LEGO’s new Triceratops immediately abandons skeleton scale
You might have expected the next LEGO Jurassic World skeleton to match the T. rex in scale, but instead 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops marches to its own (pretty different) beat.
Unveiled in a teaser video on the official LEGO Instagram page over the weekend, 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops builds on 2025’s 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex – but at first glance appears to do so on a considerably smaller scale. While the first skeleton includes 3,145 pieces and comes in at a stunning 105cm long, 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops includes just 1,154 pieces.
We don’t yet know the final dimensions of the finished product, but T. rex reached up to 13m in length in real life, while Triceratops could grow to 9m long. Scaled proportionally, the LEGO Triceratops skeleton would therefore need to be around 73cm long. We don’t know about you, but the picture on the front of the box doesn’t look 73cm long to us.
It’s a curious one because in all other respects 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops mimics the approach of its immediate predecessor. There are two black support beams to keep the fossil upright, as if it’s on display in a museum; there’s a decorative display base with a gold info plaque; and there’s an accompanying exclusive minifigure. But it’s decidedly not to scale with 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex.
That’s necessitated another curious creative decision, which is to avoid replicating the progression from skull to full skeleton that we saw with the T. rex. While 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex and 76964 Dinosaur Fossils: T. rex Skull share nearly identical builds, 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops’ skull is a good deal smaller than 76969 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops Skull.
All of this could be a potential point of frustration for anyone hoping to display their dino skeletons side by side with any degree of historical accuracy. But if you’ve been eyeing up 76968 Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus rex and wondering where on earth you might put it, or indeed how you might afford it, 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops will hopefully be a slightly more realistic acquisition.
You’ll be able to dig it up from… sometime this year… for… a certain price. The LEGO Group has yet to confirm specifics, but rumours peg it at $99.99 in the US and €99.99 in Europe, with a June 2026 release date. We’ll bring you concrete details on 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops’ release as soon as we get them.
LEGO Jurassic World 2026 sets
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77977 Baby Dinosaur: Pteranodon | $29.99 / €26.99 | TBC | TBC 2026 |
| 77978 Young T. rex Transport Truck | $29.99 / €29.99 | TBC | TBC 2026 |
| 77982 Spinosaurus Dinosaur Escape | $74.99 / €69.99 | TBC | TBC 2026 |
| 77983 Mosasaurus Dinosaur Boat Attack | $99.99 / €99.99 | TBC | TBC 2026 |
| 77984 Jurassic Park Jeep Wrangler | TBC | 1,924 | June 2026 |
| 77985 Dinosaur Fossils: Triceratops Skeleton | $99.99 / €99.99 | 1,154 | June 2026 |
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One previous release does not a scale standard make. Fair if we had a few and this was the first to diverge but there was nothing indicating all sets were going to meet a criteria. Especially when the feature is a biodiverse range of prehistoric creatures.
When we see the two skeletons in real life there is a difference in scale (as there is approx a 5m difference in length and 1-2m difference in height with a good chunk of the Cera’s size being it’s 2.3m head), but if they did a Compy we wouldn’t expect it to follow the same parameters ar Rexy. And, while one could argue the gap in the piece count could have been lessened somewhat, remember that a lot of the triceratops’ build is large, FUSED bone. There was only so much they could have done with that.
I’d prefer that shelf space for something else rather than Lego blowing up the size just for the sake of scale. It simply wouldn’t be as realistic, which is a huge part of the draw in these fossil models.