Kaiyodo – Page 4 – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 177 ToyTrio Goblin shark, Spinosaurus, Basking Shark

Another weird assortment today. Honestly, I'm going to keep these short. Not that they're not good figures in their ways, but sometimes there isn't much to say. Learning Curve "Dinosaur Train" The Old Spinosaurus This is a very strange depiction of Spinosaurus. It's cartoon accurate I suppose. First up, another Dinosaur Train figure from Takara. This time, it's their take on Spinosaurus from an episode called "The Old Spinosaurus and the Sea" featuring...a Spinosaurus. Next to the sea. As a…

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January 18, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 175 Run the Set Kaiyodo DinoExpo 2002

Today will be another set, this one featuring a fine set from Kaiyodo--their models made as souvenirs for DinoExpo 2002! This was when the figures were still part of the Chocola Saurs brand, partnered within the UHA lines. Except, for the DinoExpo sets, they would pull out a few stops. In later years, the models would get larger and made of more fragile resin; the early sets often featured repaints of existing figures. In this instance, there were also a…

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January 11, 2021

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 174 – Clades – Eryopiformes

We're back and with another 'Clades' post. This time, it will be a paraphyletic one, 'Eryopiformes'. This is a crown group of the Temnospondyls, and as the name implies, it consists of the famous big 'amphibian' Eryops, but also the rest of the 'Stereospondyls'--and this group may also include the Gymnophiona, the modern caecillians! As it is, when I revamped my database, I organized using grades, clades and useful (to me) breakdowns...so as a group, the Eryopiformes 'clade' consists of…

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January 7, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 170 ToyTrio Cretoxyrhina, Dragon Moray, Dolly Varden

We've got another trio of figures for this week, and we're going fully aquatic again! And all featuring figures that have stories behind them, for very different reasons. Let's go swimming! Safari Ltd. Prehistoric Sharks toob Cretoxyrhina Something about prehistoric lamniforme sharks always look kind of similar. At least it's a different species. First up we have another figure from the sadly discontinued Safari Ltd Prehistoric Sharks toob, this time the Cretoxyrhina also known as the Ginsu Shark for it's…

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December 24, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 166 ToyTrio Huayangosaurus, Cave Bear, Thylacine

Today we will look at three very different figures, all of extinct animals. After that...they're all completely different from each other. Even a variety of materials! Kaiyodo Lawson Dinotales Series 7 Huayangosaurus It's always great to see a less traditional stegosaur figure, and Huayangosaurus is definitely an unusual figure! Our first figure today is from the last Kaiyodo Dinotales series, series 7, released as a Lawson series. As with the fifth and sixth series, there were two versions of each…

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December 10, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 158 ToyTrio Opabinia, Pterygotus, Quetzalcoatlus

Got another Trio today--a trio of entirely Kaiyodo Dinotales! And funny enough, all of them have been produced in at least two variations (although I may not have every version). At least here I can save some time--all of these are of course long out of production, and can only be found through auctions or trading. And they are all the traditional Dinotales material of easily-breakable plastics--these are not toys! Kaiyodo UHA Dinotales Series 1 version 2 Opabinia Here we…

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November 12, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 154 ToyTrio Iguanodon, Thescelosaurus and Desmatosuchus

Time for an all-prehistoric, all-herbivore, all-archosaur reptiles figures trio. From a weirdly wide range of companies and styles... GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters Thescelosaurus This is an old-school interpretation of...lots of dinosaurs. Too bad it's one of like two Thescelosaurus figures I've ever seen. And it's the better one... So...here's a first for the blog I think--a figure from the GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters series. This is a weird series, starring a fossil hunter out of Italy branded as "Dr. Steve" that came…

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October 29, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault tales 153 Run the Set Kaiyodo Animaltales Series 3

Today I'm doing a Run the Set that might be the shortest one ever, other than just doing a single figure...! It is one of the original Kaiyodo-produced lines made for the Furuta ChocoEgg Animaltales series, number 3. This series was, for that run, huge. There are 50 figures in that series! And I have...two? I double checked and, indeed, I have two. I'm honestly surprised...at one point I I got lots of Animaltales, even though they were discontinued before…

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October 26, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 150 ToyTrio Dimetrodon, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus skeleton

Today is a super special Toy Trio--3 figures from the marvelous original Dinotales series! One is from series 1, one is from series 1 version 2 (sort of) and one is from series 2 (sort of). All are of course wonderful--and two are super special editions! Dino Fun! Kaiyodo Dinotales series 1 Dimetrodon This is a very nice Dimetrodon. It's really hard to find something to say about it Here is our first one, from the very first Dinotales series--and…

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October 15, 2020

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 149 – Clades – Salamandroidea

It's been a while, but here we are with a new Clades post. Since then, I have been reorganizing my database and how the clades are organized. So when this one came up--'Salamanders'--I realized that I could break that down a little bit. Especially because there are a fair number and this post was going to get hard to handle. So I split things up, into Cryptobranchoidea and Salamandroidea (there's a 3rd grouping, Sirenoidea, but no figures exist so far.…

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October 12, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 147 ToyTrio Mole cricket, Whelk, Slit-shell snail

I seem to have found a way to create themes for the trio posts...today is super unusual for me--it's all invertebrates. Not a group that I have a lot of although some weirder ones are in my collection--I do have at least one whole shelf of mostly prehistoric ones after all! Bin figure large Whelk snail I'm going to speed past this one...it's a bin figure, part of a large set of marine animals. The actual scale, like the species,…

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October 5, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 140 ToyTrio Pachyrhinosaurus, Stenonychosaurus, Tuatara

It's a prehistoric...or prehistoric adjacent...Toy Trio today! Vivid Imaginations Scowler Pachyrhinosaurus The figure looks beaten up. This is how it comes, and I think is supposed to indicate a rough life! The eye spot pattern on the frill is a nice touch If you think back to 2013, you might remember some pretty heavy dino-nerd excitement. Walking with Dinosaurs was back! As a feature-length, cinema-released movie! And it was going to look at a slightly earlier late-Cretaceous time frame, using…

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September 3, 2020