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31 01, 2025

News of Papo Dinosaur Model Retirements for 2025

By |2025-01-31T09:37:27+00:00January 31st, 2025|Papo Prehistoric Animal Models|0 Comments

Everything Dinosaur can confirm the Papo dinosaur model retirements for 2025.  In total, four dinosaur figures are being retired from the famous “Les Dinosaures” model range.  The figures are three theropods and one horned dinosaur model.

We have listed the four Papo figures below, along with their year of introduction.

  • Cryolophosaurus (2017).
  • Dilophosaurus (2014).
  • Concavenator (2023).
  • Pentaceratops (2019).

New Papo models are due into stock at Everything Dinosaur shortly.  For example, the Corythosaurus and the eagerly awaited Suchomimus models should be in stock in a few weeks.

Papo dinosaur model retirements in 2025

Four Papo dinosaur models are being retired in 2025. Top left Cryolophosaurus, top right Dilophosaurus, bottom left Concavenator and bottom right Pentaceratops. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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Papo Dinosaur Model Retirements

Everything Dinosaur team members do their best to update dinosaur model collectors.  It can be helpful to be alerted about model retirements.  In doing so, collectors can make sure they pick up any figures they want before they become unobtainable.  New Papo figures, the Suchomimus and Corythosaurus figures will be in stock soon.  Models due to come out in 2025 such as the new feathered T. rex figure will be available later in the year.

Mike from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“It is always a little bit sad to announce model retirements.  However, by retiring models, manufacturers make room for new additions to their range.  Personally, I will be saddened to see the Papo Pentaceratops go.  It is a beautiful figure of a rearing horned dinosaur.”

Papo Pentaceratops dinosaur model.

The Papo Pentaceratops dinosaur model. This horned dinosaur model has been retired (2025). Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Papo Dilophosaurus

The Papo Dilophosaurus figure is being retired after more than ten years. In contrast the controversial Concavenator figure is being withdrawn only two years since it was introduced.  Mike explained that a turnover of figures was natural for a manufacturer.  Given the production pressures companies could not continue to grow their ranges indefinitely.

He added:

“Even with these Papo dinosaur model retirements, the Papo range will still consist of over forty figures by the end of the year.”

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26 11, 2024

New Papo Ampelosaurus Dinosaur Model In Stock

By |2024-11-27T06:13:21+00:00November 26th, 2024|Papo Prehistoric Animal Models|0 Comments

The new for late 2024 Papo Ampelosaurus dinosaur model is now in stock at Everything Dinosaur.  Dinosaur fans and model collectors have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of this new figure.  Team members have been busy contacting all those customers who wanted to be informed of this dinosaur’s arrival.  Mike from Everything Dinosaur confirmed that all those customers who had requested a model had now been contacted.

Papo Ampelosaurus dinosaur model.

A Papo Ampelosaurus figure in the Everything Dinosaur packing room. The model is shown in lateral view. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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The Papo Ampelosaurus Dinosaur Model

The Papo Ampelosaurus joins a Brachiosaurus, young Apatosaurus and an Amargasaurus in the Papo “Les Dinosaures” range.  Indeed, the last sauropod model to be added to the Papo range was the Amargasaurus.  It was introduced in 2018.  The new Ampelosaurus is a typical Papo figure.  It has that certain Papo “je ne sais quoi”, extremely apt for a French manufacturer.

The model measures an impressive forty-three centimetres in length.  It stands approximately sixteen centimetres tall.

Papo Ampelosaurus dinosaur model.

The Papo Ampelosaurus dinosaur model.

Ampelosaurus was formally named and described in 1995 (Le Loeuff).  It is regarded as a member of the Titanosauria clade. Ampelosaurus fossils have been found in France. Other material from Spain previously ascribed to Ampelosaurus is now thought to represent a different titanosaur taxon. It lived at the end of the Cretaceous (Early Maastrichtian faunal stage).  Size estimates vary.  However, palaeontologist Gregory S. Paul estimated that this dinosaur grew to around sixteen metres in length.  He thought this dinosaur would have weighed around eight tonnes. Papo do not declare a scale for this figure.  Notwithstanding this, if the model measures forty-three centimetres long, then this would represent a 1:37 scale figure.

Mike from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“We had wanted to get this figure into stock before the end of the year.  There had been a lot of requests to reserve a model.  Moreover, many of these requests came from our French customers. I guess, they wanted to get their hands on a model of an iconic French dinosaur.”

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