I recently stumbled across some Takara ANIA insect figures on eBay and decided to give them a try. Today I am reviewing one of the five, the Japanese giant mantis (Tenodera aridifolia), number AL-32 in the series, produced in 2025. In doing some research, I learned there are two insect lines, Large and Small. The Large Insects are indicated by an ‘AL’ in their numbering system while the Small […]

Insects TOOB (Safari Ltd.)

I have recently reacquired the Safari Ltd. Insects TOOB and thought I would showcase it for the Blog. There have been at least three (maybe more) iterations of this TOOB over the years, with I believe the first version coming out in 2004. At some point (I don’t know what year) Safari also released a glow-in-the-dark version of the TOOB. I originally had an earlier version of this TOOB (see […]

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Mini Insects Vol. 2 (Diversity of Life on Earth by Bandai)

Praying mantises are cool – I think that’s an opinion I can safely say is shared between many animal enthusiasts. Out of all the hundreds of thousands of insects known to science, probably no group is equal parts so peculiar and charismatic as Order Mantodea, the mantises. It’s only natural, then, that a number of toy and collectible animal brands have tackled mantises and continue to […]

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