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Post by rexenstein on Mar 15, 2010 4:27:26 GMT
Hi I'm new to the forum but I've been collecting dinos for 24 years. I'm really psyched about Wild Safari's "rebirth" and would like to see the following dinosaurs in 2011:
Ceratosaurus Saichania Acrocanthosaurus Tarbosaurus Carcharodonosaurus Styracosaurus Centrosaurus Torvosaurus Suchomimus (please resculpt this guy... Hate the original "attempt")
And some more obscure non-dinosaurs;
Eryops Edaphosaurus Inostrancevia Cryptocleidus Dimorphodon (It's been said but i agree! Loved this guy since I had a book about him back in the eighties) Desmatosuchus Xiphactinus
Oh and I'd love to see Papo do a Dilophosaurus... As long as they left off the frill.
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Post by mvcomedy on Mar 22, 2010 15:55:22 GMT
I would like to see Carnegie take a few more risks. Seems like all the emphasis for the past several years has been on sauropods and therapods. Oh, and the two aquatic reptiles for 2009 and 2010 which have been a refreshing change (and I think some of the best sculpts in years for the collection). Carnegie was always lacking in that area until recently.
However, other than the aquatics there hasn't been too much variation from year to year. The last time we got a four-legged dino who isn't a sauropod was Ankylosaurus, and that was five years ago! Then came the feathered dinos phase which was something different at the time but I think there are enough in the collection that Carnegie should look in a different direction. There hasn't been a new ceratopsian since Styracosaurus who has since been retired, only one stegosaur ever in the whole collection, no new hadrosaur since Maiasaura 15 years ago, only the mammoth representing mammals, and only one pre-mesozoic creature. Sadly I haven't visited the Carnegie museum but surely they have more of a variety than this. If nothing else, they could focus on making new versions of models that have been retired like Protoceratops or Deinonychus.
I know that the Carnegie has most of the influence when it comes to what goes into the collection each year, but when I look at the new dinos that Safari picks for the Wild Safari line I feel like Carnegie is getting left behind. I would like to see a terror bird or a mammal that is not frequently represented in other collections, more permian critters, an ornithomimid, anything just as long as we have not seen it before.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 22, 2010 20:09:05 GMT
"There hasn't been a new ceratopsian since Styracosaurus who has since been retired, only one stegosaur ever in the whole collection, no new hadrosaur since Maiasaura 15 years ago"
AMEN to that! More ceratopsians and more Ornithopods would be awesome. They are so variable and interesting its odd how very few of them actually are used by Carnegie.
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Post by Horridus on Mar 22, 2010 21:36:56 GMT
Chasmosaurus would be a good one.
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Post by Krissy on Mar 22, 2010 23:12:15 GMT
I'm gonna second what's been said here and say more Stegosaurids, Ankylosaurids, Ornithopods but especially more Ceratopsians for the Carnegie line. Multiple Triceratops sculpts doesn't make up for the disproportinately few Ceratopsids.
Also, a new T.rex sculpt for Carnegie. And Baryonyx. Seriously, is there a single good Baryonyx figure out there?
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 22, 2010 23:14:54 GMT
The invicta baryonyx isn't bad but it's hands are in the wrong position and it has odd club-like feet.
The carnegie isn't a bad representation of a baryonyx. If anything it's a little too thin, but, baryonyx and it's relatives weren't known for their extreme weight!
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Post by Griffin on Mar 22, 2010 23:18:23 GMT
The invicta baryonyx isn't bad but it's hands are in the wrong position and it has odd club-like feet. The carnegie isn't a bad representation of a baryonyx. If anything it's a little too thin, but, baryonyx and it's relatives weren't known for their extreme weight! Agreed. Honestly I always liked Carnegie's bary. Never saw anything horribly wrong with it. I always imagined it being a pretty slender animal.
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Post by hermes888 on Mar 22, 2010 23:19:34 GMT
Even Papo is going with a ceratopsian that CC hasn't made! Get on it guys!
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Post by Krissy on Mar 22, 2010 23:27:26 GMT
Granted I've yet to get Carnegie Baryonyx in-hand (but he's on his way! Couldn't resist his charms!) but to me it does just look that little bit too slender. Plus he doesn't look very detailed compared to most of Carnegie's carnivores. It's not horrible and I can deal with it but it bugs me. Maybe I'll change my mind when I get him in hand.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 22, 2010 23:32:25 GMT
Granted I've yet to get Carnegie Baryonyx in-hand (but he's on his way! Couldn't resist his charms!) but to me it does just look that little bit too slender. Plus he doesn't look very detailed compared to most of Carnegie's carnivores. It's not horrible and I can deal with it but it bugs me. Maybe I'll change my mind when I get him in hand. Well honestly no he isn't very detailed at all. And the teeth, at least on mine, are kinda just little white notches of paint over the mouth in that general teeth ballpark region on the figure lol. But all in all, compared with whats available, its a fine representation of the animal in my opinion. I think there is a review of it on this site if you wanna check it out.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 22, 2010 23:47:30 GMT
The teeth are there individually, just they aren't very well painted. But for a $6 figure (at least that's what I paid for mine at a local store - I don't know how much they are online) it isn't half bad.
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Post by Ajax on Mar 24, 2010 5:04:05 GMT
Granted I've yet to get Carnegie Baryonyx in-hand (but he's on his way! Couldn't resist his charms!) but to me it does just look that little bit too slender. Plus he doesn't look very detailed compared to most of Carnegie's carnivores. It's not horrible and I can deal with it but it bugs me. Maybe I'll change my mind when I get him in hand. He look's much better with a new paint-job too.
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Post by pawnosuchus on Mar 25, 2010 9:53:37 GMT
I'd like to see a Tube of just the smaller Dinosaurs, like Troodon, Coelurus, Hysiphilodon, Compys, etc., that i could fit into my 1-40 scale collection. I know that won't happen so maybe a Gastonia would be cool.
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Mar 25, 2010 22:13:10 GMT
I'd like to see a Tube of just the smaller Dinosaurs, like Troodon, Coelurus, Hysiphilodon, Compys, etc., that i could fit into my 1-40 scale collection. I know that won't happen so maybe a Gastonia would be cool. That would be neat, but they would be too small (compy would be only like an inch long!) For 2011 I would like to see safari make a cymbospondylus! I want procon to stay away from saurischians because they just can't get them well done, but I'd like to see a dimorphodon, a basilosaurus, and a rearing stegosaurus. I'd like bullyland to do a new spinosaurus and ouranosaurus. Schleich shouldn't do anything, well, at least not in the style of the 2009-2010 releases
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Post by Griffin on Mar 25, 2010 23:02:20 GMT
I'd like to see a Tube of just the smaller Dinosaurs, like Troodon, Coelurus, Hysiphilodon, Compys, etc., that i could fit into my 1-40 scale collection. I know that won't happen so maybe a Gastonia would be cool. That would be so cool. Just a toob full of dinosaurs that were in the roughly 10 foot long range in life. That would be a much welcomed addtition to anyone's collection who likes their dinos to be in 1/40 scale.
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Post by jacob014 on Mar 31, 2010 5:13:16 GMT
i would like to see: Albertaceratops Zuniceratops Achelousaurus Titanosaurus Brachylophosaurus Charonosaurus Shantungosaurus Patagosaurus Nemegtosaurus Diceratops Majungasaurus Monolophosaurus Neovenator Sinraptor Dacentosaurus Bonitasaura Rapetosaurus Brachytrachelopan Saurolophus
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Post by Megaraptor on Apr 1, 2010 9:00:42 GMT
jacob014: Neovenator was done by procon (not that good), Sinraptor by Carnegie (excellent), Achelousaurus also by procon (good until it is looked at front-on), Saurolophus, Shantungosaurus & probably Titanosaurus were done by Kaiyodo (excellent), Majungasaurus is a new release procon (mediocre), Diceratops was released by a Spanish set called Discover the Lost World (average/good) that unfortunately for you Northern hemispherians never made it to the USA (I heard that it made it to Canada) and as for the rest, no one has made them. BTW, did you mean Dacentrurus or Datousaurus when you said 'Dacentosaurus'?
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Post by brontozaurus on Apr 1, 2010 9:04:05 GMT
You know what I'd want to see?
Australovenator. Being a new discovery and all, I'd love to see a plastic version of it. If any are actually produced, it'll probably be from Procon, but I can still dream!
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Apr 1, 2010 21:25:07 GMT
jacob014: Neovenator was done by procon (not that good), Sinraptor by Carnegie (excellent), Achelousaurus also by procon (good until it is looked at front-on), Saurolophus, Shantungosaurus & probably Titanosaurus were done by Kaiyodo (excellent), Majungasaurus is a new release procon (mediocre), Diceratops was released by a Spanish set called Discover the Lost World (average/good) that unfortunately for you Northern hemispherians never made it to the USA (I heard that it made it to Canada) and as for the rest, no one has made them. BTW, did you mean Dacentrurus or Datousaurus when you said 'Dacentosaurus'? You do understand that both spain and the USA are in the northern hemisphere right? ;D
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Post by Megaraptor on Apr 1, 2010 21:35:30 GMT
Yes, I do. And you know what I meant cordy.
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