[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Dino Riders should've gone to Mattel, and they could've worked out a deal to re-use the Jurassic Park dino molds for them haha

As far as I know...Mattel still owns the primary rights when it comes to putting out toys, hence why we are only seeing high end statues and diorama pieces at the moment.

One could argue though that Mattel has been putting out Dino-Rider toys for years through their Imaginext Dinosaur and Imgaginext Jurrasic Park lines. They have been pumping out toys for a while now that are so inspired by the original IP that they are near carbon copies of the originals, right down to the brain boxes. They've just been doing it quietly to a much younger audience.

As a huge Dino Riders fan who had most of the line as a child, I'm thrilled to see the franchise get any love. I never thought it would be in statue form, which is unfortunate because I simply don't do statues and maquettes.

One final thought, it's actually a little jarring at first seeing the very innocent 80s cartoon (who was often quite motherly) Serena in such a super sleek and sexy look that could easily pass for a test shot for a feature film to the untrained eye. I remember hearing all the way back in 2015 that Mattel was looking to produce a big budget Dino Riders film. Eventually talks died down for some reason and not much else was reported on it.

Upon remembering that and seeing the realistic and well translated look of this statue, the thought came to mind that of wondering if the inspiration for this hyper realistic look of the statues comes from some (presumably) shelved designs that we may have seen should that film had received the green light? I'm eager to see how other human characters such as Questar and Gunnur translate to this look, as well as the Rulons...especially the mainline characters like Krulos, Antor, Rasp Krok and Hammerhead.