Wild republic (K&M) tubes - pictures anyone ?

Received my second lot of these today, and I'm as ambivalent as ever. The first ones I got were the horses (cartoony, but good) and dinosaurs (crap). This time I got the Madagascar and Endangered tubes, and... well, I still don't know what I think.

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Now, the Madagascar tube is just plain excellent. The reptiles, frog and cockroach I don't know well enough to say how accurate they are, but they look good. The lemurs - which as far as I've been able to figure out are a ringtail, a red ruffed lemur, and a coquerel's sifaka (bizarrely they aren't labeled) - are very nice, though presumably not to scale. The fossa, too, is great. All in all this set compares favorably to the Safari toobs, even if the paintjobs seem a little haphazard.

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The Endangered Species tube, on the other hand... How do I put this? It really is nothing special. True, the orangs are excellent, and that was why I bought it in the first place. The rest, however... they're not bad, just severely dull. While there's nothing wrong with the sculpting per se, there is very little real detail, just texture. Frankly they look like any old made in china cheapo set you could get anywhere. Well, the elephants and pandas are ok - but you have to work really hard to manage to mess up a panda! Hopefully this is an old set from a time before they realized the value of making good models.

They are great, Sumo !

It is strange, whenever I look for K & M int. , I only find teddybears

Is Wild Republic and K & M the same ?
Please can toy tell more ?

[[quote="Sumo"]Received my second lot of these today, and I'm as ambivalent as ever. The first ones I got were the horses (cartoony, but good) and dinosaurs (crap). This time I got the Madagascar and Endangered tubes, and... well, I still don't know what I think.

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Now, the Madagascar tube is just plain excellent. The reptiles, frog and cockroach I don't know well enough to say how accurate they are, but they look good. The lemurs - which as far as I've been able to figure out are a ringtail, a red ruffed lemur, and a coquerel's sifaka (bizarrely they aren't labeled) - are very nice, though presumably not to scale. The fossa, too, is great. All in all this set compares favorably to the Safari toobs, even if the paintjobs seem a little haphazard.


... Well! The lemurs from 1-st tube are not bad and no problems with scale in comparison with lions or leopards! And the lemurs are very rare species on the model market. I have 3 figurines from K&M (2) and Safari (1) tubes but all of them are only one species - "ringtail lemur".

...This is my K&M lemurs (2 variants models)...
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...and this is from Safari tube "The Monkeys"

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I have some K&M figures, mainly of small animals!
I have to find this Madagascar polybag, I think is not hard to find it in local shops arround here!

@Susanne, In polybags the names Wild Republic are written and in the figures we see K&M, so I think that it's the same thing! Try to search Wild Republic using the same way that your doing with Papo and you will find it!

K&M and Wild Republic are the same. TGY toys in the US has many of their tubes, bags and adventure sets. Very interesting species, but not to scale, for those of you more interested in dioramas.

Hello Sergey, I see this as a proboscis monkey which brand you it is KTM? and where do I find it?
I already try Aquer than Starlux But on Ebay, but
(it happened to me in the nose, as they say in an expression)
I also have a picture of a proboscis monkey of a web quote, I must find it to learn more!

I realy like the madagascar tube, think many of them look great

The other tube, well as you said, nothing special, but the orangutans look ok :)

The Madagascar toob is excellent. There is sometimes very good things in the K&M toobs.

The two geckos are very accurate models

lucky luke wrote:

Hello Sergey, I see this as a proboscis monkey which brand you it is KTM? and where do I find it?
I already try Aquer than Starlux But on Ebay, but
(it happened to me in the nose, as they say in an expression)
I also have a picture of a proboscis monkey of a web quote, I must find it to learn more!

...Yes Jean Luke a proboscis monkey is K&M. I,ve bought him with some other small monkeys in US (2002) in the souvenir shop by New York National Museum of Natural History. :) But now in Russia sometimes we can buy tubes by Safari but unfortunatly not K&M brand.

Great finds there!
K&M or Wild Republic has some nice bigger figurines too, often named with their names in English and scientific names under the belly...
Here are some of mine...

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Hawaiian Monkseal

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Hawaiian Monkseal pup

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Siberian Tiger

The tiger is a nice model

I like the seals and the tiger .)

Congrats

Although quit big, but nice models indeed, and the colours are good too!

I'm visiting my parents in Trondheim, and yesterday I got a little *cough* shopping done. Three of the new Schleich eagle (which I must admit is somewhat nicer than the old version), an awesome unbranded bag of marine creatures, and two new WR tubes.
The rainforest tube I'd had my eye on for some time, but hesitated because I wasn't sure about the quality of the figures. Thee tubes can, as we've seen from the big cats one, vary from awesome to blah to awful. I'm pleased to say this is one of the good ones! Along with several nice reptiles and mammals it contains a cute tapir, a really beautiful Asian elephant, and... a bongo!
The other tube was one I'd never seen before (possibly discontinued?): The garden accents tube. It contains common garden animals, specifically European ones. In addition to foxes, rabbits, moles, hedgehogs and squirrels it has a few insects (grasshopper, two kinds of beetle, butterfly) and three different songbirds. None are terribly well painted, but it's good enough that the species can be easily identified.
I have to say I'm really impressed with both tubes - and with the science museum gift shop for carrying them, because it's so rare to find a shop that has anything besides Schleich these days.

Pictures?
Congratulations Sumo, they sound fantastic - some of those tube sets are very tempting to get I like the sound of the Bongo!

HKHollinstone wrote:

Pictures?

Ditto!

Patience, little ones! I didn't bring my camera, so you'll have to wait until I get home.

Sumo wrote:

Patience, little ones! I didn't bring my camera, so you'll have to wait until I get home.

So that does not count for me, - I am not a little one :

Remember who you're talking to....

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Still no pictures?
It has no use to tell what you have got in when you can't show it, isn't it...
I don't want to sound harsh, but this way we don't know what you actually got in...

Congratulations. Can't wait to see photos.

Doh! Could've sworn I uploaded some pics...
Oh wait, here they are. At least you'll get to see the garden tube.

Mammals:
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Birds:
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Insects:
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Ah pictures

I like the hedgehog and the mole, that's an unusual figurine to see. Congratulations Sumo I'm looking forward to seeing that Bongo too