Monarch Butterfly (CollectA)

Walk around of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) by CollectA (2013).

The monarch is a very familiar butterfly, and I have several figures from major name brands alone (not to mention several bin/drug store/dollar store style figures). The species occurs throughout North America and also Australia and the Malaysian Archipelago, Sri Lanka, India, and the Canary Islands.

CollectA lately is leading the charge in making interesting species of great quality. While their insects are not always the most interesting or obscure species, the quality is the BEST right now of the non-Japanese/gashapon figures. And this beauty is no exception. Overall, even though I am taxonomically selective, I praise CollectA for always putting out a nice variety of taxa each year! They don't do insects every year but they are the only major non-Japanese brand that still routinely makes them!

The figure and its paint job is spectacular. And look!!! Note, only four walking legs (as the Nymphalidae should have)!!! The posture makes it difficult to measure. With the wings up, it stands 60 mm tall; based on specimens I collected in Arizona it is roughly 1:1 (maybe slightly smaller--they are relatively large nymphalids!).

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Looks like real :)

Wonderful. Then, I will get this one, too.

Megaptera wrote:

Wonderful. Then, I will get this one, too.

If you are going to get a monarch, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] this is the one to get!!!

Thanks. Yes, I'm going to get the Monarch from CollectA.

Great presentation !!!

I have this one, but as I never saw a monarch in real I could not velue it as it deserves

I missed this walk around and I believe I was not aware how good is this model. Maybe someday we will have the chance of seeing a rencounter between this model and the recently released Papo figure.

I also got this beautiful model not a long ago.
I saw the papo one on the shop and it looks nice, but I didn`t buy it, because as Blaine showed to us, it has a very big mistake .. it is with 6 legs
This is the Papo one from the Animal toy blog

costicuba wrote:

I also got this beautiful model not a long ago.
I saw the papo one on the shop and it looks nice, but I didn`t buy it, because as Blaine showed to us, it has a very big mistake .. it is with 6 legs
This is the Papo one from the Animal toy blog

I've read this blog entry recently and Blaine tells clearly which figure is the best. Some mistakes are classics.