barracuda – Fauna Figures

12 Days of FISHMAS! Day Eleven!

Day eleven of the Twelve Days of Fishmas! Day ten can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On the eleventh day of Fishmas cladistics gave to me... Eleven fish from 3 clades towards the top of the tree!Ten Syngnatharia+PelagiariaNine PercomorphaEight basal NeoteleostsSeven basal euteleostomorphsSix crown OtomorphaFIVE! BOH-NY TONGUES!Four elopomorphs Three HolosteansTwo ChondrosteiAnd a bichir at the base of Actinopterygii Another dichotomy plus another, starting to get pretty speciose! From right near the top of…

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December 23, 2021

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

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 188 Run the Set Kaiyodo Aquatales Series 1

We get to look at some figures from another Kaiyodo series, this time a bottlecap series with Glico drink company. There were two limited-time sets of Aquatales figures, featuring a variety of oceanic animals familiar to Japan. Today will be the figures that I have from series 1, which came out (and ended) in 2002. I don't have the whole range, which figured 13 figures plus a secret (so...14); the figures I do have were picked since they are interesting…

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February 25, 2021