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So today's trio is going to be a variety of dinosaur figures, all relatively recent releases! As it works out...it kind of acts as a very basic family lineage of the theropod (meat-eating) dinosaurs. If I arrange them in the right order...which I did. It's also why it felt more right to put them together in a 'trio' instead of looking at each one separately. Schleich 'Conquering the Earth' Tawa As dinosaur figures go the Tawa is definitely unique. Also,…
This ToyTrio is features three very different fish from very different companies...enjoy! Schleich Sea Animals Blue Marlin Two different angles on a fantastic fish figure! First off, we have a great little figure from the second time Schleich put out marine animals, their blue marlin! Item number 14556, this one came out in 2005 and was the first in the line to be discontinued in 2008. The rest of that series would end in 2009. In a short form it…
Summer is winding down--so time for some colourful bugs! It's a run the set today, and I'll be honest, it's going to be brief. Not because they aren't nice figures, I just wouldn't really have much to say. It's the Safari Ltd Tropical Butterflies set, number 684504. I believe first released around 2016 but it could have been earlier. As far as insects go, butterflies are a fairly popular, safe choice for companies--but with this set they went into some…
It's a prehistoric...or prehistoric adjacent...Toy Trio today! Vivid Imaginations Scowler Pachyrhinosaurus The figure looks beaten up. This is how it comes, and I think is supposed to indicate a rough life! The eye spot pattern on the frill is a nice touch If you think back to 2013, you might remember some pretty heavy dino-nerd excitement. Walking with Dinosaurs was back! As a feature-length, cinema-released movie! And it was going to look at a slightly earlier late-Cretaceous time frame, using…
The Capcom Gigantoraptor. Is it truly gigantic? It's not too bad. Today's figure is from Capcom, released for a Japanese Dino Expo in 2009 (and available only then). For many of their runs, starting from around 2003 or 2004, maybe earlier, Dino Expo figures were produced by Kaiyodo--some were releases or box sets of pre-existing Dinotales figures, a few were unique additions to the Dinotales line, and some were larger, expensive resin figures. Every year it was always exciting to…
After so many individual fish, we are going to look at the whole set in one place! They come in these nifty lunch kits, and have a booklet too! Well, after so many posts about individual fish figures from this set, we are going to see them all as a Run the Set! This is probably one of my favorite sets (though of course not the favorite...there is a set with a bichir after all), and was one of the…
It probably doesn't help that the figure is a single solid colour, but the face is actually pretty detailed. Here we are again, with a second Edaphosaurus in as many weeks. This time it is a 3D printed model from Shapeways, designed by creator GNModels, AKA Galileo Hernandez. I recognized the name as a sculptor that had created non-3D print model kits for some people, but I am not much for building; the opportunity to get some of his models…
Today's trio is all over the place...in terms of species, company and quality! Safari Flower Toob Lotus Flower It's a Lotus flower! Okay, not super exciting, but good potential for filling out scenes, like with a Schleich mini frog! Or with The Doctor, about 1:7 scale, but who knows for sure. Well, first up we have a plant. The lotus flower from the Safari Ltd Flowers toob, product number 682904 from 2013. As a set, it is certainly different; I'm…
One of the more recent sets by Kaiyodo. Admittedly, only 80% of a recent set... We have a Run-the-Set today, this time the Paleozoic Era set from the Kaiyodo CapsuleQ Museum line. This set was released as a limited run in 2015. I am not sure what exactly, but it was likely for a museum event or some kind of promotion with a Dinosaur Expo in Japan. In this instance, it was reflecting a number of Paleozoic fossil creatures that,…
It stands out from your 'average' sauropod in being...more derpy. The tail isn't clearly visible here. So today we're going to look at one of the smaller sauropods made by Safari--the Shunosaurus from 2016, item number 305529. It was released in a pretty great year of Safari figures of unusual prehistoric animals actually, and I think as a lot they kind of got overshadowed by the surrounding years also featuring some great animals in great sculpts. A better look from…
Another ToyTrio, and another pretty random assortment! MojoFun Andalusian stallion I don't have many horses. And really, this one is only in the collection by accident I believe that this might be the first horse I've looked at on this blog. As I've said before, I don't really have much to do with farm/domestic animals, and have never gone too far into horse collecting--from what I can tell, that may be the largest subset of animal collecting there is (even…
The whole reptile gang with the box cover. Possibly the most diverse reptiles set ever. As for the figures, they are a solid O K. So two Innovative Kids Groovy Tubes set in one week...sometimes the Random Number Generator doesn't seem so random...Anyway, kind of exciting to finally get to one of the animal sets. This is actually the first one that I saw in a store, and couldn't believe some of the animals inside. There were some that I…
