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Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Thread Started on May 20, 2009, 11:24pm »
The museum I work for got a shipment in from Safari Ltd. yesterday (Postosuchuses, WOOT!). While unpacking it, I read over the invoice and noticed it included a list of discontinued dino figures. These include (but may not be limited to, since my boss may have tried to order these and that prompted the note):
Carnegie Collection Sinraptor Carnegie Collection Oviraptor (I assume the less-feathered version) Mammenchisaurus Baby Louie egg
We still have the Sinraptor and Oviraptor in stock (amongst a number of retired Carnegie and Wild Safari figures) if anyone wants these before they get scarce. Let me know!
On a side note, does anyone know what Safari was labeling the Mammenchisaurus as lately? I know it was originally released under the Dinosaurs of China line, but if I remember right it was released under a different line after that one was cancelled.
Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #1 on May 21, 2009, 1:53am »
I think most of the Dinos of China are now within the "Dinosaur Discoveries" lines. Most of the others aren't really that "scarce" yet, and likely won't be for some time. Some of them have been given reduced pricing by Safari in order to evacuate the older products more quickly. You can take a look at my Classifieds thread on retired Safari figures to see what folks seem to be interested in - I've already taken the liberty of ordering what I could, but some (like the Sue Torosaurus and older Carnegie Diplodocus) are not available directly from Safari any longer, so stock up on what you can.
Heck, I might even want to get some from you myself. You have access to either of those two in your shop?
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Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #4 on May 21, 2009, 5:14am »
I agree Blade-of-the-Moon, I snagged the Dinos of China version off of Ebay a while back. I like the skeleton background/shelf piece it comes with! Compared to all of the other swan-necked sauropods out there, he looks downright mopey
Dan, yup they've got the Torosaurus as part of a box set with the closed-mouth Sue, and LOTS of old-style Diplodocus figures still in stock. Got the Carnegie Styracosaurus and Psittacosaurus too, which also are no longer available. Let me know if you'd like to get some!
I agree Blade-of-the-Moon, I snagged the Dinos of China version off of Ebay a while back. I like the skeleton background/shelf piece it comes with! Compared to all of the other swan-necked sauropods out there, he looks downright mopey
Dan, yup they've got the Torosaurus as part of a box set with the closed-mouth Sue, and LOTS of old-style Diplodocus figures still in stock. Got the Carnegie Styracosaurus and Psittacosaurus too, which also are no longer available. Let me know if you'd like to get some!
I used to take the backgrounds and add a little sand and bushes and make a dig site out of them...lol Great accessory pieces... you know our local shop only ever ordered one of them and it's the one I have..I bet most people who buy Carnegie's have never seen it..
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Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #7 on May 21, 2009, 6:25am »
I agree Blade-of-the-Moon, I snagged the Dinos of China version off of Ebay a while back. I like the skeleton background/shelf piece it comes with! Compared to all of the other swan-necked sauropods out there, he looks downright mopey
Dan, yup they've got the Torosaurus as part of a box set with the closed-mouth Sue, and LOTS of old-style Diplodocus figures still in stock. Got the Carnegie Styracosaurus and Psittacosaurus too, which also are no longer available. Let me know if you'd like to get some!
I used to take the backgrounds and add a little sand and bushes and make a dig site out of them...lol Great accessory pieces... you know our local shop only ever ordered one of them and it's the one I have..I bet most people who buy Carnegie's have never seen it..
That depends on how old they are.I remember when that line first came out.
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Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #8 on May 21, 2009, 11:08pm »
The Mamenchisaurus is listed in the 2009 catalogue under the 'dino-discoveries' line, so I'm not sure why they said it is discontinued? Unless they have run out of stock since publishing their catalogue.
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Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #9 on May 22, 2009, 5:09am »
The invoice we got just had a message saying "The following items have been discontinued", with the list underneath. We got a copy of their 2009 catalog many months ago, so maybe they just wanted to run down their stock by keeping it in there after production stopped? I'm not sure myself.
Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #10 on May 23, 2009, 4:53pm »
Yeah, I got a similar list e-mailed from Safari, where they give a whole Excel spreadsheet detailing how many figures are actually remaining in their inventory. I think I posted it in the Classifieds forum, if anyone's interested.
Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #11 on May 23, 2009, 5:19pm »
Actually, I've looked at the Safari website and noticed that some figures in the Retail Store are not found in the Wholesale Catalog. What's up with that?
Re: Newly-discontinued figures from Safari Ltd. « Reply #12 on May 24, 2009, 1:24am »
Yeah, the website is not kept up to date very much. For example, last I checked, they still listed the original Carnegie Diplodocus (which they no longer sell), and the Postosuchus is said to be currently unavailable.
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