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Sumo



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PostSubject: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:13 am

Received my second lot of these today, and I'm as ambivalent as ever. The first ones I got were the horses (cartoony, but good) and dinosaurs (crap). This time I got the Madagascar and Endangered tubes, and... well, I still don't know what I think.

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Now, the Madagascar tube is just plain excellent. The reptiles, frog and cockroach I don't know well enough to say how accurate they are, but they look good. The lemurs - which as far as I've been able to figure out are a ringtail, a red ruffed lemur, and a coquerel's sifaka (bizarrely they aren't labeled) - are very nice, though presumably not to scale. The fossa, too, is great. All in all this set compares favorably to the Safari toobs, even if the paintjobs seem a little haphazard.

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The Endangered Species tube, on the other hand... How do I put this? It really is nothing special. True, the orangs are excellent, and that was why I bought it in the first place. The rest, however... they're not bad, just severely dull. While there's nothing wrong with the sculpting per se, there is very little real detail, just texture. Frankly they look like any old made in china cheapo set you could get anywhere. Well, the elephants and pandas are ok - but you have to work really hard to manage to mess up a panda! Hopefully this is an old set from a time before they realized the value of making good models.
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:02 am

They are great, Sumo !

It is strange, whenever I look for K & M int. , I only find teddybears Suspect

Is Wild Republic and K & M the same ?
Please can toy tell more ?
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:47 pm

[[quote="Sumo"]Received my second lot of these today, and I'm as ambivalent as ever. The first ones I got were the horses (cartoony, but good) and dinosaurs (crap). This time I got the Madagascar and Endangered tubes, and... well, I still don't know what I think.

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Now, the Madagascar tube is just plain excellent. The reptiles, frog and cockroach I don't know well enough to say how accurate they are, but they look good. The lemurs - which as far as I've been able to figure out are a ringtail, a red ruffed lemur, and a coquerel's sifaka (bizarrely they aren't labeled) - are very nice, though presumably not to scale. The fossa, too, is great. All in all this set compares favorably to the Safari toobs, even if the paintjobs seem a little haphazard.


... Well! The lemurs from 1-st tube are not bad and no problems with scale in comparison with lions or leopards! Laughing Laughing Laughing And the lemurs are very rare species on the model market. I have 3 figurines from K&M (2) and Safari (1) tubes but all of them are only one species - "ringtail lemur". Sad Sad

...This is my K&M lemurs (2 variants models)...
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...and this is from Safari tube "The Monkeys"

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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:53 pm

I have some K&M figures, mainly of small animals!
I have to find this Madagascar polybag, I think is not hard to find it in local shops arround here!

@Susanne, In polybags the names Wild Republic are written and in the figures we see K&M, so I think that it's the same thing! Try to search Wild Republic using the same way that your doing with Papo and you will find it!tongue Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:59 pm

K&M and Wild Republic are the same. TGY toys in the US has many of their tubes, bags and adventure sets. Very interesting species, but not to scale, for those of you more interested in dioramas.
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:49 am

Hello Sergey, I see this as a proboscis monkey which brand you it is KTM? and where do I find it?
I already try Aquer than Starlux But on Ebay, but
(it happened to me in the nose, as they say in an expression)
I also have a picture of a proboscis monkey of a web quote, I must find it to learn more! Idea bounce
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:34 am

I realy like the madagascar tube, think many of them look great Very Happy

The other tube, well as you said, nothing special, but the orangutans look ok Smile
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:42 am

The Madagascar toob is excellent. There is sometimes very good things in the K&M toobs. Very Happy

The two geckos are very accurate models Wink

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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:40 pm

lucky luke wrote:
Hello Sergey, I see this as a proboscis monkey which brand you it is KTM? and where do I find it?
I already try Aquer than Starlux But on Ebay, but
(it happened to me in the nose, as they say in an expression)
I also have a picture of a proboscis monkey of a web quote, I must find it to learn more! Idea bounce



...Yes Jean Luke a proboscis monkey is K&M. I,ve bought him with some other small monkeys in US (2002) in the souvenir shop by New York National Museum of Natural History. Smile But now in Russia sometimes we can buy tubes by Safari but unfortunatly not K&M brand.
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:55 pm

Great finds there!
K&M or Wild Republic has some nice bigger figurines too, often named with their names in English and scientific names under the belly... Cool
Here are some of mine...

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Hawaiian Monkseal pup

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Siberian Tiger
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:36 pm

The tiger is a nice model Very Happy

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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:39 am

I like the seals and the tiger .)

Congrats Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: Wild republic (K&M) tubes   Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:56 am

Although quit big, but nice models indeed, and the colours are good too! Very Happy
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