Recent acquisitions

[Shane]

@Shane , do you know what happened to Safari's Instagram account? I did a review on my channel today and was going to tag Safari on Instagram, but the page is not available.

There are some issues going on at the moment with the account, I can't go into too much detail, but we're working to get it back up and running.

[Ikessauro]

Congrats @bmathison1972 , that compy looks dope. I like how they painted it, and it is very similar to what you see in the movie, sculpt wise. The background in your photos is awesome btw.

[Ikessauro]

Today I come with another cool recent acquisition from Safari Ltd. I only recently found out Safari had made this fish and I love things with bold colors. I Immediately decided this one was a must and set out to get it. It seems quite obscure and there's little to no information about it online, since it has long been retired. The only one for sale on eBay in a while was almost 100 bucks, so I passed on it, until a nice little lot of small toob figures appeared for about 20 bucks and included the Salmon! Gotta say, it is smaller than I expected, but so cool anyway! Glad to have found one.

[bmathison1972]

Holy cow! Safari made that salmon? For what set/collection? It's not the life cycle figure, that's for sure!

[Ikessauro]

Holy cow! Safari made that salmon? For what set/collection? It's not the life cycle figure, that's for sure!

Aparently for the Incredible Creatures line, model 267629 Sockeye salmon

Toy Animal Wiki says it released 2008 and retired 2011. https://toyanimalwiki.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Safari_267629_Sockeye_Salmon

[Sim]

That salmon looks very nice!

[Gwangi]

The diversity of old Safari figures never fails to impress. This salmon is a new one on me, and another to add to the list.

[bmathison1972]

Holy cow! Safari made that salmon? For what set/collection? It's not the life cycle figure, that's for sure!

Aparently for the Incredible Creatures line, model 267629 Sockeye salmon

Toy Animal Wiki says it released 2008 and retired 2011. https://toyanimalwiki.mywikis.wiki/wiki/Safari_267629_Sockeye_Salmon

Thanks! I am hunting it for sure; the size isn't too bad for an IC figure.

[sbell]

Holy cow! Safari made that salmon? For what set/collection? It's not the life cycle figure, that's for sure!

I've had one for years. Didn't know it was so sought after

[Sim]

Today I acquired the Safari pelagic fish toob, which I'm impressed by.  I also acquired the Safari venomous creatures toob, which I have mixed feelings about.  It's the new version of the toob, which is both good and bad for me.  Good because it has the version of the Indian cobra that I wanted, bad because infuriatingly the yellow-bellied sea snake in the toob doesn't have a yellow belly.  I'm trying to find the yellow-bellied sea snake in its original colour scheme, help with that would be very much appreciated!

-SafariLtd Yellow-bellied Sea Snake

How did you get this figure in its original colour scheme?

[EpicRaptorMan]

@Sim I painted mine. Lots and lots of light coats of yellow acrylic paint, but I got it to be acceptable for my standards.

[Isidro]

Hello!
My passion with animal figurines collection resumed already, but I still have a bit of interest. I didn't bouhght any figure since February, but a couple of days ago I passed nearby my favourite CollectA-selling toy shop and I entered with only one objetive: to find if they have the new for 2023 boto or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis). And yes, they have. So it's the 333th figure in my collection!




It's a perfect depiction of the species. CollectA is the only western major brand that dare with river dolphins. I hope some day they also make a Baiji. The boto figurine is bulkier than the Ganges dolphin one, but the snout of the latter is longer so both figures have almost the same lenght (the boto is very slightly longer).


It fits perfectly with some Japanese brands Amazonian big fishes.


That's a special animal for me. I went in 2017 to Duisburg zoo in Germany to see the last of his kind in captivity in the world outside native range (and there are absolutely zero possibilities of them being exported again to a zoo/aquarium outside native range). And within native range, there is only one other captive dolphin of this species, in Peru. Baby died on december 2020, at age 46, being the longest lived Amazon river dolphin under human care ever. Rest in peace Baby.



The same toy shop also have the CollectA Xiphactinus audax. I don't collect prehistorics but I was tempted to buy it. I was impressed by the quality. But start collecting prehistorics now? Hmmm. I don't have space even for more extant animals. Finally I've tought that we don't know the real life colours of a Xiphactinus and that made me reject the possible purchase.

[Sim]

@Sim I painted mine. Lots and lots of light coats of yellow acrylic paint, but I got it to be acceptable for my standards.

Thanks.  You did a great job painting it, I thought it was an unaltered figure!  After doing some more browsing, I've discovered that some real yellow-bellied sea snakes have a brown belly and look like the Safari figure!  So I'm going to stick with Safari's brown-bellied version.  Maybe I'll also call it by one of its alternate names, the pelagic sea snake.

[Koifish]

I've finally received all but one of my recent purchases, so I figured it was time to show them:



- Giant panda by Safari Ltd. Even though I already have Schleich's, which I like, I also really like Doug Watson's sculpt. So now I have two 
- Science & Nature Tasmanian Devil
- Southlands Replicas Dingo (thank you Sbell!!)

I love, love, love how it scales nicely next to the Hellbender Museum Tasmanian tiger 


My next figure to arrive is actually a bit on the "unconventional" side. I am unfortunately a huge sucker for them, though I'm also incredibly picky about them. I looked around for a good while until I finally came across a listing on eBay that fit (most) of my criteria for what I was looking for, and decided to snag it. The only hint I will give as to what it is, is that I did enjoy a certain "play" (also turned into several films) back in high school, by playwright Tennessee Williams, as one of the main characters takes part in a similar collecting hobby.

[bmathison1972]

Those are nice Koifish! I was on the fence for a dingo. I like the dynamic pose of the S.R. model but I think the Safari figure better captures the 'look' so I went with the latter. But the Safari dingo is a bit bigger and in an awfully static pose.

[Koifish]

Those are nice Koifish! I was on the fence for a dingo. I like the dynamic pose of the S.R. model but I think the Safari figure better captures the 'look' so I went with the latter. But the Safari dingo is a bit bigger and in an awfully static pose.

Those were nearly my exact thoughts; I also have (replacing) the Safari dingo; I love the color and the face, but something about it seems very "disproportioned" such as the legs, and the tail looking quite short. Also it's bigger than I would like.

[EpicRaptorMan]

Yes, I too got my Dingo from sbell.

These are my newest additions. The turkey replaced my old ugly Schleich one. And the Quagga replaced my custom repaint. The ToyMany Chinstrap penguin replaced the SafariLtd.
I also got a Tibetan Sand Fox and finally got the SafariLtd Opossum!!! But both are too large so I'm actively in the process of 3D printing those too at a smaller scale.

[Sim]

I've acquired the Safari river toob.  I got it for the salamander and cottonmouth, the salamander being my first figure of one!  I'm happy with them!

[sbell]

Happy to help with people getting the Dingo. Sadly, that's the end of what I had left over... not sure how many are available out in the world now.

I've often debated about the Tibetan fox... it appears to be getting harder to track down (more so the Pallas cat).

[JimoAi]

My latest haul: Some collectA,a PNSO and some anthropomorphic cephalopods and a ray

CollectA: Thylacine, Attenborousaurus and Right whale.

PNSO: Alamosaurus