Safari Ltd - New for 2024

[suspsy]

BTW, has anyone gotten the Austroraptor yet?

Andy was sent a copy, but perplexingly did not do a size comparison with the 2023 Utahraptor.

He's never been adept at doing size comparisons.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

BTW, has anyone gotten the Austroraptor yet?

Andy was sent a copy, but perplexingly did not do a size comparison with the 2023 Utahraptor.

He's never been adept at doing size comparisons.

As backed up by his use of the same figures at the end of every video lol  I barely have any room in my collection anymore, I can't imagine his house by now.

[Halichoeres]

BTW, has anyone gotten the Austroraptor yet?

Waiting for the Megalosaurus to be in stock so I don't have to pay for shipping twice.

[bmathison1972]

I just ordered the Austroraptor (and osprey and Saltasaurus) and can take a comparison pic of it with Utahraptor when it arrives, if others don't get to it first.

[Shane]

Sorry, I have a lot of trouble embedding images but hopefully this shows up correctly now.

Does this help?

[suspsy]

Sorry, I have a lot of trouble embedding images but hopefully this shows up correctly now.

Does this help?

Looking forward to the Austroraptor! And any future dromaeosaurs Safari has planned. How about Zhenyuanlong or Dineobellator or Dromaeosaurus itself?

[Sim]

I would love Zhenyuanlong and Dromaeosaurus from Safari!  A troodontid too, it's needed so much.

[mgaguilar]

Shane, thank you so much for providing that image. I will hands down buy any dromaeosaurs in that series that Safari and Doug Watson collaborate on. In 30 years I hope to have an entire shelf full of them. The fact that they are all basically the same length scratches my OCD collector itch so well.

[Concavenator]

S @Shane That sure helps, thank you for that comparison! 

The dromaeosaurids look splendid together. Utahraptor and Austroraptor appear to be in the same scale, or close enough anyways.

We definitely need more of these beautiful raptors! I totally echo the suggestions for a Zhenyuanlong, being an important and exquisitely preserved fossil. Halszkaraptor would be another prime candidate, it would literally be unlike anything else on the market (there's not a single figure of a halszkaraptorine, let alone a good one). These duck raptors are pretty interesting creatures.

[Flaffy]

The one comparison I wanted to see - the CollectA Nanuqsaurus, unfortunately was not present. The teeth still bug me on the Safari Nanuqsaurus, which is a shame as the rest of the sculpt looks decent.

[Sim]

I think the Nanuqsaurus and Saltasaurus aren't great unfortunately.  Very good as kids toys, but not more than that.  I noticed the Saltasaurus has circular rather than horseshoe shaped hands and up close it looks inferior to the Safari Malawisaurus.  The detail on the Nanuqsaurus looks quite simple.  The Megalosaurus and Austroraptor look superb though!

[Halichoeres]

I think the Nanuqsaurus and Saltasaurus aren't great unfortunately.  Very good as kids toys, but not more than that.  I noticed the Saltasaurus has circular rather than horseshoe shaped hands and up close it looks inferior to the Safari Malawisaurus.  The detail on the Nanuqsaurus looks quite simple.  The Megalosaurus and Austroraptor look superb though!

Yeah, honestly, if I didn't know it was a Safari I would have guessed the Saltasaurus was one of Schleich's better offerings.

[SidB]

I think the Nanuqsaurus and Saltasaurus aren't great unfortunately.  Very good as kids toys, but not more than that.  I noticed the Saltasaurus has circular rather than horseshoe shaped hands and up close it looks inferior to the Safari Malawisaurus.  The detail on the Nanuqsaurus looks quite simple.  The Megalosaurus and Austroraptor look superb though!

Unfortunately my feelings on Salty and Nanuqs are pretty much the same. There was a time when I would have snapped them up anyways, but I have to be much more selective now space-wise.

[Flaffy]

I think the Nanuqsaurus and Saltasaurus aren't great unfortunately.  Very good as kids toys, but not more than that.  I noticed the Saltasaurus has circular rather than horseshoe shaped hands and up close it looks inferior to the Safari Malawisaurus.  The detail on the Nanuqsaurus looks quite simple.  The Megalosaurus and Austroraptor look superb though!

I'm willing to look past the errors on the Saltasaurus as I still do not have one in my collection, but yeah I agree that's a noticeable mistake to make in 2024.

Disagree on the Malawisaurus being superior though, given the whole figure's anatomy is likely incorrect. The Safari figure is based on a very poor skeletal as shown here.


Scott Hartman's on the other hand gives us a more modern take on the genus. There was no reason not to reference Hartman's skeletal.


The anatomical errors present on both the Saltasaurus and Nanuqsaurus shows that the sculptor has areas to improve upon in regards to anatomy and research.

[Shane]

Regarding the final prehistoric release of 2024,

The Megalosaurus is currently expected to arrive just after Christmas. Unfortunately it's unlikely to make the holiday cutoff, but should hopefully arrive before the end of the year unless there are more delays (which is always a possibility).

A lot of other non prehistoric stuff should be arriving at the same time as well.

[Dusty Wren]

Scott Hartman's on the other hand gives us a more modern take on the genus. There was no reason not to reference Hartman's skeletal.

Wait, am I missing something? The Scott Hartman skeletal has a copyright date of 2022. The Safari Malawisaurus was released in 2018, right? So it was probably in development for a year or so before that. Did Hartman even have a skeletal for Malawisaurus in 2016/2017? Google isn't turning anything up.

You can't judge Safari for not referencing a skeletal that didn't exist when they made the figure.

[suspsy]

I think it is a rather sad state of affairs when people are seriously complaining about children's toys being children's toys.

[Joliezac]

Regarding the final prehistoric release of 2024,

The Megalosaurus is currently expected to arrive just after Christmas. Unfortunately it's unlikely to make the holiday cutoff, but should hopefully arrive before the end of the year unless there are more delays (which is always a possibility).

A lot of other non prehistoric stuff should be arriving at the same time as well.

Thanks! I just got the osprey and love it!! Can't wait to get the others (lammergeier especially).

[Sim]

I think it is a rather sad state of affairs when people are seriously complaining about children's toys being children's toys.

Nobody is doing that.

[Flaffy]

Scott Hartman's on the other hand gives us a more modern take on the genus. There was no reason not to reference Hartman's skeletal.

Wait, am I missing something?

Yes you did.

The Scott Hartman skeletal has a copyright date of 2022. The Safari Malawisaurus was released in 2018, right? So it was probably in development for a year or so before that. Did Hartman even have a skeletal for Malawisaurus in 2016/2017? Google isn't turning anything up.

The original skeletal was made a decade ago in 2014, well before Safari released their Malawisaurus. Hartman simply updated it again in 2022, something he regularly does with his old skeletals. Apologies for the confusion, I should've clarified in my original post.
https://x.com/skeletaldrawing/status/572157933531893760?lang=en

You can't judge Safari for not referencing a skeletal that didn't exist when they made the figure.

I think 2014 is far back enough for Safari to have been able to use the skeletal as a reference for their 2018 release.