The Antarctic models from Happy Kin Toys :-D

The dancing Santa from Bulgaria ...alias Kosta...has been sending wonderful models to Denmark again    

The complete range of models of Antarctic critters    
- and more

He told me they have them in a toyshop where he lives, - and I got very happy, because I have been looking for the SKUA for a long time.
So Kosta sent me ALL of them, - HURRAAYYY for wonderfully crazy people

Please prepare for A LOT of pictures, becurse they are SO beautyful  

Adelie Penguin with egg, and the most beautyful Kerguelen Fur Seal :  
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Beautyful Weddell Seal and two lovely Penguin chicks     :
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Hourglass Dolphin and the most fantastic Emperor penguin  
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Perhaps the best penguin model I have ever seen   :
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Sea Elephant and a Hoki fish ( The Hoki has a beard like a cod, but I love that model    ) :
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The fish even has his own food with him :
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AN ALBATROSS    and A Strap-toothed Whale  
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Last, but not least : A blue whale, and THE Southern Polar Skua      
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Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, Kosta

Great models, they are all gems. Congrats!

Considering the low prices of these figures, I have to say they are brilliant and full of drama.
I agree about the penguin, it looks excelent, very expressive and with good shape. Though, I am not sure it is an emperor, the yellow chest and the back of emperors are usually deep black and this one looks grizzled.

A group of emperor penguins
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A king penguin
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Also king penguins have proportionally longer beaks and this one looks to have a very long beak indeed.  

Chicks are also excelent, I love their interaction, what is thinking the one without food? ;D
Chicks are clearly emperors.

If I am correct about the adulte, it remembers when the Schleich king penguin adopted the emperor chicks some years ago.

I love also the Adèlie penguin that shows how interesting are species choices of these sets, we can say it has a huge eyering or a long bill, but it is lovely and they haven't forgot the tuft of feathers on the top of the beak.

Isn't the sea lion the one Christophe presented some time ago? Almost earless?

Birds, fish, everything is just great. Actually many of them will enter my wish list! Thanks for excelent pictures and sorry for long comment.

Congratulations Susanne very good series!
Birds are wonderful and marine mammals also.
The saw once in a store in the USA and I Fraine my élant for aquérirs to causes of high cost of shipping

Thankyou, dear Paige

Thankyou for your constructive and interesting comments, Croger !
You are right, - again a king has got emperor offspring Or perhaps they are not even related , as they did not come in the same box  
Thankyou for the perfect photos for illustrating

Luc, - yes, it is a shame they are not seen very often.

``The dancing Santa from Bulgaria`` is realy happy to see this topic :))
Excelent pictures Susanne :)

Look at all those gorgeous penguins! Congrats!

More excelent figures, I like all birds.

congratulations.

Congratulation Susanne for your newcomers and Hurray for Santa swinging Kosta

Rogério, you are right, it is the sea lion and "weddell seal" I presented some times ago. The sea lion, as the sea elephant are "a bit" too skinny I guess but the pose and "facial" expression are very interesting.
The weddel seal is indeed an earless sealion and at least is very far from the original

The biggest disappointment on these sets was the Strap-toothed Whale. How a company can make such an unusual critter and miss it, the pose is so reptilian, like a mosasaur I know I'm playing the spoilsport but I would be so happy to see CollectA (for example) making one a more realistic one

Thankyou, dear friends

Christophe, you are not a spoilsport. great to lern somethiong, and I am honoured to have models that belong in your fabulous collection

The sea-elephant!!!

Congrats Susanne!

It would be very nice if you could upload a comparison pic with Schleich

I like the sets Susanne, big congratulations!!

Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Susanne for your newcomers and Hurray for Santa swinging Kosta

Rogério, you are right, it is the sea lion and "weddell seal" I presented some times ago. The sea lion, as the sea elephant are "a bit" too skinny I guess but the pose and "facial" expression are very interesting.
The weddel seal is indeed an earless sealion  and at least is very far from the original

The biggest disappointment on these sets was the Strap-toothed Whale. How a company can make such an unusual critter and miss it, the pose is so reptilian, like a mosasaur I know I'm playing the spoilsport but I would be so happy to see CollectA (for example) making one a more realistic one

You are right with the pose but i like this whale. I am more disappointed about the weddell seal:)

Congrats, .I have some of these models but they were marketed in the UK under a different name and they too were inexpensive but they never had the whale and skua! and now the shop is closed down!!!

I agree about the seal being far from the true thing and the big mistake with the whale pose. But as I commented, this set is very interesting with a good assortment of Antarctic species, cheap and with a brilliant scenic effect.
Susanne, are all animals species marked? For example the emperor penguin? As you say, it is not from the same set, it doesn't need to be the same species as the chicks.
That picture of the seal/sea lion is impressive!

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Bonobo wrote:

The sea-elephant!!!

Congrats Susanne!

It would be very nice if you could upload a comparison pic with Schleich

Good idea, - here they are

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Roger wrote:

Susanne, are all animals species marked? For example the emperor penguin? As you say, it is not from the same set, it doesn't need to be the same species as the chicks.
That picture of the seal/sea lion is impressive!

Thankyou, Roger

Yes, the models are all marked with the species names I mentioned...I just checked, - the King IS marked "Emperor "

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Thankyou, Roger

Yes, the models are all marked with the species names I mentioned...I just checked, - the King IS marked "Emperor "

Thanks Susanne! Thanks also for comparison picture of these elephant seals.

You are wellcome, Roger

At least here there is no doubt that the HKT-one is the Southern species, with the less long nose

BTW, I just read that a Southern male can weigh up to 4 tons ! What a giant !

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You are wellcome, Roger

At least here there is no doubt that the HKT-one is the Southern species, with the less long nose

Exactly Susanne, in average these figures are very good, I can't remember better figures under the same price range.

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BTW, I just read that a Southern male can weigh up to 4 tons ! What a giant !

Yes these guys are giants, I am glad I am not a Southern cow!

Thank you very much Susanne

Much smaller than Schleich, but I still love him

Those are wonderful, and it's great they are an inexpensive line compared to so many that are getting too expensive for kids to buy.
Some great unusual species there.