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Real Feel Tour Takeover Tyrannosaurus Rex First look at the Reimagined T. rex — painted in the green, yellow and red of the Jurassic Park tour vehicles
Tyrannosaurus rex headlines the Jurassic World Legacy Collection Reimagined, a new mainline-scale series announced by Mattel alongside Primal Ambush. This version is called Tour Takeover, and it is a Real Feel figure with a sound feature. It is not out yet, so this is a preview built from the official packaging: what it looks like, what it does, and the story of the real animal behind it. The full hands-on review, DNA scan code and photo gallery will be added here once it is released.
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▲ First Look
This is the boldest T. rex Mattel has shown in a long time. The packaging shows a Tyrannosaurus in lime green and bright yellow with red-orange stripes running down its back and a solid red tail, colours that look to be borrowed straight from the Ford Explorer tour vehicles in the original Jurassic Park. The name Tour Takeover and the box art, a night-time scene with paddock fence cables, point the same way: this is the animal that broke out and wrecked the tour, wearing the tour’s own livery. Everything below comes from the boxed figure as shown on the official packaging, so treat it as provisional until we have it in hand.
🔬 Why This Species Is Worth Knowing
Tyrannosaurus rex had the most powerful bite of any land animal known. Its skull was built to withstand enormous forces and its thick, banana-sized teeth could punch through bone, something confirmed by Triceratops and duck-bill skeletons bearing its tooth marks and by fossil droppings full of crushed bone fragments. It was also one of the last dinosaurs, living right up to the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, and it is far closer in time to us than it was to Stegosaurus.
Paint Scheme — From the Packaging
The top half of the animal, from the snout along the back, is a vivid lime green. The lower half, including the belly, arms and legs, is a bright lemon yellow, with a soft line where the two meet along the flank. Red-orange stripes run down from the spine like dripping paint, starting on the neck and getting denser toward the hips, until the tail becomes solid red. There are red markings around the eye as well. The inside of the mouth is dark and the teeth are white. Anyone who knows the 1993 film will recognise the palette at once.
The packaging matches the other Reimagined releases: a black base with the red Legacy Collection logo, a yellow and black striped “Reimagined” badge, and film-inspired artwork behind the figure.
Sculpt & Detail — First Impressions
Head and Jaws
The head is the familiar Jurassic Park T. rex shape, with a heavy brow, a broad snout and a deep lower jaw. It is boxed with the mouth open, showing a full row of teeth. The red patch around the eye gives the face a fierce, almost war-painted look.
Neck, Back and Body
Unlike most of the Primal Ambush figures, this T. rex has no added spines, sails or quills. The Reimagined part is all in the paint, and the body keeps the clean, muscular outline of the film animal. How the soft Real Feel skin affects the sculpted detail is something we can only judge in hand.
Arms, Legs and Tail
The arms are small with two-fingered hands, the legs are thick and powerful, and the tail is long and held out straight behind the body. The figure stands in a level, horizontal pose in the box. We will cover the feet, claws and underside properly in the full review.
Features & Articulation
✓ Real Feel skin✓ Press-activated sound? Jaw — to be confirmed? Arms and legs — to be confirmed? Tail — to be confirmed
The box shows a speaker icon with an arrow pointing down at the figure’s back, so the sound is triggered by pressing there. There is no light icon. What we cannot tell from a boxed figure is how it moves, or how the soft skin affects the joints, so the articulation list stays open until release. We will test every joint and add the results here.
Size & Specs
Three Legacy Collection Reimagined items have been shown so far: this Real Feel Tour Takeover Tyrannosaurus rex, the Real Feel Allosaurus, and the Utahraptor Attack Pack. The T. rex comes in a wide window box and fills most of it. Mattel has not published measurements, so we will add the length and height as soon as we can put a ruler to it.
Early Verdict — One to Watch?
On concept alone, yes. There is no shortage of Mattel T. rex figures, so a new one needs a reason to exist, and a rex in tour vehicle colours is a good one. It is loud, a little silly, and unmistakably Jurassic Park. Collectors who only want screen-accurate animals will pass, and that is fine. Whether it is worth buying depends on things we cannot judge from a box: how the Real Feel skin holds up, how well it poses, paint quality on the production figure, and how good the sound is. This is not a review yet, and we will give a proper verdict once we have the figure.
✦ What We Like So Far
- Clever Jurassic Park tour vehicle colours
- The Legacy Collection returns
- Soft Real Feel skin
- Press-activated sound
- Clean film-style body, no added spines
- Stands out from every other T. rex
✦ What We Don't Know Yet
- How the Real Feel skin feels and wears
- New sculpt or a reused one
- Number and range of joints
- Exact size and product code
- Price and exact release date
- Very bright colours will not suit everyone
About the Tyrannosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus rex was a giant meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the very end of the Cretaceous in western North America, living from about 68 to 66 million years ago. It was named in 1905 by Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History, and the name means “tyrant lizard king”.
The largest known individuals were around 12 to 13 metres long and are estimated to have weighed eight tonnes or more. It had a massive skull up to 1.5 metres long, forward-facing eyes that gave it good depth perception, a very keen sense of smell, and famously tiny arms with two fingers each. More than fifty skeletons have been found, including the celebrated specimens “Sue” and “Scotty”.
T. rex is the star of the Jurassic Park series. In the first film, a power failure lets the park’s Tyrannosaurus break through its paddock fence and attack two of the automated tour vehicles on the main road, the scene this figure’s name and colours appear to celebrate.
How to Unlock
How to unlock the Tour Takeover Tyrannosaurus Rex from the Legacy Collection Reimagined?
Once the figure is released, open your Jurassic World Play App (previously known as the Jurassic World Facts App), press the Scan button and point it at the DNA code. The scan code for this Tyrannosaurus rex is not available yet. We will post it right here as soon as we have the figure, so you can scan it straight from this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Real Feel Tour Takeover Tyrannosaurus rex is part of the Jurassic World Legacy Collection Reimagined, announced by Mattel alongside the Primal Ambush line. Mattel has not confirmed an exact release date or price yet, and we will update this page when it does.
Its green, yellow and red colours match the Ford Explorer tour vehicles from the original Jurassic Park, which the T. rex attacks after breaking out of its paddock. The name appears to refer to that scene.
Real Feel is Mattel’s name for Jurassic World figures made with a softer, textured outer skin instead of hard plastic, designed to feel more lifelike when handled.
Yes. The packaging shows a speaker icon with an arrow pointing at the figure’s back, where you press to activate the sound. There is no light feature shown.
Once the figure is released, open the Jurassic World Play App, tap the Scan button, and point it at the DNA code on the Tyrannosaurus rex figure. The code is not available yet, and we will add it to this page on release.