Kaiyodo - new for 2014

[bmathison1972]

Might as well start a thread for Kaiyodo.

Looks like in May they are doing another caterpillar set, with a scarabaeoid larva too. Species appear to be:

Papilio machaon
Papilio protenor
Stauropus fagi
Cystidia truncangulata
Theretra oldenlandiae
Dorcus hopei binodulosus (this lucanid has been made as adult and pupa before, so with this figure, one can complete the life cycle!)

The plankton set comes out next month, and for those interested, there are a couple farm animal sets out now too.

http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm

Edit 2015-01-07 by brontodocus: added photos of the 2014 Kaiyodo releases.

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Animatales Series 5 (Biwako):



Eurasian Harvest Mouse


Little Grebe


Japanese Treefrog (green or brown)


Lake Biwa Catfish (normal or leucistic)


Striped Bitterling male, female


Biwa Trout


Giant Water Bug


Predatory Water Flea Leptodora kindtii.

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Animatales Series 6 (Hokkaido):



Ezo Brown Bear


Sika Deer


Ezo Red Fox


Siberian Flying Squirrel


Chipmunk


Least Weasel (winter or summer)


Orca (mouth open)


Orca (mouth closed).

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Animatales Series 7 (Yaeyama):



Iriomote Cat


Crested Serpent Eagle


Yellow-margined Box Turtle (hatchling)


Japanese Tree-lizard


Tiger Shark


Atlas Moth


Pillbug Cubaris murina (syn. C. iriomotensis).

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Animatales Series 8 (Mountain Animals):



Rock Ptarmigan (winter or summer)


Japanese Serow


Asian Black Bear


Japanese Dormouse


Hasegawa’s Ladybird Coccinella hasegawai


Golden Eagle.

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Toxic and Dangerous Animals (made of very soft vinyl except for Deathstalker and Tarantula):



Strawberry Poison Frog, Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog


Chinese Red-headed Scolopender (two colour variants)


Deathstalker


Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula


Blue-lined Octopus


Eastern Coral Snake

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Microcosmos:



Daphnia pulex


Euglena gracilis


Branchinella kugenumaensis


Portunus trituberculatus (Zoea)


Loligo bleekeri (juvenile).

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Owls (heads are moveable):



Ural Owl


Little Owl


Barn Owl


Northern White-faced Scops-owl


Snowy Owl.

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Caterpillars 2 (bendable):



Papilio protenor caterpillar


Papilio machaon caterpillar


Cystidia truncangulata caterpillar


Stauropus fagi caterpillar


Theretra oldenlandiae caterpillar


Dorcus hopei binodulosus larva.

Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum Farm Animals 1/35 (versions A and B are treated as one, they are merely colour variants):



Rooster, Chicken, Duck


Horse, Foal


Holstein Cow, Rabbit


Sow with piglets


Ram, Dog, Shamo Rooster


Pig, Goat.

Kaiyodo Deep-sea Life:

Coelacanth


Barreleye


Gulper Eel (first time I see one that is really a Gulper Eel and not a Pelican Eel!)


Giant Isopod


Giant Squid


Scaly-foot Gastropod Chrysomallon squamiferum (two colour variants).

[brontodocus]

They are making a Lobster Moth caterpillar! And the Dorcus hopei binodulosus larva looks really great, too.

[Jetoar]

Really wonderful figures. Kaiyodo is one of te best   .

[sbell]

Has this one been posted anywhere:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261461720159?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2648&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

It's a deep-sea Kaiyodo set! Some nice figures, but budget and space may not allow for it...



Most aren't unique figures but are definitely well-done, and/or improvements on existing Kaiyodo versions. I'm guessing that someone else can tell what the crustacean-looking thing is.

[Newt]

It looks like a giant isopod (Bathynomus sp.).  Those suckers are impressive- I've seen a few in aquaria.

[postsaurischian]

Haven't seen the Deep Sea set yet .
Does anybody know why the snail is figure #4 and #5 as well?

Here are the newest announcements for 2014: http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm
The next Animatales set and a set of toxic animals.

[bmathison1972]

WOW, cant wait to get the centipedes in the DangerQ set. Lots of buggies for Blaine this year

[sbell]

Haven't seen the Deep Sea set yet .
Does anybody know why the snail is figure #4 and #5 as well?

Here are the newest announcements for 2014: http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm
The next Animatales set and a set of toxic animals.

I found some images on Jauce--apparently, the snail is the chase figure with two different paint versions. I wouldn't have guessed that...

[widukind]

Many thanks 

[brontodocus]

So there won't be just that (supposedly resin) Barreleye by Kaiyodo this year, this one seems to be better than the T-A.R.T.S version. The Pelican/Gulper Eel looks interesting - with its head being smaller than that of previous Pelican Eel figures I wonder if this may represent a true Gulper Eel, Saccopharynx sp. instead.

It looks like a giant isopod (Bathynomus sp.).  Those suckers are impressive- I've seen a few in aquaria.

Were those real Bathynomus giganteus or did they belong to another Bathynomus species (e.g. B. doederleinii)? I'm not aware that giganteus has been kept in captivity, yet (although it should be possible, they are merely a bathyal species and could be sampled alive).

[Newt]

I'm afraid I don't know.  I saw one many years ago at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago- I believe it was part of a special, temporary exhibit- and several in the deep-sea exhibit of the Enoshima Aquarium near Tokyo in 2010 (they also had some tremendous spider crabs in another tank in that section).  I wish I had taken notes, or had a better memory.  My photos from Enoshima perished in a computer mishap.

*Edit* There's a picture of an Enoshima specimen on page 2 of this map by the header "2 Deep Sea Part I".  It's pretty small, probably not identifiable, but it's the best I can do.

[bmathison1972]

More updates from Kaiyodo:
http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm

That set to be released in September looks promising. While I will only collect the moth and isopod (first toy/figure of a terrestrial isopod, to my knowledge), the agamid lizard and turtle hatchling are appealing!!!

[sbell]

More updates from Kaiyodo:
http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm

That set to be released in September looks promising. While I will only collect the moth and isopod (first toy/figure of a terrestrial isopod, to my knowledge), the agamid lizard and turtle hatchling are appealing!!!

Brett is expecting to see them available next week. Get in touch with him.

[bmathison1972]

More updates from Kaiyodo:
http://www.capsuleq.in/m/index.htm

That set to be released in September looks promising. While I will only collect the moth and isopod (first toy/figure of a terrestrial isopod, to my knowledge), the agamid lizard and turtle hatchling are appealing!!!

Brett is expecting to see them available next week. Get in touch with him.

I have a contact in Hong Kong who gives me first dibs on gashopons 

[postsaurischian]

  The Okinawa Tree Lizard is a must-have!!!

[brontodocus]

Whoa, the whole set is a must for me. I guess Blaine may be as excited as me about that Atlas Moth?

[bmathison1972]

Whoa, the whole set is a must for me. I guess Blaine may be as excited as me about that Atlas Moth?

yeah sets like this sometimes make me wish I collected animals more generally; a very nice ensemble to say the least!!!

And yes, while the moth is very impressive I am actually more excited for the isopod, as I believe it is the first toy/figure of a terrestrial isopod (not including the Bathynomus figures out there...or at least the three I have and are aware of...)

[stargatedalek]

its certainly a very pretty isopod, wish I knew the species

[brontodocus]

It's apparently a member of the pillbugs, Armadillidiidae, and a name translation from the CapsuleQ website reveals that it is a species endemic to Japan, Cubaris iriomotensis. Quite obscure (even for an isopod figure) since this one hadn't been described until 1990. 

[bmathison1972]

It's apparently a member of the pillbugs, Armadillidiidae, and a name translation from the CapsuleQ website reveals that it is a species endemic to Japan, Cubaris iriomotensis. Quite obscure (even for an isopod figure) since this one hadn't been described until 1990. 

Interesting. Well, based on the cat too this must be a set specific to Iriomote ? (I like how Kaiyodo has been rolling out figures lately, with smaller sets that are theme-based!).