Takara Tomy Tsuchinoko

I got this wonderful snake as the secret from the poison snake serie by Takara Tomy. But no inforations.

And i dont have a book (because i cant find a good) for identification this or other snake(s). So please can anybody help?      

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I think that it's an cape cobra, but why is she o flat?

arafan wrote:

I think that it's an cape cobra, but why is she o flat?

Thank you, she is so flat because i dont allow her to eat each of my other animals

It's not a real species Widukind.

It's a Tsuchinoko, a Japanese mythical snake. Funnily enough it pops up in a lot of extant reptile and crypto sets in Japan. I guess it's a guage of how strongly the Japanese believe in this mythical entity that it's produced so often. Here's a link to the relevant WIKI article.

Tsuchinoko

blackdanter wrote:

It's not a real species Widukind.

It's a Tsuchinoko, a Japanese mythical snake. Funnily enough it pops up in a lot of extant reptile and crypto sets in Japan. I guess it's a guage of how strongly the Japanese believe in this mythical entity that it's produced so often. Here's a link to the relevant WIKI article.

Tsuchinoko

Welcome here now   And thank you for this important information

Thankyou, Blackdanter, - very interesting info. And WELLCOME here 

widukind wrote:

I got this wonderful snake as the secret from the poison snake serie by Takara Tomy. But no inforations.

And i dont have a book (because i cant find a good) for identification this or other snake(s). So please can anybody help?      

 This is not an extant specie Andreas, this is a Japanese cryptozoologic legend, the fat adder or Tuchinoko viper.

And I musr read more carefully the whole topic before answering

widukind wrote:

blackdanter wrote:

It's not a real species Widukind.

It's a Tsuchinoko, a Japanese mythical snake. Funnily enough it pops up in a lot of extant reptile and crypto sets in Japan. I guess it's a guage of how strongly the Japanese believe in this mythical entity that it's produced so often. Here's a link to the relevant WIKI article.

Tsuchinoko

Welcome here now   And thank you for this important information

SUSANNE wrote:

Thankyou, Blackdanter, - very interesting info. And WELLCOME here 

Thank you folks. I actually registered a long time ago but then forgot all about it until Widukind mentioned the forum on a post in the animal toy forum!

 I LOVE this description of the critter 

According to legend, some tsuchinoko have the ability to speak and a propensity for lying, and is also said to have a taste for alcohol..
 

I thought it was Saint-Exupéry snake. Sometimes misidentified as a hat!
It is from the book "Le Petit Prince" and represents graphically one of the most remarkable thoughts from this book "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" it means, there is an elephant inside the snake!

this Tsuchinoko ? mmmhhh...

Thanks for all the comments