend of such diarama type figures continues since it is different from the usual static figure doing nothing in particular-personally i hope collecta suceeds as it trys new dinosaurs that have never had a figure of them before and some dinosaurs that havent got a figure for decades -the detail is so impressive -much better than bullyland and the 2005 natural history museum dinosaurs-but schleich did try with solid if outdated figures-but still impressive even if many used old artwork and reconstructions-a proper line for old vintage style dinosaurs is needed though and its odd to see what company will realise that there is a market for mass produced but museum quialty old vintage style dinosaurs-even i would like to see a line of vintage style dinosaurs based on the old art of knight or burian-
With so many other manufacturers reducing their product lines, it is great to see more models being introduced by Collecta. Although we agree with your comment about maybe bringing out a range of classic dinosaurs based on the original artwork of Charles Knight or Burian.