- By Boki
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Salvat dinosaur figures from Spain/Portugal (?). To be honest, I am not entirely sure which country Salvat is from. I got my set from a seller in Portugal. I first heard about them on the Dinosaur Toy Forum site, one of the member posted the auction link. Not much information about the figures, for a while there I found a site that list all of the figures, unfortunately it was all in Spanish. I can't seem to locate that site again. Salvat released 43 dinosaur figures, I only have a few. The figures are knock-off of Safari, Battat, Bullyland, and WWD figures. Unfortunately, the figures are poorly made. The paint design unimaginative and really boring. Salvat modified the heads of each figures, probably to avoid any copy right problems, other than that, the figures are remarkably close to the original ones. I found them on ebay. I could not find any more information about these curious line; I'm not even entirely sure what country they originally are from. A few people in mentioned that some of the figures are available in South America as well.
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Dude, Salvat is not a city or province or anything. Is a very famous company/editorial from Spain: http://www.salvat.com/ They become important editing encyclopedies and stuff, and maybe they released these figures at some point -maybe acompanied by some dinosaur encyclopedie or something?- De nada.
Wow! Anthony Beeson of Procon? I am so honored to have you and Randy look at my collection! By the way, I am a great fan of the procon Line of dinosaurs! It's refreshing to see someone making unusual and very cool looking dinosaur figures instead of the same old crowd! I really love the Agustinia, It's my favorite from the series. I hope Procon will make more prehistoric marine reptiles, more sauropods (in the deluxe version), and maybe, just maybe branch out to include some prehistoric mammals? Oh, that would be a dream! No one makes Prehistoric mammals anymore, most line either discontinued or no longer making new ones. Wow, if Procon can do to prehistoric mammals figures what you guys did with dinosaurs, that would be really awesome! Just thought I share it with yah! Looking forward to next years releases! Thanks you again. I hope yo had a chance to see the Procon deluxe in my diorama page.
yes it is me. I will drop Mike a line I have already sent out some emails to friends in Europe. Great presentation. I am enjoying the pictures. Randy
THE RANDY KNOL? Wow! I am a big fan of your dinosaur collector site! The Salvat figures is from Portugal, I don't know much about them at all. Someone from the dinosaur toy forum, a lovely site, spotted them on ebay and posted the link. I won a few of them as pictured. I believe there were 47 figures total that was produced. I don't think the figures were ever sold outside of Portugal since no one seems to know anything about them. I wonder if Mike from Prehistoric Times know about them. I had to wait 2 weeks for my figure to get here from Portugal. I checked the site the used to have the list but it's not there anymore. Could be out of production. Very curious and odd figures and company indeed. I will let you know if I find that site again and email you the link.
Boki, Very interesting I have never seen the Salvat before. Are they still in production? I would love to get some. I run the dinosurCollector site. I am also from Seattle orginally, small world.