Blaine's Bug of the Day

..because of you Blaine, I started to collect some arthropods ( from Papo)!!

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Revisiting the emperor scorpion, Pandinus imperator (Koch, 1842), new for 2020 by Mojo Fun!

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Beautiful scorpion. How large is it?

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bmathison1972 wrote:

Revisiting the emperor scorpion, Pandinus imperator (Koch, 1842), new for 2020 by Mojo Fun!

For a complete review of this figure, please check out my blogpost: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]



Beautiful scorpion. How large is it?

please see the blog post in the link to see size and scale; very similar to Papo scorpion

The figure also looks somewhat flat to me but I really love it and it could be a good partner for my Papo scorpion that I adore.

It is amazing how you can keep them comming

A dust mite, Dermatophagoides sp. by an unknown Chinese manufacturer. I have a feeling the seller (AliExpress) is also the manufacturer; I emailed them a while ago, but have yet to hear back.

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Here it is with the only other dust mite figure I am aware of, the rather cartoony offering by Play Visions:

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This kind of figures show how interesting is this hobby and that surely it is not just like a passion for cute pandas. There are many kinds of animals replicated and I confess that one of the most surprising series I witnessed in this forum was the Play Visions set where this dust mite belongs. I was not expecting seeing something like this at all. Now you've found a completely different one that is more in harmony with the usual translucent bodies these creatures have.

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A dust mite, Dermatophagoides sp. by an unknown Chinese manufacturer. I have a feeling the seller (AliExpress) is also the manufacturer; I emailed them a while ago, but have yet to hear back.

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Here it is with the only other dust mite figure I am aware of, the rather cartoony offering by Play Visions:

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They are amazing. It is always good to see, that there are models from special lifeforms.

As I said before, it's a pity that I haven't enough space to collect all of them!

Revisiting the head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis De Geerm 1767. This is another from that unknown Chinese manufacturer, like the aforementioned dust mite and leech.

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Haha, great photo!

That's an itchy presentation. Again, I love this kind of models.

Haha, love it! Ouch, looks like it's had a good feed!

I am seriously happy I never had lice

Revisiting the red-streaked box crab, Calappa lophos (Herbst, 1785) by Bandai for Dango Mushi 06, new for 2020:

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Here it is with other figures by Kaiyodo (3x) and Ikimon:

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It is an amazing model

And what a great flock

Huge crab figur

This is not a new figure, but rather a correction. This figure is from the Animal Kaiser collection by Bandai. I have had this figure for a couple years and assumed it was just another emperor scorpion. Turns out, it is a Tanzanian red-clawed scorpion (Pandinus cavimanus), making it one of the rare examples of a Pandinus figure specifically marketed as something other than P. imperator!!!

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It is an amazing model !!!

but take care now...I read that they are more aggressive than the emperor scorpions

That is particularly interesting and surely it opens a kind of new re-interpretation to the Pandinus around. Does it belongs here? We only have a few figures listed on TAW.

Roger wrote:

That is particularly interesting and surely it opens a kind of new re-interpretation to the Pandinus around. Does it belongs here? We only have a few figures listed on TAW.

Roger, yes it is an Animal Kaiser figure

Great scorpion, and I'll look into getting it

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Roger wrote:

That is particularly interesting and surely it opens a kind of new re-interpretation to the Pandinus around. Does it belongs here? We only have a few figures listed on TAW.

Roger, yes it is an Animal Kaiser figure

Thanks, considering the few figures listed, I supposed it could be a collection of sets as usual in Japanese brands but I see now it is a series.