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Minqaria Frenzy Pack
The last figure in the first wave of Primal Ambush Frenzy Packs is a familiar face. The Minqaria, Morocco’s small crested duckbill, first appeared in the Rebirth line and now returns as a straight repaint. The sculpt is untouched, so this release lives or dies on its colours: the blue of the original is gone, replaced by an earthy mix of brown and green with a pale belly we did not expect. It is a handsome new look, though not quite enough to make us forget the first one.
🎨 Repaint of the Rebirth Minqaria🦆 Moroccan duckbill📏 ~18.5 cm / 7.25 inFrenzy Pack · Wave 1Product code JPG84DNA scan code included
🦴 How Does It Compare to the Rebirth Minqaria?
Because this is a repaint, the comparison that matters is with the first Mattel Minqaria from the Rebirth Frenzy Pack. Side by side, the two share every scale and the same striding pose. What separates them is paint alone.
Which one comes out on top is a matter of taste. The new scheme looks more like a real animal, while the blue original has more shelf presence and still feels a little more special. We lean slightly towards the first release, but either one makes a good partner for the other.
What Is a Frenzy Pack?
Frenzy Pack is the entry assortment of Primal Ambush: compact figures with simple joints, no electronics and no button feature. The Minqaria rounds off the first wave of the assortment, which also brings the brand new Bagaceratops, Magnosaurus and Thescelosaurus.
The packaging matches the rest of the line, apart from the dinosaur on the front, and the back of the box carries a checklist of the full wave.
Paint & Colour Scheme
Colour is the whole point of this release, and it is a clear change of direction. The entire head is brown, lifted by a fairly bright yellow eye. There is no black pupil, just a brown one, but against the dark head the eye still stands out well. The crest is brown as well, with one curious detail: a small splash of green sits on one side of it and is missing from the other. We cannot say yet whether every figure is painted like this or whether ours is a one-off, so it is worth checking both sides of yours.
Down the neck, green starts to creep in and gradually takes over the body. In these transition areas the green is a touch brighter and more washed out than on the torso, most likely because of a difference in the plastic underneath. We had spotted it in early photos, and it is just as clear in hand. Along the belly, a pale tone runs from the chest to just past the hips and blends into the green smoothly. Mattel could easily have left the whole body one colour, so this extra step is welcome.
The limbs are brown, with green breaking in at the top of the upper arms and thighs before fading away. The tail follows the same pattern, the green breaking up into brown towards the tip, again in that slightly different shade. None of the claws are painted.
Sculpt & Detail
Same mould, same stride
Mattel sometimes adds a new part or a small tweak to set a repaint apart. Not this time. The Primal Ambush Minqaria uses exactly the same sculpt as the Rebirth figure, from the walking pose with one front foot lifted to every scale on its body. That is hardly a problem, because the original was one of the most refined sculpts in its assortment.
Crest, beak and skin
The crest is clearly defined and textured, and the beak is cleanly sculpted. The skin changes across the body, with fine scales on the face and neck, larger ones over the torso and finer work again along the tail, while a row of scute-like scales follows the spine. Viewed from behind, the tail has a pleasing natural curve. The new paint shows off all of that detail just as well as the blue did.
A repaint in the purest sense
Articulation
✓ Neck, up and down✓ Front legs, forward and back✓ Rear legs, forward and back✓ Tail swivel★ Same joints as the Rebirth figure
The joints are unchanged from the first release. The neck lifts and lowers, all four legs swing forward and back, and the tail swivels. The legs move freely and hold their position well, and dropping the neck lets the Minqaria lower its head towards the ground, while raising it gives a more alert stance. It is basic Frenzy Pack movement, but it suits a small herbivore.
Size & Specs
With the mould unchanged, the size matches the Rebirth release: about 7.25 inches (18.5 cm) from beak to tail and around 3.25 inches tall. That is a touch shorter than the Magnosaurus from the same wave.
The real Minqaria was only about 3.5 metres long, so the figure works out at roughly 1:19, almost the same scale as the Magnosaurus. Minqaria was tiny for a duckbill, which is why it looks right next to small theropods rather than the big hadrosaurs in the Mattel range.
Our Verdict
The Minqaria repaint does what a good repaint should: it takes a strong sculpt and gives it a convincing new identity. The brown and green scheme is more natural than the original blue, and the pale underside shows that some thought went into it.
It is not flawless. The green shifts in tone between the neck, body and tail, the crest patch appears on one side only, the eye has no black pupil and the claws are left bare. And since nothing apart from the paint has changed, owners of the first Minqaria are paying for colour alone.
If you missed the Rebirth figure, this is an easy recommendation and a lovely little duckbill. If you already have it, the new version makes a nice companion piece, but we still give the original a slight edge.
✦ What Works
- Excellent sculpt carried over from Rebirth
- Natural brown and green colour scheme
- Pale underside with a smooth blend
- Bright yellow eye pops against the dark head
- Second chance at a rare African duckbill
✦ What Doesn't
- Same sculpt and pose as the Rebirth figure
- Green shade varies from neck to tail
- Green crest patch on one side only
- No black pupil
- Claws left unpainted
About the Minqaria
A duck-billed dinosaur that turned up in Africa, a long way from where duckbills evolved, and one of the newest dinosaurs ever to be made into a toy.Why this species is worth knowing
Where and when. Minqaria bata lived in what is now north-central Morocco at the very end of the Cretaceous, in the Maastrichtian, roughly a million years before the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs. Its fossil comes from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, at the Sidi Chennane locality, rocks that formed in shallow coastal seas.
The name. It was described in 2024 by Nicholas Longrich, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet and Nour-Eddine Jalil. Minqaria comes from the Arabic for “beak”, and bata is Arabic for “duck”.
Known from a partial skull. The type specimen includes an upper jaw bone, a lower jaw and the braincase. The bones of the braincase are fused, which suggests the animal was fully grown despite its small size, and its jaws and teeth point to a different way of feeding from Ajnabia, the other small duckbill from the same rocks.
How big? Around 3.5 metres long and about 250 kg, roughly the size of a pony and very small for a hadrosaur.
A duckbill that crossed the sea. In the Late Cretaceous, Africa was an island continent, and duckbills had evolved far to the north. Minqaria belongs to a group of crested lambeosaurines whose closest relatives lived in Europe, so its ancestors most likely reached Africa across open water, by swimming or rafting.
Unlock the Minqaria
How to Unlock the Primal Ambush Minqaria?
The DNA scan code is printed on the Minqaria figure. Scan it with the Jurassic World Play App to add the Primal Ambush Minqaria to your digital collection.
If the code on your figure has worn away with play, been scratched or hidden by a sticker, scan the copy here straight from your screen.
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Minqaria FAQ
No. It is a repaint of the Minqaria from the Jurassic World Rebirth Frenzy Pack. The sculpt, pose and articulation are identical, and only the colours have changed. The Primal Ambush release has product code JPG84.
The Rebirth figure is blue with a warm brown crest and brown speckling. The Primal Ambush version has a brown head, limbs and tail, a mostly green body, a pale underside from chest to hips and a small green patch on one side of the crest.
It is about 7.25 inches (18.5 cm) long and around 3.25 inches tall, the same as the Rebirth release because the mould is unchanged.
We do not know yet. Our figure has a green patch on one side of the crest and none on the other. It may be a paint variation rather than the intended design, so it is worth checking both sides of yours.
In north-central Morocco, at the very end of the Cretaceous, roughly a million years before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. Its fossil was found in the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin.
Most likely across the sea. Africa was an island continent in the Late Cretaceous, and Minqaria’s closest relatives lived in Europe, so scientists think its ancestors swam or rafted across open water.