Chondricthyans

[sbell]

A nice new Lontic set, congrats, sbell! Despite the colouration the Mako looks very good. I was wondering what could make the sawfish an Anocypristis cuspidata, since the rostrum isn't particularly narrow and the tooth count doesn't match (it seems the figure has 15 pairs). But the tail fin's lower lobe seems to be quite pronounced (can't be sure from that angle, though) which could support that it's a Pointed Sawfish. The thresher shark seems to be a bit generic, A. vulpinus and A. pelagicus would have shorter snouts, A. pelagicus has a smaller first dorsal fin, and A. superciliosus would have bigger eyes. The angel shark is a great addition to the set and looks great!

The sawfish is actually labelled "Pointed Sawfish" because, yeah, otherwise, it wouldn't be the first one to come to mind. I think Lontic often aspires to something greater than what it makes. The store has a few others from them--some of the arctic ones--and it's sort of the same thing, grand ideas of what species to make, but not the greatest actual product. At least they label all of their figures, so you know what they are supposed to be. And I'd give them points for trying!

[postsaurischian]

Are the Lontic Sharks also sold seperately? I'd like to have the Angel Shark but I'm not interested in the rest.

[sbell]

Are the Lontic Sharks also sold seperately? I'd like to have the Angel Shark but I'm not interested in the rest.

Nope,  afraid not. Boxed sets only.

[sbell]

And yet more sharks! Good run these days (although not in stores...) Funny thing, when I was off to purchase the first Lontic set, I explained to my son that if I ever came across a hexanchid shark I would buy it.

Later that evening I came across this set on Jauce:



Which includes Hexanchus. Of course, I found it on ebay a few days later and bought it there--same guy I got the Kaiyodo Ceratopsians from (and free shipping!). There is also a secret figure open-mouth goblin, but I don't pay extra for thing like that (it wasn't offered anyway)

The other 3 are pretty cool as well of course. Another Megamouth, a Frilled Shark (I have a lot of those all of the sudden!) and a close-mouth Goblin shark!

The set is from Takara, and I already have both deep sea fish sets, which included a frilled shark and a close mouth goblin shark (plus, a secret open-mouth goblin).

I expected the sharks to be repeats, but it turns out they are the same poses, but different, smaller sculpts, and the paint is different. Plus, new bases--ball joints at both ends of the peg, so the shark swivels and the base swivels.

But it's really all about the 6-gill shark. I finally have one! Unfortunately, now I need to find room for my new sharks. Space is becoming a bit of a premium...

[Jetoar]

Wonderful Takara figures  .

[brontodocus]

Wonderful new Takara set! The Six-gilled Shark is awesome but the Megamouth Shark looks great, too!

[sbell]

Wonderful new Takara set! The Six-gilled Shark is awesome but the Megamouth Shark looks great, too!

I thought so too! I think--think--Takara may have made a Megamouth as the secret figure for it's earlier shark set (the one with the sawshark and cookie cutter) but I am not sure. If it was, the figure was likely a little different anyway as they seem to take the time to re-sculpt the figures.

[Ultimatedinoking]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

[brontodocus]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

Depends on which green one you mean. The one in this photo (bottom right, beneath the basking shark)? That's a wobbegong.

[Ultimatedinoking]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

Depends on which green one you mean. The one in this photo (bottom right, beneath the basking shark)? That's a wobbegong.

No, the melon shaped one, from page one.

[sbell]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

Depends on which green one you mean. The one in this photo (bottom right, beneath the basking shark)? That's a wobbegong.

No, the melon shaped one, from page one.

They aren't marked or anything--it almost has the proportions of a roughshark body with little fins. Keep in mind the size (they are in front of mm bars. They are really tiny and meant for bouncy balls, so I'm guessing that they didn't worry about accuracy. But if anyone has a guess that seems to work I'm all for it (bulls are too square at the front, and not nearly so rotund).

[Ultimatedinoking]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

Depends on which green one you mean. The one in this photo (bottom right, beneath the basking shark)? That's a wobbegong.

No, the melon shaped one, from page one.

They aren't marked or anything--it almost has the proportions of a roughshark body with little fins. Keep in mind the size (they are in front of mm bars. They are really tiny and meant for bouncy balls, so I'm guessing that they didn't worry about accuracy. But if anyone has a guess that seems to work I'm all for it (bulls are too square at the front, and not nearly so rotund).

True... It's probably just an anonymous shark. 

[sbell]

I'm not sure what that green on is, but it's not a basking shark. Maybe an odd bull shark?

Depends on which green one you mean. The one in this photo (bottom right, beneath the basking shark)? That's a wobbegong.

No, the melon shaped one, from page one.

They aren't marked or anything--it almost has the proportions of a roughshark body with little fins. Keep in mind the size (they are in front of mm bars. They are really tiny and meant for bouncy balls, so I'm guessing that they didn't worry about accuracy. But if anyone has a guess that seems to work I'm all for it (bulls are too square at the front, and not nearly so rotund).

True... It's probably just an anonymous shark. 

They did take the time to make a great little lantern shark though--there is every chance that it represents some other obscure shark species. Just have to figure out what.

[Ultimatedinoking]

Ya.

[Takama]

Is the Tail Broke?

[brontodocus]

Is the Tail Broke?

Oh, no. Strangely, this is how it was produced, I guess to avoid a broken tail they simply didn't make one out of resin but out of a steel nail, so this is how it came out of the box.

[widukind]

Well, it is time to start a thread fish based thread (you'll see what I did there...)

So I'm going to start from the tiny ones!

These are really small K&M sharks. Some are quite generic, so if anyone has opinions as to the species (or even family) be my guest:
Catshark?


Horn shark?


Some sort of ground/requiem shark?


Goblin shark


Frilled shark


Weird whale shark


Lantern shark


Hammerhead


Blue shark?


Basking shark?


Sand tiger/grey nurse shark?


Mackerel shark?

Oh my god, i never see this before

[widukind]

Wonderful 

[brontodocus]

In general, thresher sharks are rarely represented in figure form. So it's not only a welcome addition to the WS Sealife series but we also get a figure representing the one species that has possibly never made it into figure form before (the other two have already been made). So here is the walk-around of the 2014 Safari Ltd Wild Safari Sealife (Pelagic) Thresher Shark, Alopias pelagicus Nakamura, 1935. The pelvic fins with blunt tips (versus acute and more tapering in A. vulpinus) and rather smallish eyes (versus big ones in A. supercilosus) allows the figure to be identified as a Pelagic Thresher. Total length (TL) of the figure is 175 mm so the scale is between 1:15 and 1:22 for a mature individual. Human figure (Minimen Andreas Köpke) is 1:20 scale.

Like all other species within the genus, IUCN lists A. pelagicus as Vulnerable.

The figure itself is available here at Safari Ltd's website: http://safariltd.com/p/thresher-shark-wild-safari-sea-life-figurines-200229












Edit 2017-02-07: Fixed broken image urls.

[Jetoar]

Wonderful review of this amazing figure  . I like it all detalis of this figure and I would like to have one of this in my shark collection  . When I saw this figure, I rember when my grandfather caught a Alopias vulpinus with his boat.