Safari Ltd.: New for 2018

[Simon]

Somehow it doesn't grab me - partly its the green color (unrealistic in my view).  The sculpt also seems, well, a little cartoonish ... I'll keep my fingers crossed that PNSO releases its Amargasaurus ... after seeing pictures of that sculpt its kind of hard to get excited about the more toyish PVC versions ...

[Shonisaurus]

The amargasaurus is super nice. It is the best amargasaurus far exceeds that of Collecta and is huge by what I have seen 41 centimeters long. 

As far as anzu for me is always welcome the realization of a new species of dinosaur. hyperrealistic and colorful not to be able to, is a total and absolute improvement with respect to his Carnegie figures of feathered dinosaurs. 

[Halichoeres]

Ah, here's the good stuff. The Anzu looks great, definite buy. Conflicted on whether to snap up this Amargasaurus or hold out for the PNSO, though like others have said I would have preferred that this one be closer to the Carnegie in size. Absolutely a great sculpt and an improvement in accuracy, though.

[Shonisaurus]

Ah, here's the good stuff. The Anzu looks great, definite buy. Conflicted on whether to snap up this Amargasaurus or hold out for the PNSO, though like others have said I would have preferred that this one be closer to the Carnegie in size. Absolutely a great sculpt and an improvement in accuracy, though.

They are brilliant and hyperrealistic figures. The Safari company is making much better figures than those of previous years and not overdoing it. As I said yesterday the good thing is to come both from Safari and the rest of the toy dinosaur companies and I was not mistaken. Sum and continue this year will be spectacular on the part of Safari both in their figures from the artistic point of view and from the point of view of detail. 

[PumperKrickel]

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[Blade-of-the-Moon]

The Amarga looks super cool!  I love the walking pose and 16" ? not bad at all Safari!   It also helps I plan to build a 16' Amarga next year and this will scale so easily!

Anzu is nice, the bold white on the neck is a bit of putting but easily remedied.  Very good detail overall, reminds me of  Nick Fonseca's a bit. 

[Faelrin]

I was hoping the feathered one would actually be an Anzu. It does seem strange though that it has two types of feathers sculpted on it. The head and neck seem to lack detail too. It's a bit strange to me, though I like the colors chosen for an oviraptorid.

The sculpting on most of the Amargasaurus looks good, but the head looks shrink-wrapped. I think I liked the color scheme on the Battat Terra one more. Not bad though, but I probably won't pick it up. Not going to have space for it either once I knock off most of the figures on my wishlist.

[suspsy]

Looks pretty good! I especially like the colours!

[Neosodon]

Amargosaurus! Called it.

I have no real issues with the sculpt or coloration. But what's with the size! 16 inches, with the heavier set body this thing is probably bigger than last years diplodacus.  Amargosaurus's max size was only 33 feet making this figure a 1:24. So now the largest saurapod in the Wild Safari colletion is an amargosaurus. Really safari, if you want to make a giant saurapod figure why not use a species that is actually supposed to be big?

The Anzu is not ridiculously over sized but looking at the size and position of the feet I highly doubt it will be able to stand on its own. The wing looks like it could be used as a balance prop but I'll have to wait and see before I consider buying it.

[Flaffy]

Welp, that took long enough.
The amargasaurus reminds me of the CollectA one.
Not a huge fan of Safari's amargasaurus, especially the size. Kinda wished it was some other sauropod, but it does indicate that they're trying to remake the Carnegie line.
Definitely picking up the Anzu, shame that the facial details as far as I can tell are heavily obscured or absent.

[Daspletotyrannus]

The Amargasaurus is a little too big for my taste.  would have liked it to be around the Carnegie and Battat size.  I'm definitely getting the Anzu. You know Safari pricing been a little off lately. The Amargasaurus cost more money then the Diplodocus from last year and it smaller than it too.

[Jose S.M.]

I don't think the Amarga is too shrink wrapped, it's the lighter green paint that makes it looks that way, and the dark ring around the eyes. Also I don't see it as cartoony either, most sauropod figures have that look on their faces, the teeth and shape makes them look goofy but if you look at their skulls you can see that look too. Most Diplodocus and Amargasaurus look like that, also CollectA Ampelosaurus it's even more "derpy".

[Halichoeres]

I don't think the Amarga is too shrink wrapped, it's the lighter green paint that makes it looks that way, and the dark ring around the eyes. Also I don't see it as cartoony either, most sauropod figures have that look on their faces, the teeth and shape makes them look goofy but if you look at their skulls you can see that look too. Most Diplodocus and Amargasaurus look like that, also CollectA Ampelosaurus it's even more "derpy".

Yeah, to my eye the sculpt doesn't look shrink wrapped at all, but the paint job seems to make all the fenestrae look hollowed-out.

[Archosauria]

Incredible. So worth the wait!

I never would have guessed it was an amargasaurus, which is great because that's my favorite sauropod. I also love the sculpt and the coloration. It's really unique.

As for the Anzu, holy gosh darned wow that looks hecking good.

The Anzu is hands down my favorite 2018 model. I love it. The sculpt and colors are absolutely stunning.

The Anzu, combined with schleichs awesome Oviraptor, show 2018 is a good year for Oviraptorids.

[Simon]

The close up on this sculpt points up an obvious deficiency to these types of sauropod head reconstructions in general:

The teeth are BARE.  This is, of course, anatomically ridiculous.  The teeth have to be protected from the elements so they do not dry out and crack, and there is no example of any living animal that doesn't have a teeth cover of some sort (lips in mammals, skin in reptiles).

[Faelrin]

Ah maybe that's the case then, although I think it's a misleading design choice, if it is in fact just painted that way. It does seem to lack lips however.

Anyways, I suppose this just leaves the titanosaur, the ceratopsian, and the leaked Anykylosaurus left, unless there's anything else they have yet to reveal for their prehistoric line (hopefully another theropod). So far from the 2018 releases that have been revealed, I only really want the American Mastodon, the leaked Ankylosaurus, and maybe the Anzu (I want to wait for some video reviews on it first). Of course if the ceratopsian ends up being Styracosaurus, I'd want that too.

[suspsy]

Damn, I only just now saw the Anzu. Definitely gonna snap up that sucker. Will probably pass it on Amargasaurus.

Doug Watson, did you do either of these?

[Doug Watson]

Damn, I only just now saw the Anzu. Definitely gonna snap up that sucker. Will probably pass it on Amargasaurus.

Doug Watson, did you do either of these?

No I didn't do either of these. So far the only ones of mine revealed are the Mastodon, Daeodon, Florida Panther, new colour version of the WW Jaguar, Muskox and Pygmy Hippo.

[Nanuqsaurus]

As a big fan of feathered dinosaurs: gotta love that Anzu! It's gorgeous, definitely gonna get that one! Amargasaurus looks great too, I could use more sauropods in my collection.

[Pachyrhinosaurus]

The amargasaurus is fantastic! The only better one IMO could be the Carnegie. It's a little bigger than I expected but that isn't a bad thing.

The anzu's really great, too. I was also hoping for an anzu since we already have quite a few oviraptors and citipati. It's about time their North American counterparts are represented in toy form.

I'm definitely putting my order in today since the new prehistorics now qualify for free shipping!