Alright so, I'll start off by saying that Safari has by far the best dinosaurs in terms of paleontological accuracy, which is what I personally look for in a dinosaur toy. I don't have a lot, but I do own what I like to call the Triceratops Tower(™). Also a slightly unrelated fun fact, but did you know that some ceratopsian skulls could reach as much as 9 feet in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the frill? How cool is that!
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loginThe difference is quality and accuracy between the bottom two still astounds me. I get that one is much older, but the one on the bottom wasn't even that expensive and is just fantastic! While the top three were childhood toys and so are very nostalgic for me, the larger one is now my favourite. Some of the Safari dinosaurs are a bit outdated, but overall if you're looking for good dinos, look to them first.
Also I own a Safari velociraptor and a pteranodon, which isn't a dinosaur but shhh...
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loginThe next best company in terms of accurate dinosaur toys is actually Papo. I don't own any, as a kid I always had this weird and pointless hatred for Papo. Not sure why. But I still forget to look for their stuff even now that I know it's pretty good.
Schleich falls behind in the dino department. I only own two, which are a large and small Saichania, and they're not the most accurate or well-made. The material the larger one is made out of feels very weird, almost slimy? Maybe some of the newer Schleichs are better, but after checking their website, they still aren't that great in terms of accuracy. Oh well, they could be much worse.
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loginThat being said, I did see a very very good Schleich Spinosaurus (https://www.amazon.com/Schleich-15009-Spinosaurus-Toy/dp/B07G9R7RZQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=YE79VD2XN6AM&dchild=1&keywords=schleich+spinosaurus&qid=1602437590&sprefix=assassin%27s+creed+switch%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1) the other day, which I almost bought but it was just a bit too expensive. It wasn't completely up-to-date, it was missing the newt-like tail that we now know Spinosaurus had, but I can't fault them for that since that research was only published earlier this year. I can't wait to see if they do an updated Spino in the future, and in the meantime I'll probably buy their current Spino once I save up a bit.
CollectA is the worst in terms of dinosaur toy accuracy, and I've never seen one in person or for sale in a store so I can't say what they're like quality-wise. But what's weird is that despite almost all of their dinosaurs being pretty bad compared to the other companies, they have by far the best Styracosaurus (https://www.collecta.biz/en/collections/prehistoric-world/age-of-dinosaurs-deluxe-range/item/88777) toy I've seen. I'm so confused as to how they are consistently bad but then have this one really good figure??
Anyway, if you find the paleontological accuracy of dinosaur toys interesting like I do, there's this great series on Youtube called Your Dinosaurs are Wrong. This guy looks at different dinosaur toys and talks about all the ways is which they're wrong. It's fun to see the difference between the people who were clearly trying to make the best toy they could based on the information we knew at the time and the people who just went "ah, it's a dinosaur, if we just make a crocodile and throw some spikes on that should work, right?" (wrong.) But it's both fun and informative and he puts a lot of research into each episode, so definitely check that out.