Safari Ltd has a truly overwhelming release for 2006. Ramona Pariente has put her strong personal stamp on Safari Ltd since taking leadership. The Safari Ltd booth at this year's Toy Fair in New York was all feathers, fangs and fur.

The Wild Safari mammals have evolved to include Arsinotherium, Andrewsarchus, Doedicurus and Ambelodon. There was also a Prehistoric Life Toob with Arsinotherium, Andrewsarchus, Doedicurus, Smilodon, Megatherium, Woolly Mammoth, a family of cave people with a campfire and a tree.

There are two new Wild Safari dinosaurs, Suchomimus and an adolescent feathered Tyrannosaurus. The Great Dinosaur collection has been repainted and a feathered Therizinosaurus and Spinosaurus are being released.

The old Habitat series has been repackaged as the Mini Carnegie collection. The jewel was the four new figures for the Carnegie Museum series -- Dilong, Caudipteryx, Microraptor and Beipiaosaurus. Being jaded, I never expected the figures to be anything as attractive as the pictures. I was wrong; they were every bit as good as their pictures. See more at www.prehistorictimes.com