Safari Ltd 2023 Wishlist

[SidB]

My Safari Spinosaurus fell off the shelf when I was doing some rearranging the other day and the damn snout broke again. And then it was so annoying gluing it back on that I seriously contemplated throwing the whole toy in the wastebasket. I fixed it and kept it in the end, but it really is a poor quality product.

Quite! I myself am happy with the Daspletosaurus and Baryonyx, but never much cared for the Spinosaurus. To me, it looked cheap. Outdated anatomy issues aside, I much prefer the quality, heft and shelf presence of the earlier Doug Watson one.

[Lynx]

I am hoping they do a new toob, mainly for some of the smaller dinosaurs or creatures so I can get something close in scale to the regular line of figures

[Sim]

Probably not for this year, but a larger Spinosaurus out of a less brittle material would be nice from them, at least from a play standpoint.

Besides that, a Therizinosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Deinosuchus, or Camptosaurus would be awesome.

ESPECIALLY a camptosaurus, no idea why companies don't make it more often.

I agree with what you say regarding a new Spinosaurus from Safari.  It would give them the opportunity to produce a fully accurate version.  Maybe they'll make it once they sell out of the 2019 version.

Safari has made tyrannosauroids for 2020 (Qianzhousaurus), 2021 (Daspletosaurus) and 2022 (Albertosaurus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus).  That's four in the last three years.  I think it would be good if they took a break from them.  An exception I would make is for a new adult Tyrannosaurus which they could offer as a more accurate alternative to their feathered version.

[GojiraGuy1954]

Probably not for this year, but a larger Spinosaurus out of a less brittle material would be nice from them, at least from a play standpoint.

Besides that, a Therizinosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Deinosuchus, or Camptosaurus would be awesome.

ESPECIALLY a camptosaurus, no idea why companies don't make it more often.

I agree with what you say regarding a new Spinosaurus from Safari.  It would give them the opportunity to produce a fully accurate version.  Maybe they'll make it once they sell out of the 2019 version.

Safari has made tyrannosauroids for 2020 (Qianzhousaurus), 2021 (Daspletosaurus) and 2022 (Albertosaurus and juvenile Tyrannosaurus).  That's four in the last three years.  I think it would be good if they took a break from them.  An exception I would make is for a new adult Tyrannosaurus which they could offer as a more accurate alternative to their feathered version.

Theres already Wilson, Kiss, and the EoFauna rex coming

[Sim]

Yes, and none of them are made by Safari.  I think Safari would benefit from having their own good featherless Tyrannosaurus.  It's a genus that almost has to be included with an accurate representation, and it would probably sell very well.  Plus, the PNSO lacks lips, the REBOR has shoddy tail attachment and evil-looking eyes and the Eofauna will probably have feathers which isn't for everyone.  There's room for a featherless adult Tyrannosaurus by Safari.

[Concavenator]

@Sim are you interested in seeing a new Spinosaurus from Safari? If so, I'm surprised, I thought you weren't into fragmentary species. I agree there's room for improvement with the Safari 2021 one, it's not technically outdated as S @SidB said (unless I'm missing something, the latest discovery concerning Spinosaurus' anatomy was the 2020 one about the tail morphology) as precisely that figure came out as a response to that very finding, as they had just released another figure 2 years before. So it would be more correct to say it has inaccuracies (or inaccurate I could say, though I generally don't like to label a figure as such because if I consider any figure as inaccurate even when it has 1 known and relatively minor inaccuracy, then the 99,99 % of figures would be called inaccurate, though you could also perfectly say they are). The Mesozoic Life version will come out soon and that will probably be the one many people were looking for. That's not to say one by Safari wouldn't be a good seller, I'm sure it would, but I wish companies avoided releasing figures of a certain taxon when there's a really good figure of it by someone else, simply in order to increase the diversity of options. If we're talking about spinosaurids specifically, I'd much rather they released a new Suchomimus, I'm sure a new one would be much better than their 2014 one. For example, just see how much better the new Baryonyx is in comparison to that Suchomimus. Doug has evolved a lot.

As for my wishes, here are some I'd like to see:

Apatosaurus (about time, I guess!)
Updated Amargasaurus
Maiasaura
Brachylophosaurus
Sinosauropteryx
Zhenyuanlong
Halszkaraptor
Asfaltovenator

[Sim]

I'm not interested in a new Spinosaurus or Tyrannosaurus from Safari, I just think they would benefit from making them and their target audience would be happy if they made them.  I think the 2021 Safari Spinosaurus is inaccurate/outdated due to not having the first toe being weight-bearing.

[Lynx]

Yes, and none of them are made by Safari.  I think Safari would benefit from having their own good featherless Tyrannosaurus.  It's a genus that almost has to be included with an accurate representation, and it would probably sell very well.  Plus, the PNSO lacks lips, the REBOR has shoddy tail attachment and evil-looking eyes and the Eofauna will probably have feathers which isn't for everyone.  There's room for a featherless adult Tyrannosaurus by Safari.

What do you mean by the Eofauna one 'probably' having feathers?

[GojiraGuy1954]

Yes, and none of them are made by Safari.  I think Safari would benefit from having their own good featherless Tyrannosaurus.  It's a genus that almost has to be included with an accurate representation, and it would probably sell very well.  Plus, the PNSO lacks lips, the REBOR has shoddy tail attachment and evil-looking eyes and the Eofauna will probably have feathers which isn't for everyone.  There's room for a featherless adult Tyrannosaurus by Safari.

What makes you think the EoFauna one will be feathered? The Giga isn't

[suspsy]

Tyrannosaurus rex has minimal feathering in this book, which is written by the two experts behind EoFauna. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the toy will be similar. But we shall see.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180311/dinosaur-facts-and-figures

[Sim]

What suspsy said, plus there's an image by Eofauna of various dinosaurs in water and if I'm remembering right the Tyrannosaurus has some feathering like in Eofauna's book.  So it seems Eofauna supports Tyrannosaurus having some feathers.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Still need a Safari Nothosaurus.

[Newt]

Still need a Safari Nothosaurus.

QFT. Or any Triassic marine reptile, really. So much weirdness, so few figures.

[GojiraGuy1954]

Tyrannosaurus rex has minimal feathering in this book, which is written by the two experts behind EoFauna. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the toy will be similar. But we shall see.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180311/dinosaur-facts-and-figures

the diplo we got isnt the same from the book and the sauropods one is the newer of the two

[suspsy]

Tyrannosaurus rex has minimal feathering in this book, which is written by the two experts behind EoFauna. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the toy will be similar. But we shall see.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180311/dinosaur-facts-and-figures

the diplo we got isnt the same from the book and the sauropods one is the newer of the two

But the Atlasaurus is a dead ringer. Again, wait and see.

[Lynx]

Would not mind a partially feathered rex to be honest with you lot. It is not out of the picture completely.

[SidB]

Would not mind a partially feathered rex to be honest with you lot. It is not out of the picture completely.

I'd like one too actually, though with the recent Dine Dana T-rex repaint of their feathered rex, I don't think that we'll see that in 2023. For now, I still use the tenth anniversary unfeathered Carnegie Safari 1/35 rex as my main Safari rex for display purposes. I regard it as superior to Forest's 2014 1/40 ish version.

[Halichoeres]

Still need a Safari Nothosaurus.

QFT. Or any Triassic marine reptile, really. So much weirdness, so few figures.

Yes, please. Askeptosaurus would work. Lariosaurus would work. Pistosaurus would work. Placochelys. Psephoderma. Any or all.

[GojiraGuy1954]

Tyrannosaurus rex has minimal feathering in this book, which is written by the two experts behind EoFauna. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the toy will be similar. But we shall see.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180311/dinosaur-facts-and-figures

the diplo we got isnt the same from the book and the sauropods one is the newer of the two

But the Atlasaurus is a dead ringer. Again, wait and see.

Because its an older model

[GojiraGuy1954]

Tyrannosaurus rex has minimal feathering in this book, which is written by the two experts behind EoFauna. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the toy will be similar. But we shall see.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180311/dinosaur-facts-and-figures

the diplo we got isnt the same from the book and the sauropods one is the newer of the two

But the Atlasaurus is a dead ringer. Again, wait and see.

Because its an older model

And besides, the "Atlasaurus" in the Sauropods book is not Atlasaurus proper