Acheson Creations – Fauna Figures

FigureFocus 317 Acheson Primeval Designs Spotted Hyena

Time to look at yet another Hyena figure from the collection! Yeah...I have many. It's a thing! This time it's a small clan of metal Spotted Hyenas from Acheson Creations' Primeval Designs series. As with a few other figures from the series that I've looked at before, these are the metal (pewter) figures, being smaller models, although some are resin as well. Unlike other figures seen on the blog, these figures are not technically part of the 'prehistoric' series, but…

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August 29, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

FigureFrenzy 284 Brontosaurus, Dimetrodon, Gomphotherium, Velociraptor

Taking a look at a weird and wide variety of prehistoric figures. Representing all kinds of geologic ages and taxonomic groups! Also...pretty wide range of quality. Dino Magic Fizz-N-Surprise 'Brontosaurus' Skeleton (GLOW!) Kind of the basic dinosaur skeleton, ostensibly a Brontosaurus skeleton. It's roughly 1:200 scale, so that diver guy there is pretty close in scale Well let's start with what will obviously be the low point...another figure from the Dino Magic series. I have to say, it's representative of…

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February 17, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 258 FigureFrenzy Axolotl, Barracuda, Lemur, Diplocaulus, Torpedo Ray

Another day, another very random bunch of figures. Again, a pretty broad range of animals and companies. Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Animatales Pets Axolotl A lovely little Axolotl figure. It's about 1:4 scale, so it would be a giant compared to The Doctor there. Or she is very, very tiny. Here we have another excellent figure from the Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Animatales Pets series. This one is from series 4, so it was after the split between Kaiyodo and the original…

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October 28, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 210 FigureFrenzy Anaconda, Salamander, Eryops, Stagonolepis

We've got four figures today, which can best be regarded as...united by being 'herpetiles', a broad informal word usually meant to refer to 'reptiles' and 'amphibians'. Which are themselves kind of informal but anyway...there's a whole bunch of animals that really aren't connected by much. Other than they're all really nice figures in different ways. CollectA Green Anaconda Easily one of the most active and dynamic Green Anaconda figures. It's tricky to know the scale due to the many curls…

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May 13, 2021

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 174 – Clades – Eryopiformes

We're back and with another 'Clades' post. This time, it will be a paraphyletic one, 'Eryopiformes'. This is a crown group of the Temnospondyls, and as the name implies, it consists of the famous big 'amphibian' Eryops, but also the rest of the 'Stereospondyls'--and this group may also include the Gymnophiona, the modern caecillians! As it is, when I revamped my database, I organized using grades, clades and useful (to me) breakdowns...so as a group, the Eryopiformes 'clade' consists of…

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January 7, 2021