Brand: Safari Ltd.

Review: Pachyrhinosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Pachyrhinosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Centrosaur, Ceratopsian Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (23 votes)

The approach of 2014 means an exciting new line from each of our favorite prehistoric figure manufacturers. However, there’s an extra surprise this year – the new 2014 line from Safari Ltd. has already arrived! While their offering is impressive as always, I have to say that my most anticipated figure is the Pachyrhinosaurus, and Safari has really delivered on this piece.

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News: Upcoming releases from Safari Ltd (New for 2014)

News Category: Upcoming Releases Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd., Wild Safari

4.8 (5 votes)

It has become an annual dinotoyblog tradition, around this time of year, to post an overview of each toy company’s upcoming dinosaur figures. So, here we go again, starting with Safari Ltd.
There’s just a single new addition to the Carnegie Collection in 2014, a brand new version of the ever-popular T.

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Review: Triceratops (Version 2, Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Triceratops Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.4 (11 votes)

Guest review by John Hall.
Let’s face it – if you’re reading this blog you have known since your age could be measured in single digits that Triceratops was a late Cretaceous ceratopsian from North America whose name means “three horned face”… etc., etc., etc.

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Review: Dracorex (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Dracorex Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Pachycephalosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (18 votes)

Where reviews of new toys are concerned this 2012 release has somehow gone neglected. Now, amidst the flurry of reviews for newer models I’m writing one for this little guy. I’m writing of course about the Safari 2012 Dracorex, one of a stellar lineup of toys released last year and the only one from that lineup that has yet to be reviewed.

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Review: Diabloceratops (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Diabloceratops Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Centrosaur, Ceratopsian Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (25 votes)

Safari’s take on the sinisterly horned ceratopsian from Utah is the second Diabloceratops figure of 2013, following Collecta’s pretty decent effort a few months prior. While it can be a bit dull when companies rush to produce figures of the same animal, they’re quite welcome to as long as we get toys of this calibre.

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Review: Elasmosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Elasmosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Plesiosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.5 (16 votes)

Here we have another new release from Safari Ltd for 2013, the long-necked Elasmosaurus. I lent a small helping hand with the design of this figure, as I had done previously with Safari Ltd’s other recent plesiosaurian offering (Liopleurodon).

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Review: Gryposaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Gryposaurus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.7 (21 votes)

Call me strange, but this is really my favorite new release for 2013. Only Safari Ltd. has the stones to tackle the often-overlooked hadrosaurine (or saurolophine, if you’re keeping up with the times) dinosaurs, with an excellent Edmontosaurus replica being foremost in recent memory.

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Review: Stegosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Stegosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Stegosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4 (15 votes)

Now here’s a dinosaur figure that’s somehow evaded review year after year. The classic Stegosaurus model by Safari Ltd has gone through several incarnations since its original release in 1988-9. The Stegosaurus figure is one of the originals in the Carnegie Collection line up.

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Review: Gastornis (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Diatryma, Gastornis Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Bird, Theropod Age: Eocene, Paleocene Type: Figurine

4.7 (17 votes)

Perhaps surprisingly for an animal that was a staple of popular books on prehistoric life for decades (and made an appearance in Walking With Beasts), models of Gastornis are a little thin on the ground. Happily, Safari have stepped forward with this very decent effort – the first toy “Diatryma” in years.

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Review: Cambrian Life Toob (Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Anomalocaris, Charniodiscus, Naraoia, Ottoia, Sanctacaris, Sidneyia, Tricrepicephalus, Vauxia Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Invertebrate, Trilobite Age: Cambrian Type: Set, Tube

4.3 (21 votes)

Review and photos by Stemturtle, edited by Plesiosauria.
Wonderful ‘toob’! New for 2013, this collection illustrates the explosion of new animal phyla in the Cambrian Period, from 541 to 485 million years ago. The eight toys in this set are well-sculpted, good-sized, and colorful.

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Review: Concavenator (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Concavenator Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Allosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (19 votes)

In recent years, the fossil beds of Spain have provided spectacular examples of dinosaurs, but perhaps the most famous is Concavenator. First revealed in 2010, this allosauroid’s distinctive physique made it an instant celebrity. The peculiar hump along the back does not seem as awe-inspiring as the humongous sails lining the backs of certain other critters, yet it has clearly made an impression upon us.

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Review: Prehistoric crocodiles (Toob by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Champsosaurus, Chasmatosaurus, Dakosaurus, Desmatosuchus, Euparkeria, Montealtosuchus, Postosuchus, Pristichampsus, Rutiodon, Sarcosuchus Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Crocodile, Reptile (other) Age: Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic Type: Set, Tube

4.8 (16 votes)

Having recently familiarised ourselves with the prehistoric sharks ‘toob’ by Safari Ltd, let’s now pour out the contents of a different toob. This time it’s the turn of the prehistoric crocodiles. Before we begin though, be aware that strictly speaking, many of the species in this set aren’t true crocodiles, as the toob contains a taxonomic mish-mash of non-dinosaurian reptiles.

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