New Safari Releases for 2010! Part 2!

Wow, this was fast! We told you earlier this week that Safari had unofficially announced that they are going to release several figures for 2010 (you can see the original post here).  I never imagined that we would be hearing about the rest of the figures till October or November but apparently Safari has decided to make public the info. Let me tell you: I for one am terribly excited! A big thank you to the people that informed me about this, DTF members kuni, TTL and crypto1 (Loren, the person behind Cryptomundo) were specially helpful.

Before we share pics of the rest of the Wild Safari prehistoric creatures, a word about the museum line. There are still no pics of the Carnegie Ichthyo (that could change soon though), but both the Cryolophosaurus and the Ichthyosaurus have been already confirmed by several forum members, they’ve even told us how that they will look (it seems that blue was Safari’s choice this year). It’s the same formula from 2009, a theropod and a marine reptile.

The WS set for 2010 will contain a few surprises. There will be 7 juicy pieces and surpringly enough, none of them is a theropod. Here’s the list and the images:

-Wild Safari Brachiosaurus: Now we had already heard about this guy, I’m glad it could make it, it’s quite nice, I suspect it’s even better than its Carnegie counterpart. The realistic look is virtually unparalleled. I think they retired the previous sculpt, and it’s clear that this is a step forward.

-Wild Safari Apatosaurus: Another retired sauropod that resurrected almost immeadiatly. The WS rearing Apatosaurus was rather interesting but this seems to be based on the latest findings and everything about it looks correct. It also puts the Carnegie Apatosaurus to shame. I’m certainly glad that this guy is not half-starved to death like many sauropod renditions; the WS has a healthy amount of fat and flesh. Just take a look at all those skin folds on the neck! We’ve heard that it’ll be at least partially poseable. Although some might argue that last year’s brilliant Nigersaurus represented a refresheningly obscure genus, I do admire the fact that they are updating the more familiar names.

-Wild Safari Liopleurodon: At long last, a respectable and affordable pliosaur! Even after the success of Walking with Dinosaurs, the only available pliosaur for a while was the Carnegie Kronosaurus, which is based on a very dated reconstruction. The good pliosaurs were elusive and expensive, until now! This is a state-of-the-art replica, designed with the help of none other than the founder of our blog, Adam Smith. Although the pic is kind of blurry,  it appears it’s going to be awesome. Judging by the paintjob though, they went for the WwD similarity. I wish they hadn’t done it again, several Liops look that way, but it’s impressive nonetheless.

-Wild Safari Mosasaurus: It’s funny that there are no good replicas of genera we know very well (the Colorata Mosasaurus is perhaps the only one that is close to accuracy and although the retired Carnegie is very cool, it’s not based on modern reconstructions). Another spectacular marine reptile, it seems that they repeated the “shiny skin” formula of the Carnegie Tylosaurus. If anything, I’d have added some skin detail. Forum member JB4 ventured that this is Mosasaurus conodon.

As you can see, the Wild Safari and Carnegie lines promise to deliver the best prehistoric animals next year. But as if this weren’t enough, they are going to produce some toobs too. Remember we told you that there were rumours about these babies? Well, they weren’t kidding, I suspect at least one of them will surpass any other toob made by Safari. First we have the fossil replicas toob. It’s interesting to see such a toob, only Kaiyodo had made quality fossil miniatures. We have a cool sea scorpion, an ammonite and a trilobite, among others. I’m not sure though if this set will be easily marketed, I suppose that perhaps the kids won’t like it as much as the fleshed out figures because it has zero playability, it seems to be aimed directly at collectors. There’s another thing. Perhaps it’s just my imagination but it seems that people are not very attracted to fossil replicas. Hopefully this will work out for Safari though.

The other toob, I suspect, will be a tremendous hit. It’s a toob filled with marine creatures from the distant past! One can see the inspiration from Playvision, they also had a Nothosaurus, an Elasmosaurus and a Henodus. Unlike the Playvision marine reptiles though, these figures look very sleek and modern, not to mention that we will also get a very well done Basilosaurus and a frilled shark!

We will post more pics when they become available.

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