Balaenoptera's collection

Hi everyone,
I decided to take some pictures of my growing cetacean collection, so here it is! Warning: Image heavy!

I mainly collect toy figures of cetaceans, so there won't be a lot of small figurines like Kaiyodo. I do of course like them, but I just prefer the larger figures
I also collect other marine life like deep sea fish and syngnathids, pictures of those will be posted in the future. But for now, here are my cetaceans!
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Sperm whales (plus pygmy sperm whale)
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Belugas and Narwhals
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Orcas
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Humpback whales
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Blue whales
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Oceanic dolphins
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Grey whales
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Right whales
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Bowhead whales
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And species I could not fit anywhere else! Pilot whales, fin whales, sei whale, minke whale, bottlenose whale and finless porpoise

I forgot to include the new Safari ltd toob figures... pictures of those will follow!

A very interesting collection with a lot of interesting species :)

Big congrats

Damn! I cannot see them! There are only ?-Blocks

Now, I can see them:D

You have also some DeAgostini Whales:)

I like your collection very much!

By the way, you can put the Minke, Sei and Finback Whale to the Blue Whales, because they also belong to the genus of Balaenoptera. The next relatives of the Pilot Whales are Orcas, which are belonging to the great family of oceanic Dolphins. The Finless Porpoise is a ... well a Porpoise and they are a several family within the Odontoceti, like the Bottlenose Whale which belongs to the Beaked Whales:)

Thank you! Yes I know :) I was going for a species group photo (except the right whales, which are different species but they look quite similar so I put them in one photo. And the dolphins because there are so many species of which I only have one or two figures). I have them displayed in taxonomic order in my glass cabinet.

You are welcome:)
Yes, it is really difficult to distinguish between the Right Whale species, when they were put together.

A very beautyful collection, and so nicely presented

I can't wait to see more from you

Very nice collection

Collection update August 2018

First, a couple of 2018 released cetaceans:
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Safari ltd Vaquita, CollectA blue whale and gray whale, and Papo Sperm whale and Blue whale. It's hard to see in the picture but the Papo blue whale is huge. Of course not as big as the Kaiyodo sofubi one, but if you want a big blue whale figure that's much cheaper than the kaiyodo blue whale I'd really recommend the Papo one.
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Close-up of the two papo whales. Both with articulated jaws.

And, I was able to get the Kitan Club seahorse set, thanks to Brett!
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Great additions :)

Oh those sea horses are beautiful!
The Papo blue whale looks really good, need to think about that one :)

Your collection looks amazing so far! I really love the seahorse set.

Yes ! Those sea horses are lovely

An great new wahles you got, - that blue whale is going straight on my wishlist
What a great idea to make articulated jaws on the big whales, - I have never seen that before

Very nice. I love the new Whales from CollectA. But the Blue Whale from Papo is also beautiful.

You have a wonderful collection.
The Papo blue whale looks very impressive.
It looks like it's almost twice as big as the one from CollectA. Is that true?

Can you please show more pics from the Papo Blue Whale? :)

Thanks everyone :) I will post some more pictures of the Papo blue whale soon

Here are some more pictures of the Papo blue whale
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And here it is with the Schleich blue whale, (same size as the new CollectA one)
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Also, I received a new figure this week. The only False killer whale figure I have, the Okinawa aquarium 'bottlecap' figure. It's very small but hey, it's a false killer whale!
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It's very detailed for it's size. Not really fond of the base though, because it's with a trainer and I'm against cetacean captivity. Luckily it can be removed from its base

Phantastic, the false killer whale will now come on my wishlist :)

Thank you for the pictures of the Papo whale.
It is huge!
And wonderful!

Wonderful Blue Whale. I love it.
And also the False Killer Whale is incredible. Where did you get that beautiful model?

Wow, it´s been a while since I have been active on this forum. The past few years I have been more focused on other hobbies, but recently got back into collecting cetacean figures. Starting with catching up on some newer releases:


Safari ltd Atlantic white-sided dolphin, minke whale and sperm whale, CollectA sperm whale, Papo right whale and common dolphin
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Nice newcomers, I always forget how tiny is the last Papo whale

My same thought Kiki, a nice figure indeed but much smaller than I thought!

Welcome back Balaenoptera!