COG sets for TAW

As requested by Roger, here is a topic with images and info on the sets by COG ltd which will hopefully be useful for the Toy Animal Wiki. Information on this series is hard to find even though they were available for a pretty long time and in different countries. Any corrections, additional info or pictures is much appreciated by me and the editors of the wiki I'm sure Warning: image heavy!

These sets of small but detailed figures were sold under a line called 'Itsy Bitsy Buckets' released in 2003. They were sold in small plastic buckets similar to K&M and Action Products (in fact I do believe the Farm Animals and Dinosaurs sets from COG were also sold by Action Products) , and later from a line called 'Trixy&Troy: Let's pretend', where they were sold in a rectangular plastic box including a leaflet and a jigsaw puzzle that would form a playmat of sorts. It seems these sets have been discontinued in recent years. The sets were:

Wild Animals

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- White rhino
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- African elephant
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- Hippopotamus
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- African lion
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- Leopard/jaguar
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- Cheetah
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- Tiger
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- Wild goat
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- Deer (doe)
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- Grizzly bear
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- Wolf?
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- Giraffe
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- Moose
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- Warthog
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- Gorilla
- Wild donkey

Sea Animals  (images in next post)
- Octopus
- Sea turtle
- Sperm whale
- Blue whale
- Orca
- Bottlenose dolphin
- Viperfish
- Anglerfish
- Hammerhead shark
- Swordfish
- Butterflyfish
- Unknown fish
- Ocean sunfish
- Seahorse
- Starfish
- Giant oceanic manta ray

Creepy Bugs
- Grasshopper
- Tarantula
- Snail
- Ant
- Bee
- Dragonfly
- Ladybug
- Scorpion
- Centipede
- Praying mantis
- Giraffe weevil?
- Monarch butterfly
- Julia butterfly
- Shield bug
- Caterpillar

Cool Reptiles
- Lizard 1
- Lizard 2
- Monitor lizard
- Jackson's chameleon
- Thorny devil
- Yellow-bellied water snake?
- Grass snake
- Boomslang
- American alligator
- Purple salamander
- Spotted salamander
- Green salamander
- Red salamander
- Gaboon caecilian
- Purple caecilian
- Two-lined caecilian


Dinky Dogs
- French bulldog
- Dalmatian
- Black labrador
- Golden retriever
- Chihuahua
- German shepherd
- Bull terrier
- Rough collie
- Dachshund
- 7 more breeds I cannot identify

Kitty Cats
- 16 different breeds, I cannot find which ones

Show Horses
- 17 different breeds, again I cannot find which ones

Farm Animals
- this set includes the same figures as the Action Products farm animals bucket

Dinosaurs
- this set includes the same figures as the Action Products dinosaurs bucket


Sadly I only own models from the Wild Animals and Sea Animals sets, neither complete. There are images of the other sets online but I will not post them here for copyright reasons and to prevent the topic from becoming too image heavy. But, if anyone here has these figures, please share!

Important to note as well is, as far as I know, none of these models have any markings.

Sea Animals
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Swordfish
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Octopus
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Orca
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Hammerhead shark
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Blue whale
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Angelfish
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Butterflyfish
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Giant oceanic manta ray
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Ocean sunfish
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Bottlenose dolphin
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Pacific viperfish
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Deep sea anglerfish

Those are incredible! And, by the way, I believe the unknown fish is actually an angelfish.

These are great, I would love to see the horse, cat, dog, and reptile sets. Thank for sharing this information! I'll have to keep an eye out . . .

I don't know how big that figure is, are these micro minis?

Thank you soooo much. You give me new targets :)

Very very interesting species

Are these figures marked?

Bowhead Whale wrote:

Those are incredible! And, by the way, I believe the unknown fish is actually an angelfish.

I think you are right, shape does match an angelfish the best.

Jill wrote:

These are great, I would love to see the horse, cat, dog, and reptile sets. Thank for sharing this information! I'll have to keep an eye out . . .

I don't know how big that figure is, are these micro minis?

No problem! They are small figures, the Schleich scale figure used in the pictures is 4,5 cm tall.

widukind wrote:

Thank you soooo much. You give me new targets :)

Very very interesting species

Are these figures marked?

You are welcome, yes indeed some interesting species, I think the caecilians are especially unique. The figures I have are not marked at all.

Thank you again

Thanks for opening this topic with so many pictures and useful information. I'm bookmarking it to work on it later.

My pleasure I found 3 more of the wild animals set this week...the hippo, cheetah and gorilla. Images have been added.

Looking at the list, I wonder if 'Creepy Bugs' is the same set as 'Jungle Bugs' I bought at a Rainforest Cafe.

Here is the set, minus the snail and tarantula (I didn't keep the snail and probably just forgot to photograph the tarantula).

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bmathison1972 wrote:

Looking at the list, I wonder if 'Creepy Bugs' is the same set as 'Jungle Bugs' I bought at a Rainforest Cafe.

Here is the set, minus the snail and tarantula (I didn't keep the snail and probably just forgot to photograph the tarantula).

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Comparing the pictures to ones I found online; yep, they are the same figures (minus the stag beetle )
The name 'Creepy Bugs' was used for the Trixy&Troy packaging, maybe the names, and perhaps the figures, were a bit different in the older Bitsy Bucket sets. Thank you for sharing!

I had the complete sets of animals, sea life, horses, maybe cats, dinosaurs, and still have reptiles.

I may actually have photos of all of them. If needed I may still have them

Definitely the reptiles, I wrote about the set for the Animal Toy Blog in two parts:

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The IDs are tricky but I'm pretty confident in most of them