Salvat Collection - Complete

[ikessauro]

Hello Guys
I was talking with Stoneage about Salvat Collection and he suggests that I would open a thread about this collection, once that I have completed it, including the 42 figures and the 40 magazines. So Let's talk about It.

The Salvat collection was made by Salvat Editores from Spain and sold in Spain, Portugal, Brasil. If it was released on other countries I really don't know.
The collection has 42 figures of prehistoric animals. Take a look at the list of species below.

Nº1 Tyrannosaurus rex (copied of Carnegie)
Nº2 Triceratops (copied of Carnegie)
Nº3 Spinosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº4 Parasaurolophus (copied of Bullyland)
Nº5 Stegosaurus (copied of Schleich)
Nº6 Pteranodon (copied of Bullyland)
Nº7 Dimetrodon (copied of Bullyland)
Nº8 Corythosaurus (copied of Schleich)
Nº9 Elasmosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº10 Diplodocus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº11 Allosaurus (Copied from a very old incredibly ugly Bully Rex!)
Nº12 Saichania (copied of Schleich/ Replica-saurus)
Nº13 Maiasaura (copied of Carnegie)
Nº14 Ceratosaurus (copied of Schleich/ Replica-saurus)
Nº15 Velociraptor x 2 (I don't know, remebers me the DOC one)
Nº16 Iguanodon (copied of Carnegie)
Nº17 Deinosuchus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº18 Psittacosaurus x 2 (copied of Carnegie)
Nº19 Brachiosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº20 Dilophosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº21 Kronosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº22 Carnotaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº23 Polacanthus (copied of WWD Oficial Line)
Nº24 Plateosaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº25 Postosuchus (copied of WWD Oficial Line)
Nº26 Saltasaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº27 Apatosaurus (copied an very old Bully Apato)
Nº28 Torosaurus (copied of WWD Oficial Line)
Nº29 Utahraptor (copied Wild Safari )
Nº30 Gallimimus (copied of Battat)
Nº31 Quetzalcoatlus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº32 Pachycephalosaurus (copied of Wild Safari)
Nº33 Baryonyx (copied of Carnegie)
Nº34 Styracosaurus (I don't know, maybe Battat)
Nº35 Acrocanthosaurus (copied of Battat)
Nº36 Mosasaurus (copied of Carnegie)
Nº37 Tanystropheus (very strage figure, I don't know of what it was copied)
Nº38 Ouranosaurus (copied of Battat)
Nº39 Amargasaurus (copied of Battat)
Nº40 Therizinosaurus (copied of Dinos of China)

The magazines were sold with a figure of the animal on the magazine. I think it was sold in the years 2000/2001 here in Brasil.
The figures were copied from other collection, as you can see in the list above. I noticed that the following collections/manufacturers were copied.

Carnegie
Battat
Schleich/Replica-saurus
WWD Oficial Line
Bullyland
Dinos of China

I really don't know how they didn't get copyright problems. Probably, itsn't happen because they chance the collors or the sculpt.
Now, the collection is discontinued of course.

The collection has too 4 human miniatures, to compare the scale.
The scales are:
1/20
1/40
1/50
1/70
Now, the figures are a little bit rare to find here and very good condition figures is much more. Mostly of figures I saw has paint rubs or broken arms/legs. Wasn't a easy job find all of them but I finally have them.
Some of them are very ugly, like the Allosaurus, others, like ACrocanthosaurus or Postosuchus are cool.

I put on my profile at Collectors Quest pics of the figures and magazines.
To view the collection, the link is: www.collectorsquest.com/collection/1445/salvat-dinosaur-collection.html

To more info you can read my post on my blog about this collection. I'm just think you will need translate, because it is in portuguese. Ah, there it links to SCANS of each magazine in the post.
ikessauro.blogspot.com/2008/08/descobrindo-o-mundo-dos-dinossauros_23.html ;D

Bye....

[Ajax]

Very cool collection, some of the sculpts and colours are pretty nice. What the hell happened to the Allosaurus, it looks kinda like a crocodile/hippo.

[Megaraptor]

I heard there was an Abelisaurus.

[ikessauro]

Hum
Yes, the Allosaurus is so strange, with very ugly sculpt and color.

About the Abelisaurus.
In Brasil that's what was sold, if there is an Abelisaurus, probably it was sold only in Europe.

[stoneage]

Thanks ikessauro for sharing your collection with us. You may be the only one with all of the figures and all the magazines. The fact that this collection has so many figures and there rip offs of other brands makes it quite interesting. It seems for the most part they were probably only sold in Spanish speaking countries. As long as they weren't sold in the UK, Germany or the US they probably wern't breaking any laws. Were these figures made of the same type material as most other brands. If you have time I like to see the scale for each figure. Thanks again.

[therizinosaurus]

Stoneage--based on the one I have (a theri of course!) and based on what Boki has told me, the paint and material seem to be similar to Bullyland's figures. The paint is damaged easily (as with Bullys), and I believe that they are grey vinyl.
And ikessauro, thanks for doing this, you have an amazing collection! I have to be careful not to start collecting yet another line now that I have one...

[ikessauro]

Hum.. Stoneage... I don't know why it weren't release in UK or North America, but I think that language isn't the problem. Here we speak portuguese, the translation from spanish is yet necessary!

Thanks Theri... I knew your Salvat theri personally I bet ehehheheh ;D

[bokisaurus]

Amazing collection! What a long list of figures! Looks like there are still a few that I would love to have

[foxilized]

SALVAT is a very famous and important editorial from Spain specialized on encyclopedies. They make toys and models, also.

www.salvat.com/

They have a highly educational tone therefore this line was acompanied by some encyclopedie of dinos. The figures were sold in newspaper kiosks and so (very typical is in these kiosks they sell one figure by week, or one each two weeks, acompanied by a fascicle which after completing the collection would be bended and will create the encyclopedie). As Salvat wanted to be educational, they ripped-off all these companies like Carnegie in order to be accurate.

[kuni]

Wow, those are horrid! And they're rip-ops of other, better, companies' figures....

[tomhet]

I really like the Postosuchus That's about it though.

[crazycrowman]

Very nice collection ikessauro! There are some neat figures in there.

I think what fascinates me the most about them is just how blatantly they are rip-offs of other figures!

[ikessauro]

Thanks crazycrowman.

I agre with you, the Salvat were copied with no worry about the copyright laws...
I don't know how they didn't get in trouble!

[EmperorDinobot]

Are these new issues? Zomg! Coz I have 30 of the 2002 figures that were released by Planeta DeAgostini in that year with the Disney Dinos mags that were rehashed from the big book of dinosaurs magazines that were released in the early 90's. These figures aren't as nice, though.

[sid]

Nice collection for sure... Too bad some figures look "off", see the Dilofo and the Allo (which is a rip-off of an old Bullyland Rex)

Oh well... Some of 'em are really cool, like the Para and the Posto, who knows if this series will ever arrive in Italy!


By the way, Ikessauro, your site ROCKS, love the roaring logos

[ikessauro]

Hi Sid
I think it won't be sold again...

But I can get some of them to trade if anyone are interested, at least the better ones.

You really like my site? Thank you!

[sid]

Sept 16, 2009 16:47:53 GMT ikessauro said:

Hi Sid
I think it won't be sold again...

But I can get some of them to trade if anyone are interested, at least the better ones.

You really like my site? Thank you!

Interesting... Tell me when you'll trade 'em

And yeah, your site is really good... By the way, the models you sell (T.Rex, Acro, Allo, Spino, etc) are excellent; what material they are made of?

[ikessauro]

For now I have to trade the following Salvats:
Corythosaurus
Pteranodon (broken neck, but fixed).
Maiasaura
Dilophosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus
Polacanthus
Utahraptor
Amargasaurus
Gallimimus

I am trading some with boki, then I'll wait his offer... If you want any of them, tell and I can keep looking for you here.

About the models, they are done in resin. The only problem : that's so fragile .

[sid]

Sept 17, 2009 13:35:40 GMT ikessauro said:

For now I have to trade the following Salvats:
Corythosaurus
Pteranodon (broken neck, but fixed).
Maiasaura
Dilophosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus
Polacanthus
Utahraptor
Amargasaurus
Gallimimus

I am trading some with boki, then I'll wait his offer... If you want any of them, tell and I can keep looking for you here.

About the models, they are done in resin. The only problem : that's so fragile .

Uhm, ok... I'll take a look at 'em and then i'll tell if there's something of my interest


Too bad those gorgeous models i saw on your site are so fragile...