Safari: New for 2017

[tanystropheus]

Time for my daily Safari opinions!

Quetzalcoatlus: Love it! The sculpt is really good, and so are the colors, its obviously a male by the bright colors on the head. And now we have two good Quetzals in two different poses, the CollectA standing and the Safari flying. This ones definitely on my list!

Coelophysis: This figure is just beautiful, best Coelophysis out there so far. And I love the colors, you can tell its a male, and I love bright colors on would be display areas. And I absolutely love the fact that it has fine feathering on the body. The feathered dinosaur toy revolution was started by CollectA, and is being continued by Safari, let the feathered dinosaur toy revolution continue!

The colors on the CollectA Hatz are similar enough to the WS Quetz that you can use them as a pair.

It looks like Schleich, Papo and REBOR will be joining the feathered dinosaur toy revolution, as well.

[Takama]

Time for my daily Safari opinions!

Quetzalcoatlus: Love it! The sculpt is really good, and so are the colors, its obviously a male by the bright colors on the head. And now we have two good Quetzals in two different poses, the CollectA standing and the Safari flying. This ones definitely on my list!

Coelophysis: This figure is just beautiful, best Coelophysis out there so far. And I love the colors, you can tell its a male, and I love bright colors on would be display areas. And I absolutely love the fact that it has fine feathering on the body. The feathered dinosaur toy revolution was started by CollectA, and is being continued by Safari, let the feathered dinosaur toy revolution continue!

The colors on the CollectA Hatz are similar enough to the WS Quetz that you can use them as a pair.

It looks like Schleich, Papo and REBOR will be joining the feathered dinosaur toy revolution, as well.

HAve to admit though, it seems like some dont evean care about feathers and there only doing it to see like there changeing with the times

[Flaffy]

Time for my daily Safari opinions!

Quetzalcoatlus: Love it! The sculpt is really good, and so are the colors, its obviously a male by the bright colors on the head. And now we have two good Quetzals in two different poses, the CollectA standing and the Safari flying. This ones definitely on my list!

Coelophysis: This figure is just beautiful, best Coelophysis out there so far. And I love the colors, you can tell its a male, and I love bright colors on would be display areas. And I absolutely love the fact that it has fine feathering on the body. The feathered dinosaur toy revolution was started by CollectA, and is being continued by Safari, let the feathered dinosaur toy revolution continue!

The colors on the CollectA Hatz are similar enough to the WS Quetz that you can use them as a pair.

It looks like Schleich, Papo and REBOR will be joining the feathered dinosaur toy revolution, as well.

HAve to admit though, it seems like some dont evean care about feathers and there only doing it to see like there changeing with the times

For Western brands, I feel that CollectA was the first to truly embrace the beauty of feathered dinosaurs and translate it into figures. Safari caught on as well, making fabulous and accurate figures. The revolution spawned the BotM line, which we adore.
Schleich and Rebor are just jumping on the feathered bandwagon, just so they can slap the "museum quality" or "scientifically accurate" label on their figures.
Geoworld never cared about dinosaurs in the first place. Nor do the random 'Chinasaur' companies.

[Silvanusaurus]

The colors on the CollectA Hatz are similar enough to the WS Quetz that you can use them as a pair.

It looks like Schleich, Papo and REBOR will be joining the feathered dinosaur toy revolution, as well.

HAve to admit though, it seems like some dont evean care about feathers and there only doing it to see like there changeing with the times

Yeah, Rebor and Schleich's attempts are more akin to the attempts of a child to pass themselves off as an adult by drawing a moustache on their face with a black marker pen. By contrast these Safaris and CollectA pieces are much more sincere, both naturalistic and yet genuinely 'cool' as animals, rather than the kind of 'cool' envisioned by an adolescent.

On the Quetz, it strikes me as a lovely figure of that animal, but I'm just not that enamoured with pterosaurs. I do love the tiny little eyes and the blue gradiant on the face though.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

Let's not forget about Carnegie's lineup of feathered dinosaurs. Among the major brands I think they were some of the first.
Anyways, the Kronosaurus picture's out now:

[sauroid]

if you are all worried about the abundance of great 2017 (including this year's PNSOs) figures draining your wallet, wait til CollectA and Papo announce their next year's figures. LOL

[Flaffy]

if you are all worried about the abundance of great 2017 figures draining your wallet, wait til CollectA and Papo announce their next year's figures. LOL

Darn. 

[Doug Watson]

Let's not forget about Carnegie's lineup of feathered dinosaurs. Among the major brands I think they were some of the first.
Anyways, the Kronosaurus picture's out now:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153924030718193&substory_index=0&id=156425368192

and I did six feathered dinosaurs for the Safari Ltd AMNH Feathered Dinosaurs Toob in 2005 and I think Carnegie's first came out that year, the Beipiaosaurus.

[Jose S.M.]

Well I hope collecta work something about their problems with distribution in U.S.A, shipping from outside America is more expensive for me and Dan's dinosaurs had limited numbers of this years figures.

The Kronosaurus looks fine and it's very big! But I can't see pics on safaris site yet, just on their Facebook.

Edit: I know now why there's no more pics on the website, I read the Facebook post and they said they are updating on monday hehe. I should read more instead of just looking at the pics

[SpartanSquat]

Let's not forget about Carnegie's lineup of feathered dinosaurs. Among the major brands I think they were some of the first.
Anyways, the Kronosaurus picture's out now:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153924030718193&substory_index=0&id=156425368192

and I did six feathered dinosaurs for the Safari Ltd AMNH Feathered Dinosaurs Toob in 2005 and I think Carnegie's first came out that year, the Beipiaosaurus.

You made the Beipianosaurus, Doug?

[Doug Watson]

Let's not forget about Carnegie's lineup of feathered dinosaurs. Among the major brands I think they were some of the first.
Anyways, the Kronosaurus picture's out now:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153924030718193&substory_index=0&id=156425368192

and I did six feathered dinosaurs for the Safari Ltd AMNH Feathered Dinosaurs Toob in 2005 and I think Carnegie's first came out that year, the Beipiaosaurus.

You made the Beipianosaurus, Doug?

Only the one in the Toob the Carnegie Beipiaosaurus was sculpted by Forest Rogers like all of the Carnegies.

[tyrantqueen]

Should be a better replacement for the Cigar-o-saurus.

[CMIPalaeo]

I see it's dolled up in standard Giant Pliosaur Livery^TM. It is lovely though... I won't be in a hurry to pick this one up simply because there are other figures that interest me more and I unfortunately have to be rather selective. It is quite an impressive Kronosaurus.

[suspsy]

It's great to see Kronosaurus getting love again after being overshadowed by Liopleurodon and Pliosaurus. Kind of a pity about the same old colour scheme though.

[DinoLord]

Great to see a Kronosaurus figure that's actually a Kronosaurus and not an elongated Harvard-osaurus.

[Halichoeres]

I like that Kronosaurus--I wonder if our admin had some input?

On pteroids, I just went through my pterosaurs, and in addition to the ones mentioned, most of my Kaiyodo pterosaurs have a discernible pteroid, as do my TS Toys Tropeognathus, Colorata Quetzalcoatlus, CollectA Guidraco, and Schleich 2001 Pteranodon. That last one surprised me the most.

[ItsTwentyBelow]

Very cool Kronosaurus. I never got the Carnegie figure because it's just so awful and unappealing. One of the two Carnegie figures I don't own simply because I have no interest (other being the brown Rex). Even the Schleich Kronosaurus was more intriguing to me, but I never got it either.

This new Kronosaurus looks to be a very worthy successor, and I think the color pattern is very attractive. This guy was always portrayed as sort of the "King of Marine Reptiles" in books when I was a kid. Here's hoping it's a hefty model!

[suspsy]

It's a perfectly good colour scheme for a giant marine reptile, but thanks to WWD, it's been overused. Just look at the Liopleurodon page in the Genera section. It's like green for a T. rex or brown for an Ankylosaurus.

I think this Kronosaurus will be around the same size as the CollectA Pliosaurus.

[DinoToyForum]

I like that Kronosaurus--I wonder if our admin had some input?

Since you ask, yes, I did. Now that they are being announced I can say that I had input into six of the new models. Of those fully revealed so far, I advised on the Kronosaurus, Microraptor, and Quetzalcoatlus. I was honoured to be involved and I'm very happy with how they've turned out. Together we avoided some of the usual pitfalls.

[Gwangi]

I like that Kronosaurus--I wonder if our admin had some input?

Since you ask, yes, I did. Now that they are being announced I can say that I had input into six of the new models. Of those fully revealed so far, I advised on the Kronosaurus, Microraptor, and Quetzalcoatlus. I was honoured to be involved and I'm very happy with how they've turned out. Together we avoided some of the usual pitfalls.

That's awesome! I figured you might have a hand in the marine reptiles but I surprised you were involved with others as well. Not questioning your expertise of course, I just know what your specialty is.