Before I start this review, I must thank the @Kenc and the kind folks at Toymany for sending me this complete set as a review sample. I normally save my overall analysis and thoughts on the figure or set for the end of the review. However, I was floored by the quality of these tigers! So much so that I am going to replace the Papo tiger in my collection with not one, but THREE of these, one each male, female, and cub (the remaining three will be given to a coworker for his daughter). They are slightly smaller than Papo’s, but I am not a scale-conscience collector so it’s not a big deal (even though the largest extant cat will no longer be the largest extant cat in my collection lol). Toymany, you are making it very difficult for me to remain a synoptic collector 😀 .
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is such an iconic animal, not just in our hobby but with society as a whole, that it doesn’t need much of an introduction. To learn more about their biology, distribution, and the subspecies, I refer readers to past blog posts here, here, and here. Today we will be looking at a family set of tigers by Toymany, consisting of three adults and three cubs. Technically, tigers do not live in family groups like lions. Males are solitary and territorial, and females are usually solitary with the exception of their cubs. As such, this set provides an infinite variety of scenarios for play or display!
We will first start with the three adults.
The first one is in a standing, neutral pose. The shoulder height is approximately 5.5 cm, for a scale of 1:14.5-1:20, depending on the subspecies. Since the three adults are all sculpted in approximately the same scale, I will assume this is the scale for all of them. The body is lean, but muscular, with fine texture representing the hair. Folds of skin are sculpted on the chest and underside. This figure is also clearly based on a female specimen, with nipples sculpted along the underside. The paint is also very well done and typical of actual tigers, although among the three adults, only the male, below, is painted with the characteristic white ‘eye brows’, but perhaps that can be expected with individual variation? Because the detail in sculpt and paint is essentially the same for all six figures in the set, I won’t rehash it for the other figures going forward.
The next adult is crouching (there’s a dragon in the photo below, too, but it’s hidden…). Perhaps he is about to pounce on prey or maybe just surveying his territory. I say ‘his’ because this figure is clearly based on a male specimen, as a scrotum is sculpted on the underside.
The third adult is sculpted gently laying on the ground. Because of the posture, I am not sure what sex it is intended to represent, but to me it looks like an alert mother watching over her cubs as they play.
Speaking of cubs, we’ll look at those three next. Depending on their intended age, the cubs might be a tad bit large in comparison with the adults, but not so much as to distract from displaying them together.
The first cub is in a neutral, standing pose. The cubs pack in the same amout of detail in both paint and sculpt as the adults, which is quite nice given their much smaller size; this cub, for example, is only 3.0 cm high at the shoulder!
The next sub is sitting. It appears to have a much more alarmed took to its face!
The third cub appears to be stretching, as if it just got up from a nap. Or maybe it’s sneaking up on, and about to pounce on, one of its siblings!
As mentioned in the beginning, this is an incredible set, especially for the rather inexpensive price point Toymany continues to provide. At the time of this writing, the cost of the entire set averages to about $3 USD for each individual figure! When is the last time a high quality adult tiger figure cost only $3 new? Speaking of individual figures, each of the figures in this set are also available separately, in case one only wanted one or a couple. Use the promotional code TMAFBM10 for a 10% discount when buying directly from Toymany’s website.
Close-ups of the faces, of first the adults and then the cubs:
Disclaimer: links to Ebay and Amazon on the AnimalToyBlog are affiliate links, so we make a small commission if you use them. Thanks for supporting us!