Of all the product lines offered by stalwart manufacturer Safari Ltd, the “Toob®” line gives them the freest rein to explore unusual taxa. I’m personally fondest of the Toobs that furnish small versions of small animals that might scale well with Safari’s full-size figurines. We’ve reviewed some of their most interesting Toobs featuring “alive” animals here, here, here, here, and here.
Brand: Safari Ltd
Review: Andrewsarchus (Prehistoric Life Collection by Safari Ltd)
Review: Ankylosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)
Review: Ankylosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)
With the 2017 Tyrannosaurus and 2018 Triceratops, Safari Ltd has made a good start on reconstructing a 1:35 version of the Hell Creek formation of the Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) of Laramidia. To help round out the Hell Creek fauna, they’ve just released a new, updated Ankylosaurus, another giant contemporary of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
Review: Anzu (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
Review: Apatosaurus (2010) (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
Review and photos by Dr Andre Mursch (“Brontodocus”). Edited by Plesiosauria.
Get your fore feet back down to earth, Bronto, here comes 2010’s latest release of the Wild Safari Dinos series by Safari Ltd:
Apatosaurus maybe regarded the archetype of a sauropod – a highly iconic dinosaur taxon almost everybody knows today – despite the long taxonomic confusion caused by its popular junior synonym Brontosaurus coined by the same author, O.C.
Review: Apatosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)
Review: Apatosaurus (Galaxy/Safari, 'Great Dinos' Collection)
Review: Apatosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)
Since Safari are soon to replace their classic sculpt of this most well-known of sauropods, it seems only fitting to take a closer look at this ‘retired’ figure before it disappears into bargain bins and onto eBay for the next several years.
Review: Apatosaurus baby (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)
Review: Archaeopteryx (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
Archaeopteryx lithographica, the famous “ancient wing”, was named for a single wing feather found in the Solnhofen Lagerstätten in 1861. That feather would soon be joined by more fossils, adding up to a remarkably detailed body of evidence for the creature’s shape, anatomy, and integument.
Review: Arsinoitherium (Prehistoric Life Collection by Safari Ltd)
Review: Australopithecus male and female (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)
1974 was an important year in the understanding of human evolution. In the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, a set of bones were found that displayed ape and human characteristics, including bipedalism. This ‘missing link’ in human evolution was named Australopithecus afarensis, although the specimen itself was named Lucy, after the Beatles song “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”.
Review: Baryonyx (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)
Review: Baryonyx (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)
Before Spinosaurus was all the rage, and before we even had a good grasp of what Spinosauridae was as a family, Baryonyx was the bizarre piscivorous theropod that was capturing the public imagination. In much the same way modern companies try to keep up with new discoveries, Invicta Plastics was able to produce a Baryonyx in 1989, only 3 years after it was fromally described.