NEW CARNEGIE ALLOSAUR

["D.W.Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

On the new Safari allosaur, Jeff says:

>     I went out to buy a Safari Carnegie Stegosaurus stenops to go with my
> Battat MOS Stegosaurus armatus and what to my wondering eyes did appear but
> a brand new Carnegie Allosaurus fragilis.  I scarfed it up right away.
> It's a standard, camoflage ... camouflage ... camofloge ... hell, "hiding
> stuff greens" with real teeth (rather than painted on like in the first
> version).  It looks very much like a larger, mirror image of their rearing
> Dilophosaurus without crests (but with the curious "hook" at the front of
> the upper jaw).  It looks very good.

If (like me) you can't yet see it in the shops, or stockists don't yet have it,
it is featured in the latest Safari Prehistoric Animals leaflet (a fold-out
strip that's impossible to fold back properly). 
 
>    I called Safari and they say they will be changing (or possibly already
> have changed) the Maiasaurua and Stegosaurus. 

You see people, _this_ is what competition on the market does to the producers.
Flood it with cheap, accurate dino-toys and we'd have a revolution.. or should
I say, a severe bout of punctured equilibrium.

> The T. rex has already been
> changed, but, in my opinion, isn't any better than the original.

You're kidding, right? The original tyrannosaur is god-awful, and genuinely
inaccurate. The new one is neat, aesthetically pleasing and genuinely accurate.

"Careful Dad, he might gore you" 
"Heeey - you're right - he _does_ look like Al Gore"

DARREN NAISH