Safari 2024 wishes and hopes

[Daspletodave]

Still waiting for Safari to get back to making ceratopsians. A hadrosaur would be nice too. Safari should make an effort to do a small figure for a small dinosaur, similar to when they did Coelophysis. A heterodontosaurus or hypsilophodon or ornithomimid would fit the bill.

[Concavenator]

Shocking that it's been 7 years already since this wonderful little lad was described, and it still has gone unnoticed in the dinosaur figure market:



By DenerDPaleoarts



By Gabriel Ugueto

Ah yes, Saurophaganax is capturing the people's attention meanwhile. 

Safari I beg you. Seemingly no one else (aside from Creative Beast) is willing to release a dromaeosaurid figure at this point, no matter how unique or important it may be. 

How could a Halszkaraptor figure not be successful? It would be unlike anything else on the market, it has good remains, it's a (relatively) recent discovery... and it's the duck dinosaur, even over hadrosaurids (which weren't duck-billed) and even over Deinocheirus itself!

[triceratops83]

I think enough people have asked for a Plateosaurus over the years for Safari to have potentially heard. I'd be happy with just a Plateosaurus.

[Concavenator]

@triceratops83 That's an incredibly overdue species as well. There may eventually be one from Wild Past, but it certainly wouldn't hurt for Safari to also make their version!

[Sim]

Safari I beg you. Seemingly no one else (aside from Creative Beast) is willing to release a dromaeosaurid figure at this point, no matter how unique or important it may be. 

CollectA is releasing a new Velociraptor and has asked people what feathered dinosaurs they would like them to make, so there's hope for dromaeosaurids from CollectA too now!

[Concavenator]

@Sim Well, it's a Velociraptor. It's easily the most famous dromaeosaurid. And Microraptor, which they released in 2020, is also one of the most famous dromaeosaurids. Probably among the Top 3 most famous ones alongside Velociraptor and Deinonychus. And they made the Microraptor because apparently a museum commissioned it, which suggests they wouldn't have made it otherwise. 

And IIRC, it was ED who was collecting those suggestions. Did they mention they were doing it because CollectA asked them to? Because I get the feeling it was their (ED's) idea to collect those suggestions. After all, ED was also collecting suggestions for other groups, like sauropods, etc.

[Sim]

You're right, it was Everything Dinosaur that was collecting suggestions, and they said they would pass on people's suggestions to CollectA.  I had been thinking it was CollectA's idea, but it might not have been, after all Everything Dinosaur also asked for what animals people would like Papo to make.

[SpartanSquat]

No news regarding 2024 releases?

[Ludodactylus]

A Protoceratops would be nice. Mirigaia, Plateosaurus, Tenontosaurus would definitely all be welcomed.

[Halichoeres]

I imagine that within about two minutes of Safari announcing something, it will be shared here! The Therizinosaurus still shows as "coming soon," so they're clearly experiencing some delays. I'd guess it's got to do with international shipping.

[suspsy]

I would still like Safari to tackle Centrosaurus, Torosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Tarchia.

[SpartanSquat]

I even think they will announce stuff for fall.

[Primeval12]

I'd like to see Austroraptor this year. Also Simosuchus :O

[Flaffy]

I even think they will announce stuff for fall.

Still waiting on those 2023 releases... Would like to get them first before any 2024 announcements.

[SenSx]

I even think they will announce stuff for fall.

Still waiting on those 2023 releases... Would like to get them first before any 2024 announcements.

So true, you think the Estemmenosuchus will finally reach Europe or is it dead ?
Maybe we will have to start getting those figures from other countries further away...
Safari really does not deliver to Europe properly.

[Concavenator]

Here in Spain, from Alcaiceria (a local Safari retailer), the only Safari 2023 figure available is the Majungasaurus. Don't know what happened, before it didn't take so long for new Safari figures coming into stock.

[SpartanSquat]

Here in Spain, from Alcaiceria (a local Safari retailer), the only Safari 2023 figure available is the Majungasaurus. Don't know what happened, before it didn't take so long for new Safari figures coming into stock.

It took more than a year to get the figures from 2022

[Shane]

I imagine that within about two minutes of Safari announcing something, it will be shared here! The Therizinosaurus still shows as "coming soon," so they're clearly experiencing some delays. I'd guess it's got to do with international shipping.

Therizinosaurus required a fair amount of revisions to get right which is why it's been taking so long. But the final product should be worth the wait.

[Halichoeres]

I imagine that within about two minutes of Safari announcing something, it will be shared here! The Therizinosaurus still shows as "coming soon," so they're clearly experiencing some delays. I'd guess it's got to do with international shipping.

Therizinosaurus required a fair amount of revisions to get right which is why it's been taking so long. But the final product should be worth the wait.

Good to know! Certainly better to push it back a bit than to release a half-cooked (or eight-tenths cooked, or what have you) product.

[DinoFan2010]

I would love to see Safari's take on a Torvosaurus or a new Guanlong!