Fish – Page 4 – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 136 ToyTrio Lotus Flower, Blue Spiny Lizard, Powan

Today's trio is all over the place...in terms of species, company and quality! Safari Flower Toob Lotus Flower It's a Lotus flower! Okay, not super exciting, but good potential for filling out scenes, like with a Schleich mini frog! Or with The Doctor, about 1:7 scale, but who knows for sure. Well, first up we have a plant. The lotus flower from the Safari Ltd Flowers toob, product number 682904 from 2013. As a set, it is certainly different; I'm…

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August 20, 2020

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Vault Tales 121 Colorata Dolphinfish

As always, Colorata does a great job capturing the life appearance of their fish This post is going to look at another figure from the Saltwater Fishes box produced by Colorata. This will be the Dolphinfish, AKA Mahi-Mahi, number in the original set. It's interesting that, given that I have hundreds of Colorata figures (they're a little like popcorn or potato chips, hard to stop at one!) I have had five randomly picked, and including this dolphinfish, three of them…

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June 29, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 120 ToyTrio Vauxia, Reef Manta, Paradisefish

Here we have another ToyTrio, with a chance to revisit a figure from an earlier, revisit a set I mentioned once, and visit a set I'm very fond of for the first time! Safari Cambrian toob Vauxia These photos probably look very similar to the ones from my Porifera clades post. There's not really much to be done with just this figure on it's own. This first one is a look again specifically at the Vauxia figure from the recent…

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June 25, 2020

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Vault Tales 116 Famemaster 4D Clown Triggerfish

Up close the spaces are pretty visible between the puzzle pieces It has been a while since I discussed a puzzle figure from the FameMaster company, and I think this is the first marine animal one! As with those other ones, these figures are notable for their fairly high attention to detail, sculpt, and paint job, in spite of being in service of a laser-cut puzzle format. This detracts a little from some of the figures--like this triggerfish--due to the…

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June 11, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 111 ToyFishFactory American Angler Collection

It's a set of fish! popular American angling fish no less! We're back with a Run the Set again, this time the American Angler collection from Toy Fish Factory. I know I've talked about the TFF line at some point--I think in the old version of the blog. Since then, of course, the purpose of the site and how I discuss things has changed. But in case you don't want to go read an old thing, here's a quick run…

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May 25, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 103 ToyTrio Char, Salamander, Maiasaura

What do we have here? A new format. I realized that a lot of the time my random number generator picks figures from the collection that might not necessitate a full entry, or require more than a couple photos. So as the figures get picked, I will choose a few and discuss them together. It is unlikely that they will be that closely related thematically--instead it will be a quick opportunity to give a brief glimpse at how broad my…

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April 27, 2020

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Vault Tales 102 FaunaFiguresFishes Ornate Bichir

More primitive fishes? And another bichir to boot? Well I'm happy! It seems like not that long ago I did a whole long post on the original run of FaunaFiguresFishes models. In that set I had mentioned that a couple of models were later made as a revised concept for the line--bigger, a little more detail, that kind of thing. And due to the vagaries of my random number generator, the only modern figure thus far created is today's topic--the…

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April 23, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 100 The FaunaFiguresFishes!

Welcome to post 100! A milestone number! And I thought I should do something different, and kind of special--so I will go over all of the figures from my original line of fish figures, made for my store! The FaunaFiguresFishes were sculpted and cast for by a sculptor named Brandon DeMoss. The first of the original waves were produced in 2016, the last one came out in late 2018. A couple of other figures were later produced in a new…

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April 15, 2020

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Vault Tales 95 Kaiyodo Capsule Aquarium Bronze Whaler Shark

There are not enough shark figures. Of most species. Like this one. I am once again revisiting a figure from Kaiyodo (a company that has come up in this blog many times already), but I think this is the first one from the Capsule Aquarium series (I did discuss the tiger shark before, but it's from the CapsuleQ line). The Capsule Aquarium sets, if I understand correctly, are meant for public aquaria--of which Japan has several (and, yes, only in…

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March 30, 2020

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Vault Tales 94 Colorata Japanese Pilchard

It's a wee little fishy! This post is going to go back to the Colorata figures well (I do have a lot of them). This time, it's another figure from the Saltwater Fishes box set, a Japanese Pilchard. Clearly this was a set that was influenced by species commonly encountered in some way--for the pilchard (and other, related sardines) that would of course be as a food animal. But at least this figure celebrates the living animal! As with the…

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March 26, 2020

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Vault tales 92 Customized Replica Toy Fish Amur Pike

The original northern pike (left) with the Amur pike repaint Today's figure is another fish from the defunct Replica Toy Fish Company, but more than that, it is another custom paint job of one of the RTF figures. Last time I turned a brook trout into a bull trout, this time I turned a northern pike into an Amur pike (AKA blackspotted pike). Like the majority of the small RTF fish, the northern pike came out in about 2010. I…

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March 19, 2020

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Vault tales 82 Medicom Megalodon

Who makes it? Part of a series of 'Mystery' or Cryptid models from Japanese company Medicom, this 'Ancient Shark' is part of their Mystery Museum series 2. It is referred to as 'Ancient Shark' officially, but given the size (there is a yacht-like boat in the base) it is most likely referring to Otodus megalodon, or more commonly, Megalodon. When did it come out? I honestly have no idea. Probably early to mid-2000s. From one side. It's very much a…

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February 13, 2020