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Amazing They look almost like taxidermy specimens
your collection is very cool blackdanter. will post what i have asap.
In nearly every set I've encountered there is a Hercules beetle. This seems to be the Tyrannosaurus rex of beetle figures lines!
You're welcome! And I see what I can do to identify the longhorn beetle...EDIT: So the lamiine longhorn beetle is a Batocera lineolata then! I found it similar to tropical Batocera (they are among the most spectacular cerambycids with e.g. Batocera wallacei males with antennae up to over 9 inch / 230 mm long). But the genus has species in Japan, too. This one is Batocera lineolata, not nearly as big as the species from tropical Asia but rather between 20 and 30 mm long. Edited again: It seems the 20-30 mm are for Japanese populations. I've just seen the website of an insect dealer offering specimens of the same species from Thailand that are over 60 mm long. The size of big cerambycids is highly variable and dependent on nutrition and probably climate, too (one of our largest in Central Europe, Cerymbyx cerdo, can be as little as 25 mm or as large as 53 mm).
more beetle figures from Tomy tho not quite the same as what blackdanter has posted (except for the one i previously posted).
When I come across the third figure I'll post it. From what I recall it's similar to the Megasoma but light brown in colour (not very helpful really!).