Review and images by jumboplayset; edited by bmathison1972
Ornithorhynchus anatinus!!! If this animal doesn’t send an electromagnetic current of the gleeful excitement of discovery up and down your spine, then you may be an invertebrate 🙂 ! Along with the short-beaked and long-beaked echidnas, the platypus is the last of the monotremes. Not to mention the last of its genus…
It always surprises me that people continue to search for cryptids, and want to believe in mythological creatures and ghosts, when thousands of other extant creatures including the platypus, are arguably the strangest critters known to man, are here, and still sharing our world with us.
The CollectA Platypus (2014) is an incredible model. He is posed looking up, mouth slightly opened, the bill is perfect, as are his sparkly mischievous eyes. Our Platypus is standing on his knuckles, apparently to protect his webbing while clomping along muddy rocky embankments. The paint is spot on, and includes the notorious venomous spurs on the heels of the back feet (which can kill a dog and inflict serious pain to humans).
CollectA has definitely succeeded in creating the best representation of one of our greatest animals: O. anantinus, the platypus.
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Wonderful figure! One could argue that the position of the legs is to simulate swimming as well!
absolutely! I’ll have to get another: I hold mine so much I think I may ruin the paint
Good review. And I also assumed that this platypus was in a swimming pose.
thank you! I agree with you guys, the swimming pose is exactly right
Nice figure, though I`d like to point out , that the platypus shows no parting in the hair as seen here on the back. As I know, no tru aquatic mammal has this as it would hamper its hydrodynamic shape aswell as the insulation of the body. Personally I therefore prefer Papo`s platypus.
great observation: the oil in the fur would keep him smooth- when folks go out in the creeks of Tasmania, the Platypus is apparently everywhere but because they blend so well with the smooth rocks and the waters current, the completely disappear
it’s like a Studebaker: you can’t tell if it’s coming or going!(you know ,since the tail and the bill are the same shape?❤?
You simply cannot fault the magnificent quality of these Chinese manufactured plastic resin models.
Great care is taken to achieve the realism and correct detail, so there is nothing cheap or nasty about them.
The highlite model for me, has to be the incredibly detailed Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger.
That model is remarkable, with the perfect detailing and the right colouring.
Just love the intricate detail, and realism of these beautifully manufactured models