Brand: Safari Ltd.

Review: Prehistoric sharks (Toob by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Cladoselache, Cretoxyrhina, Edestus, Helicoprion, Hybodus, Orthacanthus, Sarcoprion, Scapanorhynchus, Stethacanthus, Xenacanthus Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Fish Age: Cretaceous, Permian Type: Set, Tube

4.6 (14 votes)

The Dinosaur Toy Blog has been quiet in recent weeks. As for me, I’ve been distracted by my involvement in the new Animal Toy Forum, which was launched recently as a partner site to the dinotoyblog and forum. However, I’ve neglected the blog for too long and so it’s time for me to turn my attention back to prehistoric animal reviews.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus (Sue at the Field Museum by Safari Ltd.)

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

4.3 (16 votes)

Having previously reviewed the Torosaurus created by Safari for the Chicago Field Museum it only seemed appropriate to review the two tyrants of the same line. These two models represent Sue herself, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus ever discovered.

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News: Upcoming releases from Safari Ltd (New for 2013)

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

4.8 (6 votes)

Although it’s only September, Safari Ltd have already provided information on the new figures they plan to release in 2013. The line up of prehistoric animals includes one new addition to the Carnegie Collection, several new critters in the Wild Safari line, and a new ‘toob’.

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Review: Torosaurus (Sue at the Field Museum by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Torosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd. Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous

4.6 (13 votes)

In 2004 Safari Ltd. released four dinosaur figures in collaboration with Chicago’s Field Museum in honor of the newly mounted “Sue,” the worlds largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus. Among the releases were two versions of Sue herself but two other dinosaurs that were Tyrannosaurus contemporaries (and food) were also released; Anatotitan and Torosaurus.

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Review: Caudipteryx (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Caudipteryx Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Oviraptorosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.6 (19 votes)

It’s a bird…it’s a dinosaur…it’s possibly both. It’s the Carnegie Caudipteryx! Although reviewed briefly in 2007 it’s time this stunning oviraptorosaur got the more in depth treatment it deserves. Released in 2006 with several other feathered representations of China’s Yikian formation, this is Carnegie’s take on the small theropod that remains one of the best feathered dinosaur models available.

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Review: Vagaceratops (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Vagaceratops Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Ceratopsian, Chasmosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.7 (27 votes)

Safari have really performed excellently with the Wild Safari line this year. While their bipeds have attracted criticism from some quarters for having oversized feet (the Ceratosaurus being particularly irksome in this respect), it’s clear that the production values have really been ramped up – maybe even (whisper it) to Papo standards.

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Review: Euoplocephalus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Euoplocephalus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Ankylosaur, Ankylosaurid, Thyreophoran Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.2 (14 votes)

One of the earliest Carnegie figures made (it’s stamped ‘© 1988’), this Euoplocephalus is also the line’s very first ankylosaur figure. Remarkably, this review will also be this blog’s first to feature a toy that’s actually labelled Euoplocephalus, rather than simply de facto representing the genus (like the Favorite “Ankylosaurus” and original Schleich “Saichania“).

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Review: Allosaurus (1988) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Allosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Allosaur, Theropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.5 (22 votes)

Among theropods one of the most popular and well known is the Jurassic Morrison Formation’s Allosaurus, also known from Portugal and possibly Tanzania as well. Though it lived in pop culture in the shadow of Tyrannosaurus, the Allosaurus was arguably a more efficient animal all together.

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Review: Brachiosaurus (2012) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Brachiosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Macronaria (basal), Sauropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.3 (21 votes)

The new Carnegie Brachiosaurus makes for quite a contrast with the original, and there’s a very good reason for that – it’s quite literally a different animal entirely!

The original model actually represented the animal now known as Giraffatitan brancai, which was rather different in its proportions to the ‘original’ Brachiosaurus – the type species, Brachiosaurus altithorax from North America.

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Review: Woolly Rhino (Safari Missing Links)

Genus: Coelodonta, Woolly rhinoceros Brand: Missing links, Safari Ltd. Classification: Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

3.3 (7 votes)

Review by Patrick Król Padilha
Today’s review is going to focus on a prehistoric mammal model, one of my favorites among all mammal figures I have. The animal it represents is the Woolly Rhinoceros, actually defined on the tag by genus and species as Coelodonta antiquitatis.

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Review: Diplodocus (1988) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Diplodocus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Diplodocoid, Sauropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.6 (16 votes)

Diplodocus is one of those all American sauropods every kid grew up with, right alongside Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus. Described in 1878 it is still the longest known sauropod from a complete skeleton. It is no wonder then, that the Carnegie Collection would include this animal in their original 1988 lineup of museum quality replicas.

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Review: Acrocanthosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

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

3.1 (30 votes)

With the 2012 release of the highly anticipated Wild Safari Acrocanthosaurus, I thought it only fitting to do a review on the older Carnegie model, which I have only just recently been able to obtain. Acrocanthosaurus was an early Cretaceous relative of theropods such as Carcharodontosaurus and Giganotosaurus.

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