It’s Canada Day! And it just so happens that we’ll be seeing two variations of a figure that stretch from one coast to another!
Now we’re into the weeds of Replica Toy Fish figures–last time I looked at the last figure from the October 2015 trout and salmon figures, the coho salmon.
Here we are, the last fish release for general retail by Replica Toy Fish. Or, the last of the released fish, in truth all of the previous trout, charr, and salmon were all made available at the same time. In this instance, we have a coho salmon (or silver salmon), Oncorhynchus kisutch, another anadromous salmon species found along the coasts of both sides of the Pacific.
Here we are, back with another salmonid from Replica Toy Fish–but, as promised, not a trout! Or a charr for that matter. Instead, we are looking at an actual salmon figure, the Chinook salmon or king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, released in the same wave as the rest of the previous trout and charr figures.
As mentioned in the last post about the greenback cutthroat trout we have one more trout from the October 2015 releases by Replica Toy Fish, and it’s another cutthroat trout variant. This one is the Colorado River Oncorhynchus virginalis pleuriticus another of the Rocky Mountain cutthroats “Uniquely Identifiable Evolutionary Units” (UIEU).
And now another trout from the October 2015 releases by Replica Toy Fish. It hadn’t occurred to me until now, but it turns out that all of the salmonid species so far have been from the Pacific side of the salmonid family–except the the brown trout and the two versions of the brook trout (so far…foreshadow!) This has included the coastal rainbow and Little Kern golden trout, and now we are adding a congener, one of the many ‘subspecies’ of cutthroat trout, the greenback cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus virginalis stomias.
Another 3″ figure from the Replica Toy Fish company, and it is indeed another in the salmon and trout series. Moreover, we are revisiting another western North American trout species, another of the rainbow trout subgroups which is far easier to determine–and much more distinctive. This time it is the Little Kern river golden trout Oncorhynchus mykiss whitei.
Back with another figure in the Replica Toy Fish Salmon and Trout releases, this time a very familiar species, the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss. More properly, based on the colouration and the North American focus of the company, this is likely meant to be one of the many subspecies of rainbow trout.
Back with another run of Replica Toy Fish figures, this time the last series that was released as retail models. Based on my records, these were out in roughly October of 2015. The entire lot of them are all from one family, and overall were super popular with customers for their brief run.
Now that I’ve reviewed all twelve of the original 3″ Replica Toy Fish figures (here, here, here, and here) I will start taking the opportunity to go into the figures that were released later. There was no specific release schedule, or indeed, any announced waves of releases. From what I could work out based on purchasing records, there were a number of figures released in 2015, the first assortment coming out for April.
I’m back with another look at some Replica Toy Fish models. Last time was the 6″ channel catfish figure, this time I’ll be looking at one of the initial sets of three inch figures. There were two sets of six, but I will split them into two posts of three figures just to keep them a little shorter!
This figure is the Chum Salmon egg and alevin (hatchling), Oncorhynchus keta, number 19 in Book 2, but the number 15 is stamped into it—and it’s another Special Secret (I am reposting these based on the model numbers)! The difference with this one is that the numbering would appear to place it in the Series 2 set—but the papers for series 2 start at model 16 (although they restart at 1 within each Book), so it’s a little unusual for the Secret to be ‘first’ in the series.
This figure is the Japanese Huchen, also known as Sakhalin taimen, Parahucho perryi (apparently, renamed from Hucho), number 06 from the first series. This primitive member of the trout and salmon family is found in limited areas of the northwest Pacific—Hokkaido island in Japan, the Russian Sakhelin Island, and far-eastern portions of mainland Russia.
