Assessment and pictures by SAgirl2024; edited by bmathison1972
As you in all probability have seen from my posts about my beloved Ce-seal-ia, you possibly can in all probability guess what my favourite animal is. Certainly, I’m an enormous fan of sea lions, and I’ve fairly a couple of of figures representing this lovely animal in my assortment in addition to Ce-seal-ia, together with the main target of at present’s assessment, Safari Ltd.’s Good Luck Minis California Sea Lion, which was launched in 2014. I don’t know if there was a assessment of GLM on the Weblog earlier than, but when there hasn’t been, then this is able to be thought-about a primary for the Weblog. So, with out additional ado, let’s dive proper in.
The Safari Ltd. Good Luck Minis California Sea Lion is predicated on the Wild Safari Sealife California Sea Lion from 2007, which is what Ce-seal-ia is. Supsy already did a assessment of that mannequin so I feel seeing this model could be a neat companion along with his assessment. I obtained mine again in July as a companion piece to go along with Ce-seal-ia, as, like I stated, it’s a shrunken-down clone of her mildew.
That is an cute little piece, concerning the dimension of a coin and manufactured from this inflexible however barely versatile rubbery materials. Regardless of its dimension, it’s fairly well-detailed, with particular person digits within the flippers, a tail stub, and a few sculpted facial options like a nostril, which form of seems to be to me a bit pig-like. Paint software is fairly nicely performed, however as a result of it is vitally small, it’s not as detailed or as exact as its unique bigger counterpart. The truth is, its eye and ear flap paint is a bit off, but it surely doesn’t trouble me as a result of it’s to be anticipated for the determine’s dimension and it seems to be form of cute to me. Its mouth is sculpted and painted over with a black line.
Like its counterpart, total anatomical accuracy is sort of nicely, depicting the modern, hydrodynamic physique of an actual swimming sea lion. It additionally appears to tilt on its flipper just like the bigger one was identified for. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless a bit extra stylized than the WSs mildew as it’s a lot smaller. I used to be truly shocked by the element and accuracy of the determine once I first acquired it, as I used to be by no means actually a fan of GLMs for his or her dimension and element till now.
General, its an cute little determine and the proper companion piece for the WSS one. I extremely advocate it in case you are constructing an ocean-themed diorama or terrarium, otherwise you want a companion piece for the larger one (in case you have her as she’s uncommon!) If I keep in mind accurately, I feel it’s retired as it’s from 2014 and has been changed with newer Sealife GLMs, and I haven’t seen it in brick-and-mortar shops; I obtained mine off eBay.
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