Safari 2019 retired figures

[Sim]

Update 4 February 2019:

The following Wild Safari figures appear to be retired for 2019:
Amebelodon
Plesiosuchus
Tyrannosaurus (repaint of first version) - this figure is still available as a new repaint for 2019




Original post:

While looking at Safari's 2019 catalog, I noticed the prehistoric Wild Safari figures that have a reduced price on Safari's website are not in the 2019 catalog.  As has been mentioned on this forum before, it appears this means they are retired.  This applies to the following figures:

Amebelodon
Edmontosaurus
Nigersaurus
Plesiosuchus
Pteranodon baby
Stegosaurus baby
Triceratops baby

I think it was already known some of these were retired (e.g. Edmontosaurus, Nigersaurus), I guess it's just been taking a long time for them to sell out on Safari's website.  The Plesiosuchus and Amebelodon are news to me though, and I'm a bit surprised as it's only been three years since the Plesiosuchus was released and the Amebelodon was re-released.

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In the past I seem to remember reading (rumours?) that the following Wild Safari figures were retired.  However, they are in the 2019 catalog, and they don't have a reduced price on Safari's website, so it appears these aren't retired:

Elasmosaurus
Smilodon

[suspsy]

That's a shame about the Plesiosuchus; it's a good sculpt and it's not like there are a ton of metriorhynchid toys available.

[Shonisaurus]

@suspsy The plesiosuchus is a great figure but I understand that they have been discontinued because there is no demand for such a figure. Except some members of the DTF understood in the matter and collectors as it is my case that we inform ourselves by Internet is an unknown figure for the majority of the public, and when not having demand unfortunately descataloga. It's the sad reality.

That is one of the reasons that Safari like the rest of prehistoric toy animal companies do not take much risk when it comes to making unprecedented prehistoric species figures in the toy market. I would not be surprised if the malawisaurus eventually happens to the same as the nigersaurus.

Unfortunately, it is the law of supply and demand and the one who commands is the consumer. That is one reason why companies like Safari and other companies prehistoric animals, republish again and again the same figures known prehistoric animals (tyrannosaurus, triceratops, elasmosaurus). Except for collectors and amateurs there is very little demand for avant-garde figures and obscure species globally.

It's the sad reality. 

[Halichoeres]

That's a shame about the Plesiosuchus; it's a good sculpt and it's not like there are a ton of metriorhynchid toys available.

Yeah, in fact when it was released it was one of three in production, and the other two were Toob figures that are now also discontinued. I hope the Plesiosuchus is only temporarily at a discount and not being retired, because if it was that much of a bomb it bodes pretty poorly for non-dinosaur prehistorics.

[Sim]

@Halichoeres, as I mentioned in the first post, the Plesiosuchus isn't in Safari's 2019 catalog...

[Halichoeres]

@Halichoeres, as I mentioned in the first post, the Plesiosuchus isn't in Safari's 2019 catalog...

Yes I saw that but there's the ghost of a chance that it could be an oversight, or that they're re-mastering the paint, or what-have-you.

[IrritatorRaji]

I've been putting off the Edmontosaurus and Nigersaurus for a really long time now, guess now's a better time than any to get them!

[Sim]

The Nigersaurus and Plesiosuchus are now no longer listed on Safari's website.  Same goes for the previous colour scheme of the Wild Safari T. rex that's getting a new repaint for 2019.  That T. rex in its previous colouration isn't listed in Safari's 2019 catalog either, perhaps I hadn't noticed this before as it didn't have a reduced price on Safari's website.

I've noticed something odd though.  The older version of the Wild Safari Brachiosaurus is listed in Safari's 2019 catalog but not on their website.  I don't know why this is.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Such a shame about the Nigersaurus and Plesiosuchus.

Maybe the Brachiosaurus thing is a mistake?

[Shonisaurus]

Such a shame about the Nigersaurus and Plesiosuchus.

Maybe the Brachiosaurus thing is a mistake?

Sincerely it is a loss for Safari that descataloguen the nigersaurus and plesiosuchus, I understand that every collector that is interested in those two paleoartísticas beauties the only thing that can do is buy them before it disappears. As much as one regrets they are not going to reedit them at least in a short space of time. My advice as a friend to any enthusiastic person and fan of the figures of Safari is to buy as soon as possible both figures of prehistoric animals in any online store that has them before they run out.

Then on eBay the prices will become more expensive and some sellers will raise prices as has been done with the Battat dinosaurs. In online stores the price is affordable within what fits and in perfect condition.

The said thing is a very sad loss for Safari the descatalogar both figures, I repeat.

[Daspletodave]

Hopefully this means that there will be a better, larger Edmontosaurus figure in the near future.

[Sim]

I've noticed that in Safari's FAQ page ( https://www.safariltd.com/frequently-asked-questions ) it says:

6. How do I find a retired figurine?

If you cannot find a particular figurine in our online store, then the figurine has been retired. You may want to contact your local retailers or search a marketplace like eBay to try and find the retired figurine.

According to this, those figures I mentioned are gone from Safari's website are retired.  I'm now also reminded of Everything Dinosaur saying Papo retired their Tupuxuara but still included it in their new catalog to allow the remaining stock of it to be sold.  This would be consistent with what I mentioned in my previous post about the older Wild Safari Brachiosaurus being in the new catalog but not on Safari's website.  Going by what Safari said in the quote above, the older Wild Safari Brachiosaurus is now finally retired.

I recently noticed the following Wild Safari figures are not listed on Safari's website anymore, although oddly they are still available as part of group sets on Safari's website: Quetzalcoatlus, Liopleurodon. They are also available to order individually in the 2019 catalog.  I'm not sure what to think of this, but based on what I've said previously in this post, I get the feeling they have been retired.  It would be very surprising if the Quetzalcoatlus has been retired, as it was only released in 2017!  If it is retired, it lasted only 2 years, that's even less than the Plesiosuchus!

I decided to go through the list of Wild Safari prehistoric figures on Toyanimal.info and check if any that are not known to be retired are no longer on Safari's website.  I found two.  Although they are still in Safari's 2019 catalog, the following figures are no longer on Safari's website: Coelacanth, megalodon.  According to what Safari said in the quote above, these two figures are retired.

I've updated the first post of this thread with a list of all the figures that appear to be retired for 2019, noting the ones that are still available in a group.  I've found that the Edmontosaurus, Nigersaurus and babies of Pteranodon, Stegosaurus and Triceratops were first said to be retired in 2018, so I haven't listed them again.  I've also updated the title of this thread.  Below is the list I've updated the first post with:

The following Wild Safari figures appear to be retired for 2019:
Amebelodon
Brachiosaurus (repaint of first version) - every colour scheme of this figure is now retired
Coelacanth
Megalodon
Plesiosuchus
Tyrannosaurus (repaint of first version) - this figure is still available as a new repaint for 2019

The following Wild Safari figures might also be retired, although they are currently still available in group sets on Safari's website:
Liopleurodon
Quetzalcoatlus

[Sim]

The Liopleurodon is available individually on Safari's website again.  I find it a bit strange how for some time it was only available in a group set, and that the Quetzalcoatlus is still only available in a group set.  Maybe they had low stock of these figures and wanted to encourage people to buy the group sets they were in?

I've removed the mention of the Liopleurodon and Quetzalcoatlus possibly being retired from the first post, since these two figures appear to have been continuously available on Safari's website, even if only in a group set at one point, and they aren't in the clearance unlike for example the Amebelodon: https://store.safariltd.com/collections/sale/interest_prehistoric

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Maybe the Brachiosaurus thing is a mistake?

@Gothmog the Baryonyx, in case you haven't seen it yet, in my previous post there's a possible explanation of what's happened with that figure.

[Sim]

I've noticed that on Safari's website, the Quetzalcoatlus is now listed individually again, rather than just as part of a group set (and the WS prehistoric group sets are now all gone from Safari's website).  Also back on Safari's website are the coelacanth, megalodon and older Brachiosaurus.  I don't know why these figures were all taken off Safari's site for a while.  It can't have just been because they were out of stock, since the Diplodocus was listed as coming soon during this period which indicates it was out of stock but still listed on Safari's site.  It's quite confusing since as I mentioned in a previous post, Safari has said that if a figure is no longer available on their website it has been retired.

Since the coelacanth, megalodon and Brachiosaurus are also still in Safari's 2019 catalog, I have removed them from the list of figures that appear to be retired for 2019 in the first post.  The remaining figures I don't doubt are retired.  It's the Plesiosuchus, Amebelodon and previous colour scheme of the T. rex that's been repainted for 2019.  As I mentioned previously in this thread, these three are all not in Safari's 2019 catalog which I think pretty much confirms their retirement.  The Plesiosuchus and Amebelodon also had their prices reduced with the Plesiosuchus later going from Safari's site and Amebelodon now being in "Final Sale", while the T. rex is just gone from Safari's site and has received a new repaint for 2019.

[SidB]

Strange that the old T- Rex model is still hanging on, albeit it in a new paint garb. I obtained one from Dejankins recently, along with my order of the superb new 2019 figures. I have to admit that the new paint work is quite well done. Nothing fancy, but nicely applied. Unusual for Safari, even the teeth are perfect, to my surprise. My speculation is that they are holding onto this outdated sculpt in order to fill a perceived need for a featherless T-Rex in the toy market. I wonder if they will approach Doug to do a new featherless one or at least mostly so, like CollectA with their "roaring Tyrannosaurus"?

[suspsy]

I haven't seen that T. rex in person, but it certainly looks like the best rendition of that mould to date.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we get a new version of the tyrant king, but I can't imagine it'll be a short time. The feathered one is only two years old. And it's totally awesome regardless of whether or not it was really that fuzzy.

[Jose S.M.]

I've seen people asking them on Facebook about a new "not so feathered" Tyrannosaurus and they said it wasn't in their plans for their near future as the last one is too recent. Also in my opinion there's still more discussion about the feathers issue. I know people is kind of tired of T-rex but I'll be lying of I told I wouldn't be interested in one that's like the current one with new integument arrangement, but only if the naked parts look as good as the 2017 one, I love the head sculpt very much.

[Shonisaurus]

Honestly in the case of the safari megalodon after buying your PNSO counterpart I am not surprised that it has been discontinued, I understand that it could be much better finished and that they should have made a larger size Safari megalodon with a size between the discontinued of Safari and the gigantic vinyl of PNSO.

There was that little worked figure. On the other hand the Safari amebelodon is a very well finished figure but sincerely the public (collectors and children) prefer the dinosaurs and other extinct animals of the Mesozoic before it appears as mammals of the Cenozoic megafauna I have to recognize it.

What I do not understand is that descataloguen the coelacanth of Safari is a figure that anyone can like and had been selling for many years in the market is a pity.

The same think to make figures improved with time to those figures including the plesiosuchus, but I am afraid that their time has passed or has been at least two of the four cases (plesiosuchus and amebelodon) two failed experiments, in regard to sales.

I hope that perhaps new megalodon and coelacanth will be reedited in new improved figures over time, rather with the passage of time, with the only difference that the coelacanth will be reissued as it is superlatively well sculpted and does not need any retouching. kind. Hope is the only thing that is lost.

[SidB]

I haven't seen that T. rex in person, but it certainly looks like the best rendition of that mould to date.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we get a new version of the tyrant king, but I can't imagine it'll be a short time. The feathered one is only two years old. And it's totally awesome regardless of whether or not it was really that fuzzy.

Agreed. I keep a copy of the Carnegie Safari tenth anniversary edition, which of course is quite featherless, nearby, and find that this more than suffices for the present. They do display well together, as they basically share a similar coloration.

[Paleodude]

https://twitter.com/SafariLtd/status/1108795395059171328

Asked Safari Ltd. directly about the Quetzalcoatlus' status, turns out it's just currently out of stock and not retired.