New Papo Dinosaur Models for 2020
Today, Everything Dinosaur has announced the new for 2020 Papo dinosaur models. Information about five new figures has been released by Everything Dinosaur on its various social media platforms and this blog provides a little more information for Papo model fans and collectors.
New Papo Dinosaur Models
The five dinosaurs (Papo Les Dinosaures) are:
- Chilesaurus
- Giganotosaurus
- Stygimoloch
- Parasaurolophus new colour variant
- Feathered Velociraptor new colour variant
All are not expected until late in quarter 3 2020 – that’s around September 2020.
New for 2020 Papo Chilesaurus Dinosaur Model
Papo Chilesaurus
This little dinosaur from Upper Jurassic strata of southern Chile (hence the genus name), has caused stirs in the scientific community. We expect Papo model collectors will be pleased to see one of the more unusual and lesser known members of the Dinosauria to be added to the Papo model range. However, this three-metre long, probable herbivore, has had a significant impact in the way palaeontologists define the dinosaur family tree.
Since it was formally named and described in 2015, finding Chilesaurus a place within the Dinosauria as proved to be a bit of a challenge. It has theropod, sauropod and ornithischian traits. As such, when the Dinosauria was revised by Baron et al and the Ornithoscelida postulated once again, Chilesaurus was cited as providing evidence for this, it being a transitional form bridging the gap between the Theropoda and the Ornithischia.
Papo Giganotosaurus – New for Autumn 2020
Papo Giganotosaurus
Rumours had been circulating for years that Papo might extend their range of carnivorous dinosaurs and include a Giganotosaurus. In the autumn of 2020, model collectors will be able to add a Giganotosaurus to their dinosaur collection. The pose is a quite old-fashioned and in reality Giganotosaurus had a very different posture, but team members at Everything Dinosaur suggest that given the colour scheme and the bias towards brown-coloured theropods within the current Papo range (think Gorgosaurus, T. rex and Cryolophosaurus), Papo had to find a way to make this new figure stand out.
It certainly is a very different pose to the other large, carnivorous dinosaurs in the current Papo range. This posture also shows off those three-fingered claws nicely. The Giganotosaurus will also have an articulated lower jaw.
Papo Stygimoloch
Papo Stygimoloch
In the film “Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom”, a Stygimoloch came to the rescue of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (AKA Owen Grady and Claire Dearing), when it battered down a prison wall to help them escape. “Stiggy” the Stygimoloch became a star! Papo will be bringing out a replica of this bone-headed dinosaur in quarter three of 2020.
New Colour Variant Papo Parasaurolophus
Papo Dinosaur Models
This year, Papo introduced new colour variants of popular dinosaur models (Allosaurus and Stegosaurus), in 2020 this will be repeated with the addition of a new colour version of the Papo Parasaurolophus and a new feathered Velociraptor model.
The Feathered Velociraptor for 2020 (New Colour Variant)
New Colour Variants Papo Parasaurolophus and Papo Feathered Velociraptor
The Papo Parasaurolophus seems to have been inspired by the colour scheme from the Acrocanthosaurus repaint that came out in 2018. The new feathered Velociraptor model could represent a female, whilst the existing “Vélociraptor à plumes” in the range could portray a male. We are sure fans of Papo models will draw their own conclusions about the first five Papo models that Everything Dinosaur has discussed today.
Visit the Everything Dinosaur website: Everything Dinosaur.
Remember, these models are not likely to be available until the autumn of 2020.
To view the existing range of Papo prehistoric animal figures: Papo Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals.
You said first five models….it means that they going to release more at 2020, would be amazing because the coming year is very symbolic year 2020
That giga is so disappointing that pose is awful why do they keep doing that, theres so many poses they could do 🙁
And the wide legs they keep doing are not a good look like on the styigi and the previous years gorgo which I have :((((
I agree that the Giganotosaurus is awful. I paid willingly for the new spinosaurus – and would too for a good Giganotosaurus- but I’m not buying this one.
The Schleich Giganotosaurus is a really nice figure.