Fauna Figures – Page 16

Vault tales 156 Run the Set Play Visions Prehistoric Reptiles

Okay, so here's a Run the Set for one of those sets that lots of collectors know about, and everybody wants...but can prove difficult to actually get anymore. It's the Play Visions Prehistoric Marine Reptiles (aka Marine Dinosaurs...ugh) set, from 1998 and discontinued soon after. Play Visions was noteworthy at the time...and notorious now...for their wide range of bulk animal sets that featured a range of animals and themes unlike anything we've still ever seen. This included modern and prehistoric…

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November 5, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 155 ToyTrio Chipmunk, Armadillo, Eagle Ray

Well, we're back to a pretty random trio...two are from Colorata, so that's a link. The other is very much not. But they're all really nice so there's that! Safari Ltd Incredible Creatures Chipmunk There's no way to tell of course--but this is a big figure. Life size, really, maybe a little bigger. It's meant to be an Eastern Chipmunk. First up, our Safari figure, from their Incredible Creatures line. This is their Chipmunk, Safari item number 263029. Overall, the…

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November 2, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 154 ToyTrio Iguanodon, Thescelosaurus and Desmatosuchus

Time for an all-prehistoric, all-herbivore, all-archosaur reptiles figures trio. From a weirdly wide range of companies and styles... GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters Thescelosaurus This is an old-school interpretation of...lots of dinosaurs. Too bad it's one of like two Thescelosaurus figures I've ever seen. And it's the better one... So...here's a first for the blog I think--a figure from the GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters series. This is a weird series, starring a fossil hunter out of Italy branded as "Dr. Steve" that came…

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October 29, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault tales 153 Run the Set Kaiyodo Animaltales Series 3

Today I'm doing a Run the Set that might be the shortest one ever, other than just doing a single figure...! It is one of the original Kaiyodo-produced lines made for the Furuta ChocoEgg Animaltales series, number 3. This series was, for that run, huge. There are 50 figures in that series! And I have...two? I double checked and, indeed, I have two. I'm honestly surprised...at one point I I got lots of Animaltales, even though they were discontinued before…

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October 26, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 152 ToyTrio Flame snake, Tsushinokos & Nessie/Plesiosaur trio

So...I'm doing this, this week. Three different figures, three different takes on imaginary/mythical/cryptozoolgical animals all based on real animals. To varying degrees of quality. We'll even go from solo to a duo to a trio! Some were worth getting because of how they represent real creatures; others were probably part of random lots...or came as parts of sets. Into the imaginations I guess! Wizards of the Coast Flame Snake Quite clearly based on a cobra. And the human from a…

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October 22, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 151 ToyTrio Two Salamanders and a Lungfish

So here's a few figures connected by being...air breathing vertebrates? Sure, let's say that. Otherwise they're very, very different. COG "Cool Reptiles" Green salamander This is all the photos that I need of this one. It's a small, and probably too big for Duke there. The species is indeterminate so who knows. First off, I'm starting with a small salamander figure from a bucket set called Cool Reptiles from COG Ltd. Even though it seems to contain more amphibians than…

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October 19, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 150 ToyTrio Dimetrodon, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus skeleton

Today is a super special Toy Trio--3 figures from the marvelous original Dinotales series! One is from series 1, one is from series 1 version 2 (sort of) and one is from series 2 (sort of). All are of course wonderful--and two are super special editions! Dino Fun! Kaiyodo Dinotales series 1 Dimetrodon This is a very nice Dimetrodon. It's really hard to find something to say about it Here is our first one, from the very first Dinotales series--and…

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October 15, 2020

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 149 – Clades – Salamandroidea

It's been a while, but here we are with a new Clades post. Since then, I have been reorganizing my database and how the clades are organized. So when this one came up--'Salamanders'--I realized that I could break that down a little bit. Especially because there are a fair number and this post was going to get hard to handle. So I split things up, into Cryptobranchoidea and Salamandroidea (there's a 3rd grouping, Sirenoidea, but no figures exist so far.…

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October 12, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 148 ToyTrio Cretoxyrhina, Pteranodon, Diadectes?

Okay, so another trio, another theme...sort of. Three prehistoric animals, all non-dinosaurs, and that's about all that connects them. Some very strange ones here really. Learning Curve "Dinosaur Train" Mr. Cretoxyrhina Clearly this is not a realistic paint scheme for Cretoxyrhina. We can't be completely sure but, no. Kind of gives up the cartoon-based origin It seems like I only recently discussed a Dinosaur Train figure and we're already on to another one. And it's not like I have a…

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October 8, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 147 ToyTrio Mole cricket, Whelk, Slit-shell snail

I seem to have found a way to create themes for the trio posts...today is super unusual for me--it's all invertebrates. Not a group that I have a lot of although some weirder ones are in my collection--I do have at least one whole shelf of mostly prehistoric ones after all! Bin figure large Whelk snail I'm going to speed past this one...it's a bin figure, part of a large set of marine animals. The actual scale, like the species,…

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October 5, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 146 ToyTrio Amargasaurus, Masiakasaurus, Monolophosaurus

Another ToyTrio, and it features more dinosaurs...except, they're less common species...and definitely less common figures. Most of which are probably made by better companies but they mostly amuse me. FameMaster 4D Puzzle Amargasaurus The figure is a decent one, but of course being a puzzle, the spaces between the pieces are visible. First up, possibly the least uncommon species and (for once) least uncommon company--another of the 4D puzzle figures from FameMaster. This time it's their original Amargasaurus, item 20141A.…

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September 24, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 145 ToyTrio Ayu, Brown trout, Wels catfish

So, another trio and this time it's all (mostly) freshwater fish! All of them being ones that are frequently caught by anglers, for various reasons. Plus, I don't think any of these fish figures are actually still in production anymore...so there's that. Yujin Freshwater Fish Pictorial book 1 Ayu Popular in as a food fish, the Ayu is also known as the Sweetfish. They are also popular as figures from Japan. Our first one is a fish from Japanese company…

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September 21, 2020