Brand: Safari Ltd

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: Guanlong (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Guanlong Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

3.7 (15 votes)

Review and photos by Nathan ‘Takama’ Morris, edited by amargasaurus cazaui and Suspsy
In the world of dinosaur toys, smaller species are not all that common. Most companies seem to think that members of the general public find them to be boring. But we, as a specialized community of dinosaur enthusiasts, can agree that this is far from true.

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Review: Hypacrosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

4.5 (17 votes)

Guest review by forumite Rugops
Safari has done a wonderful job of bringing us this obscure dinosaur. This is probably one of their best hadrosaur models.

The body of this hadrosaur is well designed, and is very accurate except on a few details.

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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: Ichthyosaurus (Wild Safari Prehistoric World, by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Ichthyosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Ichthyosaur Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.7 (20 votes)

It was a hot July day. To beat the heat and to stay cool I headed off to a nearby creek to sit by the water. I found a tall tree by the water and walked into the shade. I slumped back onto the trunk, closed my eyes, and let my bare feet extend past the bank and dangle over the water.

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Review: Iguanodon (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Iguanodon Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.1 (16 votes)

Iguanodon was the second dinosaur ever to be recognized by science. The first fossils of the animal were teeth unearthed in England in 1822. Since then this iconic dinosaur’s image has undergone numerous changes throughout history as more discoveries are made about it.

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Review: Iguanodon (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Iguanodon Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Iguanodont (basal), Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.2 (18 votes)

The hulking ornithopod Iguanodon bernissartensis is probably the loveliest thing ever to spring from a mine in Belgium. Known from a number of remarkably complete specimens, you’d think it’d be hard to get the big-handed one wrong, and indeed most toys over the years have been decent, if unremarkable.

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Review: Inostrancevia (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Inostrancevia Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Therapsid (non-mammal) Age: Permian Type: Figurine

4.9 (19 votes)

Fearsome denizens of the Permian, gorgonopsids were rocking the sabre-toothed look hundreds of millions of years before cats came onto the scene. The largest, Inostrancevia, was roughly the size of a black bear and had enormous canine teeth for slashing or stabbing its prey to death.

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Review: Kaprosuchus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Kaprosuchus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Crocodile Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.7 (22 votes)

Recently described in 2009, Kaprosuchus is one of the latest additions to the extensive and continuously growing roster of known toothy prehistoric devilry. And that means nothing but good things for us paleo toy fans! With a name which aptly translates to “boar crocodile” (for obvious reasons), the 20 foot Kaprosuchus was an interesting terrestrial crocodyliform from Cretaceous Africa.

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Review: Kentrosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

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

4.1 (18 votes)

What’s that coming over the hill? Why, it’s the Wild Safari Kentrosaurus, new for 2010. A special mention should go out to the magnanimous and quite probably very handsome Dan Liebman, he of Dan’s Dinosaurs, who was generous enough to airmail me this little guy for a reviewing.

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Review: Kronosaurus (Carnegie Collection by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Kronosaurus Brand: Carnegie, Safari Ltd Classification: Plesiosaur, Pliosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine Scale: 1:40

3.2 (23 votes)

We now return to our series of pliosaur reviews. We have already looked in detail at the popular Chap Mei Liopleurodon here and more recently the Kronosaurus by Schleich. Let’s now take a look at Safari Ltd’s offering, another popular figure, the Carnegie Collection Kronosaurus.

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Review: Kronosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd)

Genus: Kronosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Plesiosaur, Pliosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

4.4 (21 votes)

Available from Amazon.com for under $20

When their vaunted Carnegie Collection was discontinued in early 2015, Safari Ltd evidently got to work pretty quickly to take up the slack elsewhere, because in a mere two years they more than doubled the output of figures from their standard dinosaur line.

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