ToyTrio – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 285 Run the Set Kaiyodo National Museum of Nature & Science

It'll be a quick look at the figures I have from a set today--two thirds of which I looked at in greater detail once before (when I apparently changed my format!) But always great to look at the history a bit more. Two figures that I've visited before, but so worth the extra look. Futabasaurus in the purple flesh, and a Futabasaurus skeleton. Clearly, the museum and Japan are proud of their sea monster! As said before, the series was…

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February 21, 2022

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 181 ToyTrio Alligator, Rhamphorhynchus, Poison Dart Frog

Well here's a truly broad assortment of figures...I don't even have two of them on display, for various reasons. Let's jump right in! And we'll probably keep these short... Animal Kaiser American Alligator It's certainly a reasonable Alligator figure. Not sure if it has all the details or not, but unmistakable for anything else. It's around 1:50 scale, so ore or less in scale with DnD guy there. First up, yet another Animal Kaiser figure (I have a surprising number...hopefully…

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February 1, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 177 ToyTrio Goblin shark, Spinosaurus, Basking Shark

Another weird assortment today. Honestly, I'm going to keep these short. Not that they're not good figures in their ways, but sometimes there isn't much to say. Learning Curve "Dinosaur Train" The Old Spinosaurus This is a very strange depiction of Spinosaurus. It's cartoon accurate I suppose. First up, another Dinosaur Train figure from Takara. This time, it's their take on Spinosaurus from an episode called "The Old Spinosaurus and the Sea" featuring...a Spinosaurus. Next to the sea. As a…

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January 18, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 173 ToyTrio Hammerhead Shark, Manta Ray, Knob-tail Gecko

Starting the year with what might be described as...very random figures. Most of which are, at best, okay. But they're all part of larger sets so there's that. Let's get to it. Safari Ltd Endangered Species-Marine toob Great Hammerhead Shark Possibly one of the most popular shark species to be made as a figure, a hammerhead shark! It's pretty hard to mistake for anything else at least! First up, we have a Great Hammerhead shark toob figure from Safari Ltd.…

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January 4, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 171 ToyTrio Giant Kangaroo, Giant Cheetah, Woolly Mammoth

A new ToyTrion featuring three small figures of notable very large animals, all mammals this time! All extinct, and all with presence in the Pleistocene...Let's see what we have. Yowies Lost Kingdom Giant Short-faced Kangaroo Weird proportions and a short face on a kangaroo? It must be Procoptodon goliah, the giant short-faced kangaroo This first figure is an example of why the original Yowies Australia figures were so great. For the first two series, especially Lost Kingdoms A, they tried…

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December 28, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 170 ToyTrio Cretoxyrhina, Dragon Moray, Dolly Varden

We've got another trio of figures for this week, and we're going fully aquatic again! And all featuring figures that have stories behind them, for very different reasons. Let's go swimming! Safari Ltd. Prehistoric Sharks toob Cretoxyrhina Something about prehistoric lamniforme sharks always look kind of similar. At least it's a different species. First up we have another figure from the sadly discontinued Safari Ltd Prehistoric Sharks toob, this time the Cretoxyrhina also known as the Ginsu Shark for it's…

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December 24, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 166 ToyTrio Huayangosaurus, Cave Bear, Thylacine

Today we will look at three very different figures, all of extinct animals. After that...they're all completely different from each other. Even a variety of materials! Kaiyodo Lawson Dinotales Series 7 Huayangosaurus It's always great to see a less traditional stegosaur figure, and Huayangosaurus is definitely an unusual figure! Our first figure today is from the last Kaiyodo Dinotales series, series 7, released as a Lawson series. As with the fifth and sixth series, there were two versions of each…

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December 10, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 164 ToyTrio Snail, Amur catfish, Trilobite

So here we have yet another varied bunch of figures...from a varied bunch of companies. But they're all aquatic, so that's a connection!? FUL Snail (Periwinkle) large and small marine sets They are very small figures, and despite being different sizes they are very similar in appearance. Maybe 1:2 scale or smaller if the species were identifiable. Probably too big to be to scale with The Doctor. First up, a quick look at a pair of FUL marine set figures.…

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December 3, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 163 ToyTrio Ornithomimus, Giganotosaurus, Anomalocaris

All prehistoric Trio today! Wide range of odd animals... GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters Ornithomimus It's a very traditional Ornithomimus figure...in so far as there are many other Ornithomimus figures. There aren't many. First up we have another Jurassic Hunters from GeoWorld. This time we are looking at a figure from Series 1 (the previous Thescelosaurus was Series 2), part of the original dinosaurs release, item number CL353K. It's an interesting figure, to say the least, and a welcome one. There aren't…

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November 30, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 159 ToyTrio Achaeon, Ladybug, Placerias

We've got a wide assortment of figures here--representing 'tiny' in different ways! Some figures are tiny, some figures represent the super tiny, and some figures represent tiny animals fairly closely. It also mean tiny sections...not much to say about little figures sometimes! Yujin NHK Miracle Planet Archaeon It's an Archaeon! Not your normal figure. Getting the scale on something like this is pretty much not going to happen...so why wouldn't The Doctor somehow find a way to get close!? First…

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November 16, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 158 ToyTrio Opabinia, Pterygotus, Quetzalcoatlus

Got another Trio today--a trio of entirely Kaiyodo Dinotales! And funny enough, all of them have been produced in at least two variations (although I may not have every version). At least here I can save some time--all of these are of course long out of production, and can only be found through auctions or trading. And they are all the traditional Dinotales material of easily-breakable plastics--these are not toys! Kaiyodo UHA Dinotales Series 1 version 2 Opabinia Here we…

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November 12, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 157 ToyTrio Glyphoderma, Nothosaurus, more Nothosaurs!

So today will be all Triassic marine reptiles! And all are relatively small figures, in the tube-size range or so. Some great ones, some...not really. But it's not a common type of figure, so still great to have! Bin Figure Nothosaurs Normally I would do just one figure, but they're pretty much the same. Just different colours. Scale is difficult to gauge--somewhere between 1:60 to 1:70, depending on what species of nothosaur you decide these are! I'll start with what…

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November 9, 2020