Brand: Safari Ltd.

Review: Tyrannosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

3.7 (49 votes)

Review and Photos by Rugops
Another T rex review for the blog, and this time around it’s the Wild Safari original version.

One thing you probably notice about this figure is that it’s rather athletic and slim looking for a Tyrannosaurus. In fact it looks little bit like a Daspletosaurus or even an Albertosaurus.

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Review: Spinosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Spinosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Spinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.5 (14 votes)

Review and Photos by Rugops
This model holds a special place for me, being my first museum quality figure, and the one that started off my collecting spree seven years ago. It is a really nice spino model, certainly nicer than the Wild Safari Suchomimus, the Carnegie Baryonyx, or the preceding Carnegie Spinosaur which had that ill fated head of an Allosaurus.

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Review: Gorgosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

2.2 (12 votes)

Few dinosaurs have had such a turbulent history of classification as Gorgosaurus. Due to the close similarities between this animal and Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus has sometimes been referred to as a junior synonym of Albertosaurus.

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Review: Maiasaura (original sculpt) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Maiasaura Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4 (12 votes)

The Late Cretaceous hadrosaur Maiasaura has become famous for being the first large dinosaur to be discovered alongside direct evidence that it cared for its young. Fossil nests associated with this dinosaur show that young dinosaurs stayed in the nest well after hatching.

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Review: Deinonychus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Deinonychus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Dromaeosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3 (25 votes)

Now here’s a figure I know some of you will recognise from your childhood – the Carnegie Deinonychus trio. Remember your childhood? Those halcyon, carefree days that were spent frolicking through flowery fields and dawbing awful dinosaurs using wax crayons? Well, those days are gone – GONE – and you can’t have them back.

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Review: Rhamphorhynchus (Wild Safari by Safari ltd.)

Genus: Rhamphorhynchus Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Pterosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.2 (12 votes)

Dinosaur toys are one of the most popular items with any toy company and as most people know, where there are dinosaurs being represented, there are always pterosaurs right along with them. Rhamphorhynchus is one pterosaur that I specifically remember growing up with as a kid along with Pteranodon, Dimorphodon and Quetzalcoatlus.

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Review: Stegosaurus (Wild Safari original version by Safari Ltd)

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

3.1 (12 votes)

Review and Photos by Rugops, edited by Plesiosauria.
Stegosaurus is one of the most classic and recognizable of all the dinosaurs, and as such it has been replicated countless times by different companies and in a variety of postures. Here we’ll be looking at the original Wild Safari figure from 1996.

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Review: Coelacanth (Wild Safari Prehistoric World by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Coelacanth Brand: Safari Ltd., Wild Safari Classification: Fish Type: Figurine

4.9 (16 votes)

This review has moved to the Animal Toy Blog https://animaltoyforum.com/blog/coelacanth-wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/ Although the figure is a modern animal, it is part of the ‘Prehistoric World’ line by Safari Ltd, so I’ll leave this link here on the Dinosaur Toy Blog in perpetuity.

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Review: Albertosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

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

3.8 (28 votes)

Albertosaurus was a mid-sized theropod that flourished throughout what is now North America during the Campanian era of the late Cretacious about 75 million years ago. It can best be described as a smaller, more lightly built version of its later, more famous relative, Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Review: Ichthyosaurus (2010) (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Ichthyosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd. Classification: Ammonite, Ichthyosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.8 (17 votes)

Review and photos by Dr Andre Mursch (“Brontodocus”). Edited by Plesiosauria.
Ichthyosaurus is one of the most iconic fossil marine reptiles, being a milestone in vertebrate paleontology since it was discovered by Mary Anning, and it was subject of a German poem about the lower Jurassic (“Der Ichthyosaurus” by Viktor von Scheffel, 1856).

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Review: Triceratops (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

3.6 (15 votes)

When Wild Safari began pumping out figures that all of a sudden were leaps and bounds better with regards to detail and accuracy then their previous work, it shouldn’t be surprising then, that they decided to revisit many old classic kinds of dinosaurs and give them much needed face-lifts.

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Review: Allosaurus (Wild Safari version 1 by Safari Ltd)

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

2.5 (21 votes)

Review and photos by Rugops. Edited by Plesiosauria.
Allosaurus is one the most popular dinosaurs ever. Because of this it has appeared in many different sculpts, one of them being this model from 1996. The body, neck, and head are made of rigid plastic, while the arms, lower legs, and tail are made of softer, slightly pliable plastic.

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