Skull – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 257 FigureFrenzy Anteater, Hatchetfish, Velociraptor, Allosaurus, Salamander

Another figure frenzy today, all over the place again! Dinosaurs and fish and amphibians! I'm a little late with it, so I'm going to be brief here! Safari Ltd South American toob Giant Anteater Another recent addition to the collection, a Giant Anteater figure. About 1:19 scale--a handy thing about toob figures, they scale well with other figures! I only just discussed the Capybara from the Safari South American toob, and already, a week later, here we are with the…

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October 25, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 248 Run the Set Safari Ltd Prehistoric Mammal Skulls toob

Another toob set! This time a prehistoric one again, featuring more skulls! I looked at some other Safari toob sets before--a dinosaur skull toob and, related to today, a modern mammal skull toob. So today it will be the third and what appears to be final Safari skulls toob, the Prehistoric Mammal Skulls toob! A couple of the smaller skulls, a Australopithecus and a Smilodon The toob set came out in 2011, the same year as the modern mammal skulls…

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September 23, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 231 Run the Set Kaiyodo UHA Chocolasaurs Dinotales Series 1 PART 1

Part 1 - The Mesozoic Figures! That's right--as the title suggests, I am going to be looking at the full run of the Series 1 Dinotales line, the one that started it all! I have looked at various individual Dinotales figures before of course, but I don't think I tackled a full complete set. And it turns out, with at least 25 figures that gets a little daunting. Because unlike some sets, Dinotales deserve at least a little more time…

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July 26, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales Run the Set 124 Safari Dinosaur Skulls TOOB

A bunch of dinosaur heads! Note the range in size--because there is no way these are all to scale! Instead of trying to find appropriate human figures I'm leaning into it with our Jurassic World trio checking them out in the garden. We're back with yet another Run the Set, this time the Safari Ltd Dinosaur Skulls toob. You may recall way back near the beginning of this blog I wrote an individual post about just one of the skulls,…

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July 9, 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

FigureTales

Vault tales 42 Kaiyodo Dinotales Series 2 Smilodon Skull

Who makes it? Kaiyodo Dinotales, Series 2. Number 48 (the series were numbered continuously--this skull would have been the 24th in the second series) When did it come out? Pretty close to 2000 One challenge of Dinotales skulls? Display. They don't have bases or platforms. Many are flat bottomed but some, like ceratopsian frills or the Smilodon skull, do not lend themselves to resting nice and straight up. Here, a Colorata base (from their sturgeon) and acrylic peg does the…

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September 26, 2019

FigureTales

Vault tales 34 Safari Toob Brachiosaurus skull

Who makes it? It's one of the model in the Safari Ltd Dinosaur skulls toob. Item number 687404 When did it come out? It was first released in 2009. Later in 2011, they released figures in a bulk bag. I have ones from both the toob and the bulk bag. They're the same figure. Still available? So far, yes. A skull! Of a Brachiosaurus! Not much more to say...unless...is it really Giraffititan? Where can it be found in my displays?…

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August 29, 2019

FigureTales

Vault Tales 8 Kaiyodo JPIII Spinosaurus Skull

Who makes it? Kaiyodo as the ‘chase’ figure for their Coca-Cola/JPIII tie in series. As a chase figure, they don't always have numbers in the series, just SP When did it come out? With JPIII so…2001? Explorer Moe with the Spinosaurus skull. He's a little too big (the skull is closer to 1:50, the guy is ~1:40) Still available? Probably, on the after market sales and auctions. Like mine…they were only sold with Coke products when the movie was being…

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May 30, 2019