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Furuta Choco Egg figurines out there?

These are animal figurines from chocolate eggs made by a Japanese firm (akin to Cadbury's Yowies or Kinder Eggs, but of higher quality).

I was given one of these as a gift:
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Choco Egg Classic No. 47: Silurus biwaensis

And I am aware that there is one more catfish (among all the other animals featured):

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Series 5, No. 119: Liobagrus reini

Anybody with ideas on where I can get my hands on the Liobagrus figurine? I don't collect these things, so I don't have any to swap. But I gotta have the catfish!

(PS. I already have the Yowie Tandanus, and the quality pales in comparison with the Furata product)
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These are made of chocolate??

woo-hoo!!

too bad. I'm a choco-junkie, so if I ever lay my hands on either one, it will get eaten in short order.

is it me, or are the similarities between that Liobagrus and Lophiobagrus uncanny?
I swore I saw a Lophio, until I read the name......
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These are made of chocolate??
Err, no. They are made of plastic. You would probably need someone to give you the Heimlich maneuver if you tried to eat one of these. ;)

They actually come inside chocolate eggs (now , THOSE you can eat).

Liobagrus is an amblycipitid. About as different from Lophiobagrus as you can get.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: mmmm.... plastic! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by Sid Guppy »

Oh, THOSE

the kiddy-eggs filled with all kinds of plastic crap, that consits of tiny parts and they have to be assembled. I'm familiar with pink dinosaurs, green cowboys and the like; hipdeep in tiny nephews......

First time someone actually put in something pretty in those!
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Post by Silurus »

I finally found the Liobagrus figurine (where else but eBay?), and in the course of searching, also got myself one of these:

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Shane and I picked up these two catfish "figurines" at the recent CSG convention... :-) No chocolate though.

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PS Heartfelt thanks to Brian Welsh for hand crafting these beauties.
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