Reptile – Fauna Figures

FigureFocus 292 Invicta Plastics Pliosaur (Liopleurodon) Painted

Well, today is a sort of classic figure, possibly from the first 'museum quality' dinosaur line out there. The line is of course the Invicta Prehistoric models made for the Natural History Museum (referred to as the British Museum of Natural History at the time). Overall, it is a line of figures, I believe mostly to 1:45 scale, of a number of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (and a blue whale...because of course) that are overall quite notable, in particular…

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March 21, 2022

FigureFocus / FigureTales

FigureFocus 291 Wild Safari Prehistoric World Kaprosuchus

Today is a good one! The Wild Safari Kaprosuchus from 2011! Originally released in the Wild Safari Dinos & Prehistoric Life series, that whole line has been rechristened 'Prehistoric World'. I think this may be about the fourth name for their prehistoric models (most of them) but I guess the new one is more succinct (although sounds a lot like a Schleich series or something.) Either way, this is a great figure, product number 300829 and I actually have a…

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March 18, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

FigureFrenzy 281 Llama, Butterflyfish, Basilisk, Olm

It's going to be all living animals today! No extinction here! Hopefully! And a pretty broad taxonomic range too! Safari Ltd Pets Toob Llama It's a LLAMA an in an interesting pose. About 1:30 scale, so close to the zoo guy there. Let's start with the mammal, a Llama from the Safari Pets toob, item 683704. I don't have a ton to say about it--other than it's a pretty decent figure. The pose is kind of interesting, probably chosen as…

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February 7, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

FigureFrenzy 276 Brachiosaurus, Spiny terrapin, Sand tiger shark, Caecillian

Let's look at another weird range of figures. One of them isn't much to look at--but how often do we see caecillian figures? Almost never to be exact. Kaiyodo Dinotales Series 2 Brachiosaurus More dinotales! This time their really nice Brachiosaurus. It's about a 1:185 scale figure, so the man there is too big for that scale. First up, another of the great Dinotales figures, specifically the Brachiosaurus from series 2, number 27. There is not a lot to still…

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January 20, 2022

Clades & Grades / FigureTales / Fishmas2021

FISHMAS DAY!

So today is Christmas day--which means that the whole family is here! The extended family is here now! Day twelve can be found here. The tag for the whole set will be here. On Fishmas day itself cladistics gave to me... Twelve Eupercaria!Eleven fish near the topTen Syngnatharia+PelagiariaNine PercomorphaEight basal NeoteleostsSeven basal euteleostomorphsSix crown OtomorphaFIVE! BOH-NY TONGUES!Four elopomorphs Three HolosteansTwo ChondrosteiA bichir at the base of ActinopterygiiAnd some Saarcopterygii relatives sharing a common ancestor in Osteicthyes! Way, way down there--a…

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December 25, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 225 FigureFrenzy Camel, Carnotaurus, Mosasaurus, Sarcosuchus, Alligator

Lots of reptiles today, and a single tiny mammal! Some prehistoric, some modern. A few are collectable...some are just kind of there...! Lots of 'mini' figures! Ausini Bactrian Camel A tiny little Bactrian camel from the Ausini mini series. It's a pretty basic figure...around 1:130, so that guy there is a little too big! Or the camel is a small one. We're going to start with a little figure from the Ausini set again! Once again, a fairly recognizable animal…

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July 5, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 224 FigureFrenzy Badger, Gharial, Water bug, Black bear, Snapping turtle

Back to another very random bunch of figures. Not sure if there is any particular way I can connect them...perhaps, all of them are living animals that could theoretically cause some kind of harm to people that aren't paying attention? Whatever connects them (it was random) they're all pretty decent models though! Play Visions American Badger A classic figure from a great series--the American badger from Play Visions. As with most PV figures, it is fairly small, about 1:13, close…

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July 1, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 211 FigureFrenzy Greek Chimaera, Olenoides, Trilobite, Iguana

So today is going to be...brief. Not a whole lot to say about most of these so it's going to be brief. Not everything in the collection is gold...Two different trilobites so that's unexpected! Safari Ltd Mythical Realms Chimaera A very distinct take on the Greek Chimaera. With extra dragon head and wings. Scale is of course meaningless, so let's just put an adventurer from DnD with it. It's probably oversized but again, it's also made up. First up, one…

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May 17, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 204 Run the Set WingMau Lizards

I'm going to be looking at another full set today, the Wing Mau set of lizards. I have visited one of the individual figures once before, but I'll go over the full set of 12 now. It's an interesting set that features a number of species that we don't otherwise see made as figures. And since they're all marked, it's even better because it takes away some of the guess work (seeing as the paint jobs are...not always accurate). Most…

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April 22, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 198 Run the Set Kaiyodo Takara ChocoQ Amazing Animals

It's a Run the Set today, a few figures from one of the last Kaiyodo Choco animal series. In this case, it was a set called Amazing Animals, released with Takara in the rebranded 'ChocoQ' line. This occurred after Kaiyodo parted ways with Furuta in about 2003 (I think); from what I recall, Kaiyodo had insisted to Furuta that only their ChocoEgg Kaiyodo figures would be part of the Furuta offerings...then Furuta didn't do that. So Kaiyodo went over with…

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April 1, 2021

FigureFocus / FigureTales

Vault Tales 189 Safari Ltd Postosuchus x 2

So the random number generator picked what may be one of their finest prehistoric models for this post--so I decided to pair it with its mini counterpart from a toob set. I am speaking about the Dinos & Prehistoric Animals series Postosuchus, number 287329. This figure was probably one of the real linchpins in Safari turning from a dino toy maker to a dino collectable maker. Released in 2009, it was an immediate hit with collectors, and was a welcome…

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March 1, 2021

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 181 ToyTrio Alligator, Rhamphorhynchus, Poison Dart Frog

Well here's a truly broad assortment of figures...I don't even have two of them on display, for various reasons. Let's jump right in! And we'll probably keep these short... Animal Kaiser American Alligator It's certainly a reasonable Alligator figure. Not sure if it has all the details or not, but unmistakable for anything else. It's around 1:50 scale, so ore or less in scale with DnD guy there. First up, yet another Animal Kaiser figure (I have a surprising number...hopefully…

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February 1, 2021