Safari Ltd Carnegie Collection

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1994 Carnegie Collection promotional diorama by AAI Designs

The Carnegie Collection began in 1988 as a collaboration between the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh and Safari Ltd. The Carnegie Museum wished to have a line of high-quality, scientifically accurate scale models to sell in their gift shop. They hired artist Forest Rogers to create the sculpts for the models and contracted with Safari Ltd. to produce and distribute them. Previous to this, Safari Ltd. did not make animal toys, but acted as a US distributer for brands like Schleich, Bullyland, and AAA. Safari contracted with Schleich and Bullyland to create molds based on Rogers' designs, and the earliest models were mass produced in the same facilities that made Schleich models. In return, Schleich was able to sell the Carnegie Collection as their own brand in Europe (for more information, see the Schleich Carnegie Collection). By the early 1990s, Safari began their own production of animal models and cut ties with Schleich, which introduced their own line of dinosaur figures to replace the Carnegie Collection. The co-operation between Safari and the Carnegie Museum was terminated in 2016, bringing and end to the Carnegie Collection line.

The scale-model Carnegie Collection dinosaurs were reviewed by paleontologists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to reflect the most up-to-date information. With the endorsement of the Carnegie Museum, which houses one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur fossils, these educational toys have won numerous awards for excellence and authenticity. Each Carnegie dinosaur was professionally sculpted by artist Forest Rogers, and individually hand painted.


Number and Name Introduced Discontinued Comment
Safari 400001 Stegosaurus 1988 2007 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 400101 Tyrannosaurus rex 1988 2015 Updated sculpt in 1993
Safari 400201 Brachiosaurus 1988 2007 Updated sculpt in 1993 and 1998
Safari 400301 Apatosaurus 1988 2014 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 400401 Apatosaurus Baby 1988 2014 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 400501 Parasaurolophus 1988 2007 Updated sculpt in 1995
Safari 400601 Triceratops 1988 2007
Safari 400701 Allosaurus 1988 2007 Updated sculpt in 1995
Safari 400801 Australopithecus Male 1988 1995
Safari 400901 Australopithecus Female 1988 1995
Safari 401001 Diplodocus 1988 2007 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 401101 Maiasaura 1988 1995
Safari 401201 Euoplocephalus 1988 1997
Safari 401301 Dimetrodon 1988 1997
Safari 401401 Pteranodon 1988 2011 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 401501 Protoceratops 1988 1997
Safari 401601 Smilodon 1988 1997
Safari 401701 Deinonychus 1990 1997
Safari 401801 Pachycephalosaurus 1990 2002
Safari 401901 Elasmosaurus 1991 2007 Updated sculpt in 1996
Safari 402001 Mosasaurus 1991 2001
Safari 402101 Iguanodon 1992 2015
Safari 402201 Spinosaurus 1992 2007
Safari 402301 Corythosaurus 1993 2009
Safari 402401 Dilophosaurus Pair 1994 2009
Safari 402501 Plateosaurus 1995 2010
Safari 402601 Deinosuchus 1996 2015
Safari 402701 Maiasaura and Nest 1996 2015
Safari 402801 Carnotaurus 1997 2007
Safari 402901 Kronosaurus 1997 2015
Safari 403001 Saltasaurus 1997 2015
Safari 403101 Quetzalcoatlus 1998 2007
Safari 403201 Deltadromeus Agilis 1998 2009
Safari 403301 Baryonyx 1998 2015
Safari 403401 Psittacosaurus 1999 2004
Safari 403501 10th Anniversary Tyrannosaurus 1999 2015
Safari 403601 Triceratops 2000 2015
Safari 403701 Tanystropheus 2000 2007
Safari 403801 Dimetrodon 2001 2015
Safari 403901 Acrocanthosaurus 2001 2015
Safari 404001 Styracosaurus 2000 2005
Safari 404101 Camarasaurus 2002 2015
Safari 404201 Woolly Mammoth 2003 2015
Safari 404301 Velociraptor 2003 2007
Safari 404401 Albertosaurus 2004 2015
Safari 404501 Sinraptor 2004 2009
Safari 404601 Oviraptor 2005 2009
Safari 404701 Ankylosaurus 2005 2015
Safari 404901 Beiplasosaurus 2006 2015
Safari 405001 Microraptor 2006 2015
Safari 421201 Caudipteryx 2006 2015
Safari 421301 Dilong 2006 2015
Safari 405201 Amargasaurus 2007 2015
Safari 405301 Oviraptor 2007 2015 Updated Sculpt of 404601
Safari 410101 Tanystropheus 2007 2015 Repaint of 403701
Safari 410601 Velociraptor 2007 2015 Repaint of 404301
Safari 410801 Iguanodon 2007 2015 Repaint of 402101
Safari 410901 Allosaurus 2007 2015 Repaint of 400701
Safari 411001 Spinosaurus 2007 2015 Repaint of 402201
Safari 411101 Parasaurolophus 2007 2015 Repaint of 400501
Safari 411501 Triceratops 2007 2015 Repaint of 400601
Safari 411601 Quetzalcoatlus 2007 2015 Repaint of 403101
Safari 411701 Elasmosaurus 2007 2015 Repaint of 401901
Safari 411801 Carnotaurus 2007 2014 Repaint of 402801
Safari 411901 Stegosaurus 2007 2015 Repaint of 400001
Safari 412001 Brachiosaurus 2007 2015 Repaint of 400201
Safari 405401 Diplodocus 2008 2015 Updated sculpt of 401001
Safari 412201 Giganotosaurus 2008 2015
Safari 421501 Tylosaurus 2009 2015
Safari 421601 Spinosaurus 2009 2015 Updated sculpt of 411001
Safari 421701 Ichthyosaurus 2010 2015
Safari 421801 Cryolophosaurus 2010 2015
Safari 412301 Carnotaurus 2011 2015 Updated sculpt of 411801
Safari 412601 Miragaia 2011 2015
Safari 410701 Brachiosaurus 2012 2015 Updated sculpt of 142001
Safari 411201 Concavenator 2013 2015
Safari 411301 Tyrannosaurus Rex 2014 2015 25th Anniversary Model
Safari 410201 Velociraptor 2015 2015 Updated sculpt of 410601


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