So glad to see you making a review again! This figure is overall pretty good I think. I totally agree with you on the integumentary aspects of the model, and the colouration is fine to me as well. I appreciate the more vibrant yellowish-orange highlights on the lacrimal crests, although I wish they would have done a bit more with it in making it a tad more exagerrated (and also less glossy) and maybe adding some more display structures. I think I've heard somewhere that we do have skin impressions probably hailing from Tarbosaurus, that may indicate the presence of a gular pouch of some sort. Don't know much about that though. I also would have preferred extra oral tissue, but i guess the protruding teeth that are even well visible when the mouth is closed are a stylistic norm for PNSO, and since it cannot entirely be ruled out (even though I personally think it is very unrealistic), I would not automatically view it as an inaccuracy. In other terms I think the proportions all in all are quite nice and representative of the real animal, but also a bit odd here and there (especially in the hind limbs, as you said). I don't know how to feel like in terms of the chunkiness of this very chubby Tarbosaurus. On one hand it is clearly a little too much but on the other hand I would have definately been much more upset if we got another shrink-wrapped, emaciated dinosaur. There are other figure producing companies for that.... So, to sum up my thoughts, despite some minor flaws this is a good model. Anything but dissappointing for sure but I am also not too ecstatic about it to be honest. All in all pretty solid, and probably the one I would pick if I had to purchase a theropod from PNSO. Unpopular opinion, but I will say that I am not so enthusiastic about the idea of more tyrannosauroids from PNSO. I think that we've already gotten enough in the last months or so, and many other manufacturers do them on a regular basis too. Nothing against the occasional tyrannosaur, but sometimes more is less and to fill the gaps it wouldn't be wrong to put the spotlight on families that are less represented in the toy world. That applies to theropods in general. PNSO has produced a whole slew of them since the end of the last year, and because of the default stylistic choice of liplessness they are the PNSO products that appeal the least to me personally. I have much more interest in their ornithischians, and hope to see more saurolophines (like a Saurolophus itself to display with Chuanzi, as you already suggested in your video) and also some non hadrosaurid ornithopods from them in future. I would also welcome some new sauropods or sauropodomorphs in general. I don't own any PNSO products right now. They are not exactly the cheapest (I know quality has its price, but damn, around 20 euros for the cheapest of them with most of their other offerings clocking in at 30 euros or more is a hard pill to swallow for me). I've also heard that they seem to be prone to some quality control issues and that the packaging can be quite deceiving, with the actual figures looking not as good in person as pictured on the box. I do plan on maybe picking one or two up sometime in the future though. My first choices would be the Miragaia (I've sadly missed the Carnegie version) and the Pinacosaurus (because there are so few good ankylosaur figures). Oh, and I'm still very impressed of what I've seen of that beautiful Yangchuanosaurus and Chunkingosaurus diorama! As I said earlier in this comment, I guess the Tarbosaurus is the best standalone theropod figure from them (perhaps along with the new(ish) Spinosaurus) in my opinion, but I am not sure if that is enough for me to buy it. Especially as this one seems to be among the priciest ones on the spectrum of PNSO figures... So again, thanks for the review, keep it up, I am already looking forward to the next one!
i think this figure in terms of bulkyness it touches the limit...animals have more flesh than just skeleton and some muscle they also have fat reserves which depending when the animal ate last time might be more fat or lack fat, the skin and stuff this sure is not the bulkyness an average tarbosaurus would have but as a certain individual in a certain moment of it's life i think it is alright, maybe it had a good meal recently and since wild predatory animals take as much food as possible because food can be rare this seems within the realms of reasoning, especially if you think that the only competition tarbosaurus had was other adult tarbosaurus it would rarely be bothered when eating and of course as a big animal it needs more muscles to support it's weight than small animals all of these combined still make a good figure...about the display structures and stuff i agree but that's just the style of the company i guess not something to say "inaccurate" or "accurate" it's like a paleoart just a certain view of this animal since we cant know 100% their real appearance
@@firegator6853 You've got a point there. Yes, if viewed from that perspective the chubbyness is more reasonable of course (However, I don't think that the model's designers went for that necessarily). Even though I know that dinosaurs (and especially Tyrannosaurus and its closest relatives) were most likey significantly chonkier than they are oftentimes depicted, this amount of rotundness is still a bit of a stretch in my opinion, and I would have preferred a slightly less extreme execution. Yes, there may be scenarios where this appearance would be possible, but as a potential customer, personally I would have been more happy with a more normal approach. I absolutely agree with what you said on accuracy, and the last thing I wanted to do with my original comment is to come off as someone who says that a model is distinctly "inaccurate" because of some detail (for example the liplessness) that could or could not be the actual condition in the living animal, whose implementation in this model does not appeal to me on a subjective level. I have respect for the style of the PNSO products, it just isn't my cup of tea in some cases. Of course that doesn't mean that a figure is automatically "bad" or "inaccurate" or that everyone has to universally share my thoughts. So, sorry if I made that impression, I certainly didn't intend to do that. With that said, I still quite like how this Tarbosaurus turned out overall. Still not really planning to get it, but nevertheless pretty high up there.
@@danielegyed840i agree with you....i do think it would be more appealing to people if it was the medium/average bodyplan although as it is its not bad considering the amount of individual variation and different conditions during the animal's lifetime i am from the people who like the animals not perfect...just like in the wild being dirty, maybe a bit of deformity, well fed indicating a powerful old individual or underweight indicating an unlucky individual that is not strong enough to survive and maybe scars showing past injuries as a general reconstruction it might be "meh" but as a life restoration art of a certain individual its absolutely amazing....it just depends what you prefer, general reconstruction or a certain individual
Really Dyno-mite review! I love this chunky boy! I wonder is there a discussion regarding the stands PNSO provide for these figures? I only have 2 PNSO therapods so far; Wilson & Domingo. I have had them on display for a couple of weeks now; Domingo's stand is pretty much useless as his chest really does not sit on it without his foot being in the way, and Wilson has slightly warped to a point where he is seems to be quite secure standing on just 1 foot! He is not even touching his stand now! Mind you, I don't want to whinge too much on this; not one of my "standing" Rebor figures (Killer Queen, Sentry, Oasis & Stan) can actually stand properly without blue-tac or some other means of a "fix" to stop them face-planting!
My torvosaurus won’t stand without the stand but getting him on it is a feat in and of itself, so yeah, they can be kind of useless. I suppose if one of them is the right size they might come in handy with those REBOR figures you mentioned!
Regardless of the amazing paint work and detail, the way the weight is distributed (especially around the booty) is still very weird and I don’t like it, regardless if it’s still *possible* .
Check pics of the Tarbosaurus skull. I think the head of Chuanzi is too long and too flat. In the pics the skull is considerably taller and more robust. Is it just my impression? I feel the same about the Wilson T. Rex. Great vid BTW!
The skull of this pnso tarbosaurus is based on pin551-1 which I think it's the oldest tarbosaurus skull we got and it's pretty elongated just like this figure shows
i did not like the figure when the promos were first released but after all these reviews i like it...it's not as fat as it was in the promos, possibly due to view perception ALTHOUGH it is above average tarbosaurus weight i dont see it impossible...keep in mind its a big predator, tyrannosaurids need to support a lot of weight so they need big muscles, tarbosaurus also lived with sauropods and it evolved to be more of a runner than t rex so very powerful muscles only make sense now about the torso which i hear the most problem is...i do agree its above than the average bulkyness but NOT impossible...as i said tarbosaurus is the largest animal in it's environment and it had no competition other than other adult tarbosaurus meaning whatever food it found or hunted most of the time it would be fully available for itself without worrying much about it being stolen....animals due to nature try to take as much food as possible because they move a lot so they lose weight anyway all their mind is thinking is when it comes to food is "take as much as possible because you dont know when you are gonna find food again" plus all animals have more stuff than just muscles...they got also fat reserves and the skin modern day archosaurs that live fully on land like crocodiles are way chunkier than their skeletons show and much of it is skin and fat....birds are not good comparison for mass because they evolved to be as light as possible to fly and even birds like ostriches evolved from flying ancestors so they still have that skinny look the conclusion is that if you think that chuanzi is a certain individual, strong, recently had a good meal it's not bad figure at all maybe the feet are a bit bigger and there could be more neck flesh to the underside but other than that it's good i believe AT LEAST it's not unnaturally fat looking and it's within the realms of reason....as i say always, better good fleshed big dinosaurs than too skinny ones i will pick mine tomorrow from post office and i will see how it looks in hand im very sure it will look amazing with all of it's characteristics viewed from every side
t rex is fine in terms of bulkyness tarbosaurus is the one that is above the average...although it's not impossible it just shows it as a certain specimen that seems to be strong and possibly had a lucky big meal i think it would be better if it was less bulky to show it as species not as a certain individual at a certain moment of it's life
Fantastic review! You sir, have some of the best reviews on TH-cam!
Means a lot! Thank you for watching!
This was just such an incredible review on the fanatically chubby Tarbosaurus from PNSO,also I wish you a great day.
Man I love your reviews too. Love the detail and comparisons 🔥🔥🔥
The shot of all four PNSO tyrannosaurs gives me eofauna vibes. :3
The detail and paint on this figure looks astounding. I just wish its proportions were less extreme. Great review as always.
So glad to see you making a review again! This figure is overall pretty good I think. I totally agree with you on the integumentary aspects of the model, and the colouration is fine to me as well. I appreciate the more vibrant yellowish-orange highlights on the lacrimal crests, although I wish they would have done a bit more with it in making it a tad more exagerrated (and also less glossy) and maybe adding some more display structures. I think I've heard somewhere that we do have skin impressions probably hailing from Tarbosaurus, that may indicate the presence of a gular pouch of some sort. Don't know much about that though.
I also would have preferred extra oral tissue, but i guess the protruding teeth that are even well visible when the mouth is closed are a stylistic norm for PNSO, and since it cannot entirely be ruled out (even though I personally think it is very unrealistic), I would not automatically view it as an inaccuracy.
In other terms I think the proportions all in all are quite nice and representative of the real animal, but also a bit odd here and there (especially in the hind limbs, as you said). I don't know how to feel like in terms of the chunkiness of this very chubby Tarbosaurus. On one hand it is clearly a little too much but on the other hand I would have definately been much more upset if we got another shrink-wrapped, emaciated dinosaur. There are other figure producing companies for that....
So, to sum up my thoughts, despite some minor flaws this is a good model. Anything but dissappointing for sure but I am also not too ecstatic about it to be honest. All in all pretty solid, and probably the one I would pick if I had to purchase a theropod from PNSO.
Unpopular opinion, but I will say that I am not so enthusiastic about the idea of more tyrannosauroids from PNSO. I think that we've already gotten enough in the last months or so, and many other manufacturers do them on a regular basis too. Nothing against the occasional tyrannosaur, but sometimes more is less and to fill the gaps it wouldn't be wrong to put the spotlight on families that are less represented in the toy world.
That applies to theropods in general. PNSO has produced a whole slew of them since the end of the last year, and because of the default stylistic choice of liplessness they are the PNSO products that appeal the least to me personally. I have much more interest in their ornithischians, and hope to see more saurolophines (like a Saurolophus itself to display with Chuanzi, as you already suggested in your video) and also some non hadrosaurid ornithopods from them in future. I would also welcome some new sauropods or sauropodomorphs in general.
I don't own any PNSO products right now. They are not exactly the cheapest (I know quality has its price, but damn, around 20 euros for the cheapest of them with most of their other offerings clocking in at 30 euros or more is a hard pill to swallow for me). I've also heard that they seem to be prone to some quality control issues and that the packaging can be quite deceiving, with the actual figures looking not as good in person as pictured on the box. I do plan on maybe picking one or two up sometime in the future though. My first choices would be the Miragaia (I've sadly missed the Carnegie version) and the Pinacosaurus (because there are so few good ankylosaur figures). Oh, and I'm still very impressed of what I've seen of that beautiful Yangchuanosaurus and Chunkingosaurus diorama! As I said earlier in this comment, I guess the Tarbosaurus is the best standalone theropod figure from them (perhaps along with the new(ish) Spinosaurus) in my opinion, but I am not sure if that is enough for me to buy it. Especially as this one seems to be among the priciest ones on the spectrum of PNSO figures...
So again, thanks for the review, keep it up, I am already looking forward to the next one!
i think this figure in terms of bulkyness it touches the limit...animals have more flesh than just skeleton and some muscle they also have fat reserves which depending when the animal ate last time might be more fat or lack fat, the skin and stuff this sure is not the bulkyness an average tarbosaurus would have but as a certain individual in a certain moment of it's life i think it is alright, maybe it had a good meal recently and since wild predatory animals take as much food as possible because food can be rare this seems within the realms of reasoning, especially if you think that the only competition tarbosaurus had was other adult tarbosaurus it would rarely be bothered when eating and of course as a big animal it needs more muscles to support it's weight than small animals
all of these combined still make a good figure...about the display structures and stuff i agree but that's just the style of the company i guess not something to say "inaccurate" or "accurate" it's like a paleoart just a certain view of this animal since we cant know 100% their real appearance
@@firegator6853 You've got a point there. Yes, if viewed from that perspective the chubbyness is more reasonable of course (However, I don't think that the model's designers went for that necessarily). Even though I know that dinosaurs (and especially Tyrannosaurus and its closest relatives) were most likey significantly chonkier than they are oftentimes depicted, this amount of rotundness is still a bit of a stretch in my opinion, and I would have preferred a slightly less extreme execution. Yes, there may be scenarios where this appearance would be possible, but as a potential customer, personally I would have been more happy with a more normal approach.
I absolutely agree with what you said on accuracy, and the last thing I wanted to do with my original comment is to come off as someone who says that a model is distinctly "inaccurate" because of some detail (for example the liplessness) that could or could not be the actual condition in the living animal, whose implementation in this model does not appeal to me on a subjective level. I have respect for the style of the PNSO products, it just isn't my cup of tea in some cases. Of course that doesn't mean that a figure is automatically "bad" or "inaccurate" or that everyone has to universally share my thoughts. So, sorry if I made that impression, I certainly didn't intend to do that.
With that said, I still quite like how this Tarbosaurus turned out overall. Still not really planning to get it, but nevertheless pretty high up there.
@@danielegyed840i agree with you....i do think it would be more appealing to people if it was the medium/average bodyplan
although as it is its not bad considering the amount of individual variation and different conditions during the animal's lifetime
i am from the people who like the animals not perfect...just like in the wild being dirty, maybe a bit of deformity, well fed indicating a powerful old individual or underweight indicating an unlucky individual that is not strong enough to survive and maybe scars showing past injuries
as a general reconstruction it might be "meh" but as a life restoration art of a certain individual its absolutely amazing....it just depends what you prefer, general reconstruction or a certain individual
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Really Dyno-mite review! I love this chunky boy!
I wonder is there a discussion regarding the stands PNSO provide for these figures? I only have 2 PNSO therapods so far; Wilson & Domingo. I have had them on display for a couple of weeks now; Domingo's stand is pretty much useless as his chest really does not sit on it without his foot being in the way, and Wilson has slightly warped to a point where he is seems to be quite secure standing on just 1 foot! He is not even touching his stand now! Mind you, I don't want to whinge too much on this; not one of my "standing" Rebor figures (Killer Queen, Sentry, Oasis & Stan) can actually stand properly without blue-tac or some other means of a "fix" to stop them face-planting!
My torvosaurus won’t stand without the stand but getting him on it is a feat in and of itself, so yeah, they can be kind of useless. I suppose if one of them is the right size they might come in handy with those REBOR figures you mentioned!
Regardless of the amazing paint work and detail, the way the weight is distributed (especially around the booty) is still very weird and I don’t like it, regardless if it’s still *possible* .
Check pics of the Tarbosaurus skull. I think the head of Chuanzi is too long and too flat. In the pics the skull is considerably taller and more robust. Is it just my impression? I feel the same about the Wilson T. Rex.
Great vid BTW!
The skull of this pnso tarbosaurus is based on pin551-1 which I think it's the oldest tarbosaurus skull we got and it's pretty elongated just like this figure shows
i did not like the figure when the promos were first released
but after all these reviews i like it...it's not as fat as it was in the promos, possibly due to view perception ALTHOUGH it is above average tarbosaurus weight i dont see it impossible...keep in mind its a big predator, tyrannosaurids need to support a lot of weight so they need big muscles, tarbosaurus also lived with sauropods and it evolved to be more of a runner than t rex so very powerful muscles only make sense
now about the torso which i hear the most problem is...i do agree its above than the average bulkyness but NOT impossible...as i said tarbosaurus is the largest animal in it's environment and it had no competition other than other adult tarbosaurus meaning whatever food it found or hunted most of the time it would be fully available for itself without worrying much about it being stolen....animals due to nature try to take as much food as possible because they move a lot so they lose weight anyway all their mind is thinking is when it comes to food is "take as much as possible because you dont know when you are gonna find food again"
plus all animals have more stuff than just muscles...they got also fat reserves and the skin modern day archosaurs that live fully on land like crocodiles are way chunkier than their skeletons show and much of it is skin and fat....birds are not good comparison for mass because they evolved to be as light as possible to fly and even birds like ostriches evolved from flying ancestors so they still have that skinny look
the conclusion is that if you think that chuanzi is a certain individual, strong, recently had a good meal it's not bad figure at all maybe the feet are a bit bigger and there could be more neck flesh to the underside but other than that it's good i believe AT LEAST it's not unnaturally fat looking and it's within the realms of reason....as i say always, better good fleshed big dinosaurs than too skinny ones
i will pick mine tomorrow from post office and i will see how it looks in hand im very sure it will look amazing with all of it's characteristics viewed from every side
if pnso made a less chonky version of both the rex and tarbo or just tarbo then it would be perfect
t rex is fine in terms of bulkyness tarbosaurus is the one that is above the average...although it's not impossible it just shows it as a certain specimen that seems to be strong and possibly had a lucky big meal
i think it would be better if it was less bulky to show it as species not as a certain individual at a certain moment of it's life
@@firegator6853 i agree
That scene from Dino King 2 xD but honestly I don't like that voice and the 2nd movie neither. It was way to childish
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I think the head is a little too small and the body a little too bulky.