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All of the Kaiyodo Jurassic Park III dinosaurs. 11/12 are in perfect, shiny condition... Way, way, way back I wrote about a special release Kaiyodo dinosaur model--a Spinosaurus skull from their Jurassic Park III + Coca Cola promotion (almost exactly 100 posts ago!). Now, the Random Number Generator has selected other figures from the series, so why not look at them all together? It's another Run the Set! Two classic herbivores that made appearances in earlier movies too. The Triceratops…
The wild/regular colouration of the saddle bichir. It's hard to tell but Kaiyodo really captured the little features of this animal Here we are with another post about bichirs already. The Random Number generator made some interesting picks, but this one is extra special. It has been just over a year since I started these posts! So being able to talk about one of my favorite figures, about one of my favorite animals, is just icing on the cake! And…
This post is another Run the Set, although I don't think it's really a full set--just all of the figures I have that would be included. Here we have a number of prehistoric animals produced by Feves. Or called Feves...I'm not really sure if it's a brand or a style. I know that they are originally based on prizes or treats that are placed in cakes during Epiphany. They get their name 'Feves' from the French word for 'bean'--maybe those…
The gorgonopsian gang, from my collection at least. There are probably a few other more elaborate models and kits. These figures are very not to scale We're back to another clades post--this time it's one where I actually have a number of models, from a group that I actively collect. It's the group of synapsids called Gorgonopsia--a group of reptile-looking Permian tetrapods that, being part of Therapsida, are more closely related to mammals. They, along with related groups, were often…
What do we have here? A new format. I realized that a lot of the time my random number generator picks figures from the collection that might not necessitate a full entry, or require more than a couple photos. So as the figures get picked, I will choose a few and discuss them together. It is unlikely that they will be that closely related thematically--instead it will be a quick opportunity to give a brief glimpse at how broad my…
More primitive fishes? And another bichir to boot? Well I'm happy! It seems like not that long ago I did a whole long post on the original run of FaunaFiguresFishes models. In that set I had mentioned that a couple of models were later made as a revised concept for the line--bigger, a little more detail, that kind of thing. And due to the vagaries of my random number generator, the only modern figure thus far created is today's topic--the…
The whole set of skulls. These are not to scale So we're back with another Run the Set again, heading for a second hundred posts! After writing up the last one I really like the way that format worked especially for these kinds of picture-heavy posts. So I am going to go with this kind of format. The thumbnail galleries and small pictures look better to me, I hope it looks good to you too. Safari toob Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros…
Welcome to post 100! A milestone number! And I thought I should do something different, and kind of special--so I will go over all of the figures from my original line of fish figures, made for my store! The FaunaFiguresFishes were sculpted and cast for by a sculptor named Brandon DeMoss. The first of the original waves were produced in 2016, the last one came out in late 2018. A couple of other figures were later produced in a new…
Not a croc--but it was in the toob! And now you'll know how! We're going to look at one of the oddest figures in an odd toob today, from Safari's Prehistoric Crocodiles toob (item number 679804). Strange because it's not really a crocodile at all, and strange because they're such weird animals overall! I am speaking of course of the choristodere Champsosaurus, one of 10 figures in the Safari toob that was available from 2010 until 2017...yes, another toob that…
It's pretty rough, but there aren't many other animals it could be! It seems like we just visited the Yowies a couple days ago and here we are with another classic version. This time, it is a figure made by Cadbury for Yowies in the UK. Although they still came with chocolate, the UK figures were single-piece figures made of PVC. There were only two series released, and while there was still a high proportion of Australian fauna, by series…
It's a not-crocodile but kind of reptile! There's actually quite a bit of story on its taxonomic status... It's been a while since we visited the Yowies figures and oddly enough, this will be my first look at one of the prehistoric models from the Lost Kingdoms series. Specifically, this is the Tasmaniosaurus from Lost Kingdom series A, item number 06. Lost Kingdoms was first introduced with this series in 2000, and of course was short-lived. The line focused very…
The first superpredator? Maybe. This may be the most glorious version out there. This post is going to go back to the Kaiyodo Dinotales, a series that I've spent quite a bit of time discussing. Hardly surprising, since I have at least one of every model...and there are a lot of models! This Anomalocaris is from the Dinotales 2 series, number 046 in the run. The series as a whole seemed to be tougher to find, having first showed up…
