Brand: Wild Safari

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: Giganotosaurus (Wild Safari by Safari Ltd.)

Genus: Giganotosaurus Brand: Safari Ltd, Wild Safari Classification: Allosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.2 (45 votes)

Kids perspective by William, edited by Laticauda

Young and old gather around and see the new king in town. I present the highly anticipated 2017 Safari Ltd. Giganotosaurus. Why do I call it the new king? Sure it doesn’t have the name rex in its name, and its not because it was one of the largest known carnivores the world has seen, in which some estimates have it bigger than the almighty Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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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: 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: Hyaenodon gigas(Wild Safari Prehistoric World by, Safari Ltd)

Genus: Creodont, Hyaenodon Brand: Wild Safari Classification: Mammal Age: Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene Type: Figurine

5 (11 votes)

For over 25 million years Hyaenodons hunted across Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. They were formidable predators that had oversized jaws. When hunting they would have probably ambush their prey with a quick rush, grab on to the head or neck with that impressive maw, and secure the kill.

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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 (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 (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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