206: Rebor Tyrannosaurus “Kiss“ Review (and a Bit on Lips)

For many people, T Rex is probably the most popular dinosaur. And we know so much about it that our reconstructions are now pretty accurate with good confidence. Still we often seem to want to revisit it, such that new ideas are more often quickly tried out on T Rex depictions. One of these things, which is very controversial, is the presence of lips on theropods. Did T rex have lips, or not? Very often, it’s the one thing deciding whether a collector will get an otherwise excellent model or not. I know collectors who would love to pull the trigger on a model, but didn’t because it didn’t have lips. This is especially frustrating when it’s a dinosaur as iconic as T Rex. So what’s a company to do? What Rebor has done! Rebor has given us a marvelously sculpted T Rex, but two versions. Not just colour variants this time, but a lipped versus an unlipped version. I’m particularly excited to get a lipped version of a T rex that is updated and beautifully rendered, and here I think Rebor has del