Safari 2025 wishes and hopes

[Gwangi]

Udanoceratops is high on my want list too. I don't care who makes it but Doug Watson has an excellent track record with ceratopsians.

Arizonasaurus has been on my mind a lot lately too. Still haven't been able to find Bullyland's and we're long past due for a new one anyway. Doug Watson is good with pseudosuchians too. Mattel will probably be the one to make Arizonasaurus next. Speaking of pseudosuchians, I would like to see a Lotosaurus and Simosuchus. 

[GojiraGuy1954]

Udanoceratops is high on my want list too. I don't care who makes it but Doug Watson has an excellent track record with ceratopsians.

Arizonasaurus has been on my mind a lot lately too. Still haven't been able to find Bullyland's and we're long past due for a new one anyway. Doug Watson is good with pseudosuchians too. Mattel will probably be the one to make Arizonasaurus next. Speaking of pseudosuchians, I would like to see a Lotosaurus and Simosuchus. 

I think CollectA could do an amazing Supreme Scale Simosuchus that's like 1:2 or 1:3 scale

[suspsy]

I still want Denversaurus, and Corythosaurus as well.

[ZoPteryx]

They've retired quite a few ceratopsians and hadrosaurs in the past few years, maybe some replacements are in order. I'd hope for Maiasaura, Hypacrosaurus, Achelousaurus, and Kosmoceratops.

And just for fun, maybe Gallimimus, Vancleavea, Darwinopterus, Tiktaalik, and Basilosaurus.

[GojiraGuy1954]

I'd like to see the figures

[Elengassen]

Udanoceratops is high on my want list too. I don't care who makes it but Doug Watson has an excellent track record with ceratopsians.

Same here! I think it's more likely that we'll see one from Haolonggood or CollectA than from Safari though.

Arizonasaurus has been on my mind a lot lately too. Still haven't been able to find Bullyland's and we're long past due for a new one anyway.

I actually have a Bullyland Arizonasaurus which I intend to sell, feel free to PM me if you're interested 

[Spinokaprogorgon]

Why hasn't safari ltd updated their dinosaur toobs yet?

[Halichoeres]

Why hasn't safari ltd updated their dinosaur toobs yet?

Presumably because people keep buying them. Do kids still make shoebox dioramas in school? Might explain why I see the baby dinosaurs toob in craft stores.

[crazy8wizard]

Why hasn't safari ltd updated their dinosaur toobs yet?

Re-using molds is much cheaper and more efficient than making whole new ones. For big figures that they only need to make one of, it's worth the cost and time, but for up to 10 little ones that all need new sculpts, they might not be as keen on making brand new dinosaurs for a tube that already exists, rather than a new set. That's why Velociraptor, Elasmosaurus, and T. rex have multiple sculpts. They had a brand new set with a new theme.

[Spinokaprogorgon]

But they have updated a number of their old tubes with new figures. On the top of my head: african animals, Rainforest, primates, and deserts. If they can make new molds of wild animals and make them 10x times better than the original, they can also do the same with dinosaurs, ice age, etc. Hell, why not bring back prehistoric sea life, prehistoric crocodiles and prehistoric sharks but new molds? I bet they will be popular amongst collectors

[Sim]

As I belive S @Shane, who works for Safari, has said, Safari's primary customers are children.  I think new versions of those toobs with new sculpts would be popular with collectors, but that doesn't matter if Safari feels they don't sell well enough with children.  I don't think we will see these toobs again, even without mentioning that the prehistoric sharks and crocs toobs probably can't be made different enough to justify remaking them.  Apparently they just didn't sell well enough.  However Shane has said I think two new prehistoric toobs are in the making.  I look forward to seeing them!  Hopefully they aren't something such as skeletons!