Dinosaur – Page 4 – Fauna Figures

Vault tales 178 – Clades – “Sauropoda”

Today we have another 'Clades' and this time...it will take more explanation? When I revamped my database taxonomic details, I realized that some groups were very heavily lumped into one category--even though many groups fit in as ancestors to others, etc. Some groups were also more tightly defined than others, often based on how I focus in my collecting (so, lots of fish ones, very few arthropods...still true). I also realized that it could make a clades post really, really…

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January 21, 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

Vault Tales 168 CollectA Deluxe Carcharodontosaurus

Keeping with this week's incidental them of prehistoric CollectA figures, today we have one of the big deluxe dinosaurs. Specifically, the 2014-released Carcharodontosaurus, item number 88642. This is a big figure, which is fitting given that Carcharodontosaurus was a big predator of Cretaceous North Africa (possibly longer than the might T. rex!) and really makes sense as a deluxe figure from CollectA. It is an impressive figure on the shelf, standing out well against the myriad of other big dinos…

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December 17, 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

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 / 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 143 ToyTrio Tawa, Coelophysis, Tyrannosaurus

So today's trio is going to be a variety of dinosaur figures, all relatively recent releases! As it works out...it kind of acts as a very basic family lineage of the theropod (meat-eating) dinosaurs. If I arrange them in the right order...which I did. It's also why it felt more right to put them together in a 'trio' instead of looking at each one separately. Schleich 'Conquering the Earth' Tawa As dinosaur figures go the Tawa is definitely unique. Also,…

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September 14, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 139 Capcom Gigantoraptor

The Capcom Gigantoraptor. Is it truly gigantic? It's not too bad. Today's figure is from Capcom, released for a Japanese Dino Expo in 2009 (and available only then). For many of their runs, starting from around 2003 or 2004, maybe earlier, Dino Expo figures were produced by Kaiyodo--some were releases or box sets of pre-existing Dinotales figures, a few were unique additions to the Dinotales line, and some were larger, expensive resin figures. Every year it was always exciting to…

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August 31, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 134 Safari Shunosaurus

It stands out from your 'average' sauropod in being...more derpy. The tail isn't clearly visible here. So today we're going to look at one of the smaller sauropods made by Safari--the Shunosaurus from 2016, item number 305529. It was released in a pretty great year of Safari figures of unusual prehistoric animals actually, and I think as a lot they kind of got overshadowed by the surrounding years also featuring some great animals in great sculpts. A better look from…

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August 13, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 133 ToyTrio Andalusian, Mapusaurus, Utahraptor

Another ToyTrio, and another pretty random assortment! MojoFun Andalusian stallion I don't have many horses. And really, this one is only in the collection by accident I believe that this might be the first horse I've looked at on this blog. As I've said before, I don't really have much to do with farm/domestic animals, and have never gone too far into horse collecting--from what I can tell, that may be the largest subset of animal collecting there is (even…

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August 10, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 124 Safari Dinosaur Skulls TOOB

A bunch of dinosaur heads! Note the range in size--because there is no way these are all to scale! Instead of trying to find appropriate human figures I'm leaning into it with our Jurassic World trio checking them out in the garden. We're back with yet another Run the Set, this time the Safari Ltd Dinosaur Skulls toob. You may recall way back near the beginning of this blog I wrote an individual post about just one of the skulls,…

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July 9, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 117 Safari Ltd Nigersaurus

Who remembers when this species was first announced? It was so odd and goofy looking, compared to what we normally thought of as sauropods or 'longnecks' Today's post is about the Safari Ltd. Nigersaurus from what is now their Prehistoric World line, item number 286329--but at the time was referred to as the Dinos & Prehistoric Life collection. The name of the series has changed several times, but the overall them remained, it was Safari's lower-cost dinosaurs line, alongside their…

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June 15, 2020