The Dinosaur Toy Blog

About the authors

There are several regular reviewers for the Dinosaur Toy Blog.

Dr Adam Stuart Smith (aka ‘Plesiosauria’ on the blog and ‘Dinotoyblog’ on the forum)
Adam S. Smith
Adam launched the Dinosaur Toy Blog in July 2007 and followed up with the Dinosaur Toy Forum in January 2008. In terms of figures he is primarily interested in marine reptile figures, especially plesiosaurs. Adam also runs The Plesiosaur Directory website and has published several popular and technical papers on fossil marine reptiles.

Tomhetleere
Tomehet
Tomhet’s mainly interested in prehistoric fishes and amphibians, but he also likes extinct invertebrates and marine reptiles. He has devoted a number of years to literature and language studies although prehistoric animals have been a big part of his life for years now. As some may have noticed by now, he prefers to review obscure animals.

Stefan Schröder (aka ‘Libraraptor’)
Stefan Schröder
31-year-old social worker Stefan Schröder is a dinosaur enthusiast since he was seven years old. Being a dinosaur figure collector since he met the Invicta Diplodocus at a bookstore, his fever never stopped. He usually reviews books and records, and now dinosaur figures. He lives with his wife and daughter in Ostentrop, Germany. Libraraptor was intended to mean “book robber”, connecting his passion for both books and dinosaurs. Unfourtunately after looking it up in a dictionary, Stefan found out that “Libraraptor” does not mean “book robber” but “scale rubber”. He now regards his nickname as an allusion to his overweight ;-)

Itstwentybelow

My name is Adam Frugé. I go by itstwentybelow on the forums. I have been fascinated by paleontology since I was three years old and have visited numerous fossil sites across North America, including Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada and Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, USA. I have displayed part of my collection in a state fair. In addition to dinosaur figures I also collect fossils. I currently live in Pullman, Washington where I am studying Anthropology at Washington State University, with special interest in human evolution and archaeology.

Alex Fortes (aka “ÇórÐÿlû§ TrøþÏÐÔ§tèrÑüm™”)
Alex Fortes
Cordylus is mostly interested in theropod dinosaur figures (although all dinosaur figures will do), along with shark figures. He likes to review well-known prehistoric animals as opposed to more obscure ones. He also likes to make dioramas with his figures; he even arranged the First Official DTF Diorama contest. Along with dioramas, he very much enjoys drawing several species of dinosaurs. His forum name came from the scientific name of one of his pet lizards, Java, who is a forest armadillo lizard Cordylus Tropidosternum.

Bokisaurus
Ashley Bokisaurus
My forum name is Bokisaurus or “Boki” for short. My real name is Ashley. I started collecting dinosaur figures 13 years ago. When I started, I collected only figures from my favorite groups of dinosaurs: sauropods, ceratopsians, and duckbills. It’s only within the last 8 years that I started adding figures from all the different groups. Besides collecting dinosaur toy figures, my other passion in life is Art and the outdoors. I take every opportunity I have to go out to the coast or the forest, taking some dino figures with me to make dioramas as an added bonus! I live in Seattle, Washington where it’s always sunny :o )

Chris DiPiazza (Griffin8891)
Griffin8891
Chris has worked with exotic animals for seven years now and has been a wildlife exhibitor, bringing live animals to camps and schools to educate children, for almost four years. In addition to living animals, he has an equally, if not stronger affinity for prehistoric ones as well. He also loves drawing, sculpting and painting and has recently illustrated a series of illustrations of dinosaurs to be used in lecture slides at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (which can be found under his thread in the art section of the forums). As far as dinosaur models go, he does not consider himself a true collector, but one who buys only what truly interests him. He loves all species of dinosaurs and other manner of prehistoric creatures but ultimately, he considers the Ceratopsians his favorites.

Emperordinobot
under construction

Tyrannax
under construction

Dan Liebman
under construction

Do you want to be a reviewer for The Dinosaur Toy Blog? We are always delighted to accept contributions from our readers and appreciate every one! If you think you can help, please send your figure review together with at least one photograph of the figure to plesiosauria@gmail.com. All accepted authors will be credited and invited to appear in the above list of authors. Don’t forget to check through the archives to see if your figure has already been reviewed.

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