Vault Tales 248 Run the Set Safari Ltd Prehistoric Mammal Skulls toob

Another toob set! This time a prehistoric one again, featuring more skulls! I looked at some other Safari toob sets before--a dinosaur skull toob and, related to today, a modern mammal skull toob. So today it will be the third and what appears to be final Safari skulls toob, the Prehistoric Mammal Skulls toob! A couple of the smaller skulls, a Australopithecus and a Smilodon The toob set came out in 2011, the same year as the modern mammal skulls…

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Vault Tales 217 Run the Set Lido Nabisco Prehistoric Mammals

Today is a more classic vintage set--a series of plastic prehistoric mammals! Featuring some very, very unusual species (and a few expected familiar ones). As was kind of common in the 1950s and 1960s, these were giveaways with Nabisco cereals. Sets of monochromatic animal figures of various themes and sources were not uncommon (Marx and MPC are probably the best known) but a set with these kinds of animals was. Nabisco also had a set of dinosaurs that were unusual,…

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Vault tales #19 Safari Daeodon

Who makes it? Safari Ltd from their Prehistoric World Series. Item number 100082 When did it come out? 2018 Still available? It better be. It came out just over a year ago! The hell pig, with a fitting, scary background!But look at that handsome face. Where can it be found in my displays? On the big cool prehistoric mammal shelf, Hemnes4Aγ. To be fair, that's just one of the prehistoric mammal shelves. How does it fit in the collection? Cool…

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