Frogs Figurines Playset (Toymany)

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Today I will be presenting a brief overview of the 2024 Frogs collection by Toymany, which was kindly gifted as a review sample by @Kenc and the folks at Toymany for the Blog. This was intended to be posted yesterday when the set was announced, but I was traveling for work so it’s coming up a day late. Since the purpose of this post was to announce the set, this will be a very brief overview of each figure. We encourage others to submit in-depth reviews of individual figures. I am including geographic information, habitat, size and scale (based on snout-to-vent length, SVL), frequency of the species in toy/figure form for each species, and notes where appropriate.

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Surinam Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta

  • Geographic distribution: Amazonian South America
  • Habitat: Tropical and subtropical rain forest, usually in leaf litter
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.3 cm for a scale of 1:1.7-1:2.8
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Unique

Wallace’s Flying Frog, Rhacophorus nigropalmatus

  • Geographic distribution: Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia)
  • Habitat: Primary and secondary tropical rain forest; arboreal
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 5.0 cm for a scale of 1:2
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Very rare; the only others I am aware of are by Blip Toys and Safari Ltd.

Australian Green Tree Frog, Ranoidea caerulea

  • Geographic distribution: Northeastern Australia and New Guinea; introduced to New Zealand and USA (Florida)
  • Habitat: Moist temperate, tropical, and subtropical forests, often near bodies of water; arboreal
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 5.5 cm for a scale of 1:2.1
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Rare; certain examples have been made by Cadbury (both Australian and UK Yowies) and Kaiyodo, as well as possibly Safari Ltd.’s 2000 Incredible Creatures tree frog

Argentine Horned Frog, Ceratophrys ornata

  • Geographic distribution: South America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
  • Habitat: Tropical and subtropical grassland, often near water; also irrigated cropland and ditches
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 5.0 cm for a scale of 1:2.2
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Uncommon; most horned frog figures were probably based on this species
  • Notes: This figure is painted as a domestic morphotype

American Bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus

  • Geographic distribution: Eastern North America; introduced throughout much of the world, including the western United States, Hawaii, Caribbean, South America, Central and Mediterranean Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Japan
  • Habitat: Swamps, ponds, lakes, parks, koi ponds, canals, ditches, culverts
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 5.5 cm for a scale of 1:2.8-1:2.9, depending on the sex
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Uncommon; most figures of this species have been made by Safari Ltd. and K&M International, but also Yujin and certainly others.

Strawberry Poison-dart Frog, Oophaga pumilio

  • Geographic distribution: Central America, from Nicaragua to Panama
  • Habitat: Rainforests along the Caribbean coast of Central America
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.0 cm for a scale of 2.4:1-1.7:1
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Uncommon, but one of the most commonly made frogs identifiable at the species level, having been made by a handful of both Western and Japanese companies
  • Notes: To the best of my knowledge, this is the only figure of this species sculpted calling

Red-eyed Tree Frog, Agalychnis callidryas

  • Geographic distribution: Central and northwestern South America
  • Habitat: Tropical and subtropical lowland and submontane rainforest
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 5.0 cm for a scale of 1:1.2-1:1.5, depending on the sex
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Common, one of the most, if not the most, commonly made frogs identifiable at the species level, having been made by several Western and Japanese companies

Budgett’s Frog, Lepidobatrachus laevis

  • Geographic distribution: South America (Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina)
  • Habitat: Gran Chaco
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.0 cm for a scale of 1:2.5
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Very rare, but gaining popularity with other figures by Ikimon and Yell, and other Japanese companies

Lehmann’s Poison Frog, Oophaga lehmanni

  • Geographic distribution: Western Colombia; known only from the type locality in the south-facing versant of upper Río Anchicayá drainage
  • Habitat: Tropical rain forest; usually in leaflitter but occasionally in low shrubs and trees
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.0 cm for a scale of 1.3:1-1.1:1
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Uncommon, but has been made by a handful of Western and Japanese companies

Darwin’s Frog, Rhinoderma darwinii

  • Geographic distribution: South America (Argentina, Chile)
  • Habitat: Valdivian Temperate Rain Forest
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.2 cm for a scale of 1.9:1-1.4:1 depending on the sex
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Rare; other than the standard and mini/tube figures by CollectA, only a couple Japanese companies

Blue Poison-Dart Frog, Dendrobates tinctorius var. azureus

  • Geographic distribution: Suriname
  • Habitat: Sipaliwini Savanna; usually on the ground, occasionally in low shrubs and trees
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.0 cm, within scale 1:1
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Common, both the form azureus and the species as a whole

Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog, Dendrobates leucomelas

  • Geographic distribution: Northern South America
  • Habitat: Guianan Orinoco drainage; usually in lowland rainforest
  • Size/Scale: SVL approx. 4.0 cm, within scale 1:1
  • Frequency of species as a toy/figure: Rare; previously produced by Play Visions, Safari Ltd., and a few Japanese companies

It has been an absolute pleasure introducing this set to the Blog. I am blown away by the quality of these frogs. If Toymany keeps it up, they are going to become serious competition for major Western brands! Before I know I would be receiving this set, I wasn’t sure how many I was going to buy. Only one species is new for me, and I am more than happy with the representatives I have of the other species. However, after seeing them in-hand, I am probably going to retain more than half of them, replacing their counterparts in my collection! Highly recommended, either as a set or individually from Toymany’s website. Remember to use code TMAFBM10 and receive a 10% discount when shopping directly from Toymany’s site.

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Comments 3

  • I’m not big on frog figures like I am salamanders (fingers crossed for someday), but this set is amazing. Would like to see how they compare with the Colorata set in terms of size.
    At first I thought the flying frog from Colorata, but nope, different species. Plus, the use of unique sculpts for each figure is worthy of praise.

    • That should have said “… Colorata was the same species…”

    • well, for what it’s worth, I am replacing three or four of the Colorata frogs with ones from this set ;-). I am on the fence about the red-eyed tree frog, however. The Toymany figure undeniably has a better sculpt and paint job, but I love Colorata’s presentation on the branch!

      Size-wise, they go back and forth with Colorata’s. All of Colorata’s are essentially 1:1 and you can see from my scales above, several of these are slightly larger or slightly under 1:1. But, they are probably closest to Colorata than other companies; i.e., larger than Kaiyodo/gashapon/toob-sized figures but smaller than something one would expect in Safari’s IC line.

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