TE is for Toy Element

A new name to me and I expect to most of you, a Hong Kong based Chinese company, or brand-mark? I suspect the later - some of the animals look familiar; especially the Dimetrodon?

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.