Carnegie Dinosaur

I just found a very interesting website about Safari Ltd. and their Carnegie dinosaurs: history, interaction with Schleich, Bullyland, AAA.
Absolutely worth reading.

Dinosaur Mountain - The Carnegie Collection Dinosaur Archive: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

That's almost a dissertation about one of the most iconic series of this hobby. I still group figures in my mind more focused in series than in brands and I love reading about series and all their background.
I enjoyed seeing a mention to our [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] with a link to STS.

Interesting

Thomas, this article is truly fascinating!  
Are you adding the dinosaurs from this series to your collection? Do you perhaps already have some models from the series?

This is really interesting! I would also be interested to know the parallel history of Wild Safari and Vanishing Wild. I hope more dissertations like this start emerging for us. Thanks for sharing!

This is my website, I'm glad you found it interesting!

Roger wrote:

That's almost a dissertation about one of the most iconic series of this hobby. I still group figures in my mind more focused in series than in brands and I love reading about series and all their background.
I enjoyed seeing a mention to our [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] with a link to STS.

In fact, Carnegie is somewhat of a special case because it is more of it's own brand, with designs and sculpts and production decisions being made by the museum and it's employees, and at least in the early yeas, Safari was really more of a producer/facilitator/partner. In fact it seems to me that Schleich was equally if not more responsible for a lot of the production of this series before 1992. If you look at the Carnegie Collection pages in 1980s Schleich catalogs there is no mention of Safari anywhere... supposedly, Safari did not even have any production facilities before the early '90s, they were just a distributor.