Be sure to  visit the site's YouTube channel, Jurassic Plastic ! WHAT'S NEW: 3/28/2025: Added a new 1989 variant to the  Apatosaurus  page. 3/16/2025: Added a few new sightings to the Sightings page. 3/15/2025: Updated the  Deinosuchus  and Iguanodon pages with a newly recognized 2012 era variants. Added a new yellow dull wash  Stegosaurus  variant. 3/14/2025: Updates to the  Allosaurus  page including a new variant of mold 2. Slight tweaks to release date estimates - from here on, I will use earliest official photography to date major variant categories absent other evidence, rather than assuming release during the prior year. 2/14/2025: Updates some of the version info for  Tyrannosaurus . and clarified mold versions for Deltadromeus. 1/11/2025: Corrected stamp information on  Smilodon  and Oviraptor (2007), added two newly recognized material variants of Smilodon. 8/2/2024: Even more updates to the  Allosaurus ...

"Gold Wash" and other Carnegie Collection Terminology Terminology examples. Note that the Apatosaurus Baby was not released in any multicolor or 2007 repaint variants. Instead, the color vinyl version remained in production unchanged until 2014. The different mold groups are listed on the bottom. When I first started hunting for more information about the elusive early Carnegie Collection dinosaur models, I found myself hampered by a lack of terminology. I knew from a variety of posts on scattered forums that the first generation of Carnegies were generally drab colored, often very similar to one another. Searching for "dull color Carnegie dinosaurs" didn't get me very far. It wasn't until I discovered the term "gold wash" applied to these figures that I started cracking open the true diversity of early variants, because now I had a keyword and the start of a common language used by collectors of this unique subset of Carnegie dino replicas. The f...

Quick Facts 1998 Carnegie Collection Quetzalcoatlus replica Size:  28cm (wingspan) Scale:  1:37 (1:40 advertised) Sculpted by:  Forest Rogers Produced by:  Safari Ltd. Click here for full replica info and variants Quetzalcoatlus is the perennial “terrible dactyl” when it comes to pterosaurs, which is why I’m starting with this classic representation. This Quetz was already out of date when it debuted in 1998, despite some heroic efforts to make it the first “modern” looking pterosaur in the Carnegie Collection. The main problem with this replica is the head, which is based on the classic John Sibbick illustration found in Wellnhofer’s pterosaur encyclopedia. Sibbick based his Quetzalcoatlus head on a partial skull (number TMM 42489-2) which  probably belonged to a different pterosaur , leading to many years of Quetz being depicted with a short, blunt beak. So while this toy may or may not be a good representation of that unnamed azhdarchid, it’...

Name: Velociraptor mongoliensis Species:  Velociraptor mongoliensis First release: 1993 Retired: 2009 Model number: 2500-29 (figure); 4503-23 (display) Size: 32 cm Advertised scale: 1:6 (on box), 1:5 (in catalog) Actual scale: 1:6 Sculptor: Greg Wenzel Hot on the heels of Jurassic Park, someone at Safari realized they needed to market an authentic Velociraptor model, and fast. Clearly, the 1:40 scale Carnegie line would be a poor fit. Safari contracted with paleoartist Greg Wenzel to create a larger-scale Velociraptor in a dynamic running posture that was essentially tripodal, with its horizontal body supported in the front by a hand touching the ground. The tail, known to have been fairly rigid, was produced in a highly flexed posture (probably close to or exceeding anatomical limits), in order to fit in the box. As with Ely Kish and the Dinosaurs of China, this Velociraptor is instantly recognizable as Wenzel's style, with lots of detail texture in the hornlets and ...