Kaiyodo CAPSULE AQUARIUM FIGURE COLLECTION 1

Kaiyodo CAPSULE AQUARIUM COLLECTION 1, all 14 types + 1 bonus, 2007.4
01. Cheilinus undulatus
02. Balistoides conspicillum
03. Chaetodon auriga
04. Pseudanthias pleurotaenia♂
05. Rhinomuraena quaesita
06. Mola mola
07. Carcharias taurus♀
08. Hippocampus keloggi
09. Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
10. Arapaima gigas
11. Octopus sinensis
12. Panulirus longipes
13. Tursiops truncatus
14. Odobenus rosmarus
Bonus: Aptenodytes forsteri
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These kind of figures are unbelievable. In my opinion with the best figures ever.

Beautiful series. I recently collected the penguins. But my penguins are white, king penguins and the chick is brown. I believe the yellow penguins are supposed to be emperor penguins, but I find the colour a bit odd.

Great series

Great! do you know if the arapaima is the same size than the Colorata Ancient fish set arapaima?

Pardofelis wrote:

Great! do you know if the arapaima is the same size than the Colorata Ancient fish set arapaima?

No it is much smaller; the blue bottlecap bases typically have a 3.5 cm diameter

In this set, I really want the red-tailed catfish!

Pardofelis wrote:

Great! do you know if the arapaima is the same size than the Colorata Ancient fish set arapaima?

The arapaima in this set is smaller than the Colorata Ancient fish set, please see the picture as follow:
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widukind wrote:

These kind of figures are unbelievable. In my opinion with the best figures ever.

Yes, the Chinese discussion group has a point of view, Kaiyodo's best figures is Kaiyodo CAPSULE AQUARIUM FIGURE COLLECTION 1 and 2.

Thanks Dirk for sharing some more informations about these fantastic Kaiyodo series. :)

rogerpgvg wrote:

Beautiful series. I recently collected the penguins. But my penguins are white, king penguins and the chick is brown. I believe the yellow penguins are supposed to be emperor penguins, but I find the colour a bit odd.

These are emperor penguins, both adults and chick are not even ambiguous as it often happens. It is a pity the big ones are dirty with a lot of oil.
Where can I see your versions? If the chick is brown without the facial markings, it may be actually a king penguin as you mention. :)

My estimations...

Animatales started out very poorly sculpted, with little to suggest how extraordinary they'd become later.

Dinotales were well sculpted from the start, though the paint on many of the early ones cheapened their appearance.

But Aquatales (not the Deep Sea Odyssey sets) were a very good start to the marine lines and when that name was dropped and these sets issued, there were extraordinary and remained almost universally so to the present.

Funny thing is that I haven't seen them sell as well as either of the other groups--in great part, I'm sure, due to repetition of species. I've sold almost none of the most recent set that resumed use of the Aquatales name and, more surprisingly, since there were both new species and improved versions of old, almost as few of the Sendai Aquarium set.

Oh, and thanks again for your resumption, Dirk.

Thanks a lot tjjtjjtjja, very useful comparison pic! That make me wish the ribbon eel, the clown triggerfish and the spiny lobster! :)

Roger wrote:

Where can I see your versions? If the chick is brown without the facial markings, it may be actually a king penguin as you mention. :)

You have already seen it, but my king penguins aren't from this set, but from set 2:
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rogerpgvg wrote:

Roger wrote:

Where can I see your versions? If the chick is brown without the facial markings, it may be actually a king penguin as you mention. :)

You have already seen it, but my king penguins aren't from this set, but from set 2:
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Yes, thanks! I've seen it after my post here. They are not even the same moulds and they made the king penguin chick huge when compared with the parents what is something typical in king penguins. I have no idea why they gave that yellowish color to these emperors, it is really unappealing.

You have a good eye. I hadn't even noticed that the moulds were different. I had assumed that the moulds were the same and that they painted the emperors yellow to distinguish them from the kings. The colour makes even less sense to me now.