Play Visions: listing of sets, animals and scientific names

the sea turtles- without the leatherback turtle

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- Kemp's Ridley Turtle - Lepidochelys kempii
- Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata
- Olive Ridley Turtle - Lepidochelys olivacea
- Green Turtle - Chelonia mydas
- Black Turtle - Chelonia agassizii
- Loggerhead Turtle - Caretta caretta
- Flatback Turtle - Natator depressus

widukind wrote:

the crocodiles

- False Gharial - Tomistoma schlegelii
- American Alligator - Alligator mississipiensis
- Black Caiman - Melanosuchus niger
- Johnson's Crocodile - Crocodylus johnsoni/johnstonii
- Dwarf Caiman - Paleosuchus palepebrosus
- Cuban Crocodile - Crocodylus rhombifer
- Orinoco Crocodile - Crocodylus intermedius

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the saltwater crocodile i dont have

i just bit the edge of my table to bear the unbelievable pain of enviousness,.....
i just need them,..and the salamanders, and.....

PeGe wrote:

widukind wrote:

the crocodiles

i just bit the edge of my table to bear the unbelievable pain of enviousness,.....
i just need them,..and the salamanders, and.....

I am very hopeful that you find they somedays.

Set of Play Visions snakes in an German packaging.
I wrote the German names of snakes as it is written on the description from the package.
This snake set was sold in Germany under the name "Welt der Tiere".

Set "Die Welt der Schlangen":

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Madagaskarboa (Acrantophis)
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Schildkobra - Aspidelaps lubricus
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Korallennatter - Korallenschlange - Micrurus lemniscatus - coral snake
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Palmenlanzenotter - Bothriechis
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Grüne Anakonda - Eunectes murinus
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Gabunviper - Bitis gabonica - Two versions - Left one is from the set.
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Klapperschlange - Crotalus
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Blutphyton - Python brongersmai
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Yvette

I just LOVE those snakes

And you even have variations

Ah, all those beautiful reptiles - pure eyecandy! Thanks for sharing

I can also add a few more informations and pictures.

There have indeed been TWO editions of the poison dart frogs!! The elder one, from 1996, has the proper (some of them have changed since then, though) latin names on the bellies. The second edition has (often mislabelled) english names:

Those are the first edition from 1996 (the names are taken from the bellies):

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And here a comparism of two frogs from both series:

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Maybe this happened with other sets too?

Anyway here's a picture of the yet missing item from the Insects set. It's labelled Praying Mantis (although the insect experts said it was a Spiny flower mantis nymph - and indeed it doesn't look like a praying mantis):

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But the catch of the day was this little fella I never saw before and didn't know about - a Clown Fish. Not the Clown Coris (which PV also called Clown Fish) of the coral fish series, but a real "Nemo".

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Sorry, the detail picture is blurry, I try a better one tomorrow.
Wonder which set it could fit? It is another one from 1998, I already have either the Manta or the Eagle Ray that doesn't fit any sets (maybe even both). And there is also a sawfish I know about. Maybe those (and the mentioned deep sea fishes) belong to one single set - could be settled in Great Barrier Reef? Anyone heard of something like that?

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So there are still some orphans without a home set. Besides this Manta Ray there's a lioness I don't know yet where it belongs to:

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Play Visions still has many secrets to solve...

Wonderful

Copys from the morray eels ( i am sure i see them in the past from Playvisions- if i am not right please let me know)

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Here are some pictures I was able to collect from the Play Visions US site as it appeared back in 2004. Also, I have included the assortment numbers with the photos.

Assortment #0656 DINOSAURS
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Assortment #0719 TARANTULAS & SPIDERS
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Assortment #0756 HORSES
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Assortment #0919 CHAMELEONS & GECKOS
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Assortment #0966 TROPICAL FROGS
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Assortment #0970 TROPICAL FISH
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Assortment #0987 BATS
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Assortment #1048 CRABS
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Assortment #1052 WHALES
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Assortment #1054 DOLPHINS
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Assortment #1121 WILD CATS
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Assortment #1156 TURTLES


Assortment #1187 STARFISH
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Assortment #1188 PARROTS & COCKATOOS
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Assortment #1254 SHARKS
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Assortment #1432 EXOTIC LIZARDS
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Assortment #1453 MONKEYS
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Assortment #1558 SEA TURTLES
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Assortment #1731 EXOTIC BEETLES
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Assortment #1896 EXOTIC SNAKES
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Assortment #1913 FARM ANIMALS


Assortment #1914 DOMESTIC CATS


Assortment #1915 DOMESTIC DOGS
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Thank you, i see one fish more

WOW, TTC, - there are SO many beautyful, wonderful models

75senta75 wrote:

Set of Play Visions snakes in an German packaging.
I wrote the German names of snakes as it is written on the description from the package.
This snake set was sold in Germany under the name "Welt der Tiere".

Set "Die Welt der Schlangen":

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Yvette

Those snakes are fantastic Yvette BIG congratulation I need a set now

I still need to add a few frogs too

Oh Pharaonic yvette fantastic! (o)): (o)): (o)):
Snake, lizards and especially Apes / What Breathtaking series

According to this great snake set shown here, I found a coral reef set ("Reiseziel Korallenriff"), maybe referring to Great Barrier reef?

This made me find out that the eagle ray belongs here and probably not to the Galapagos set. More likely Galapagos would have the manta ray then. I replaced the picture. Eventually the parrot fish and the tiger shark are doubtful, too (although they occur there).


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I doubt we will ever find out about every set and every species PV made.
I really wish someone would have a catalogue!

I also got the saw fish that was shown some posts above and was declared PV. Mine looks identic, a wonderful model, but is "CHINA" only. I don't know if mine it is just a lookalike or if the person that called it a PV was wrong...

Congratulations Beatrice

Thank you, Andreas!

I found some more pictures of PV animals I haven't seen yet on a different forum and nicked them - but I couldn't resist... I want to thank the author dinocat62, although I didn't ask him for permission (I'm no member there). Maybe someone who is member at The Animal Toy Forum could do this for me, please?

Here is the frogs and toads set that I knocked the background and the poison dart frogs out; I took the names from the author of this photo. One remarkable thing is the horny frog/toad. It seems that there are two totally differently painted versions? The one at the right is the one I knew about yet, but the one from the photo seems to be green with spots. (and a part of the corrobee knee is covered by a part of a poison dart frog I couldn't remove)

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here are four of the wasp/bee set:

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here is a set of fishes that according to the author of this photo are all from Play Visions:

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Same with the spiders here, there are obviously more than the set I have known yet:

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Froggie wrote:

Thank you, Andreas!

I found some more pictures of PV animals I haven't seen yet on a different forum and nicked them - but I couldn't resist... I want to thank the author dinocat62, although I didn't ask him for permission (I'm no member there). Maybe someone who is member at The Animal Toy Forum could do this for me, please?

Here is the frogs and toads set that I knocked the background and the poison dart frogs out; I took the names from the author of this photo. One remarkable thing is the horny frog/toad. It seems that there are two totally differently painted versions? The one at the right is the one I knew about yet, but the one from the photo seems to be green with spots. (and a part of the corrobee knee is covered by a part of a poison dart frog I couldn't remove)



here is a set of fishes that according to the author of this photo are all from Play Visions:

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I have most of the fishes and some of them are only marked with "Made in China" or that are copys. If you want i have a few more, so you can contact me. But there are also a little problem at the moment

Yeah, Only about half those fish are PV fish, and I don't think all the spiders are.

Yes I believe you are right - at least about the fishes, because I remember I had two or three of them once, too: CHINA only (and a number if I remember right).

As for the spiders, someone told earlier in this thread that there would have been more than one spider set. But I have never seen another one than that "Spiders & Tarantulas" set of which there was posted above a picture from the catalogue.
(And I wonder why they should have made so much spiders of all things ...)

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I could collect the spiders that populate my house, but the spiders in the pic are too much nicer!
Compliments! You have great collections

I wished those were mine!
Unfortunately I have just nicked another collector's pic.
But I agree, those are really nice

Are there any for sale? I'll kill for the nudibranches!

I would be happy enough even to see just a picture of that mysterious nudibranches 

So would I! I'll give an arm and leg if I have to!

QuollMate wrote:

So would I! I'll give an arm and leg if I have to!

Kitan have also a serie