Yujin – Fauna Figures

Vault Tales 274 FigureFrenzy Conger eel, Andrewsarchus, Thylacine, Quetzalcoatlus

More variety--living, recently extinct, and prehistoric. The only thing that unites them is that they're in my collection! And all of them are pretty great. Yujin Primary Seawater Fish Book 2 Japanese Conger Eel An unusual species as a figure, a Japanese Conger eel. One of the first eel figures I got from Japan. It's tricky to get the figure size, but it's roughly 1:9, so Ray is pretty much to scale. The only fish today! A pretty decent one,…

0 Comments

January 13, 2022

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 254 FigureFrenzy Apatosaurus, Char, Poraspis, Archelon, Spinosaurus

Wide range of figures again today. All over the map--prehistoric and modern, big and small, really nice and...less high end. I guess that's what happens when picks are random...! Jurassic World FK mini Apatosaurus (Walmart) It's a very basic Apatosaurus from a Jurassic World set. Decent monochrome though, although the 'blood splash' is a little weird. It's about 1:182 scale, so the guy's about half the needed height. First up, a small mini dinosaur figure from Mattel, an Apatosaurus from the…

0 Comments

October 14, 2021

FigureTales / Run the Set

Vault Tales 235 Run the Set Yujin Freshwater Fishes Book 1 release 1

Still on a roll with the Japanese set! And again, it's the figures that I have from larger sets. They'll be fairly short this week, as I don't have many of either one...and it's been a busy week too! For this post we'll look at the figures from one of the Yujin Freshwater Series, a range of figures I've explored a few times before. In this instance, it is the original of the originals. These are the figures that I…

0 Comments

August 9, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 228 FigureFrenzy Futabasaurus, Salmon, Velociraptor, Xenacanthus, Teleoceras

More random figures. Possibly more random than normal! Even a figure that was customized (not the first one I've discussed, I think. But a weirder one). Mostly prehistoric animals though. That's something. Playmates Dinosaur King Futabasaurus This pattern on Futabasaurus is almost a meme among early figures of the animal. Not sure how that came to pass. It's about 1:60 scale, close to the diver. Visiting another Dinosaur King figure again already? Yup, another wave 2 figure, and one that…

0 Comments

July 15, 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…

0 Comments

July 1, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 222 FigureFrenzy Allosaurus, Hallucigenia, Pufferfish, Triceratops, Lungfish

Another frenzy of figures! As usual, kind of all over the place. Dinosaurs, fish, weird invertebrates. And all from different companies. For the first time in a while, I think these are also all figures that I currently display! That doesn't always happen! I also just realized that every one of these figures is from a different Japanese series. Which might indicate just how many Japanese models I have! Kaiyodo Dinotales Special Release White Allosaurus The colour of this Allosaurus…

0 Comments

June 24, 2021

FigureFrenzy / FigureTales

Vault Tales 190 FigureFrenzy Hammerhead sharks, Rainbow trout, Beluga Whale, Luna moths

So here's a bunch of random figures today...sometimes the random generator is really, really random! So let's get random! One thing...every figure that is in a numbered set is number 04...and the one that isn't is a set of 4! And I'm putting this up on March 4! Spooky numbering, and entirely coincidental! Safari Safariology Luna Moth life cycle On the left, the Luna Moth caterpillar and pupa/coccoon, both about 2:1 scale (it can be hard to be sure). On…

0 Comments

March 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…

0 Comments

December 24, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 164 ToyTrio Snail, Amur catfish, Trilobite

So here we have yet another varied bunch of figures...from a varied bunch of companies. But they're all aquatic, so that's a connection!? FUL Snail (Periwinkle) large and small marine sets They are very small figures, and despite being different sizes they are very similar in appearance. Maybe 1:2 scale or smaller if the species were identifiable. Probably too big to be to scale with The Doctor. First up, a quick look at a pair of FUL marine set figures.…

1 Comment

December 3, 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…

0 Comments

November 16, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 145 ToyTrio Ayu, Brown trout, Wels catfish

So, another trio and this time it's all (mostly) freshwater fish! All of them being ones that are frequently caught by anglers, for various reasons. Plus, I don't think any of these fish figures are actually still in production anymore...so there's that. Yujin Freshwater Fish Pictorial book 1 Ayu Popular in as a food fish, the Ayu is also known as the Sweetfish. They are also popular as figures from Japan. Our first one is a fish from Japanese company…

0 Comments

September 21, 2020

FigureTales / ToyTrio

Vault Tales 120 ToyTrio Vauxia, Reef Manta, Paradisefish

Here we have another ToyTrio, with a chance to revisit a figure from an earlier, revisit a set I mentioned once, and visit a set I'm very fond of for the first time! Safari Cambrian toob Vauxia These photos probably look very similar to the ones from my Porifera clades post. There's not really much to be done with just this figure on it's own. This first one is a look again specifically at the Vauxia figure from the recent…

0 Comments

June 25, 2020