Customer Reviews

Dinosaur Collectibles

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Being a dinosaur collector, I found this book interesting and quite comprehensive. Full of pictures and good quality printing! Though there are still rooms for improvement. For example, the list of the Carnegie collection is not complete, neither is that of the Jurassic Park series. The prices contained for some of the items are not realistic, too. Despite the above, I still love this book very much. Thank you!

Well, this is a nicely produced book - glossy pages, colorful pictures - and it is the only one of it's kind that I know of.
However, having said that, I gotta admit that for the die-hard collector there is a lot missing from this book. Many of the makers have very little descriptive information, a line or two, and some don't even include the year(s) of manufacture. There is little in the way of "interesting" info - for example why and how did the MPC figures come to copy so closely the Marx designs?
But there is a separate chapter just on Marx and that's a plus!
There is a lot missing because this book was published in 1999 - so nothing at all on Papo for instance, or CollectA - and the info on Wild Safari, Bullyland, Schleich, etc. is pretty puny. And the suggested values are mostly out-of-date.
The sections on Movies is fair - but the "Paper Dinosaurs" chapter is pretty thin! Barely anything covering comic books or vintage books about dinosaurs ...
But for us collectors it's pretty much all we got for now!
Will look forward to an updated new edition!
In the meantime - subscribe to 'Prehistoric Times' and you'll still be in the loop!!

Any collector of dino toys/models/replicas simply MUST HAVE THIS BOOK! As well as being a fountain of info of interest to the collector it is wonderful for just browsing through. Mike Fredericks and Dana Cain have done dino lovers everywhere a wonderful favor by producing this wonderful, long overdue book. (A big tip of the cap also to "Big-Time Dino Collector Par Excellence" Dean Walker who supplied copious amounts of beautiful photos). If you love dinos and you don't have this book, you my friend are living a lie!