Safari 2025 wishes and hopes

[Concavenator]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

[Halichoeres]

Safari already has a baby dinosaurs toob.

Right, and it's not very good, but it's still in production, while their prehistoric sea life, prehistoric crocs, prehistoric sharks, and Cambrian life Toobs are not. To me that suggests that if they're going to introduce another Toob, it's going to be along the lines of the ones that have had the most longevity. If they made a new dino babies Toob they might get a decade or more out of it, compared to the measly four years of the Cambrian life one. The only half-decent Toob still in production is the feathered dinos, although it has had a pretty terrible paint downgrade.

I'm just saying I'm expecting figures that are probably decent quality but probably not especially innovative, as that doesn't seem to have been profitable.

Safari's recent extant animal TOOBs have been a mix of familiar and obscure animals in various scales, and mostly original sculpts too. A little something for everyone in each TOOB. I think a new prehistoric TOOB will be like those. I certainly hope so.

I'll be over the moon if there are three or four figures among the forthcoming Toobs that fit my interests.

[Shane]

Safari has not announced its full 2025 lineup as of yet. Space Shuttle Good Luck Minis were the most recent announcement which is currently available. There are many items in the works but I can't speak to when they will come out or be announced at this time. Obviously the current U.S. trade situation is going to affect timelines and availability.

I'm hesitant to say anything more at this point because when I mention something like Safari is working on X on a general term people tend to project very specific meaning onto it and I'd rather not have something I say get misconstrued or become the basis for a rumor that isn't true.

[SidB]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

Honestly, Plateosaurus is my number one hope from a company such as Safari that produces accurate figures. HLG and PNSO could certainly do it too, as well as CollectA, but Safari still hasn't replaced the old Carnegie Plateosaurus with an updated one, so I think that such a move is not an unreasonable expectation. Safari is more than capable of producing an excellent figure at a very sensible price point. Plateosaurus was my very first figure, from a cereal box, back in the day, so I'll hold onto the end of the rope and wait.

[BlueKrono]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

Honestly, Plateosaurus is my number one hope from a company such as Safari that produces accurate figures. HLG and PNSO could certainly do it too, as well as CollectA, but Safari still hasn't replaced the old Carnegie Plateosaurus with an updated one, so I think that such a move is not an unreasonable expectation. Safari is more than capable of producing an excellent figure at a very sensible price point. Plateosaurus was my very first figure, from a cereal box, back in the day, so I'll hold onto the end of the rope and wait.

I think Plateosaurus would sell strongly among 50-100 DTF members and poorly among children. We must consider who their target market is.

[suspsy]

The last @Doug Watson ceratopsian was the Styracosaurus back in 2019, which means we're long overdue for another slam dunk from him. I'd like for either Anchiceratops (the nearly complete skeleton is here at our museum), Centrosaurus, or Torosaurus.

[Gwangi]

The last @Doug Watson ceratopsian was the Styracosaurus back in 2019, which means we're long overdue for another slam dunk from him. I'd like for either Anchiceratops (the nearly complete skeleton is here at our museum), Centrosaurus, or Torosaurus.

Even though I have PNSO's Centrosaurus I could easily make room in my collection for one by Doug Watson. As for Torosaurus, an upscaled version of the Safari Sue figure would do just fine.

[Sim]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

Honestly, Plateosaurus is my number one hope from a company such as Safari that produces accurate figures. HLG and PNSO could certainly do it too, as well as CollectA, but Safari still hasn't replaced the old Carnegie Plateosaurus with an updated one, so I think that such a move is not an unreasonable expectation. Safari is more than capable of producing an excellent figure at a very sensible price point. Plateosaurus was my very first figure, from a cereal box, back in the day, so I'll hold onto the end of the rope and wait.

I think Plateosaurus would sell strongly among 50-100 DTF members and poorly among children. We must consider who their target market is.

I think Plateosaurus would sell well among children too.  It's one of the most widely-known dinosaurs and it looks different to anything else from Safari.  It also looks interesting.  But if it wouldn't sell well with children, this would be a reason for Haolonggood to make Plateosaurus, as Haolonggood figures are not for under 14s.

[BlueKrono]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

Honestly, Plateosaurus is my number one hope from a company such as Safari that produces accurate figures. HLG and PNSO could certainly do it too, as well as CollectA, but Safari still hasn't replaced the old Carnegie Plateosaurus with an updated one, so I think that such a move is not an unreasonable expectation. Safari is more than capable of producing an excellent figure at a very sensible price point. Plateosaurus was my very first figure, from a cereal box, back in the day, so I'll hold onto the end of the rope and wait.

I think Plateosaurus would sell strongly among 50-100 DTF members and poorly among children. We must consider who their target market is.

I think Plateosaurus would sell well among children too.  It's one of the most widely-known dinosaurs and it looks different to anything else from Safari.  It also looks interesting.  But if it wouldn't sell well with children, this would be a reason for Haolonggood to make Plateosaurus, as Haolonggood figures are not for under 14s.

Strictly as a personal opinion, I find Plateosaurus to be one of the most boring dinosaurs. They don't have horns, sharp teeth, big claws, super long necks or tails, clubs, thagomizers, armor plating... any of the things that jump out to kids and parents when picking out a dinosaur toy. They have never appeared in any popular tv show or movie and I would argue that only people who are dinosaur fans even know what they are. With PNSO's recent Lufengosaurus I think barking up the HLG tree might be your best bet. Due to accessibility they seem to be more directed at adult collectors than children.

[Sim]

Plateosaurus has huge claws on its first fingers.  It's an overlooked feature for some reason, with Plateosaurus figures rendering the animal's formidable hands in an underwhelming way (CollectA's has bunny hands, the Carnegie lacks large claws).  Take a look at the images below which show this feature.

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Also from Wikipedia:

Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with [...] short but muscular arms and grasping hands with large claws on three fingers, possibly used for defence and feeding.

Plateosaurus is one of the most well-understood prehistoric animals, we know all of its skeleton, its life history, how it moved, how it held its body...  And it was one of the first non-avian dinosaurs named.  I think it's a more interesting animal in general than plenty of other dinosaurs that have been made as figures frequently, e.g. hadrosaurids especially Edmontosaurus, Protoceratops, Psittacosaurus...  And I think it can sell well enough as CollectA hasn't retired theirs.

[SidB]

Very much looking forward to seeing Safari's 2025 releases. Will the long-awaited Plateosaurus be a reality this year? Or a new Corythosaurus?

Honestly, Plateosaurus is my number one hope from a company such as Safari that produces accurate figures. HLG and PNSO could certainly do it too, as well as CollectA, but Safari still hasn't replaced the old Carnegie Plateosaurus with an updated one, so I think that such a move is not an unreasonable expectation. Safari is more than capable of producing an excellent figure at a very sensible price point. Plateosaurus was my very first figure, from a cereal box, back in the day, so I'll hold onto the end of the rope and wait.

I think Plateosaurus would sell strongly among 50-100 DTF members and poorly among children. We must consider who their target market is.

Sadly true, as I'm quite aware. The reason why we've not seen one in ages. I'm not surprised that we've seen two Lufengosaurs from PNSO and now one from TNG as this taxon would likely be of more interest to the Chinese market, I believe.

[Concavenator]

I'm not surprised that we've seen two Lufengosaurs from PNSO and now one from TNG as this taxon would likely be of more interest to the Chinese market, I believe.

I wonder if that's really the case.

[Halichoeres]

It's true, children have terrible taste!

[Daspletodave]

A Safari Plateosaurus would be great. A new ceratopsian is also way overdue.

[suspsy]

I would like for Safari, and particularly our trusty and entirely beloved @Doug Watson to make a Denversaurus. It's high time the other Hell Creek ankylosaur received some recognition.

[Trenchcoated Rebbachisaur]

Would there have been any notable outwardly difference between Edmontonia and Denversaurus in life? I was considering getting the HLG version of the former to represent the latter, considering they were synonymous in the past, and I always felt like there's a bigger case for lumping most of Panoplosaurini into an Edmontonia Mega-genus than splitting them apart

[thebermuda303]

I'd love to see barsboldia

[TheCambrianCrusader]

I'll be saying Plateosaurus till the cows come home. If every other carnegie gets a remake then darn it give the prosauropod some love lol.

Beyond that honestly I would really be interested in a neanderthal. No one's ever really bothered to make a serious figure of one before all the others are just generic cavemen. Iunno considering neanderthals are one THE most well known fossil taxa both scientifically and culturally you'd think it be getting more figures.