Kaiyodo, Yujin, Colorata & Favorite Fish-Mix

[postsaurischian]

This thread about Japanese Fish figures started on the old forum.
See the first pages at the Archive, here: http://dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=othertoys&action=display&thread=3014


2 Colorata Whale Sharks:
left: 'Sharks of the World - Museum Model'
right: from the 'Sharks of the World - Sharks DX' box

[SBell]

You're missing the Rhincodon from the original box:

[postsaurischian]

  That's right, thanks for posting!

[brontodocus]

Hehe, I guess we will revive more or less all of these old threads, and this is of course a classic one!

Two more Whale Sharks from Japan (and one from Taiwan):

Background: Whale Shark paper model by Taiwan designer Civi Cheng from his book "Make My Own Ocean Animals", length 281 mm.
Foreground: (left) Kaiyodo Aquatales Series 2 No. 19, length 69 mm; (right) Kitan Club / Nature Techni Colour Ocean 1 No. 3, length 93 mm.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot to mention that it's quite interesting to see how similar the Colorata DX and Museum figure are, apparently!

[TeamRJMJ20]

So I'm a little late to this party, but I happened to get a wild interest in whale sharks all of a sudden and found this through the old forums (I was a member there). So anyways, I see the museum model has poseability, like this:




Does the one from the shark set pose as well? And how? I don't really see any places the shark could move other than the fins. And I guess also, what other poseability do the Colorata sharks have, if any?

[SBell]

So I'm a little late to this party, but I happened to get a wild interest in whale sharks all of a sudden and found this through the old forums (I was a member there). So anyways, I see the museum model has poseability, like this:




Does the one from the shark set pose as well? And how? I don't really see any places the shark could move other than the fins. And I guess also, what other poseability do the Colorata sharks have, if any?

It doesn't flex or articulate--that is a bad graphic indicating that the peg is a ball joint, and the figure can rotate around the horizontal plane and rock up and down in the vertical plane. But the body remains straight.

[DinoToyForum]

Welcome to the forum. 

Yeah, the picture is a bit misleading.