She's on my top five dinosaur figures so far from Jurassic World, despite her misgivings. Let us discuss...
Something I haven't mentioned is the wounded dinosaurs. Did they all have to be wounded? At least the wound is smaller here, but it's still visible and the ribs are in the wrong position. Ankylosaurus most certainly did not look like this, and it's obvious that they got their influence from Papo's "Ankylosaurus" which is certainly not Ankylosaurus. Ankylosaurus had plates and scutes covering most of its back instead of spikes, kind of like a complete nodosaurid but taken such armor to an extreme. Also, Ankylosaurus would have probably had 5 toes instead of four, as evidenced by other ankylosaur foot fossils (Ankylosaurus' feet are not known yet). Like all of these figures, there's screw holes and they are pretty obvious.
Like all Bashers and Biters, the gimmick here involves swinging the tail to one side (why not both) and stucking the head out like a...turtle? A TURTLE? They don't know anything about dinosaurs. Pulling the left leg back will cause the tail to swing to one side, and moving it forward causes the head to butt out.
Luckily a better repaint exists...if you can call that coloring better. It's very plain on this one. I will review the repaint, which is included with a limited run of Target Exclusive Indominus rex vs. Gyrosphere, momentarily.
Practically family! The Papo one is infinitely more detailed though, but still not accurate. They all look like generic 80's Ankylosauruses still.
This is as good as it gets folks, and here it is, one of my top 5 JW dinosaur toys by Hasbro, which means there's 4 more good ones out of like what, 20 or so toys? None of the other 4 I reviewed are in the top 4, so yeah. If you MUST have a JW dinosaur toy, let it be the Ankylosaurus!
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