Brand: Great Dinosaurs

Review: Tyrannosaurus (Great Dinosaurs Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Great Dinosaurs, Safari Ltd. Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.6 (15 votes)

Tyrannosaurus rex is a dinosaur that needs no introduction from me. Regardless of your knowledge concerning dinosaurs this is one species that everyone is familiar with. Because of its fame it is perhaps the species most reproduced in toy form, for better or worse.

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Review: Therizinosaurus (Great Dinosaurs Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Therizinosaurus Brand: Great Dinosaurs, Safari Ltd. Classification: Therizinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3 (23 votes)

Review and photos by Gwangi
If you were purchasing dinosaur toys two decades ago there is one family you wouldn’t have seen represented at all, the Therizinosauridae. Though known to science since 1954 it is a family that was very poorly known only until recently.

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Review: Apatosaurus (Galaxy/Safari, 'Great Dinos' Collection)

Genus: Apatosaurus Brand: Galaxy, Great Dinosaurs, Safari Ltd. Classification: Diplodocoid, Sauropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.6 (18 votes)

We reviewed this figure briefly before (here) but thanks to Atomic Elephant who sent us a review sample, we can now give this hefty figure a little more attention. There are two versions with differing paint schemes, a blue design and the grey/blue design, which we present here (although it look blue in our photos because of the lighting!).

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Review: Triceratops (‘Great Dinosaurs’ Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Triceratops Brand: Galaxy, Great Dinosaurs, Safari Ltd. Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.5 (15 votes)

This most famous of ceratopsids has been reincarnated in toy form on many occasions, Triceratops is, after all, a household favourite.

Once again, Safari Ltd’s Great Dinosaurs collection impresses us with a pretty good figure, far exceeding our expectations for a $6 bargain and offering an embarrassing comparison for one of Safari’s other attempts at this dinosaur (the original Carnegie Collection Triceratops is simply appalling, in my opinion).

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Review: Stegosaurus (‘Great Dinosaurs’ collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: Great Dinosaurs, Safari Ltd. Classification: Stegosaur, Thyreophoran Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.8 (19 votes)

The Great Dinosaurs collection is a series of large hollow figures produced by Safari Ltd. They are cheap for their size and overall the sculpting is of a high standard, in fact, most of the figures are superior in terms of posture to their more expensive Carnegie Collection museum range counterparts (also by Safari Ltd), at least the older Carnigie moulds anyway.

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