K&M large rubber animal figures

So after the solid figurines i will start here the rubber K&M figurines. I begin with these Lacertids (both are marked with the same)

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They are beautyful ! Congratulations

here the others

both marked only with dolphin
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Bamboo shark marked as shark
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Great, thanks, Andreas As I showed you lately, the tiger shark comes from a set with other rubber sharks. It was still in one of the recent catalogues (2012 or 2013). I'll search them again if I can find your other rubber animals as well

Tarunyada wrote:

Great, thanks, Andreas As I showed you lately, the tiger shark comes from a set with other rubber sharks. It was still in one of the recent catalogues (2012 or 2013). I'll search them again if I can find your other rubber animals as well

Fine, but more interesting for me are not mine figurines but the figurines that i dont have :)

here are two more rubbery friends - the scorpion fish is one of my favourites:

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no species name on the belly, the scorpion fish only says K&M CHINA (it's hard to read on the picture)

Nice! Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

I'll open a page to these large rubber figures on Toy Animal Wiki. As long as we don't find which specific collections they belong, we will put them together. If anyone have more of these figures, please let us know and if possible, share pictures also to the Wiki!

Wonderful lion fish!

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

okay :)

widukind wrote:

here the others

Bamboo shark marked as shark
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I love this bamboo shark--it's so rare to see smaller and less 'normal' sharks made as figures.

sbell wrote:

widukind wrote:

here the others

Bamboo shark marked as shark
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I love this bamboo shark--it's so rare to see smaller and less 'normal' sharks made as figures.

For me too. So i hope to find some more unusual shark species :)

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] its a 1993 by the bamboo shark

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

 its a 1993 by the bamboo shark

Fantastic Andreas, I didnt want to give you all this work, to write is enough, no needing of a picture although it is actually useful!
Markings are very important to help us understanding better these collections.
As we see, they're quite differently marked. As far as I see, the small shark is only marked Made in China. The large is marked with brand and year what is already a very good reference. 1993!!! Please keep your K&M close to you, we are finding a lot of info these days, with lucky, maybe we can find some species missing in your collection too. Thanks!

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

 its a 1993 by the bamboo shark

Fantastic Andreas, I didnt want to give you all this work, to write is enough, no needing of a picture although it is actually useful!
Markings are very important to help us understanding better these collections.
As we see, they're quite differently marked. As far as I see, the small shark is only marked Made in China. The large is marked with brand and year what is already a very good reference. 1993!!! Please keep your K&M close to you, we are finding a lot of info these days, with lucky, maybe we can find some species missing in your collection too. Thanks!

One thing I have noticed--K&M often liked to use the same mold to make 4 different paint schemes of the same figures. Not sure if the bamboo shark would fit into that, but it has the appearance of one that would (I have 3 of the 4 'moray eels' where they did that). Which means that there are potentially more bamboo sharks in different paint schemes out there!

sbell wrote:

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Roger wrote:

widukind wrote:

Wonderful lion fish!

Andreas, as your tiger shark belongs to a different collection according with Julie. Could you please check how it is marked?

 its a 1993 by the bamboo shark

Fantastic Andreas, I didnt want to give you all this work, to write is enough, no needing of a picture although it is actually useful!
Markings are very important to help us understanding better these collections.
As we see, they're quite differently marked. As far as I see, the small shark is only marked Made in China. The large is marked with brand and year what is already a very good reference. 1993!!! Please keep your K&M close to you, we are finding a lot of info these days, with lucky, maybe we can find some species missing in your collection too. Thanks!

One thing I have noticed--K&M often liked to use the same mold to make 4 different paint schemes of the same figures. Not sure if the bamboo shark would fit into that, but it has the appearance of one that would (I have 3 of the 4 'moray eels' where they did that). Which means that there are potentially more bamboo sharks in different paint schemes out there!

But not hard to find, more harder to find :)

sbell wrote:

One thing I have noticed--K&M often liked to use the same mold to make 4 different paint schemes of the same figures. Not sure if the bamboo shark would fit into that, but it has the appearance of one that would (I have 3 of the 4 'moray eels' where they did that). Which means that there are potentially more bamboo sharks in different paint schemes out there!

Interesting, could you please tell us a little more about these eels? Are they also rubbery, large and year marked? Thanks!

Roger wrote:

sbell wrote:

One thing I have noticed--K&M often liked to use the same mold to make 4 different paint schemes of the same figures. Not sure if the bamboo shark would fit into that, but it has the appearance of one that would (I have 3 of the 4 'moray eels' where they did that). Which means that there are potentially more bamboo sharks in different paint schemes out there!

Interesting, could you please tell us a little more about these eels? Are they also rubbery, large and year marked? Thanks!

I'll have to find them again--they are the rubbery style, about 5" long. The mold is a stunted moray eel; the 4 varieties are green moray (the one I don't have), dragon moray, blue ribbon eel and chain moray.

sbell wrote:

Roger wrote:

sbell wrote:

One thing I have noticed--K&M often liked to use the same mold to make 4 different paint schemes of the same figures. Not sure if the bamboo shark would fit into that, but it has the appearance of one that would (I have 3 of the 4 'moray eels' where they did that). Which means that there are potentially more bamboo sharks in different paint schemes out there!

Interesting, could you please tell us a little more about these eels? Are they also rubbery, large and year marked? Thanks!

I'll have to find them again--they are the rubbery style, about 5" long. The mold is a stunted moray eel; the 4 varieties are green moray (the one I don't have), dragon moray, blue ribbon eel and chain moray.

It is already very useful!!! If it is not easy for you to find them to see what is marked, what is provided is already very appreciated. Maybe you're right and these figures belong to old blisters from K&M or so. I'll list them on TAI. Thanks!

I found them--all that they say is EEL / China / K&M INT

So they are old enough to be K&M International, but I'm not sure beyond that.

Here are their photos:
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I have that yellow and black eel but mine is missing much paint

weaselfan93 wrote:

I have that yellow and black eel but mine is missing much paint

Mine are in pretty good shape, although some paint has flaked since the photos were taken--it seems to be a problem with many of the soft K&M figures.

sbell wrote:

I found them--all that they say is EEL / China / K&M INT

So they are old enough to be K&M International, but I'm not sure beyond that.

Here are their photos:
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Very very very interesting!!

sbell wrote:

I found them--all that they say is EEL / China / K&M INT

So they are old enough to be K&M International, but I'm not sure beyond that.

Here are their photos:

Thanks again for useful information and pictures. They are not year marked like the bamboo shark but they're much probably from similar collections. Still a lot to know about K&M but much more I know, more I like.