New AnimalToyBlog entries

[sbell]

And then this one will go up tomorrow at...some point.

http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/07/wolverine-toy-major-nwf-dairy-queen-promo

Unless there is another, then admins feel free to bump it a day or two!

Also, after recently doing a post for my personal blog, I realized that I should migrate over my Yujin fish walkarounds. There's like, 26 of those. I won't do them all at once though, just piecemeal, since I will also want to do a little editing. And it would be cruel to send in a barrage of Japanese fish reviews, overwhelming everything else!

[AnimalToyForum]

And then this one will go up tomorrow at...some point.

http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/07/wolverine-toy-major-nwf-dairy-queen-promo

Unless there is another, then admins feel free to bump it a day or two!

It already is live! Don't worry about stepping on toes, in my opinion it doesn't really matter if sometimes more than one review is posted per day, it just makes that day more special.

[bmathison1972]

AND...our first Toy Major post!

[bmathison1972]

Safari Primates TOOB: http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/08/primates-toob-safari-ltd/

even though Safari is leading on the blog, this is the first of Safari in the last 12 posts!

[Badger]

Papo Bat: http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/11/bat-papo/

[Gwangi]

It's a bird, as promised.
http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/11/budgerigar-mojo-fun/

EDIT: I didn't realize that the bat review was also posted today. Sorry. 

[Badger]

It's a bird, as promised.
http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/11/budgerigar-mojo-fun/

EDIT: I didn't realize that the bat review was also posted today. Sorry. 

Author of the bat review here; I personally don't see the point of the 'one post a day' rule*, so in my view, you've nothing to be sorry for

*I'd get it if the blog had as large of a contributor base as the DTB does, but right now, that's not the case for this blog.

[bmathison1972]

the concept behind 'one post day' is so a post can stay 'at the top' of the blog for the course of a day. But honestly, it is not even a set rule, and it is fine to have multiple posts in a day.

Some people have limited time to post due to their busy personal and professional lives, so I say, post when you can! I would rather have a couple posts in one day then going a week without one!

both today's bat and budgie are great figures. In fact, they both rival their Kaiyodo counterparts in my collection!!!!

[bmathison1972]

It's a bird, as promised.
http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/11/budgerigar-mojo-fun/

EDIT: I didn't realize that the bat review was also posted today. Sorry. 

Author of the bat review here; I personally don't see the point of the 'one post a day' rule*, so in my view, you've nothing to be sorry for

*I'd get it if the blog had as large of a contributor base as the DTB does, but right now, that's not the case for this blog.

exactly - if we get to a point where contributions become overwhelming, we can discipline it more, but for now it is fine.

[Gwangi]

I know it's not really a big deal, just something I personally prefer not to do. The ATB is still so young that I say pile them on, get as much content (quality content) as possible on there and build up the database. On the DTB I've always tried to avoid posting on top of someone. Not even so much because it pushes a review down but so that it spaces out content for the readers.

[bmathison1972]

I know it's not really a big deal, just something I personally prefer not to do. The ATB is still so young that I say pile them on, get as much content (quality content) as possible on there and build up the database. On the DTB I've always tried to avoid posting on top of someone. Not even so much because it pushes a review down but so that it spaces out content for the readers.

I also do my best to avoid it, at least with my personal posts and Guest Reviews, and for the same reasons.

[sbell]

Just got another one up!

http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/12/velez-skate-animal-kaiser-by-bandai/

More Bandai, but of course a different line, the Animal Kaiser line!

[bmathison1972]

@sbell  your reviews are always a ray of sunshine! What, you didn't think I'd let that joke skate by do you... 

[sbell]

@sbell  your reviews are always a ray of sunshine! What, you didn't think I'd let that joke skate by do you... 

Oh MANta @bmathison1972 , that was sneaky. But thanks to me I know you sawfish toys again.

[bmathison1972]

hahaha great comebacks!

[sbell]

hahaha great comebacks!

I'm a dad. It comes pretty naturally.

Like sandals with socks.

[bmathison1972]

Schleich giraffe, courtesy of @suspsy http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/12/giraffe-wildlife-by-schleich/

A note on giraffe taxonomy. There are a lot of opinions on the number of species and subspecies of giraffes. Depending on the system you use, there are 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 species. In this review, suspsy cites a 2007 study that lists six species. This study is probably the best, as it incorporates behavior, morphology, geography, and molecular data. Genetic populations of giraffes are separated by 1-2 million years, and that is really not a long time to justify speciation in an animal that reproduces on average once every two years or so. So, these 6 genetic populations can be species or subspecies. So, what does all this have to do with the Blog? For the sake of curating 'tags', I will be using the species concepts in that 2007 paper, unless there are overwhelming objections by Adam or other authors. If a figure is not reliably attributable to one of these, we'll probably only use the genus tag. From what I can tell going through images on TAI, the VAST majority of giraffe figures are reticulated giraffes anyway.

EDIT: The giraffe is a 1/13 post. For some reason, the blog is using yesterday's date. I think that is because it considers the 'posting' date whatever date it was last edited. I had it ready to go last night but launched it this morning.

[AnimalToyForum]

Schleich giraffe, courtesy of @suspsy http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/12/giraffe-wildlife-by-schleich/

A note on giraffe taxonomy. There are a lot of opinions on the number of species and subspecies of giraffes. Depending on the system you use, there are 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 species. In this review, suspsy cites a 2007 study that lists six species. This study is probably the best, as it incorporates behavior, morphology, geography, and molecular data. Genetic populations of giraffes are separated by 1-2 million years, and that is really not a long time to justify speciation in an animal that reproduces on average once every two years or so. So, these 6 genetic populations can be species or subspecies. So, what does all this have to do with the Blog? For the sake of curating 'tags', I will be using the species concepts in that 2007 paper, unless there are overwhelming objections by Adam or other authors. If a figure is not reliably attributable to one of these, we'll probably only use the genus tag. From what I can tell going through images on TAI, the VAST majority of giraffe figures are reticulated giraffes anyway.

EDIT: The giraffe is a 1/13 post. For some reason, the blog is using yesterday's date. I think that is because it considers the 'posting' date whatever date it was last edited. I had it ready to go last night but launched it this morning.

You can edit the date, I think.

[AnimalToyForum]

I know it's not really a big deal, just something I personally prefer not to do. The ATB is still so young that I say pile them on, get as much content (quality content) as possible on there and build up the database. On the DTB I've always tried to avoid posting on top of someone. Not even so much because it pushes a review down but so that it spaces out content for the readers.

This is exactly how I think of it. Great minds and all that. 

[bmathison1972]

Schleich giraffe, courtesy of @suspsy http://animaltoyforum.com/blog/2020/01/12/giraffe-wildlife-by-schleich/

A note on giraffe taxonomy. There are a lot of opinions on the number of species and subspecies of giraffes. Depending on the system you use, there are 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8 species. In this review, suspsy cites a 2007 study that lists six species. This study is probably the best, as it incorporates behavior, morphology, geography, and molecular data. Genetic populations of giraffes are separated by 1-2 million years, and that is really not a long time to justify speciation in an animal that reproduces on average once every two years or so. So, these 6 genetic populations can be species or subspecies. So, what does all this have to do with the Blog? For the sake of curating 'tags', I will be using the species concepts in that 2007 paper, unless there are overwhelming objections by Adam or other authors. If a figure is not reliably attributable to one of these, we'll probably only use the genus tag. From what I can tell going through images on TAI, the VAST majority of giraffe figures are reticulated giraffes anyway.

EDIT: The giraffe is a 1/13 post. For some reason, the blog is using yesterday's date. I think that is because it considers the 'posting' date whatever date it was last edited. I had it ready to go last night but launched it this morning.

You can edit the date, I think.

I can, and I did, thanks