Editing The Pen Addict 444/transcript (section)

== Original Lamy Safari ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, how the turntables. Speaking of how the turntables, Myke, we're turning it back 40 years to the original Lamy Safari. Have you seen what Lamy is releasing this year? I want to say for their 40th anniversary, but it's actually now 41 years since the launch of the original Lamy Safari. So have you checked out Safari Green and Terra Red?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Lamy Safari original, Savannah Green and Terra Red. I don't know what the, I know that these were the original ones. Why are they calling, do you know why they're calling them original? Is that just like the name?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't. And I wonder if that is official marketing or not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or if it's just, because we've got all of our information so far from Fontaplumo, who are very reliable with this stuff. They always have this information. But you're right, we haven't seen like what are Lamy actually calling these yet. We don't know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think this is going to be the name though. I think they'll just be, I don't know if they'll have the original in the title or not. They're starting to put up pre-sales on other sites, which means information is now like spreading. Like last week, it was just on the European sites. Now it's starting to get to the US site, so I could probably poke around those real quick and see how they list them. Because in general, sites are going to list it exactly as the vendor says to list it. But this is a blog post, so it could be a little bit of freedom in that. But were you aware of these pins, the original colors of the Lamy Safari? No. Did you have any concept? Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, because this was the funny thing to me. As soon as I saw this, I was like, I have never once considered why they're called Safari.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So back, I was trying to figure it out yesterday on stream. It was probably like 10 years ago when I was getting into fountain pens and started, you know, had my Lamy Safaris. And then you get into, hey, there's limited edition Lamy Safaris. Like, you know, there's been different orange ones and there's been like one, a blue one with a red clip that people called the Smurf Safari and things like that. And you tried to, you know, there was a whole, like a Field Notes thing, right? Got to catch them all. Here's all these limited editions that happened. And could you acquire the very first Safaris, which were the most rare, which were the Safari Green and the Terracotta Red?

'''Myke Hurley:''' This really reminds me of Field Notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it really is. And like, this was like 10 years ago when I was looking at this, they were impossible to find. And they were several hundred dollars if you could find them each. And, you know, they, you know, couldn't find them in original packaging, couldn't find them in original boxes, anything like that. So I'm pretty excited that these are going to exist. It does bring up a lot of questions like, you know, should they rebuild or reissue the old original? Like, very close. There are obviously some differences, some tiny, tiny differences in these models than the original. Like, the nib markings are different and things like that. They used to not mark on the nibs way, way back in the day, but that doesn't really matter. They're pretty close. So I'm certainly pro.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can't think of any reason why not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I can't either. But I think, I don't think they'll have any pushback or anything like that. I think this is just kind of exciting for Lamy. To be honest, Myke, I'm a little bit surprised and shocked. Like, I didn't know they had a reissue in them. I thought they might have a continuation special edition. Like, if they're going to do 40th anniversary, do something just really wild and funky or something meaningful that relates to the entirety of the 40-year existence of the pen. Not, here's the first one again. But, like, I'm happy for it. I think these are amazing looking, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they don't really feel like that kind of, like, nostalgic company.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But 40 years is a long time, so I could imagine them doing it now. Like, I don't really imagine that, like, next year they're also going to plumb the debts of the back catalog to release something that they've done before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that was one of my follow-up questions. Should we expect more from Lamy's back catalog in the future? I agree with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because they're a very creative company, I think. I believe their intent. And I think that they like to try and stay modern.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because these colors are definitely not, they don't look of the now as such. Right, right. And so I can imagine them, like, continuing down their current path. Like, I think this is, you know, you said it's 41. I'm sure they probably meant to release these last year. Sure. Or, you know, it's just like, what you're going to do.