[Steevy Maximus]

I've known about the Imaginext stuff for a while now, but it's just not the same as getting a realistic dinosaur with monstermen piloting them

Not sure I'd count the Imaginext guys when talking about Mattel though, those guys have been doing some freakishly AWESOME shit the last few years.
Hell, they even managed to get out a freakin' WALTER WHITE figure recently!

Again, the big appeal of the original line was the "museum quality replicas" that the original Dinosaurs attempted to be, cartoony dinos just aren't the same...