Carnegie collection web site updates

[Dinoxels]

Interestingly, my local museum actually still uses 2 Carnegie display shelves back to back on top of a clear display with shelves. It's really interesting to see other company's figures along with Safari Ltd.'s on the display. I snagged the Papo Baby Trike off of it a few years back. The Carnegie Woolly Mammoth is actually still on there, but it's glued down.  Attached this picture of it.
https://imgur.com/dwhjscc

[Dinoguy2]

Interestingly, my local museum actually still uses 2 Carnegie display shelves back to back on top of a clear display with shelves. It's really interesting to see other company's figures along with Safari Ltd.'s on the display. I snagged the Papo Baby Trike off of it a few years back. The Carnegie Woolly Mammoth is actually still on there, but it's glued down.  Attached this picture of it.
https://imgur.com/dwhjscc

That's really cool! I'm not really surprised places hung onto those displays, they work really well for lots of different figures (Safari was putting them out in different colors for pretty much all their lines at one point.) Surprised that only the mammoth was glued down, usually it was an all or nothing deal.

[Leyster]

D @Dinoguy2 I was thinking that another feature may be interesting to add to the info page is a transcription of the tag that came with the figure.

[Dinoguy2]

D @Dinoguy2 I was thinking that another feature may be interesting to add to the info page is a transcription of the tag that came with the figure.

That's a good idea - I have uploaded pics of the tags where possible but I'm behind on photographing the insides, let alone transcripts. Something I'll start working on soon.

[Leyster]

D @Dinoguy2 just another thing: on https://carnegiecollection.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-carnegie-collection-cryolophosaurus.html you say that the Cryolophosaurus stamp has written "Carnegie Ichthyosaurus / (C) 2008 Safari Ltd., Miami, FL USA / Made in China / CE" (it would be cleary an error on Safari's part), but on mine is correctly written "Cryolophosaurus". 

[Dinoguy2]

D @Dinoguy2 just another thing: on https://carnegiecollection.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-carnegie-collection-cryolophosaurus.html you say that the Cryolophosaurus stamp has written "Carnegie Ichthyosaurus / (C) 2008 Safari Ltd., Miami, FL USA / Made in China / CE" (it would be cleary an error on Safari's part), but on mine is correctly written "Cryolophosaurus".

Thanks for the catch, I believe that's just a copy paste error.

[Leyster]

D @Dinoguy2 some time ago I was searching on past ebay auction and I found this curious boxed Tyrannosaurus. I believe there was a Maiasaura v1 too, but I didn't save it. Do you have any info about them? I didn't know Carnegies were sold boxed!

[Dinoguy2]

D @Dinoguy2 some time ago I was searching on past ebay auction and I found this curious boxed Tyrannosaurus. I believe there was a Maiasaura v1 too, but I didn't save it. Do you have any info about them? I didn't know Carnegies were sold boxed!

Yes, I'll need to add a page about the boxed editions someday... This box style was from the early 90s. I don't know how many were released like this but it seems to have been most of the mid sized figures at least. I believe these were mostly sold in museum gift shops but not exclusively. I remember seeing them in specialty stores and wondering why anybody would buy them - they were more expensive than the unboxed ones which usually were available in the same store! Later on in the 90s they had boxed sets by time period, and 2-packs with "enemies" (I forget the exact name for these).

Boxed ones are pretty rare nowadays but I don't know how much demand there is. I've seen them listed for big bucks and never sell.

[Leyster]

Really interesting! I never saw boxed Carnegies here in Italy, only Dinosaurs of China series and Wenzel's Velociraptor.

[Leyster]

Just read the big Diplodocus update! The grey one (wich I never knew existed until your post) looks quite cool

[Dinoguy2]

Just read the big Diplodocus update! The grey one (wich I never knew existed until your post) looks quite cool

Thanks! Diplodocus is hard to try and figure out the chronology of because of the lack of big color changes. Hopefully I have it somewhat close to reality, though I suspect the three with normal color and "Miami" on the stamp might be out of order, just based on the relative sharpness of the stamp text. I have the one with dark brown stripes and complex spot pattern first just because it looks closest to the prototype, but I have reason to think based on other figures that the paint apps might have become BETTER as the first few years went on, closer and closer to the prototypes, then declined again when newer models took priority. But it's hard to know for sure without store reports from the early days.

[Leyster]

Hey D @Dinoguy2 , I found on worthpoint these images of the rare white and black Diplodocus, tought it might interest you 
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-safari-carnegie-collection-1955218323

[Dinoguy2]

Hey D @Dinoguy2 , I found on worthpoint these images of the rare white and black Diplodocus, tought it might interest you 
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-safari-carnegie-collection-1955218323

Wow, great find, thanks! These pics are much clearer than in PT.

[Leyster]

Hey D @Dinoguy2 , I found on worthpoint these images of the rare white and black Diplodocus, tought it might interest you 
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-safari-carnegie-collection-1955218323

Wow, great find, thanks! These pics are much clearer than in PT.

Glad to help 

[Dinoxels]

Oh my, that figure is a beauty. Love the colors.

[Dinoguy2]

Since I haven't updated in a while, I figured I'd post here that a somewhat small update to the Allosaurus entry is now live. Just some more pics and clues to eventually help sort out the baffling and bewildering number of 1988-1989 Allosaurus variants.

Going to work on that packaging page soon... There are more different box styles out there than I thought!

[Ostafrikasaurus]

Since I haven't updated in a while, I figured I'd post here that a somewhat small update to the Allosaurus entry is now live. Just some more pics and clues to eventually help sort out the baffling and bewildering number of 1988-1989 Allosaurus variants.

Going to work on that packaging page soon... There are more different box styles out there than I thought!

I just want to say thank you for putting so much effort into making the C/C blog as great as it is. You're really doing all of us collectors a huge service! By the way, have you ever considered taking all the info you've uncovered in your research and publishing an "unofficial" Carnegie collecting guide? I can imagine there are a lot of folks on DTB who would kill for a definitive work on the Carnegie series.

[Dinoguy2]

Since I haven't updated in a while, I figured I'd post here that a somewhat small update to the Allosaurus entry is now live. Just some more pics and clues to eventually help sort out the baffling and bewildering number of 1988-1989 Allosaurus variants.

Going to work on that packaging page soon... There are more different box styles out there than I thought!

I just want to say thank you for putting so much effort into making the C/C blog as great as it is. You're really doing all of us collectors a huge service! By the way, have you ever considered taking all the info you've uncovered in your research and publishing an "unofficial" Carnegie collecting guide? I can imagine there are a lot of folks on DTB who would kill for a definitive work on the Carnegie series.

Thanks! I have thought about eventually puttyit all together as a book or at least a pdf, but I'm not sure how much demand there would be for such a thing or the legalities of it. I'd also probably want to wait until I have better information on the early production process. All I have at the moment is a lot of speculation based on clues, nothing definitive enough to commit to print. If anybody knows someone who worked for Safari in the 80s...

[Ostafrikasaurus]

Thanks! I have thought about eventually puttyit all together as a book or at least a pdf, but I'm not sure how much demand there would be for such a thing or the legalities of it. I'd also probably want to wait until I have better information on the early production process. All I have at the moment is a lot of speculation based on clues, nothing definitive enough to commit to print. If anybody knows someone who worked for Safari in the 80s...

I just noticed that the C/C blog doesn't have a full-body photograph of the "mold 2, version 2" Tyrannosaurus that was released around 1992. Below is a picture of one that I recently acquired, in case you would like to use it. 

[Dinoguy2]

Thanks! I have thought about eventually puttyit all together as a book or at least a pdf, but I'm not sure how much demand there would be for such a thing or the legalities of it. I'd also probably want to wait until I have better information on the early production process. All I have at the moment is a lot of speculation based on clues, nothing definitive enough to commit to print. If anybody knows someone who worked for Safari in the 80s...

I just noticed that the C/C blog doesn't have a full-body photograph of the "mold 2, version 2" Tyrannosaurus that was released around 1992. Below is a picture of one that I recently acquired, in case you would like to use it. 

Thank you!! Should I just credit you as Ostafrikasaurus in the caption?

I'm very surprised to see this model with a plastic tag attachment. AFAIK these were not used until around 1995. So this model must have still been on the market, if not in production, until then, concurrently with the updated sculpt.