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.
Brook Trout, revised (3″ figure by Replica Toy Fish)
4.8 (5 votes)
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.
Texas Longhorn Cattle, Bull (Farm World by Schleich)
5 (7 votes)
An icon of the American west, the Texas longhorn traces its origins to cattle brought to the Americas from the Iberian Peninsula by Spanish conquistadors. In Texas, some of these criollo cattle went feral and over several generations adapted to the harsh dry climate of the American southwest. When American settlers spread westward, they brought European cattle breeds that, by themselves, failed to thrive, but when crossed with the criollo cattle did exceptionally well.
Alligator Gar, juvenile (3″ figure by Replica Toy Fish)
4.9 (9 votes)
Back with the very last August 2015 releases from Replica Toy Fish, the second of two figures that use the same model, this time the juvenile alligator gar, Atractosteus spathula, seen originally as a six inch figure. Last time I focused on the adult figure, now we can take a more pictorial look at the juvenile version.
Alligator Gar, adult (3″ figure by Replica Toy Fish)
4.6 (8 votes)
Here we are, working toward the last August 2015 releases from Replica Toy Fish, which is technically a pair of figures that use the same model but different colours. And more specifically, three inch figures that represent a species already seen as a six inch figure. That’s right, more figures of the the alligator gar, Atractosteus spathula.
Shovelnose Sturgeon (6 Inch Series by Replica Toy Fish)
4.6 (7 votes)
This figure is the sixth and final figure from the Replica Toy Fish 6 inch series, and possibly the most unique model of the whole company’s run. The figure is the shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus, by no means the first sturgeon on the blog, but the first not from the genus Acipenser (previously including lake sturgeon and Chinese sturgeon) and…probably the only figure from the genus so far (there are other Acipenser figures…and someday we might get to Huso, but I digress).
Alligator Gar (6 Inch Series by Replica Toy Fish)
4.9 (19 votes)
Back with another Replica Toy Fish figure, another from the original (and only) six-inch figure collection. I won’t lie, of the 6 this was one of the two I was most excited for. At the time I think it was the only model of the species…or maybe even the whole family (the collection is a bit of a blur sometimes).
Red-eared Slider (Wild Animals by Papo)
5 (13 votes)
In 1992 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were at the height of their popularity and like many young boys of my generation, I was obsessed! To the point where my vast toy collection wasn’t enough. I wanted a real turtle, and shockingly enough my mother obliged me. He was a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), a sub-species of the pond slider native to the mid-western United States, around the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Guadalupe Bass (3″ Figure by Replica Toy Fish)
4.9 (19 votes)
In August 2015 another wave of figures was released by Replica Toy Fish. Once again, no real announcement or launch, I think I found out because of a photo on the STS collector site or something. Maybe I found out about a different figure, and this one was there too. Seems like something that would be important for a company to make sales…anyway, it was just a few more species, but again, pretty popular models.
Stoat (Mojö Woodland by Mojö Fun)
4.8 (12 votes)
Also known as the short-tailed weasel and ermine, the stoat (Mustela erminea) has a circumpolar distribution around the northern half of the northern hemisphere in North America and Eurasia. The stoat was also introduced to New Zealand to control rabbit populations but has been wreaking havoc on New Zealand’s bird population.
Harbor Seal, 2018 (Arctic & Antarctic Wildlife by Schleich)
5 (7 votes)
In Celtic mythology there exists a creature known as a selkie, a shapeshifting being that takes on the form of a seal when in the water but can transform into a human by removing its sealskin on land. Selkie stories often involve a romantic relationship between a human male and female selkie wherein the human hides her sealskin so she cannot return to the sea, forcing her into marriage but resulting in an unhappy life for the selkie.
Insects TOOB (Safari Ltd.)
3.8 (8 votes)
I have recently reacquired the Safari Ltd. Insects TOOB and thought I would showcase it for the Blog. There have been at least three (maybe more) iterations of this TOOB over the years, with I believe the first version coming out in 2004. At some point (I don’t know what year) Safari also released a glow-in-the-dark version of the TOOB.