Gashapon – Fauna Figures

FigureFocus 322 ForCorporation Churaumi Aquarium Whale Shark

Time to look at another one of those less common gashapon figures from a less common company. This is one from a company called ForCorporation, and while I'm sure they do other things, I am familiar with them as makers of aquarium capsule figures. While some of them have come into my collection (or at least my awareness) as figures labelled as "Another Aquarium" which...not sure what's going on with that one. It's like a generic capsule series that would…

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October 17, 2022

FigureFocus / FigureTales

FigureFocus 316 Kaiyodo ChocoEgg Classic Shrew Mole

Yet another Kaiyodo ChocoEgg figure today, but a very different sort. A very small mammal figure, another one of those great ones that you could only find from the original Furuta ChocoEgg Animaltales set. Except, in this case, it's a re-release--because in or around 2003 ChocoEgg produced a short series of 'Classic' models--twenty-four figures that had shown up in the first three series (which meant picking 24 from a choice of nearly 100). It was also pretty random, with a…

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August 23, 2022

FigureFocus / FigureTales

FigureFocus 315 Kaiyodo ChocoEgg Japanese Giant Salamander

I'm going to look at another Kaiyodo ChocoEgg figure today, not surprising since I have so many of them! This is one from the very first Furuta Animaltales series, the one that kicked it all off! The first several series was, I think, entirely focused on Japanese fauna, which was fantastic for those of us that collect animal figures--so many species (from so many clades) that were otherwise produced (or at least produced in a decent form). This Japanese Giant…

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August 16, 2022

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 272 Run the Set Takara Monster Fish

More fish this week, this time ostensibly a 'set' but really just two different versions of the same figure, from the same series. In recent years Takara has started releasing small gashapon sets of figures, usually 3 to five figures, a little larger than more familiar Kaiyodo, Yujin, and similar models. Most are in a couple of pieces, often with some kind of jointing or movement. There are also quite a number of themes--a few fish ones, some prehistoric ones,…

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January 6, 2022