Questions about Safari Ltd

I would like more information about this animal
The tag information says Safari / Sue / Field Museum
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Safari made this one for the Field Museum to acompany Sue, the famous T-rex

Yes, Sue the T-rex has friends, too !
This one and a torosaurus.
Also a toob which was retired, but a new toob is being launched this year.
I have a key-chain with Sue`s scull.
Sue came with both open and closed mouth.
Perhaps there are more ?

I am especially thrilled about Sue. I had the pleasure to visit the Field Museum about 25 years ago , but then there were no Safari models

Nice catch

SUSANNE wrote:

Yes, Sue the T-rex has friends, too !
This one and a torosaurus.

Friends?... or lunch?

Sumo wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

Yes, Sue the T-rex has friends, too !
This one and a torosaurus.

Friends?... or lunch?

Wildheart wrote:

Safari made this one for the Field Museum to acompany Sue, the famous T-rex

SUSANNE wrote:

Yes, Sue the T-rex has friends, too !
This one and a torosaurus.
Also a toob which was retired, but a new toob is being launched this year.
I have a key-chain with Sue`s scull.
Sue came with both open and closed mouth.
Perhaps there are more ?

I am especially thrilled about Sue. I had the pleasure to visit the Field Museum about 25 years ago , but then there were no Safari models

widukind wrote:

Nice catch

thank you

They are safari. My jersey bull is dark like yours. I also,have both longhorns, red and spotted.

Yeah I Have both long horns, and the other bull just says " Bull Safari 1993 or 1998" can't really see the number properly

both mine also have white in their eyes.

So mom found this little guy on a flea market. I haven't seen him in person yet but I thought their mane was painted lighter?

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What a great flea-find

But even if Safari is not famous for great paintwork, I think they are not THAT slobby, - the mane and tail-tip are definitely home made

Good find, congratulations! Indeed on other pictures of this figure mane is not that black Anyway very nice lion figure, and from VV (o)):

Damn it, it's just a big toy now

skysthelimit wrote:

Damn it, it's just a big toy now

I think I understand! I wanted a lot a VW figure and foudn the chance with Yvett and got a jaguar. I was really prepared to receive a large figure but it was much larger than I ever expected. I believe this lion is somewhat larger. Well, interesting that it was found in Serbia and it has a darker mane.

skysthelimit wrote:

Damn it, it's just a big toy now

But a very NICE, big toy ! I like him !

Recently we had a question, if the value would go down if somebody made "touch-up" on a model.
This may be a good example. The lion if perfectly fine, but it is no longer the original model .

I saw a photo on Ebay and this color is original.

LukaLeon085 wrote:

I saw a photo on Ebay and this color is original.

Are you sure about that?

skysthelimit wrote:

LukaLeon085 wrote:

I saw a photo on Ebay and this color is original.

Are you sure about that?

yes, I'm sure, in a old lot of animals of the Safari ltd, on Ebay.com there was a lion with dark mane. a week ago. I can not find 'the photo .

Hello everyone from S.T.S
I have a few questions and help if possible I’m thinking of adding a few new animals to my collections and I’m looking at the
Safari Ltd Coyote and the Safari Ltd African Wild Dog I was wondering if anyone has these items, and what they think? also I’m going to order them on line and before I do so I was hoping I could get some of you to post some pictures of your figures, and if they could also picture them with some of their other animals so I can get an idea of the size of the figures in contrast other Figures
The catalog pictures make the coloring and markings look amazing on the Safari Ltd Coyote and the Safari Ltd African Wild Dog but I’m worried that in person they are less appealing ?

Thank you for your help
Mark

Safari Ltd Coyote
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Safari Ltd African Wild Dog
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I don't have pictures immediately on hand, but I think the Safari African Dog is excellent. (I also really like the Coyote.) With Safari, almost none of their models are particularly well painted. That seems to me to be a well-accepted drawback of the Safari models. There isn't a lot of shading in the painting (the sort of shading that Schleich does particularly well) and the paint often seems slapped on.

However, I always thought that in the case of the African Wild Dog, Safari's style of painting served the model really well. In this case, rather than blending from one color to another, getting a realistic-looking effect requires block colors with harder edges between the different shades, and this is exactly what Safari does. So my own opinion is that the Safari African Wild Dog is excellent and very much worth getting. (As much as I like the Mojo, I like the Safari better.)

In the case of the Coyote, the paintwork isn't fantastic, but it isn't awful, and the sculpt is excellent.

I have to say ditto to Scott. Both sculpts are really good, but the painting with Safari models is not the greatest. The Wild dog however does look good with this very contrasting, strong bordered colors. But I think sometimes it depends on the collector's taste. In Mojo's case with their wild dog, I just would have wanted more spots on it, and not so much of one color on each side, (mostly black etc.) But that is just my opinion.

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And i like this coyote. Also the wild dog is phantastic.

I think they are excellent

You can see mine here ..

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I do not own the African wild dog, however, I DO own Old Man Coyote and his Little Pup, and they are some of the finest animal replicas Safari has ever produced, in my opinion. The coyotes are, literally, my favorite Safari replicas, hands down, as I've taken care to mention to Safari themselves. The sculpts and the painting are exacting and beautiful. I collect many, many animals from many different brands, but I take a keen interest in predators and animals from the North American deserts. Since coyotes are one of the most widely distributed mammals in the US (we have them roaming just a block from where I live!) and they also inhabit the dry Southwestern deserts and scublands of the West, I was so excited when Safari announced these little beauties!

Buy them, Mdasilva, you'll not regret it!

I just love them! Papo is known of being the best with big cats, it would be fair if Safari was known of being the best with "big dogs". As Scott correctly pointed, Safari painting style, usually not very appealing, works perfectly in the African painted dog, also it has a terrific sculpting. The coyot is also just excelent, sculpting is near perfect and painting has all markings typical to the species. Don't forget the Arctic wolf, beautiful pose and sculpting too. Even the grey wolves look great although I don't have them. None of them is too large and
You can find pictures of them browsing in Safari section of our forum.