Kaiyodo Recently Extinct Animals

[DinoLord]

Has Kaiyodo ever produced figures of recently extinct animals (past millenium or so) animals, such as the passenger pigeon or thylacine?

[stargatedalek]

megalania, and meiolania are all that come to find

[DinoLord]

I was thinking more of animals that went extinct in the past thousand years or so, which is true for neither of those. However upon doing some research it seems that Meiolania did survive until 2000 years ago in some remote areas so that one's pretty close.

[SBell]

I don't think Kaiyodo has ever done anything like that. At all. Which is strange in a way.

There are others from other Japanese companies thought--Medicom and UHA, as part of myhtology/Mystery series, have made a few Moas, for example (I only personally have one). And Medicom also made a Steller's Sea Cow. UHA made a 'Roc' which is essentially based on the Malagasy Crowned Eagle.

And Colorata included a thylacine in its recent Endangered animals box.

Finally, one company--I want to say Yujin--made several series of recently extinct animals in a weird cartoonish style. I have none of these.

There are others made beyond Japan of course--the Yowies Forgotten Friends line (2 series?) has a wide range of human-interacted extinct animals. But they aren't exactly Kaiyodo-level.

[DinoLord]

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to keep an eye out for those figures.

[Megalosaurus]

Also you can get Mojo's Thylacine (Must have) and the Quagga.

[SBell]

Okay, so fun fact I just learned--the weird, cartoonish extinct animals are actually from Kaiyodo.

Still no personal interest to me though. I don't know why they didn't just do 'realistic' portrayals.

As an example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SEA-LION-Japanese-dark-grey-Ajyu-Miyakawa-animal-figurines-Japan-Kaiyodo-/261551257766?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ce5ab78a6

[DinoLord]

Oh dear... I've never seen Kaiyodo put out something so tacky.

[Bokisaurus]

  Here is the rest of the animals in the set, they are cool in their own "cute" way
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They are not bad at all.

[SBell]

What is the larger fish in the back? It almost looks realistic. And yet Yowies-ish.

And judging by the criteria, there is a Kaiyodo Japanese Wolf which was driven to extinction. It's part of the Animaltales lines.

[Arul]

Here is the rest of the animals in the set, they are cool in their own "cute" way
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They are not bad at all.

Is that debra ? Half deer half zebra lol just kidding :p