Garden eel – Fauna Figures

12 Days of FISHMAS! Day Four!

Day four of the Twelve Days of Fishmas! Day three can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On the fourth day of Fishmas cladistics gave to me... Four elopomorphs born from leptocephaliThree HolosteansTwo ChondrosteiAnd a bichir at the base of Actinopterygii Four is by no means too many... On day four, we reach the Elopomorpha, as a group of fish related by having a leptocephalus stage. It's a fairly diverse group of fish, including…

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December 16, 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 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

FigureTales

Vault tales 54 Epoch Spotted Garden Eel

Who makes it? One of the figures in the Epoch "Life Account of the Trip" series of gashapon figures, the Marine Fish set. Item number 05. When did it come out? It's hard to say. Probably around early to mid-2000s. Despite being only a few centimetres long, the face is very detailed--right down to the little open mouth catching plankton! Still available? No, like many of these sets they are limited releases. They show up somewhat regularly on Japanese auction…

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November 7, 2019