Eofauna: New for 2022

[Thialfi]

Konobelodon atticus

Absolutely beautiful!

[paleochris]

What a fantastic sculpture! magnificent, superb! Eofauna is the best brand for Proboscidea!

[bmathison1972]

we have a winner, folks

[Arctinus]

Ah, what a stunning figure!  And I guess we were all wrong about the exact species. 

[SidB]

They don't disappoint. As much as I like their dinosaurs, I'm delighted that Eofauna hasn't abandoned their proboscideans.

[GojiraGuy1954]

Epic

[Flaffy]

Another winner from Eofauna, as usual!

Definitely a must buy, and glad to see more amebelodonts on the market. (I think the only other amebelodonts that made it into figure form are Amebelodon and Platybelodon.)

Next up, bring on the gomphotheres and basal proboscideans!

[Nanuqsaurus]

I had never heard of Konobelodon before! Even a quick search on Google and Wikipedia doesn't give much information about this genus, so it's definitely a nice surprise that they decided to make this into a figure! Looks like an absolute must have to me.

[suspsy]

Alright, colour me very surprised and pleased! A relatively obscure but very cool-looking beastie indeed, one that will look great alongside the other Eofauna tuskers as well as the CollectA Gomphotherium!

[bmathison1972]

I had never heard of Konobelodon before! Even a quick search on Google and Wikipedia doesn't give much information about this genus, so it's definitely a nice surprise that they decided to make this into a figure! Looks like an absolute must have to me.

The genus was recently elevated out of subgenus status of Amebelodon; luckily it's a different species than Safari's Amebelodon which represents A. fricki.

[Faelrin]

I too have not heard of this one. At least I don't think so. Will need to do some research then. Anyways what a beautiful restoration of this unique animal.

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

I've only heard about it because an Italian palaeoartist who goes by cisiopurple on deviantart.com has done art of it as he started doing lots of Proboscidean art, in fact like Eofauna, his two focuses are all non-avian dinosaurs and Proboscideans.
That said his artwork gives the animal much shorter upper tusks than this model.

[Shonisaurus]

I'm glad they made a very rare collectible species of toy dinosaur! A konobelodon, it's beautiful! I'm glad Eofauna remembers those of us who love dinosaurs and rare prehistoric animals, first an atlasaurus and now a konobelodon. That is treating the customer well.

Honestly I will go into debt but yes or yes, I will buy whatever happens that diplodocus and konobelodon and I will publish their photos if I live at the DTF at that time.

I prefer that Eofauna focuses only on some species of prehistoric animals so that when they are already sufficiently well represented by Eofauna as happens with another great company BoTM, they focus on another branch of dinosaurs or prehistoric animals such as elephants. I sincerely wish that Eofauna continues to market only prehistoric elephants.

Eofauna collectors have not "punished" us much when it comes to revealing their new figure. As all the Eofauna figures look like dinosaurs and prehistoric animals made of resin, it is a company that excites me, the details are exquisite and it is an image in constant dynamism. Thanks Eofauna! I will buy it from Alcaiceria yes or yes.

[suspsy]

I hope Eofauna releases more images soon. I'm keen to see how the Konobelodon looks next to the other toys.

[Sim]

I'm impressed by the obscure species choice and the quality of the figure, but my first thought was it looks too similar to Eofauna's previous proboscidean figures for me, e.g. in the colouration, poses of the body parts, style of hair at the tail tip.  Perhaps this is inevitable when you make a certain amount of closely related animals.  I find Eofauna's three previous proboscideans are all excellent figures, so it's frustrating to see another, while they've only made one theropod which in my opinion wasn't very good.  Although I will be disappointed if Eofauna's next theropod is Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus.

[Grimbeard]

What a unexpected reveal!

While I would have prefered a wooly mammoth or an american mastodon even more, Amebelodonts and Gomphotheres are such weird, alien looking  Proboscidea that they deserves every figure they cant get.

Eofauna is really starting to carves its niches with fantastic looking hefty herbivores.

[Arctinus]

I'm impressed by the obscure species choice and the quality of the figure, but my first thought was it looks too similar to Eofauna's previous proboscidean figures for me, e.g. in the colouration, poses of the body parts, style of hair at the tail tip.  Perhaps this is inevitable when you make a certain amount of closely related animals.  I find Eofauna's three previous proboscideans are all excellent figures, so it's frustrating to see another, while they've only made one theropod which in my opinion wasn't very good.  Although I will be disappointed if Eofauna's next theropod is Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus.

Maybe they're avoiding making any new theropods due to the giganotosaurus toppling over. 

What a unexpected reveal!

While I would have prefered a wooly mammoth or an american mastodon even more, Amebelodonts and Gomphotheres are such weird, alien looking  Proboscidea that they deserves every figure they cant get.

Eofauna is really starting to carves its niches with fantastic looking hefty herbivores.

I'm pretty sure they'll make both eventually. And then when they finally run out of proboscideans (well, at the current rate...  ), maybe they could make other mammals as well. 

[Dusty Wren]

Oh, I like this figure a lot! No one does proboscideans like Eofauna.

I agree with @Sim though; I wish they'd get more creative with some of the details. I know non-furry mammals are going to have a limited color palette, but elephants do have some variation in their skin tones, and I'd like to see a figure with the "freckles" you see on some older Asian elephants.

[GojiraGuy1954]

I'm impressed by the obscure species choice and the quality of the figure, but my first thought was it looks too similar to Eofauna's previous proboscidean figures for me, e.g. in the colouration, poses of the body parts, style of hair at the tail tip.  Perhaps this is inevitable when you make a certain amount of closely related animals.  I find Eofauna's three previous proboscideans are all excellent figures, so it's frustrating to see another, while they've only made one theropod which in my opinion wasn't very good.  Although I will be disappointed if Eofauna's next theropod is Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus.

Maybe they're avoiding making any new theropods due to the giganotosaurus toppling over. 

What a unexpected reveal!

While I would have prefered a wooly mammoth or an american mastodon even more, Amebelodonts and Gomphotheres are such weird, alien looking  Proboscidea that they deserves every figure they cant get.

Eofauna is really starting to carves its niches with fantastic looking hefty herbivores.

I'm pretty sure they'll make both eventually. And then when they finally run out of proboscideans (well, at the current rate...  ), maybe they could make other mammals as well. 

Nah they solved the Giga's stability problems with the more recent production runs

[Palaeontologica]

I'm impressed by the obscure species choice and the quality of the figure, but my first thought was it looks too similar to Eofauna's previous proboscidean figures for me, e.g. in the colouration, poses of the body parts, style of hair at the tail tip.  Perhaps this is inevitable when you make a certain amount of closely related animals.  I find Eofauna's three previous proboscideans are all excellent figures, so it's frustrating to see another, while they've only made one theropod which in my opinion wasn't very good.  Although I will be disappointed if Eofauna's next theropod is Tyrannosaurus or Spinosaurus.

Maybe they're avoiding making any new theropods due to the giganotosaurus toppling over. 

What a unexpected reveal!

While I would have prefered a wooly mammoth or an american mastodon even more, Amebelodonts and Gomphotheres are such weird, alien looking  Proboscidea that they deserves every figure they cant get.

Eofauna is really starting to carves its niches with fantastic looking hefty herbivores.

I'm pretty sure they'll make both eventually. And then when they finally run out of proboscideans (well, at the current rate...  ), maybe they could make other mammals as well. 

Nah they solved the Giga's stability problems with the more recent production runs

Too late for my 2020 acquisition, apparently. It's the usual story, from what I can tell: it started off fine, then it started falling over on uneven surfaces, then flat ones.