Chinese & Japanese novelties - New for 2024 (various companies)

[Flaffy]

@Flaffy Any idea on what the others are?

Things I'm not sure about I've marked "?"

a. Nautiloid 鸚鵡螺
b. Jellyfish 水母
c. Drepanaspis 鐮甲魚
d. Arctodus 短面熊 ?
e. American Lion 美洲擬獅 ?
f. "Ice Age Rat" (generic) 冰河鼠
g. "Ice Age Turtle" (literal translation) - Glyptodont 冰河龜
h. Stegodon 劍齒象
i. Coelodonta 披毛犀
j. "Ice Age Ox" (literal translation) - Muskox 冰河牛
k. Mammuthus 猛獁象

[SBell]

From wenno.

Nothing special since their toys are basically cheaply made stuff sold at premium prices but the placoderm is interesting

How can we get these? Some are just weird enough to be intriguing!

[crazy8wizard]

Is this a game where you have a park of obscure sea animals and make them fight to get points? I think i used to play it.

As far as I can tell, yeah.

[JimoAi]

From wenno.

Nothing special since their toys are basically cheaply made stuff sold at premium prices but the placoderm is interesting

How can we get these? Some are just weird enough to be intriguing!

I think theyre mostly sold in china

[Halichoeres]

Thanks for the translations, @Flaffy! I will definitely be looking for a way to get hold of the Drepanaspis.

In other news, these figures are on the way from Fujimi. They're from a movie called Crayon Shin-Chan: Our Dinosaur Diary, and the designs are straight out of the 1980s.

[Prehistory Resurrection]

I've seen images of these figures by Fujimi on the internet quite some time before. These figures are straight up Jurassic Park inspired.
That Raptor figure looks so good and one of the best I've seen.

[Halichoeres]

These guys seem to be out now:



Dunkleosteus
megalodon
Livyatan

[Halichoeres]

A couple of whimsical releases from Qualia:


Daisuke Kondo "Burakiosaurusu" Brachiosaurus


Stegosaurus food

[suchomimus]

Stegosaurus food

This concept is so cute and creative!

The name of this line is "rai-su-te-go-sa-u-ru-su", i.e. a combination of "rice" and "stegosaurus", hence the rice dishes.

If anyone's interested, the dishes are

Top:
Japanese omelette rice/omurice - omuraisu

Bottom row from left:
Kids meal rice - okosamaraisu
Thai stir fried basil rice (aka Phat Kaphrao) - kapaoraisu
Japanese curry rice - kare-raisu
Nagasaki's toruko rice - torukoraisu

[Halichoeres]

Thanks for the explanation and translation! They are definitely adorable.

[Faelrin]

No idea if these are new for this year, but this review (in Japanese) is new, and there's a few things of interest in it, like some translucent critters, and a Metoposaurus. The Anomalocaris are really goofy looking (but I still like how they look). From De Agostini:

[BlueKrono]

Weird that the Cymbospondylus art depicts no dorsal fin, but the figure has one.

[Halichoeres]

This one slipped past me originally because it was never posted to DeAgostini's Italian web site. It was posted to their French site and I was able to get mine from French eBay. The temnospondyl was labeled Koskinonodon in at least the French release.

Weird that the Cymbospondylus art depicts no dorsal fin, but the figure has one.

The correspondence between their promo art and their figures is frequently tenuous!

[Halichoeres]

From Bandai, a transforming toy that goes from a Hercules beetle and a Tyrannosaurus:



to this robot thing.



I think I prefer the Anomalocaris hot dog from last year.

[Halichoeres]

This is actually slated for March 2025 release, but might interest some folks here. By Underverse, a girl wearing a Triceratops skull:


https://www.hlj.com/1-6-scale-beautiful-chemistry-fierce-girls-series-bone-girl-triceratops-und96840

Also comes with these dinosaur charms:


So if that's up your alley and you've got $400 to spare...

[Halichoeres]

New Kabaya Hone Hone Zaurus set:

Tyrannosaurus
brave
Gastonia
Plesiosaurus


Quetzalcoatlus
liger
Styracosaurus
pirate

And they combine into asuras, which I hadn't heard of before but seem to be from Indian mythology.

[Halichoeres]

Crayon Shin-Chan characters in dinosaur costumes

[Halichoeres]

It says "all 6 styles" but I'm seeing 8 animals, not sure what the deal is there.

[Halichoeres]

Mystery solved: the mammals come in pairs.


1. Elasmosaurus
2. blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
3. Argentinosaurus
4. Paraceratherium + Glyptodon
5. Spinosaurus
6. Mammuthus + Arctodus

[Totoro]

Mystery solved: the mammals come in pairs.

Well, SOME of them. 

Those are really cute!