Battle Damage Pachycephalosaurus Similarly sized to Hasbro's Jurassic World Battle Damage - Walmart Exclusive Item No.: Asst. FNB31 No. FTK70 Manufacturer: Mattel Includes: N/A Action Feature: Rotating wound gimmick Retail: $9.96 Availability: April 2018 Other: Articulated
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The Battle Damage Pachycephalosaurus is a standard dinosaur lately. If you have a decent dinosaur toy line, you're probably going to get one of these. We got a Pachycephalosaurus [FOTD #1,472] for the last movie too - and they're each good for different reasons. This one has more articulation and a fun battle wound, the other one had more striking coloring. And was taller. And had a head mechanism that was decent, but not great, which may be why it was available on clearance for a while back then. But this new one? It's pretty fun.

She's about 9-inches long when lined up in "ramming mode", where you can manually smash her in to other toys. Standing upright, she's about 5 1/2-inches tall. The sculpt is new, but there are enough similarities to the old one you can forgive me for running to my shelves to compare this year and last year's models. The similarities are many, but the scale detail has improved significantly. The new one looks ore like it could be a breathing creature with less fractures in the skull and a lot more bony horns, plus I dig the beak. Her tiny arms have ball joints for no good reason, so thanks to Mattel for just making it better than it needed to be.

It's hard to surprise me with articulation on a dinosaur toy, but Mattel did it by achieving a better-than-expected center of gravity. She can stand, she can ram, and her head can move a lot and look around curiously. I had no problems getting her to pose, thankfully her arms and legs can swing out as well as forward so you can correct for any uneven surfaces.

The paint job is a little weird, but it works - a green body with brown on top actually turned out pretty well. The lighter color on the skull indicates wear from use, with big curious eyes and green, splayed fingers with no claw paint. Those are a little weird. The three-toed feet are stable, and I like how the tail balances the body nicely.

There's an app interactive "DNA" mark on the sole of one foot, which you can scan in an app for some facts and factoids and some stuff they made up for the movies. Sure, why not. The real kicker is the bloody patch, a trapdoor of sorts that spins around to serve as a battle wound. I love that it's a non-removable mechanism,so you don't necessarily lose a patch of flesh like you might in the old days. It's an improvement.

I thought the Stygmoloch looked a lot more interesting, but I cracked this one open first. It's a bit old-fashioned, and the coloring won't "wow" you, but it's nice. It's fun. It poses well. It's about all I can ask for, really I probably never need to buy another one of this species ever again, but I'm sure they'll come up with something down the road.

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