Miniature Animal Figure Collection

All western brands have a Sea Life or a Sea + Polar Life category. But this usually consist in marine mammals, sharks and very few iconic bony fishes/inverts. For a great biodiversity in fish and marine invertebrate figurines you must go for Japanese brands. That or, like @Great Argus and me did, making homemade fishes.
 
Kakapo said:
All western brands have a Sea Life or a Sea + Polar Life category. But this usually consist in marine mammals, sharks and very few iconic bony fishes/inverts. For a great biodiversity in fish and marine invertebrate figurines you must go for Japanese brands. That or, like @Great Argus and me did, making homemade fishes.
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Any recommendations for Japanese brands? Or websites that sell figures?
 
Ebirah766 said:
Any recommendations for Japanese brands? Or websites that sell figures?
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All my Japanese figures I've bought through Ebay, I've not found another source so far. Amazon sells a few (particularly Colorata boxes) but usually at a higher cost. Generally I've found Amazon to be overpriced and poor variety when it comes to figures.

MiniZoo (based in Australia) and Happy Hen Toys (US based) are two good sellers I've bought from previously and would recommend. You can also buy directly from Safari and Schleich - slight downside being you only have the option of the one brand.
 
Great Argus said:
All my Japanese figures I've bought through Ebay, I've not found another source so far. Amazon sells a few (particularly Colorata boxes) but usually at a higher cost. Generally I've found Amazon to be overpriced and poor variety when it comes to figures.

MiniZoo (based in Australia) and Happy Hen Toys (US based) are two good sellers I've bought from previously and would recommend. You can also buy directly from Safari and Schleich - slight downside being you only have the option of the one brand.
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What Japanese brands do you recommend? I know of Colorata, Yujin, Kaiyodo, and Kitan Club.
 
These are the main ones. Kaiyodo have the greatest diversity of species, is the giant of the Japanese brands and usually the most easily available one. Kitan Club (=Ikimon - Nature Techni Color) is often the one with finest quality for figures.
 
Great Argus said:
All my Japanese figures I've bought through Ebay, I've not found another source so far. Amazon sells a few (particularly Colorata boxes) but usually at a higher cost. Generally I've found Amazon to be overpriced and poor variety when it comes to figures.
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Have you looked at Buyee?
 
Ebirah766 said:
What Japanese brands do you recommend? I know of Colorata, Yujin, Kaiyodo, and Kitan Club.
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Those are the main ones, as Kakapo said. There's a bunch of offshoots and sub-brands as well to those.

birdsandbats said:
Have you looked at Buyee?
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I hadn't heard of it - after some poking around it might be worth keeping an eye on, though Ebay seems to be a fair bit easier to search.
 
I recently purchased Schleich's new gazelle, and have been wondering for a while, what species is it supposed to be?
 
Aurora, the plush toy company, is now branching out into regular toys. One of the new lines is Habitat, a line of animal figurines that I'm sure you'll all be rushing out to buy. Habitat™
 
TinoPup said:
Aurora, the plush toy company, is now branching out into regular toys. One of the new lines is Habitat, a line of animal figurines that I'm sure you'll all be rushing out to buy. Habitat™
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They seem to be using someone's old molds - I've had the trees from that wildlife set for many years. I also had the bear and zebra from that set many years ago.
 
Great Argus said:
They seem to be using someone's old molds - I've had the trees from that wildlife set for many years. I also had the bear and zebra from that set many years ago.
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I had a feeling they must have bought out some company to suddenly have the variety of toy options, but I didn't stretch that thought to thinking they would be old molds, too. Maybe they'll stretch to creating their own eventually.
 
TinoPup said:
I had a feeling they must have bought out some company to suddenly have the variety of toy options, but I didn't stretch that thought to thinking they would be old molds, too. Maybe they'll stretch to creating their own eventually.
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It does surprise me that they're using those molds - easily two decades old for those. It'll be interesting to see if they branch out at all going forwards.
 
I have a HUGE collection of Schleich! The majority are old now and I’ve lately been rather disappointed with the new toys, as they lack care in my opinion.
 
Dr. Loxodonta said:
I have a HUGE collection of Schleich! The majority are old now and I’ve lately been rather disappointed with the new toys, as they lack care in my opinion.
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I agree, I've felt Schleich has been dropping the ball on the quality of their newer wildlife figures, they don't look as good as the old ones do. However as the company seems to be focusing more and more on licensed lines, it is perhaps not unexpected that their less important lines are getting less attention to detail. Sad, but seems to be what's happening.
 
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