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Ornithocheirus Danger Pack
Ornithocheirus brought a flying reptile to the Danger Pack range of Jurassic World Dino Trackers in 2023. It is a pterosaur, not a dinosaur, with a crested beak and long wings, and it became famous as the giant flyer of the 1999 series Walking with Dinosaurs. Mattel’s figure is a pale lilac flyer with a red crest and bright yellow wings. Here is what it looks like, the truth about how big it really was, and how to unlock it in the Jurassic World Play App.
🪽 Flying reptile🔴 Crested beak🔋 No batteries🧬 DNA scan code
Myth Buster: The Giant of the Skies
Many dinosaur fans grew up thinking Ornithocheirus was the biggest flying animal ever. Here is what holds up and what does not.
What Is Danger Pack?
Danger Pack is the smaller, battery-free assortment of Mattel’s Dino Trackers line, built around animals that lived, hunted or moved in groups. The figures have movable joints and a hidden tracking code for the app, but no sounds or motorised attacks. Ornithocheirus arrived in the 2023 waves alongside figures such as Velociraptor, Borealopelta and Pyroraptor.
Danger Pack has continued in later Jurassic World lines, and it is the easiest way to build a big Dino Trackers collection on a budget.
Paint and Colours
A bright, seabird-like scheme. The body, neck and legs are a soft lilac grey, while the wing membranes are a strong golden yellow with grey along the leading edges. The rounded crest at the tip of the beak is splashed with red, matching the red eyes, and the long beak itself is slate grey.
Sculpt and Detail
Head and crest
The long beak ends in a rounded, keel-like crest at the tip, the signature feature of ornithocheirid pterosaurs. Crests like this may have helped them slice through the water while snatching fish at the surface.
Wings and body
The wings are made of textured membrane stretched from the long fourth finger, with three small clawed fingers at the wrist, just as on a real pterosaur. The body is slim and the back legs are small, tucked behind in flight.
Not a dinosaur
Action Features and Articulation
✓ Movable joints✓ Hidden tracking code✓ No batteries needed✗ No sound or attack motion
Like every Danger Pack figure, Ornithocheirus keeps things simple: movable joints for posing and play, no electronics, and a tracking code hidden on the figure for the app. Its spread wings make it a great swooping flyer for play and a striking piece hanging over a display of sea and land figures.
Size and Specs
Sold in the HLN49 Danger Pack assortment, for ages 4 and up. It is one of very few flying reptiles in the Dino Trackers line, so it adds variety to any collection.
Is It Worth Buying?
Ornithocheirus is a great pick for kids who want something that flies, and for anyone who remembers it from Walking with Dinosaurs. The yellow wings and red crest look fantastic, it needs no batteries, and it is light enough for plenty of swooping play.
It came out in 2023 and is mostly found second hand now.
What we like
- One of the few flyers in Dino Trackers
- Bright yellow wings and red crest
- Classic ornithocheirid beak crest
- No batteries needed
Good to know
- No sound or attack motion
- Small size
About Ornithocheirus
Ornithocheirus was one of the first pterosaurs ever studied. Its type species, Ornithocheirus simus, was first described by Richard Owen in 1861 as a species of Pterodactylus, from a snout tip found in the Cambridge Greensand of England. In 1869 Harry Seeley gave it its own genus, Ornithocheirus, meaning bird hand, because he thought pterosaurs were the ancestors of birds.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago, around a shallow sea that covered much of what is now eastern England. Like its relatives, it was probably a fish-eater that skimmed or dipped for prey while soaring over the water.
Seeley went on to name dozens of species in the genus from scrappy bones, and later researchers have spent more than a century sorting them out. Today only O. simus is widely accepted as true Ornithocheirus.
How to Unlock Ornithocheirus in the Jurassic World Play App
Open the Jurassic World Play App (it used to be called the Jurassic World Facts App), tap Scan and point your camera at the DNA code below. The same code is on a small tag on the figure.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Danger Pack figures have no electronics. Ornithocheirus has movable joints and a hidden tracking code for the app.
No. It was a pterosaur, a flying reptile closely related to dinosaurs but in a separate group.
The English species, Ornithocheirus simus, probably had a wingspan of around 5 m. The 12 m giant from Walking with Dinosaurs was based on Brazilian fossils now called Tropeognathus.
Bird hand. Harry Seeley chose the name in 1869 because he believed pterosaurs were the ancestors of birds.
In 2023, in the Danger Pack range of Jurassic World Dino Trackers. Its product code is HLN61.
Open the Jurassic World Play App, tap Scan and point your camera at the tag on the figure, or at the copy of the code on this page.