Dunkleosteus – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 259 Safari Ltd WS Prehistoric World Dunkleosteus

Today I'm going to just look at a single figure, one which really showed a change in the game for the Safari prehistoric figures. This is of course the Dunkleosteus, number 283329. It was released in 2007 (in what was then the Wild Safari Dinos & Prehistoric Life series), and continues to be available today. In all of its profile glory, the Safari Dunkleosteus. The bold golds and browns continue to be very striking colours. And not the gold eyes--signs…

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November 1, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 240 Run the Set CollectA Prehistoric Marine Animals MiniBox

Staying with the sets, although this is the first one in some time that isn't Japanese! It's a more recent one from CollectA, the Prehistoric Marine mini box. CollectA item number A1104, it was released in 2017. The only figures that were already part of the CollectA prehistoric figures lines. On the left, the only widely available), in the centre a Temnodontosaurus, and on the right, a small Dunkleosteus It was super exciting when CollectA first announced they would release…

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August 26, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 187 FigureFrenzy Nasutoceratops, Uintatherium, Dunkleosteus, Smilodon

New Figure Frenzy, with a bunch of larger figures! Interestingly, we're going to hit the three geologic eras (and the kind of fourth, based on the original breakdown into four). But I'm not going to do them in geologic order since...I just am not. Three of them are excellent models from excellent companies. One of them is a well known animal that is frequently made but can be generously described as 'okay', from a company that can be described as...okay…

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February 22, 2021

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 169 – Clades – Arthrodira

It has been quite a while since I did a Clades post, and this one will be featuring a group that has lots of figures...but mostly one species. It is (as stated in the title) the placoderm group Arthrodira. Although pretty diverse overall, the most familiar would of course be Dunkleosteus, a giant predator of Devonian seas worldwide. But of course it lived alongside several relatives in those seas--the Arthrodira (as described in my database as a grade) includes the…

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December 21, 2020