Fish – Page 2 – Fauna Figures

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

FigureFocus / FigureTales

Vault Tales 257 FigureFrenzy Anteater, Hatchetfish, Velociraptor, Allosaurus, Salamander

Another figure frenzy today, all over the place again! Dinosaurs and fish and amphibians! I'm a little late with it, so I'm going to be brief here! Safari Ltd South American toob Giant Anteater Another recent addition to the collection, a Giant Anteater figure. About 1:19 scale--a handy thing about toob figures, they scale well with other figures! I only just discussed the Capybara from the Safari South American toob, and already, a week later, here we are with the…

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October 25, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 255 FigureFrenzy Betta, Capybara, Catfish, Wiwaxia, Mammoth+Smilodon

Another FigureFrenzy! And it's going to be very random...all over the place, really. Little of everything. Although they're all small, and all part of larger sets so...unifying features? Marmit World of Tropical Fish Betta A very familiar pet fish, a Betta or Siamese Fighting Fish in what might be the most unusual possible colour...a pearlescent white with a red lateral line? I'm not even sure if this is a real pattern. A more characteristic blue or red would have made…

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October 18, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 254 FigureFrenzy Apatosaurus, Char, Poraspis, Archelon, Spinosaurus

Wide range of figures again today. All over the map--prehistoric and modern, big and small, really nice and...less high end. I guess that's what happens when picks are random...! Jurassic World FK mini Apatosaurus (Walmart) It's a very basic Apatosaurus from a Jurassic World set. Decent monochrome though, although the 'blood splash' is a little weird. It's about 1:182 scale, so the guy's about half the needed height. First up, a small mini dinosaur figure from Mattel, an Apatosaurus from the…

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October 14, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 250 Run the Set Toys Spirits Super Long Moray Mascot

It's going to be a fast one today, but a really unique one. A set that came out recently (I received them in August, I think?), it's a series from a Japanese group called Toys Spirits. As best as I can tell, this is one of many lines produced by or for Bandai; Toys Spirits tend to be smaller figures overall than what we usually associate with capsule figures, which really says something. From the limited information I could find,…

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September 30, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 249 Run the Set Safari Ltd Pelagic Fishes toob

Another Safari toob set? Already! How awesome...and statistically likely, since I have a lot of them...! But this time it is a newer one, and one of what I think is their best ones in recent years (the Great Lakes toob is of course my favorite, maybe I'll get to it someday). In this instance, it is the Pelagic Fishes toob from 2019, Safari number 100265. The set features 10 fish, and only fish (in the broad 'swimming vertebrates sense)…

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September 27, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 247 FigureFrenzy Ichthyosaurus and belemnite, Torpdedo ray, Catfish, Cusk eel, Trumpetfish

Another frenzy of figures! And all aquatic animals! Mostly fish, with one prehistoric reptile + mollusk diorama...let's get in the water! Bandai Hungry Dinos series 1 Ichthyosaurus A very detailed diorama featuring Ichthyosaurus leaping from the water with some kind of cephalopod in it's mouth; likely a belemnite of some kind (I assume Phragmoteuthis based on location and size). The figure is roughly 1:30 - 1:40 scale. I've also included a closer photo of the belemnite. The first figure is…

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September 20, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 245 FigureFrenzy Sea Cucumber, Sea Star, Pipefish, Garden eels, Goby

It's been a while since I did a random figure frenzy, but here we are! Five figures from varying companies, of varying quality. And all represent marine animals (although I don't think they coexist...) FUL (Nayab?) Sea Cucumbers large & small A couple of Sea Cucumber figures from ta set of small and large marine figures. Let's be honest, not a particularly common animal figure...similar in size, about 1:5 and 1: 4 scale First up, a pair of weird little…

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September 13, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 236 Run the Set Kaiyodo Series 10 Sunshine Aquarium

Another short look at what I have from a Japanese set. This time revisiting a Kaiyodo Capsule Aquarium one, the Sunshine Aquarium set. I only have a few but of course they're fantastic models. A couple of different versions of some cool moray eels. They are labelled to species although the designations are possibly not accurate anymore. On the left is labelled Gymnothorax melanospilus which is now synonymized with Gymnothorax isingteena, the Spotted Moray. On the right is Gymnothorax javanicus,…

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August 12, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 235 Run the Set Yujin Freshwater Fishes Book 1 release 1

Still on a roll with the Japanese set! And again, it's the figures that I have from larger sets. They'll be fairly short this week, as I don't have many of either one...and it's been a busy week too! For this post we'll look at the figures from one of the Yujin Freshwater Series, a range of figures I've explored a few times before. In this instance, it is the original of the originals. These are the figures that I…

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August 9, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 234 Run the Set Ikimon Nature Technicolor Move Eels

Following with the accidental "Nature Technicolor" theme of the week, this time we are going to quickly look at a more recent set (well, 75% of it). Released in 2019, this set of Garden eels would have been under the Ikimon Nature Technicolor brand, unlike the Kitan Club set from a few days ago. This one also has a pretty fancy gimmick, and in spite of myself I have included a gif at the end to demonstrate (foreshadowing: it is…

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August 5, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 228 FigureFrenzy Futabasaurus, Salmon, Velociraptor, Xenacanthus, Teleoceras

More random figures. Possibly more random than normal! Even a figure that was customized (not the first one I've discussed, I think. But a weirder one). Mostly prehistoric animals though. That's something. Playmates Dinosaur King Futabasaurus This pattern on Futabasaurus is almost a meme among early figures of the animal. Not sure how that came to pass. It's about 1:60 scale, close to the diver. Visiting another Dinosaur King figure again already? Yup, another wave 2 figure, and one that…

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July 15, 2021