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Mudskippers I'd say. Very famous yet can't think of a single model of them.
Would love to see a hyrax and a cavy/Mara.
The southern elephant seal. It’s not just the biggest seal; it’s the biggest member of Carnivora. It weighs more than 8,000 lbs; that’s the equivalent of two walruses or six polar bears. It could literally kill a polar bear simply by sitting on it. And yet the only two elephant seal toys I know of are the ones from Papo and Mojo Fun, and they’re both the 40% smaller northern species.
I agree with all the messages except for the first one (those cetaceans are all very unknown by the general public, but still widely represented in toy form (except for the false killer whale), so is the contrary to the topic subject) and the elephant seal (because I pretend that all figurines made by any brand are the Southern one - and there are certainly more than these two).Spectacled bear, hornbills and coati are, of all the examples given, the ones that I think that fits better with this thread.There are many more, from golden pheasant to common toad passing by many common garden birds such as great tit.If we must include the "at certain size scale", then basically all animals that are not giants are underrepresented, as all medium-sized and small animals are always at a bigger scale.
As a collector of ratites, I’d love to see more rheas. One that always comes to my mind is the matamata turtle. There’s mini ones but no one's ever made a full size version.
Axolotls and tardigrades seem very popular in internet memes and even plushies, but no large versions to be found.