Wild Safari Dinos (Safari Ltd) Elasmosaurus Reviewed

It is always exciting to see a member of the Plesiosauria included in a model manufacturer’s range and this year, Safari Ltd added a detailed replica of the long-necked plesiosaur known as Elasmosaurus to their Wild Safari Dinos model range.  Team members at Everything Dinosaur have produced a short video review of this excellent marine reptile replica.

Wild Safari Dinos Elasmosaurus

A Video Review of the Wild Safari Dinos Elasmosaurus Marine Reptile Model

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

The length of this video is approximately 5 minutes and forty seconds.  We look at the model in detail, comment on the skin texture, the detailing around the mouth, teeth and skull and assess the colours chosen by the artists at Safari Ltd to depict this Late Cretaceous marine reptile.

Cretaceous Marine Reptile Reviewed

The name Elasmosaurus means “plate lizard”, a reference to the substantial, plate-like shoulder bones that covered this animal’s chest and formed the arm sockets.  These “plates” anchored the huge muscles of the front limbs that helped to power this large animal through the water.

To see the range of Safari Ltd prehistoric animals stocked by Everything Dinosaur: Safari Ltd Wild Dinos Prehistoric World Models and Figures.

Everything Dinosaur Reviews the Wild Safari Dinos Dimorphodon Pterosaur Figure

The latest video created by Everything Dinosaur team members has been completed.  It is a review of the Dimorphodon model which is part of the Wild Safari Dinos and Prehistoric Life model series made by Safari Ltd.  This model was introduced in 2013 and it is always a pleasure to see a new pterosaur replica in a mainstream model range.

Dimorphodon Model

Everything Dinosaur Reviews the Dimorphodon Model

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

In this six minute video review, we look at the Dimorphodon model and discuss features such as the large head, the different shaped teeth seen in the jaws and the curved claws on the hands and feet.  We then reflect on what the known fossil data tells us about Dimorphodon and explain how the model relates to the fossil material.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of prehistoric animal models including the Dimorphodon replica from Safari Ltd: Safari Ltd. Wild Safari Prehistoric World Replicas.

A Video Review of Gryposaurus

“Hook-nosed lizard”, for that is what the genus name of Gryposaurus means, has had a video review created.  Team members at Everything Dinosaur try to research, write and shoot a video for all the new model releases by manufacturers such as Safari Ltd.  With a number of new models for 2013, the team have been kept busy, but we have finished our review of the Wild Safari Dinos Gryposaurus dinosaur model.  We still refer to this Late Cretaceous dinosaur as a hadrosaur, although to avoid confusion with the duck-billed dinosaur genus of Hadrosaurus we know that we should refer to the group of duck-bills that includes Gryposaurus as the Saurolophinae, but we suppose old habits die hard.

Wild Safari Dinos Gryposaurus

In this short (six minute) video review we discuss the replica, its colouration and the details on the figure that show that the design team as Safari Ltd have really studied the known fossil material carefully.

Everything Dinosaur’s Video Review of Gryposaurus

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

It really is a great model and we love the colouration, a sort of dusky blue that works really well.  This dinosaur has also got blue eyes, an eye colour not usually found when it comes to replicas of the Dinosauria.

To see Everything Dinosaur’s range of prehistoric animal models made by Safari Ltd: Safari Ltd. Prehistoric World Figures.

A Video Review of the Wild Safari Dinos Diabloceratops Dinosaur Model

With so many new horned dinosaurs being discovered over the last five years or so, model manufacturers have been working hard to catch up with all the new genera.  As part of Safari Limited’s new prehistoric animal replicas launched this year, a model of the ceratopsian known as Diabloceratops (D. eatoni) was introduced into their Wild Safari Dinos prehistoric animal range. The Diabloceratops dinosaur model is reviewed.

Diabloceratops Dinosaur Model

Everything Dinosaur has produced a brief video review of “Devil Horned Face”, in this short video (5:50) we discuss the discovery of the fossils in Utah and explain a little about how this new model reflects the fossil material.

Everything Dinosaur’s Video Review of Diabloceratops

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

Middle Campanian Ceratopsian

This Middle Campanian ceratopsian has been assigned to the centrosaurine group of horned dinosaurs, it is regarded as a basal member and hopefully more fossil material will be discovered on the Kaiparowits Plateau, at least half-a-dozen different dinosaurs are known from this part of southern Utah.  Around 80 million years ago the area we now know as Utah in the western United States was a lush, verdant environment that supported a large number of different dinosaur species.

To view the range of Safari Ltd prehistoric animal models available from Everything Dinosaur: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Models and Replicas.

Although not actually a scale model, our team members have looked at the estimated size of Diabloceratops worked out from the skull material assigned to this species, based on this data and careful measurements of the  model, we have calculated the approximate scale of this well-painted replica.  More details about this and other aspects of Diabloceratops in the video review.

Przewalski’s Horse Model by CollectA Reviewed

With the addition of a model of Przewalski’s horse into the CollectA horse model series, team members at Everything Dinosaur decided to add this replica to the company’s model range.  Przewalski’s horse, otherwise known as the Mongolian wild horse, is the only truly wild horse left on the planet.  As it has remained unchanged since the Pleistocene Epoch and as it would have been known to our European ancestors, it was decided to add this excellent model to our stock.

Przewalski’s Horse

Below is a short, (under five minutes), review of the CollectA model:

Everything Dinosaur Reviews CollectA’s Przewalski’s Horse Model

Video credit: Everything Dinosaur

In this video, we explain a little about the model and how it accurately depicts the live animal.  We also discuss the successful conservation programme that saw this horse brought back from the brink of extinction.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of CollectA models: CollectA Prehistoric Life Models.