Aquatic Museum (Wing Mau)

Review of the complete set Aquatic Museum by Wing Mau. While in recent years, it appears Wing Mau is producing and marketing figures by Play Visions, Club Earth, and K&M International, this appears to be an original set of theirs. The set consists of six species of crabs native to Japan and surrounding areas, one of which is a unique figure (see below).

There are six figures, each a solid piece of PVC/plastic. Each figure comes with a plastic base (there is no attachment method for the base) that when assembled with each other, forms a large base that can be used as a diorama-style play set. I do not remember if each crab figure had a specific base associated with it, so the bases I have for individual species below is random. The figures are typical tube/TOOB/gashapon-sized, roughly 25 mm across the carapace.

Here is a group shot of the crabs:

Here is the assembled base:

Chasmagnathus convexus, the mud-flat crab.
This is to my knowledge a unique figure.

Chiromantes haematocheir, the red-clawed crab.
This is probably the most commonly made species in the set, with other versions by Bandai, Yujin, and Kaiyodo, the last of which as produced this species four times, including for their Revogeo line.

Mictyris brevidactylus, long-armed soldier crab.
This enigmatic critter has also been made by Epoch and Kaiyodo. Cadbury made a different species in the genus (M. longicarpus) for the Yowies collections.

Tubuca arcuata, bowed fiddler crab
The last three figures are all fiddler crabs. This particular species is starting to become a standard among Japanese manufacturers in recent years and has been previously made by Koro Koro, Eikoh, Yell, and 2-3 times by Takara Tomy A.R.T.S.

Paraleptuca crassipes, thick-legged fiddler crab.
Technically unique by major/professional manufacturers but forum member Jetoar made one for Paleo-Creatures (Unknown Depths).

Austruca lactea, milky fiddler crab.
A fiddler crab previously made by Epoch.

This is a recommended set, especially for those interested in aquatic/marine species. I’m not sure when it was originally released, but it shows up on eBay periodically and is still on the Wing Mau website so it should still be in production.