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Originally Posted by salsa4datass

i must have worded it wrong. what i mean is that they could do so many different dinosaurs and they are going back to dinosaurs they have already done. the new raptor (not the different color one as they have been doing that since the line was created) is the frilled dinosaur which i think is not even considered a raptor. and the stego looks like a smaller version kind of like the old ones...

LOL, no problem - just pulling your leg. Most of the time, there's no other reason to reuse a toy mold other than to try to recoup some of the R&D costs that were spent on making it. But in this case, it actually makes sense that you'd have more than one of a particular type of dinosaur, even if there are slight variations. Even a possibly smaller Stegosaurus would work as a younger relative of the current one.

Also, the frilled one is closer to a Jurassic Park-style "Dilophosaurus" than either the real dinosaur or a Raptor. Especially now that scientist theorize that dromaeosaurs (like Raptors) had feathers and looked very different from the way they were portrayed in 1993.

But for the most part, Imaginext is pretty accurate for a dinosaur toyline. The only ones I know that are more accurate are the newer JP toys and Dinosaur Train.