Southlands Replicas

[suspsy]

Some exciting news from the good folks at Southlands Replicas. They're working on their next prehistoric beast!

https://www.facebook.com/southlands/posts/270773279992857:0

For those without Facebook, it's going to be the largest known marsupial. I'm sure you know what that is. 

[Lanthanotus]

Some exciting news from the good folks at Southlands Replicas. They're working on their next prehistoric beast!

https://www.facebook.com/southlands/posts/270773279992857:0

For those without Facebook, it's going to be the largest known marsupial. I'm sure you know what that is. 

Well, it's written on that notebook

Thanks for letting us know.... me and my son had the honor to hold the skull of a juvenile in our hands when we visited a small exhibition in Coonabarabran in last December, impressive beasts

[Halichoeres]

Darn, I keep hoping they'll make some Australian fishes, but this is very exciting news for the Pleistocene fans

[Shonisaurus]

Some exciting news from the good folks at Southlands Replicas. They're working on their next prehistoric beast!

https://www.facebook.com/southlands/posts/270773279992857:0

For those without Facebook, it's going to be the largest known marsupial. I'm sure you know what that is. 

The largest known marsupial is diprotodon. It was one of the great megabestias of the Pleistocene-holocene disappeared more than 45,000 years ago. I guess it's that figure. It is to be expected with certainty that Soutlands Replicas will make an excellent figure of this specimen and my greatest desire to be made on the scale of thylacoleo. 

[stargatedalek]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

[terrorchicken]

mammal-centric? the majority of companies that make prehistoric animals make dinosaurs. 

[suspsy]

Southlands Replicas has thus far only produced mammals, but they've said they'll eventually expand to reptiles, birds, fish, and dinosaurs. Can't have an Australian animal line without a saltwater crocodile. And I'd sure love to see Megalania and Meiolania. In the mean time, I'm thrilled that they're making Diprotodon.

[Halichoeres]

mammal-centric? the majority of companies that make prehistoric animals make dinosaurs. 

Sure, but Southlands mostly doesn't make prehistorics, they mostly make recent animals, and so far I think they've made exclusively mammals. I think star was referring to the fact that a large fraction of Schleich, CollectA, and Safari's offerings are mammals, even if few of those mammals happen to be prehistoric.

[Shonisaurus]

mammal-centric? the majority of companies that make prehistoric animals make dinosaurs. 

Sure, but Southlands mostly doesn't make prehistorics, they mostly make recent animals, and so far I think they've made exclusively mammals. I think star was referring to the fact that a large fraction of Schleich, CollectA, and Safari's offerings are mammals, even if few of those mammals happen to be prehistoric.

That's true. For example, the platypus and echidna are one hundred percent prehistoric. Many of the mammals and reptiles that fortunately exist in Australia belong to pre-Pleistocene-Holocene times.

[terrorchicken]

oh that's right, SR is also making extant mammals. Personally I consider companies making extant mammals a separate thing from their prehistoric lines. When it comes to prehistoric lines they are predominantly dinosaurs. Id love to see more mammals and birds in those lines myself just like many would like to see more fish, reptiles, and invertebrates in extant lines.   

[Brontozaurus]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

If anything a mammal-centric company tackling the Australian fossil record is the *first* thing we should want because our only options for replicas are all discontinued yowie figurines, and all our interesting dinosaurs have been done by other companies.

[stargatedalek]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

If anything a mammal-centric company tackling the Australian fossil record is the *first* thing we should want because our only options for replicas are all discontinued yowie figurines, and all our interesting dinosaurs have been done by other companies.

They're mostly making modern animals though, and what I mean is that a lot of these modern mammals have been made by every large company (though these are mostly quite a bit nicer than Schleich or Mojo).

[suspsy]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

If anything a mammal-centric company tackling the Australian fossil record is the *first* thing we should want because our only options for replicas are all discontinued yowie figurines, and all our interesting dinosaurs have been done by other companies.

Australian dinosaurs really aren't that well represented. Invicta has done Muttaburrasaurus, AAOD has done Australovenator, CollectA has done both of them, plus Minmi, and Toyway has done Leaellynasaura, but with the exception of the AAOD toy, none of them are exactly home runs. And to my knowledge, no one's done Kunbarrasaurus, Qantassaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Diamantinasaurus, or Wintonotitan. And then there's giant reptiles like Varanus priscus (Megalania), Meiolania, and Quinkana and giant birds like Dromornis. Lots of great possibilities!

That said, I think SR has the right idea. They want to do justice to Australian fauna in general and generate broad appeal. To do that, you need all the popular extant mammals, plain and simple. Believe, I'd love nothing more than a whole slew of the extinct animals I listed above, but a brand new toy company needs to proceed slowly and cautiously if it's going to survive and grow.

[stargatedalek]

I totally get that, I just wish they'd through in some popular birds or even some sharks or something, just a little more diversity before they move on to anything really obscure.

[Brontozaurus]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

If anything a mammal-centric company tackling the Australian fossil record is the *first* thing we should want because our only options for replicas are all discontinued yowie figurines, and all our interesting dinosaurs have been done by other companies.

Australian dinosaurs really aren't that well represented. Invicta has done Muttaburrasaurus, AAOD has done Australovenator, CollectA has done both of them, plus Minmi, and Toyway has done Leaellynasaura, but with the exception of the AAOD toy, none of them are exactly home runs. And to my knowledge, no one's done Kunbarrasaurus, Qantassaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Diamantinasaurus, or Wintonotitan. And then there's giant reptiles like Varanus priscus (Megalania), Meiolania, and Quinkana and giant birds like Dromornis. Lots of great possibilities!

That said, I think SR has the right idea. They want to do justice to Australian fauna in general and generate broad appeal. To do that, you need all the popular extant mammals, plain and simple. Believe, I'd love nothing more than a whole slew of the extinct animals I listed above, but a brand new toy company needs to proceed slowly and cautiously if it's going to survive and grow.

They aren't well-represented, can't argue with that, but there's just not that much *to* represent. Only a handful have enough material known for good reconstructions to be possible, the majority of species (especially the charismatic theropods) are bits and pieces. Once the well-known species are done, there's not much left that would stand out in the shop against other companies products unless you went full-on All Yesterdays style speculation.

I don't mean to sound like I'm all 'grrr Southland should never do dinosaurs ever', because I'm all for dinosaurs, I'd just prefer more megafauna and other obscure things first.

[stargatedalek]

You don't grasp my meaning, when i say non mammals I don't mean I want more traditional,extinct choices, I mean literally any non mammals. We already have more kangaroo koala and wallaby figures than i could count, but what about lyrebirds? What about lace monitors? What about brown snakes? Even budgies and cockatoos are comparatively rarely done. Australia has a lot of very iconic non mammals but most are very underrepresented. Some more variety would be nice, even among popular species.

[sauroid]

As great as these figures are the last thing we wanted was another mammal-centric company, here's hoping it's just them trying to get the most popular species done first.

If anything a mammal-centric company tackling the Australian fossil record is the *first* thing we should want because our only options for replicas are all discontinued yowie figurines, and all our interesting dinosaurs have been done by other companies.

Australian dinosaurs really aren't that well represented. Invicta has done Muttaburrasaurus, AAOD has done Australovenator, CollectA has done both of them, plus Minmi, and Toyway has done Leaellynasaura, but with the exception of the AAOD toy, none of them are exactly home runs. And to my knowledge, no one's done Kunbarrasaurus, Qantassaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Diamantinasaurus, or Wintonotitan. And then there's giant reptiles like Varanus priscus (Megalania), Meiolania, and Quinkana and giant birds like Dromornis. Lots of great possibilities!

That said, I think SR has the right idea. They want to do justice to Australian fauna in general and generate broad appeal. To do that, you need all the popular extant mammals, plain and simple. Believe, I'd love nothing more than a whole slew of the extinct animals I listed above, but a brand new toy company needs to proceed slowly and cautiously if it's going to survive and grow.

CollectA made a Rhoetosaurus. and there are Kaiyodo Megalania and Meiolania.

[didusineptus]

For those of you interested in Southlands' sculpting processes, here's the diprotodon under construction:
https://www.facebook.com/southlands/

[suspsy]

It's coming along very nicely! I can't wait to see the final product----and to review it!

[Shonisaurus]

As I said in www.minizoo.com.au said figures of prehistoric mammals (as it appears some more is just an assumption) will be marketed in his store at the end of the year