Mammal – Page 4 – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 155 ToyTrio Chipmunk, Armadillo, Eagle Ray

Well, we're back to a pretty random trio...two are from Colorata, so that's a link. The other is very much not. But they're all really nice so there's that! Safari Ltd Incredible Creatures Chipmunk There's no way to tell of course--but this is a big figure. Life size, really, maybe a little bigger. It's meant to be an Eastern Chipmunk. First up, our Safari figure, from their Incredible Creatures line. This is their Chipmunk, Safari item number 263029. Overall, the…

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November 2, 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 133 ToyTrio Andalusian, Mapusaurus, Utahraptor

Another ToyTrio, and another pretty random assortment! MojoFun Andalusian stallion I don't have many horses. And really, this one is only in the collection by accident I believe that this might be the first horse I've looked at on this blog. As I've said before, I don't really have much to do with farm/domestic animals, and have never gone too far into horse collecting--from what I can tell, that may be the largest subset of animal collecting there is (even…

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August 10, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 129 ToyTrio Housecat, Brachiosaurus & Mammoth pair

A ToyTrio today and it's...diverse. Again. Which is probably an accurate reflection of the animal figures in the house to be honest. I'm going to just jump right in. CollectA Mini Box Dinosaurs 2 Brachiosaurus The mini Brachiosaurus is a decent little figure, although I think every maker struggles with how, exactly, to pose them to look dynamic. The they make it like this one. Here we have another figure from a CollectA Mini Dinosaurs box. Set 2 this time…

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July 27, 2020

Clades & Grades / FigureTales

Vault tales 128 – Clades – Monotremes

Back again with another Clades post! Earlier this week we looked at a group of so-called primitive fish. This time around, it will be some so-called primitive mammals, the monotremes. As a group, they are (probably? maybe?) the most basal living group of mammals. At the very least, they are united by some shared characteristics--like other mammals they produce milk for their young, but they're young are born from eggs! This may be their most familiar trait. It turns out…

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July 23, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 126 ToyTrio Megalictis, Dromedary, Helicoprion

Sometimes a Toy Trio has a theme, something that links them together. Maybe it's a taxonomic theme, or a geographic theme, or maybe their respective companies have something in common. And sometimes, the only connection is 'animal figure that is in my collection'. This trio is one of those latter ones. These are seriously all over the place. Just like the actual collection! RalPartha Beastmasters Megalictis Small pewter figure of a giant extinct wolverine-like weasel? Of course! So, in the…

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July 16, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 123 ToyTrio Doedicurus, Tarsier, Daspletosaurus

Today is another Toy Trio, this time featuring a really...really...weird assortment. I suppose if we want to connect them, they all have a Japanese origin of some kind? Let's go with that. Kaiyodo Dinotales S6 Doedicurus One of the classic 'Ice Age' animals--a mammal that found out about ankylosaurs and said, "I can do that" Our first stop is another excellent little figure from the Kaiyodo Dinotales series. This Doedicurus figure is number 102 in the original Dinotales series--and by…

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July 6, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 122 Schleich Smilodon

The view from the front of the figure is not its best angle... Ah, Schleich. For a company that was so integral to my collecting, for so long, you'd think it would have come up more. Alas, it has not--possibly because I have found new homes for the vast majority of what I once had. Interestingly, I have discussed another figure from this particular line before, the Giant Ground sloth, also from the 1:20 Prehistoric Mammals line. Like the sloth,…

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July 2, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 118 ToyTrio Nimravid, Iberian Lynx, Ichthyosaur

Time for another Toy Trio, a model I use to look quickly at a few figures that were picked by the Random Number Generator, but might not warrant a full on post on their own. It's also a chance to work through the list a little faster...I'm not going to run through it anytime soon, but there's lots to get to! Mech (?) "smilodon"/Nimravid This is not a high quality figure...and despite the label, there's no way that is Smilodon…

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June 18, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 110 CollectA Uintatherium

The Uintatherium as proposed by CollectA. It's a pretty active, dynamic beast. With the obvious knobbly head! Today we are going to look at a single figure (I know, it's been a while!), the recent CollectA Uintatherium from their Deluxe prehistoric mammals line. It is number 88800 in their series, and was released in 2017, although I don't think I actually purchased mine until...2019? Not fully sure what the delay was. Probably a matter of needing to track it down.…

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May 21, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 105 Feves Prehistoric animals

This post is another Run the Set, although I don't think it's really a full set--just all of the figures I have that would be included. Here we have a number of prehistoric animals produced by Feves. Or called Feves...I'm not really sure if it's a brand or a style. I know that they are originally based on prizes or treats that are placed in cakes during Epiphany. They get their name 'Feves' from the French word for 'bean'--maybe those…

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May 4, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 101 Safari Mammal Skulls toob

The whole set of skulls. These are not to scale So we're back with another Run the Set again, heading for a second hundred posts! After writing up the last one I really like the way that format worked especially for these kinds of picture-heavy posts. So I am going to go with this kind of format. The thumbnail galleries and small pictures look better to me, I hope it looks good to you too. Safari toob Hippopotamus and Rhinoceros…

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April 20, 2020