My honest review of the Amber Collection Raptor Squad - Jurassic World Mattel Figures 

My Echo also cannot move her jaw. It's stuck and I haven't had the time to really try and figure it out. At least your Echo having a crooked jaw is canon, lol. But yeah, quality control, some things slip through! Really awful you got kind of a bad batch too, with the other legs being weird. I was so let down by the Echo coloring. :/ Her color from the movie is so beautiful and detailed. I'm planning to repaint mine after I finish a costume for myself. The coloring choice is so bizarre to me, it's not like Camp Cretaceous was being worked on at the same time as the first Jurassic World and some weird communication happened... BUT I will tell you that communication between the branches of Universal is terrible. Like, really terrible. I know the reasoning for the head sculpts being the same: Money. Talking about retooling and I'd be willing to bet that Universal didn't want to pay for that. They'd be banking on no one noticing because THEY don't see the differences like yourself. All of the raptors are the same body and heads, even though the JP1 and JP2 look different, especially in the brow areas and some of the more angularness of the JP2s. Even though this is more for collectors, the higher-ups do NOT understand that market. They still think of most toys as only for kids, even when it's called a collection. Can't blame Mattel for ALL of it, they have to get approvals from their licensors. Universal approved all of this. I've worked for clothing and toy companies dealing with licenses, and all the back and forth for getting approvals on items. Nothing goes thru without having been seen by the client company. But I completely get the disappointment in this line. :/ It seemed to have a great start, but as it expands the quality and care given is decreasing.

On the bright side you can customize the raptor to make it more accurate to the film

Try Beast of the Mesozoic, its better on Articulation and detail, but they aren't based on the JP movies

What sucks about the amber collection is that many people overprice it and it’s not so affordable

Just have Echo and Delta so far. Do got to say that Delta's color scheme is pretty darn good

I actually wanted Blue right now, the rest is still decisionable for me. Also, your Delta isnt Glued, its being either joined by paint or stuck in paint, that could happen

Imagine my fear when they announced that they're making JP3 male raptors in this collection Will they have quills? Or a different neck sculpt to represent them? Will they even have the proper head sculpt?

It's absurd they ever released these like that at all. With all those mistakes everywhere it's just inexcusable.

Honestly, I'm just surprised that you were able to tell Echo and Delta apart enough to notice that they switched their pictures on the packaging.

I’m gonna be pissed if they do a jp3 raptor with the blue sculpt

People need to slow down on the trash talk to Mattel and about these figures. To anybody saying: "these mistakes are inexcusable, Mattel shouldn't make collector figures" calm down, the errors on the figures shown are not on every single figure in the line, sure there are inaccuracies but the figures in the review could be more defective than the figure you could get. Just keep that in mind while you watch this. Also, in my opinion, Echo has one of the best paint jobs. Even though it is not very accurate, it still is done really well, especially if you use it as a generic unnamed raptor.

on the hips and proportions it could be taken into account several factor, one, mattel does not produce anything high quality (talking revoltech or neca standards, SH monsterarts is way way out of the league). Second one is the articulation limitation, the hips look like that imo in orther to allow the figure to be interactive, although it could have been better it gets the job as a toy. and finall one is the feet are large in orther for it to stand imo, if they had keept the OG props, i may have been difiutl to fabricate or to balance the creature, from my point of view the hp and arm articulations could be difficutl to make, but the hip ones just seem extremly difficult to make, if you wwant a functional figure. in the end is just a hgh quality toy, but not a collectable.

You sure did make a fair point,and I can agree a lot of things you said. But I'm glad myself to enjoy these awesome figures,also hope your day is going great.

Honestly considering Mattel's track record these aren't too bad, they're certainly no Hasbro, if Hasbro would have realized JP had a collector's market when they had the license, we would have got something like this but with the sculpt and articulation quality of Black Series or Marvel Legends.

For the AMBER COLLECTION Raptors, it just need the feet to be smaller, the metatarsals a little shorter, and maybe the jaws a little longer or the head a little bigger. I hope so much that Mattel will also do in this collection : the Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic World (although it will be the same size as the "Super Colossal Tyrannosaurus Rex") as long as the proportions will be respected : especially the size of the feet and head in relation to the rest of the body, and the exact location of the scars : those on the right, on the muzzle, and those on the left, especially at the level of the shoulder; and the male velociraptor from Jurassic Park 3 based on the velociraptors from AMBER COLLECTION where it just need the feet to be smaller, the jaws a little longer and/or the head a little bigger, change the colors, the head and add the thorns or proto-feathers behind the head.

I agree. Unfortunately the way I see it Mattel can do just toys. Any higher quality figures for collectors are just too bad quality to even think about buying...

I don’t mind the inaccuracies, all I care about is the possibility, so I disagree, I think the amber collection raptors are good….

My Jurassic park raptor has his top neck joint glued like deltas knee. I also kinda agree as I would like for them to have good quality and better accuracies especially since echo was my favourite.

I think only in the Dino Rivals line, they for once got Echo's colors right

Even if the AC Echo is based on the Camp Cretaceous design, it's not even that accurate to it. CC Echo is closer to the og colors than AC Echo. If we were to get these rereleased, the changes needed, and another Echo based on her look in Jurassic World.

17:38 Echo is so beautiful and she gets the least screen time, did the best in the training part and gets killed! Poor Echo is also the smallest raptor and the least respected. Echo is my favorite and I am so mad that amber collection would do this. Even after making Blue, Charlie, and Delta look identical to the movie but poor Echo (who has the prettiest colors besides Blue) from Camp Cretaceous.

I only got Blue since the sculpt is based on her. The other raptors are literally the same toy repainted over and over again.

Cut around the glued leg on delta where it attaches maybe that will work?

I'm curious, are the the tops of raptor's jaws supposed to hinge? Doesn't every creature only have a hinged lower jaw?

White tiger raptor is literally so loose when you move the leg when you try to stand it up and just pull down like you can't even stand up right and just flip on the side

I got a manky jaw on my dilophosaurus amber collection when I ordered it and I was so upset because I payed £40 for it

I want Blue from this...because it's the mold the figure was made as. I was increasingly annoyed by how much all the raptors were just Blue repaints. No retooling at all until JP3. Which when you get to the JP or TLW raptors which have very distinct features is really distracting to me. I think Hammond Collection is doing the same thing, as the JP raptor looks like it's Blue repainted. I get WHY but when we're going to collectable level, I think we really should have a bit of simple retooling

Charlie has big disfigured cheek and a scar on it tho that she got when she was a baby and was challenging Blue if I remember correctly.

I see a repainting and resculpting the amber collection raptor squad video coming soon? Hmmm 😜 also poor leg, the paint probably wasn't dry it joined both points of the articulation when it dried HAHAH quality control issues mattel

I had that exact same problem with the jaw being not glued on properly on my dilophosaurus, shame it happened to that one because otherwise it would be worth like £150 now

I guess they would have big feet because of standing issues but sense they have a base to stand on there no Excuse I was thinking about buying blue or the lost world raptor but I don’t know

Dont have any of the raptors myself. Though I agree with your points. I think the recent human figures are great (having Nedry myself). Personally looking forward to the Ellie Sattler fig! Out of curiosity does anyone have trouble problems with the Dilophosaur’s jaw? Mine wont close completely… Don’t know if thats a common problem or not

Nice! I have blue and echo so far

Everything is so true but good thing rod and you are going to fix it 😁

This is an amazing review

1:47 the tiger-stripes Velociraptor 1:54 Yes that’s Charlie but again the sculpt is wrong and why the stripes pattern on the tail look so weird 1:58 that’s Delta 👌👌 but the head sculpt is wrong 2:03 wait a minute….that is Echo ??? I don’t remember Echo look like that ?

I'm not so keen on these at all. All I want is a detailed collectors raptor from jurassic Park! Any suggestions?

I got 2 Echos to repaint using the replacement heads( 1JW and 1 JP) Marco and Rod collabed on. Didn't realize why the echos were so abundant on ebay until now. Thankfully I got a $50 deal for two. The quality control is seriously lacking and unless you are getting them for repaints I'd pick a favorite raptor and just get that one. Rant below. The first one I got can't close it's jaw and back teeth paint was peeling but otherwise ok. I think the replacement head should fix the jaw and I can repaint the teeth when I do. The second is a disgrace. Besides the emblem not being painted on the base the headset is horribly misshapen to the point it's useless. However the worse part is the tail. It's warped so only 'tiffner' can be read on it and was stuck to the packaging with paint. It peeled off the tail with a small yank to stay in the package and still peeling paint elsewhere. Emblem is a quick fix but I'll have to strip the paint off the tail and deal with trying to work on naked rubber. The headset is a complete loss.

I was also pretty let down by the fact almost all the animals in the collection were just raptors or raptor based.

I think that they still are like WOW but I don’t have any myself (yet 😢)

I got Blue, Echo, and Delta on the way, idk where to get Charlie from unfortunately

I’d love to see you give them a rework

Did you ever fix your raptors legs? my delta came with a club foot that i can't seem to twist even with hot water.

How much did they all cost? I've been wanting to get them but didn't know the cost.

I've got all of them, and every single camera headpiece I got snapped off in half after a week or two. Also, I have the OG Amber raptor and her tail seems to already be drying out and cracking, and they only have ever been displayed. It makes me feel sad and kind of disappointed because they are a little pricey for me and them falling apart or the pieces breaking is just not great. I'd like to see some sculpt variety on these raptors as well

my son loves them because he admires them

Delta moves at birdlike movement. Almost like a big chicken if you ask me.

U planning on sculptingrepainting the figures? I´d love to see them as accurate as possible to their film counterparts.

My delta has the correct paint apps on the leg that you were complaining about

Actually there also available on target

You do know that these are toys not true replicas,so given that, they are done very well !

Hey Marco did you know Mattel just released images of their JP3 male velociraptor for the amber collection and it has a screen accurate head sculpt to the movie so you don't need to make a replacement head with rods Random works

My delta has a crooked jaw but my lost world, echo and Charlie are good (I don’t have blue 😞)

As someone whose opinion on the Raptor Squad is "That blue one and the three genericos who got utterly jobbed", even I can't help but gawk in disbelief at... This

That’s not the amber Collection that’s the raptor collection!! Lol

I live in the US and had to pay $40 for my Amber lost world raptor and $75 for the OG 93 JP Velociraptor. I haven’t bought any of the new JW raptors but I think I’m going to skip those thanks for the video review!

If Mattel could pay attention to the quality and painting this would be a decent figure

Echo is the least accurate but tbh, I love her colors. She looks like a good mix of TLW and JP93 raptors. It's not Echo but it's neat. But yeah. This line is disappointing as hell. The supposed JP3 raptor (if it even releases because BBTS is the only one listing it and no one else has mentioned it) is def gonna be the last one I grab unless they step the hell up

i guess you could name them the way gaming beaver did with his hasbro raptor squad, "the craptor squad"

Wow its great

Your dinosaurs are a million times better sir 🦕

Delta looks like she hasn't slept for 2 days

If u dont like delta because of the leg u can give it time i cant really get them cuz theres not dinosaurs like that in my aroundings

the thing that happened to your delta figure happened to my Charlie figure but, I turned the ankle and it worked.

I only got echo in-store after my dog chewed the tip of the tail and some the articulation part were weak after of a couple days some teeth paint was chipped off and then the claw was bitten off by my dog

For me blue and delta are my favourite

Ik this has nothing to do with the video but I just realized that I you make a kickstarter for rubbersaurs and they get funded enough, you could maybe make godzilla and the indominus because you could maybe get the liscnense. Only problem is the cost.

If they released an accurate Echo that would be better

Ok the back of the legs are fine it looks different which look cool

i got the regular vraptor and delta at gamestop

I think they are good

Also I hope they make an indoraptor thats way more better with everything mattel did have on it and didn't!

YOOOOO THOSE RAPTORS ARE AWESOME

can you maybe take photos of the echo and delta pictures reprint them and stick them on the correct boxes maybe

The pricing you mentioned at the beginning seems a bit off. I believe you said 40-70 USD, I just ordered a Jurassic Park Velociraptor for $25 on Amazon and obviously this figure hasn’t been in stores for quite a while.

I have the brown Jurassic Park raptor. I call him ''Peeraptor'' bacause you just can't use the amber coloured base without it looking like the raptor is peeing heavily

yes mattel needs a bit more work on it i loved the scorpious you made because yesterday i was going to buy bumpy but just the plasticky looking paint just annoyed me did not buy it

Wow I remember when Matt Brando said that these figures were a bad idea. Sad to say he's always right.

I don’t see that being Echo in my opinion, I see it as being a new raptor

Nice video keep it up

Just rotate the delta legs so that the lines are the same

What are the best collector figures

my tiger raptor got a broken tail and arm wont move

Awesome!

we should all be excited for the Deinonychus squad

not Only his Skill are Fine his also got Amazing Spirit To His Passion on Dinosaurs 💞and So On

I feel like the stands would look like pee regardless if it is orange or clear because pee can also be clear.

were can i buy them

I got Charlie at universal studios only 14 bucks there

Poor Delta(

How do you get Charlie?

The large feet and claws is what stopped me from buying one...

The raptors delta and Charlie are older that's why they have the head crests we know this because look at jurassic world blue and jurassic world dominion blue

Where I’m from the amber collection raptor costs $80 in store

my delta is ok but the only problem about my delta is that her sickle claw wont go up and for some reason my delta has more blue color then yours

And what do you do to win

So the reason they all look the same is because all of the velociraptors are just repaints of the original Jurassic park raptor

You should work for Jurassic World Mattel

Delta lives. so on blues packing it says: blue is the "LAST OF HER KIND LEFT ON THE ISLAND" : when Delta lives.

I want one of that but its too expensive