SafariLtd – Page 5 – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 173 ToyTrio Hammerhead Shark, Manta Ray, Knob-tail Gecko

Starting the year with what might be described as...very random figures. Most of which are, at best, okay. But they're all part of larger sets so there's that. Let's get to it. Safari Ltd Endangered Species-Marine toob Great Hammerhead Shark Possibly one of the most popular shark species to be made as a figure, a hammerhead shark! It's pretty hard to mistake for anything else at least! First up, we have a Great Hammerhead shark toob figure from Safari Ltd.…

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January 4, 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 163 ToyTrio Ornithomimus, Giganotosaurus, Anomalocaris

All prehistoric Trio today! Wide range of odd animals... GeoWorld Jurassic Hunters Ornithomimus It's a very traditional Ornithomimus figure...in so far as there are many other Ornithomimus figures. There aren't many. First up we have another Jurassic Hunters from GeoWorld. This time we are looking at a figure from Series 1 (the previous Thescelosaurus was Series 2), part of the original dinosaurs release, item number CL353K. It's an interesting figure, to say the least, and a welcome one. There aren't…

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November 30, 2020

FigureTales

Vault Tales 161 Safari Ltd Shringasaurus

And here we are, with another single figure post. And again, it's because the figure is very notable. This time, because the figure is brand new this year, and features an animal so unusual, I'm surprised it got made by one of the major companies. I am speaking about the Safari Ltd Shringasaurus released in 2020 for their Prehistoric World series, item number 100357. Being so new, it frees up a bit of backstory, since there of course isn't much!…

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November 23, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 159 ToyTrio Achaeon, Ladybug, Placerias

We've got a wide assortment of figures here--representing 'tiny' in different ways! Some figures are tiny, some figures represent the super tiny, and some figures represent tiny animals fairly closely. It also mean tiny sections...not much to say about little figures sometimes! Yujin NHK Miracle Planet Archaeon It's an Archaeon! Not your normal figure. Getting the scale on something like this is pretty much not going to happen...so why wouldn't The Doctor somehow find a way to get close!? First…

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November 16, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

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

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

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 144 ToyTrio Orthacanthus, Frilled shark, Blacktip Reef shark

Well, recently we looked at a bony fish trio and a theropod dinosaur trio so today is another group of cool animals, a shark trio! A prehistoric shark, a so-called primitive shark, and a fairly 'typical' shark! Safari Ltd Prehistoric Sharks Toob Orthacanthus One of those really weird 'pleuracanth' sharks. As weird as it looks, this figure may not capture the full strangeness of these animals. This could possibly be the first figure from the Safari Prehistoric Sharks toob that…

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September 17, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 143 ToyTrio Tawa, Coelophysis, Tyrannosaurus

So today's trio is going to be a variety of dinosaur figures, all relatively recent releases! As it works out...it kind of acts as a very basic family lineage of the theropod (meat-eating) dinosaurs. If I arrange them in the right order...which I did. It's also why it felt more right to put them together in a 'trio' instead of looking at each one separately. Schleich 'Conquering the Earth' Tawa As dinosaur figures go the Tawa is definitely unique. Also,…

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September 14, 2020

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault tales Run the Set 141 Safari Tropical Butterflies toob

Summer is winding down--so time for some colourful bugs! It's a run the set today, and I'll be honest, it's going to be brief. Not because they aren't nice figures, I just wouldn't really have much to say. It's the Safari Ltd Tropical Butterflies set, number 684504. I believe first released around 2016 but it could have been earlier. As far as insects go, butterflies are a fairly popular, safe choice for companies--but with this set they went into some…

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September 7, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 136 ToyTrio Lotus Flower, Blue Spiny Lizard, Powan

Today's trio is all over the place...in terms of species, company and quality! Safari Flower Toob Lotus Flower It's a Lotus flower! Okay, not super exciting, but good potential for filling out scenes, like with a Schleich mini frog! Or with The Doctor, about 1:7 scale, but who knows for sure. Well, first up we have a plant. The lotus flower from the Safari Ltd Flowers toob, product number 682904 from 2013. As a set, it is certainly different; I'm…

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August 20, 2020