In my last blog review, I introduced our audience to the Takara ANIA Insects with a review of the Japanese giant mantis, which was in the ‘Large’ series. Today I am showcasing a figure from the ‘Small’ series, albeit one of the largest insects in the world, and that is the Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules), number AS-38 in the series. It was produced in 2022. The Hercules beetle is one of the […]

The Japanese model kits company Fujimi Mokei released a series of arthropod models in their Living Things or Living Thing Arc series. All models were released in multiple different colour versions. Two models from the series have already been reviewed on the blog: The Japanese Giant Mantis, Tenodera aridifolia (painted as Chinese Giant Mantis, Tenodera sinensis) by Isurus, and the Red Swamp […]

Before I start this review I must thank @Kenc and our friends at Toymany for passing along this review sample. Insects have been my specialty since the late 1990s so I was super excited they produced a set of them.

Well here we are folks, the last of the 12 figures from Toymany’s 2025 Insect & Beetle Figurine Playset. And we are finishing the set the largest of them (at least in life), the […]

Review of one of three Hercules beetles (Dynastes hercules) from the (to me) new Japanese figurine company SO-TA (State of the art). The set of three include three of the same Dynastes hercules sculpts with colour variations of the wingcaps (elytra). There is a version with yellow, blueish gray and black elytra. In this review the black version.

The Hercules beetle (Dynastes […]

Mini Insects Vol. 1 (Diversity of Life on Earth by Bandai)

In 2022, Bandai started a series of miniatures in their Diversity of Life of Earth line. The first set is the one we will be looking at today, Mini Insects Volume 1. It would be followed by Volumes 2 (which has already been reviewed by Fembrogon) and 3 (which I plan to tackle later), both released in 2023. The Mini subline also includes sets of sharks (2), ancient fish (2), deep sea fish, […]

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