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Vault Tales 134 Safari Shunosaurus

It stands out from your 'average' sauropod in being...more derpy. The tail isn't clearly visible here. So today we're going to look at one of the smaller sauropods made by Safari--the Shunosaurus from 2016, item number 305529. It was released in a pretty great year of Safari figures of unusual prehistoric animals actually, and I think as a lot they kind of got overshadowed by the surrounding years also featuring some great animals in great sculpts. A better look from…

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August 13, 2020
Read more about the article Vault tales 127 – Clades – Chondrostei
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Vault tales 127 – Clades – Chondrostei

I am back with another Clades post. This one is exciting because it features one of my favorite fish groups! It's also daunting because I have a lot of representatives of this group (unlike most of the ones I've done) which means more to say. And also trying to sort out photo presentation... As it says in the title, it is the clade Chondrostei, the modern sturgeons and paddlefish (and of course a variety of fossil relatives...none of which are…

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July 20, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales Run the Set 124 Safari Dinosaur Skulls TOOB
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Vault Tales Run the Set 124 Safari Dinosaur Skulls TOOB

A bunch of dinosaur heads! Note the range in size--because there is no way these are all to scale! Instead of trying to find appropriate human figures I'm leaning into it with our Jurassic World trio checking them out in the garden. We're back with yet another Run the Set, this time the Safari Ltd Dinosaur Skulls toob. You may recall way back near the beginning of this blog I wrote an individual post about just one of the skulls,…

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July 9, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales 120 ToyTrio Vauxia, Reef Manta, Paradisefish
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Vault Tales 120 ToyTrio Vauxia, Reef Manta, Paradisefish

Here we have another ToyTrio, with a chance to revisit a figure from an earlier, revisit a set I mentioned once, and visit a set I'm very fond of for the first time! Safari Cambrian toob Vauxia These photos probably look very similar to the ones from my Porifera clades post. There's not really much to be done with just this figure on it's own. This first one is a look again specifically at the Vauxia figure from the recent…

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June 25, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales 117 Safari Ltd Nigersaurus
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Vault Tales 117 Safari Ltd Nigersaurus

Who remembers when this species was first announced? It was so odd and goofy looking, compared to what we normally thought of as sauropods or 'longnecks' Today's post is about the Safari Ltd. Nigersaurus from what is now their Prehistoric World line, item number 286329--but at the time was referred to as the Dinos & Prehistoric Life collection. The name of the series has changed several times, but the overall them remained, it was Safari's lower-cost dinosaurs line, alongside their…

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June 15, 2020
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Vault Tales Run the Set 115 Safari Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

This post will be short because, in all honesty, I don't have much to say about it! It is one of the Life Cycles made by Safari Ltd as part of their Safariology line--toys and models meant to act as educational guides as well as toys. This one features a pretty well-known cycle, that of the Monarch Butterfly. Being a cycle, we will start at the 'beginning'. Here we have the eggs on the left (sculpted on a milkweed leaf,…

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June 8, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales Run the Set 113 Safari Trees TOOB
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Vault Tales Run the Set 113 Safari Trees TOOB

It's the whole set of trees! Evenly split between angiosperms and gymnosperms if you're curious. With a Safari Ltd mini bison. Back with another Run the Set! This time I'm going to go over the entire Safari Treess toob, set 684304. I talked about one of the figures...or two of them, because of different colours, about a year ago, the maple trees. There isn't a whole lot to add to that post, honestly. They're trees! They...stand there (as toys). Four…

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June 1, 2020
Read more about the article Vault tales 112 – Clades – Pliosaurs
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Vault tales 112 – Clades – Pliosaurs

Part of the fun of doing these clades ones is learning more about the models I have! Here we some that only show up as one example in my collection--the CollectA Rhomalaeosaurus which is not quite a pliosaurid but is a pliosauroid; the CollectA Attenborosaurus, a long-necked pliosaur that I originally thought was a plesiosaur; the Feves Peloneustes recently discussed here; and the Innovative Kids Brachauchenius from their Gone Extinct book. So we are back with another Clades discussion--one that,…

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May 28, 2020
Read more about the article Vault tales 104 – Clades – Gorgonopsia
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Vault tales 104 – Clades – Gorgonopsia

The gorgonopsian gang, from my collection at least. There are probably a few other more elaborate models and kits. These figures are very not to scale We're back to another clades post--this time it's one where I actually have a number of models, from a group that I actively collect. It's the group of synapsids called Gorgonopsia--a group of reptile-looking Permian tetrapods that, being part of Therapsida, are more closely related to mammals. They, along with related groups, were often…

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April 30, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales Run the Set 101 Safari Mammal Skulls toob
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Vault Tales Run the Set 101 Safari Mammal Skulls toob

The whole set of skulls. These are not to scale So we're back with another Run the Set again, heading for a second hundred posts! After writing up the last one I really like the way that format worked especially for these kinds of picture-heavy posts. So I am going to go with this kind of format. The thumbnail galleries and small pictures look better to me, I hope it looks good to you too. Safari toob Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros…

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April 20, 2020
Read more about the article Vault Tales 99 Safari toob Champsosaurus
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Vault Tales 99 Safari toob Champsosaurus

Not a croc--but it was in the toob! And now you'll know how! We're going to look at one of the oddest figures in an odd toob today, from Safari's Prehistoric Crocodiles toob (item number 679804). Strange because it's not really a crocodile at all, and strange because they're such weird animals overall! I am speaking of course of the choristodere Champsosaurus, one of 10 figures in the Safari toob that was available from 2010 until 2017...yes, another toob that…

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April 13, 2020
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Vault tales 79 Safari toob Sarcoprion

Who makes it? Safari Ltd as part of the Prehistoric Sharks toob. The toob item number is 679904. When did it come out? I think 2010...that sounds about right. Not the whorl-tooth shark we usually hear about--this one is much pointier! Still available? Sadly, no. Like other great toobs from Safari, this one has been discontinued. Where can it be found in my displays? I actually have a few of them. One is one the main shelves with lots of…

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February 3, 2020