Battat Terra North American Set

When last shopping at Target I picked up this boxed set. Having now looked at it more closely and taken all the animals out I have to say that it is really pretty good. The sculpt quality is good for the size, which is small - a bit like tube type animals. They are in fact better than the large bin animals currently available from Battat in the Terra line. They do say Terra on them or in the case of the Caribou Terra by Battat, so I believe they are new sculpts just for the line and not repackaged China models like their buckets are. The box style is the same as that used on the new Don LoRusso dinosaur line.



and here are all the animals - a Caribou, Canadian Lynx, Gray wolf, Skunk, Snowy Owl and a pair of baby brown bears.



I will do posts with closer pictures of each next.

Baby bears





The standing pose is odd, but cute

caribou - it's a moving pose I guess, looks not too bad but I would be happier if it was a little better balanced on it's feet. It doesn't fall over just looks odd with the rear leg up like that.

the Canadian Lynx, it's not a bobcat but a lynx and the first of this species we have at Toyanimal.info on our species page.

the skunk is quite nice, I like it a lot

snowy owl

the funny looking one that people have seen in the pictures of the boxed set is a gray wolf howling, it is seen from the front when looking at the box so it looks odd, they would have been better to place it in the box differently.








That's it for this look at the Battat Terra series North American Set. The set cost $12.99 which is a bit expensive for what you are getting, but it is nice and I am happy with it. I am curious if they will have more such sets in the future. There is one other set right now called Wild Animals that is an African themed set. I may get that one as well and post it here for you in the future.

Thanks for presentation Tim, I was really curious about this new 2014 set.
In terms of species it is quite interesting that they decided for a Canada lynx instead of a bobcat. I think it increases the interest of the set. On the other hand it seems that with so many skunk species their option was a striped skunk, the good part is that it works nice in that small size.
Figures are generally pretty for their size, I hope some day they sell them individually considering I don't have a Canada lynx in my collection yet. I'm glad the misterious figure is just a wolf and not any kind of North American ghost.

I think the animal choices reflect the fact that Maison Joseph Battat Ltd is a Canadian company, all of these are animals fairly common in Canada, where US companies would include a deer instead of a caribou probably and a bobcat instead of a lynx.

Precisely, very well observed.

They are lovely

So now we see Battat dinos, horses and wildlife, - seems a new player is rising in the market

It's a beautiful set, congrats!

Spectacular set, with rare caribou

Really beautieful and interesting figurines Tim!! Congratulations!!

Wonderful! They really are nice if you think how tiny they are. = o The snowy owl has such a nice color Congrtaulations, Tim

Really nice set! I looked in Target while in San Francisco but no Battat/Terra animals to be found!

They don't look too bad. The bear cubs seem a little strange (most likely the pose). I also noticed the size; I think they should have been made a little bigger with the company knowing that mostly children would be playing with them.

Thanks for the comments. They are very new Taos, one of my local stores only got them this last weekend.

I've found some Terra recently at my Target.

Hi there I just got mind!!
And they look like a copy of PAPO and SCHELICH animals but I Live them all!!!
Any one here has a link of them to see more animals pics???"

MARTINLATIN wrote:

Hi there I just got mind!!
And they look like a copy of PAPO and SCHELICH animals but I Live them all!!!
Any one here has a link of them to see more animals pics???"

Try searching for Battat on the http://toyanimal.info//index.php?title=Main_Page
Unfortunatly I can't open the page right now, - server problem ?

hey just noticed they have some of the Terra by Battet online at Target now. Not a huge selection, but might be worth a look. Terra at Target

(just select "toys" to get rid of the terra cotta pots and such)

Target's also got a free shipping within the continental US for the holidays thing going on

WOAH! I sure hope no one buys those, obviously someone was misinformed. They're $5, not $30!!

I do see now on the animals it says "out of stock," that's a little better...

Yeah, I think they're still figuring out their pricing system?

Sounds like Peter Stone Horses. Sorry, that's another story...