Questions about Safari Ltd

I have both and the detail and paint jobs are great! I do not find Safari great with painting detail but the wild dog is excellent--better than the mojo wild dog. Very detailed. I would suggest both.

What is wrong with Safari Ltd?! I know! I just ordered the whales and dolphins toob last week because I thought they'd be nice additions for my collection and I lost all the dolphins to the set when I was little and thought it'd be nice to get my hands on them again.I have owned the set for 10 years.All the whales,and dolphins from the first set of it I bought are still in pristine condition.The toob arrived today and all the dolphins and whales looked chewed up.The toob arrived dented.I threw the chewed up ones in the bin and took my older ones out because their paint is so much better.Safari's paint jobs have really declined in the last few years.I know 2014 for me is touch up year and I will be touching up some of my figures.But these,ugh idk.I will tell you now,the set was not USED! I almost never buy used animals.

What a darned shame  

Do you know how old the toob is ? How was it closed ? The newer ones have a sort of clock-lock, while the older ones were closed twith sticky tape, I think  

Clock lock

Thats really a shame

QuollMate wrote:

Clock lock

Then it is a a new one  

It is I wasted half my amazon gift card on rubbed up animals.

QuollMate wrote:

It is I wasted half my amazon gift card on rubbed up animals.

If you bought from Amazon raise a help query against this order and they will immediately send you a replacement and ask you to return the 'damaged' goods to them via a freepost method. DO IT because I have done this in the past. Raise it as a damaged goods query. Does nopt matter if packaging is thrown away or some models, what you have left send it back via their freepost method. You could have picked a badly damaged package or one that was a possible previous returned. Let them send you another.

Ok thanks!

I just sent them a complaint they hopefully should reply soon.

I know for years i saw a dolphin, i think he was made by Safari Ltd in the Monterey serie  

Is there anyone who knows if it was a atlantic or a pacific white-sided dolphin? And have anyone a pic please    

              

I've found that picture on Mihnea's collection, he calls it a Pacific white-sided dolphin and I think he is right. :DNow you have to find two of them!

Click here!

Ohh! Lovely model  

Roger wrote:

I've found that picture on Mihnea's collection, he calls it a Pacific white-sided dolphin and I think he is right. :DNow you have to find two of them!

Click here!

Thank you      But i think if i find one thats enough, because this specie i have in my zoo   

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

I've found that picture on Mihnea's collection, he calls it a Pacific white-sided dolphin and I think he is right. :DNow you have to find two of them!

Click here!

Thank you      But i think if i find one thats enough, because this specie i have in my zoo   

Which brand is yours, Andreas? :)

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

I've found that picture on Mihnea's collection, he calls it a Pacific white-sided dolphin and I think he is right. :DNow you have to find two of them!

Click here!

Thank you      But i think if i find one thats enough, because this specie i have in my zoo   

Which brand is yours, Andreas? :)

Colorata and Kitan  

I have the pacific white sided dolphin, I recommend it as a model. As a kid it was my absolute favorite dolphin figure I had, because it was so different from the typical gray bottlenoses.

widukind wrote:

Which brand is yours, Andreas? :)

Colorata and Kitan  [/quote]
Thanks, Colorata would be my favorite but a little searching on EBAY gives me a result of a 13 Euros figure and without shipping included. It is a shame that these lovely little Colorata are all so hard to find and expensive. I really like them. Who knows, someday, Japanese brands start selling on Europe but chances are low.
It looks also that there is no toys about Atlantic white-sided dolphins but as far as toy industry is going, it is a question of time, I hope.

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

I have the pacific white sided dolphin, I recommend it as a model. As a kid it was my absolute favorite dolphin figure I had, because it was so different from the typical gray bottlenoses.

That is an interesting thought, so many dolphin species, most even more beautiful than bottlenoses, and almost always brands make the same.
Companies should read your testimony when you were a child. After all, kids taste is not so linear.

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Which brand is yours, Andreas? :)

Colorata and Kitan  

Thanks, Colorata would be my favorite but a little searching on EBAY gives me a result of a 13 Euros figure and without shipping included. It is a shame that these lovely little Colorata are all so hard to find and expensive. :(I really like them. Who knows, someday, Japanese brands start selling on Europe but chances are low.
It looks also that there is no toys about Atlantic white-sided dolphins but as far as toy industry is going, it is a question of time, I hope.
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The small Safari Ltd toob version marked as pacific white-sided dolphin looks more as his atlantic brother- but not really detailed:scratch:  

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Which brand is yours, Andreas? :)

Colorata and Kitan  

Thanks, Colorata would be my favorite but a little searching on EBAY gives me a result of a 13 Euros figure and without shipping included. It is a shame that these lovely little Colorata are all so hard to find and expensive. :(I really like them. Who knows, someday, Japanese brands start selling on Europe but chances are low.
It looks also that there is no toys about Atlantic white-sided dolphins but as far as toy industry is going, it is a question of time, I hope.

The small Safari Ltd toob version marked as pacific white-sided dolphin looks more as his atlantic brother- but not really detailed:scratch:  [/quote]
I think for now your chance is a custom.

I just liked it because like I said, it was different. It had cool stripes and it was just different.  

widukind wrote:

The small Safari Ltd toob version marked as pacific white-sided dolphin looks more as his atlantic brother- but not really detailed:scratch:  

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This is now being listed as a Common Dolphin. I suppose it could pass as one, but it really is better as an Atlantic White-sided Dolphin; however, the pectoral fins should be black (they used to be, but apparently not anymore), and the area that is tan now should be grey, while the white "comet" should be tan. But it's the closest anyone's come yet. It was never sold as an Atlantic White-sided Dolphin officially, though, so perhaps they never actually were going for that.

sphyrna18 wrote:

widukind wrote:

The small Safari Ltd toob version marked as pacific white-sided dolphin looks more as his atlantic brother- but not really detailed:scratch:  

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This is now being listed as a Common Dolphin. I suppose it could pass as one, but it really is better as an Atlantic White-sided Dolphin; however, the pectoral fins should be black (they used to be, but apparently not anymore), and the area that is tan now should be grey, while the white "comet" should be tan.  But it's the closest anyone's come yet.  It was never sold as an Atlantic White-sided Dolphin officially, though, so perhaps they never actually were going for that.

Thank you and welcome back    

I have this

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I was browsing to see if I could find some of the light Safari horses from 1994...and stumbeled on this one :

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Does anybody know it ?  

I am sure it is from Safari, but have never seen it before, and it is not in the 1994 dealer's catalogue...there is a mighty gap in my catalogues, my next one after 1994 is 2003

I've never seen it before, but it looks nice it has a lovely dynamic pose