Safari Ltd - New for 2022

[suspsy]

Everything Dinosaur now has the 2022 toys in stock.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

They don't have the Cryolophosaurus yet, but I ordered the other 2 I wanted.

[JimoAi]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

[Lynx]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

I think with a little imagination it would work out

[Sim]

Eofauna and CollectA are still making large sauropod figures.

[suspsy]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

You know about this toy, right?

https://dinotoyblog.com/ruyangosaurus-deluxe-by-collecta/

[JimoAi]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

You know about this toy, right?

https://dinotoyblog.com/ruyangosaurus-deluxe-by-collecta/

yep, whoops I've overlooked it

[JimoAi]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

I think with a little imagination it would work out

I'm ABIT of an accuracy freak so any glaring inaccuracies and major differences between the 2?

[Faelrin]

While digging for posts for the Cyberozoic thread, I came across this post of Zuul's integument. I think this may be of use to anyone that has picked up (or still on their wishlist) the Safari Ltd Zuul figure:

https://twitter.com/DavidEvans_ROM/status/1389226629117845507



This was posted back in May 2021, and the one who posted this mentioned something about two papers Arbour was working on with this animal. Well one was published last year (which incidentally meant some things on the Safari figure became outdated). Is there another on the way then?

Also wow, I knew Zuul was well preserved, but this is like nearly as good as Borealopelta, maybe even better since it has the back half. Only this is an ankylosaurid, where as Borealopelta was a nodosaurid.

[Skorpio V.]

was wondering if the Safari Ltd patagotitam works as a Dreadnaughthous as I feel no company would ever take much risks in making large sauropods anymore sans Mattel and botm

I think with a little imagination it would work out

I'm ABIT of an accuracy freak so any glaring inaccuracies and major differences between the 2?

In the remains they share, which isn't much, the differences are pretty negligible in the grand scheme. For example, the femur length in Patagotitan (~2.3 m) being 40-ish centimeters greater than Dreadnoughtus (~1.9 m) is indistinguishable at this scale. Even with those minor differences, Dreadnoughtus doesn't have any very close relatives to go off of as it branches off from other titanosaurs. Patagotitan, on the other hand, is often further classified under the clade Lognkosauria with the likes of Argentinosaurus, Puertasaurus, Futalognkosaurus, and some others. Still, I have seen some skeletals that fill in Dreadnoughtus with Lognkosaurs such as Patagotitan and Futalognkosaurus since titanosaurs don't have many significant physical/external changes between genera, so substituting with Patagotitan is not unheard of. Dreadnoughtus doesn't have a closer relative to interchange figures of, so this, the CollectA Ruyangosaurus, or any other titanosaur model could work.

TLDR; Dreadnoughtus is very weird on the titanosaur family tree. Until we get closer relatives to it in both model form and new discoveries, this works.

[Lynx]

I wonder if the Utahraptor and the estemmenosuchus will release together

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

At Everything Dinosaur they probably will, like the Cryolophosaurus and Majungasaurus did, but that will be several months behind you lot I expect.