Cheetah – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 273 FigureFrenzy Marmot, Velociraptor, Giant cheetah, Wild ass

Another very random batch. Minis. Metals. Mammals. Just more randomness. Schleich Minis Marmot A very small rodent, an Alpine Marmot. Great to have a very small rodent figure, they tend to fit better with larger figures. Depending on the size of the real animal used, this figure varies from 1:15 to 1:24 scale. Finn would be close for 1:15 or; the figure would fit well with many current modern animal models at 1:24 We're going to start small, with this…

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January 10, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 227 FigureFrenzy Cheetah, Iguanodon, Milkfish, Sifaka, Sturgeon

Well, today is about as random as they're going to get. All over the place in terms of species, quality, brand, materials...Kind of like my actual collection, it can be kind of all over the place! Schleich Bayala Arelan Cheetah I personally think this is one of the most interesting Cheetah figures made, by Schleich, and among many other cheetah figures. The posture is such a unique one. About 1:18 scale, so close to the misguided zookeeper there. Our first…

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July 12, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 199 Run the Set FameMaster 4D Puzzles Animals

I have visited with a few FameMaster 4D puzzles in past posts, but never a 'set' of them. There are various incarnations and releases of them, as well as different modes of selling them. Sometimes it's in plastic eggs, sometimes in little boxes. Although the lines are kind of broad, they were usually out in groups of four; this is one such example, a group of four wild animals, collected under the series number 20124. Possibly not the most exciting…

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April 5, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 198 Run the Set Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Amazing Animals

It's a Run the Set today, a few figures from one of the last Kaiyodo Choco animal series. In this case, it was a set called Amazing Animals, released with Takara in the rebranded 'ChocoQ' line. This occurred after Kaiyodo parted ways with Furuta in about 2003 (I think); from what I recall, Kaiyodo had insisted to Furuta that only their ChocoEgg Kaiyodo figures would be part of the Furuta offerings...then Furuta didn't do that. So Kaiyodo went over with…

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April 1, 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

Vault tales 30 Colorata Cheetah

Who makes it? Colorata, from their original Wild Cats Vol 1 box When did it come out? I think I picked it up in 2006? Running Cheetah! Still available? Unlike many of the Colorata boxes, I think this one is still available in its original format. Getting it outside of Japan remains tricky. And in the other direction. The use of a customizable peg means that the figure can be portrayed with it's legs only barely touching the ground! Where…

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August 15, 2019