A couple of shelfies I took in TKMaxx last
week; the Toy Element logo'd animal
sets are quite well done (for toys), but are manufactured in this new style of
two-halves glued together.
Jungle Animals? Well, you might find one of
these on the peripheries of some African jungles (the leopard), indeed, up a
tree! But facing out of the jungle, watching the plains for potential pray, the
other five are definitely savannah animals!
Semantics aside, the scale is not constant,
and painting (on the left-hand three) is poor but there is war-elephant
conversion potential in the pachyderm, he has a nice broad back and workable
pose for howdah-straps, ropes and the like, while the zebra is a fair stab, but
should be at that size.
There's also a set of Chinasaurs, of which
- obviously - the Dimetrodon is my favourite! The two giant sauropods are
obviously in a smaller scale to the other four, but the latter work well
together and the other two can be juveniles! The purple meat-eater is a bit
leery!
The ironic thing here is the Stegosaurus,
which has an odd gap in its back-plates, caused by the desire to easily mould
the two halves; that's the two halves which are also designed to help curb
incongruities in the sculpting like undercuts . . . or odd gaps!
A tenner makes them just under two-quid
each, which is considerably less than Schleich
or Papo (for obvious reasons of
realism/decoration) but a lot more expensive than the bagged, toobed and tub'ed
rack-toys out there.
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