Plastic coelacanth figurine

Safari Ltd., makers of those plastic dinosaurs and animals found in natural history museum gift shops and kids' rooms, is releasing a coelacanth figurine next year. Of course, the coelacanth is a darling of cryptozoologists. The fish was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was found alive in 1938. Safari Ltd.'s coelacanth model is 5.75 inches long and 3 inches high. I wish it was life size and suitable for wall mounting! Loren Coleman has the details at Cryptomundo. "Wild Safari Coelecanth"

[#1 posted by unruly katy, September 9, 2009 7:53 AM]

Oooh, yes. The coelacanth love is upon me. I want many of those, to arrange in a school on a wall. Delightful.

[#2 posted by Adam_Y, September 9, 2009 7:56 AM]

Read

'I wish it was life size and suitable for wall mounting'

as

'I wish it was life size and suitable for mounting'

Figured who 'he sleeps with the fishes thing' wasn't mafia related.

[#3 posted by David Pescovitz, September 9, 2009 9:31 AM]

@UNRULY KATY, that is a *great* idea. Love it.

[#4 posted by dbarak, September 9, 2009 9:52 AM]

I'd like to see that in a fight to the death with a Jesus fish.

[#5 posted by de_engineered, September 9, 2009 10:16 AM]

I wana plush coelacanth :3

[#6 posted by cratermoon, September 9, 2009 10:53 AM]

At least when one ends up floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with the rest of the detritus of the consumer culture, it won't look too out of place.

[#7 posted by absimiliard, September 9, 2009 11:05 AM]

But wait, how am I supposed to eat a plastic fish?

-abs may be into eating rare species, and dreams of eating the last of a species thus driving it into extinction, but he draws the line at devouring plastic replicas of tasty things like coelacanths and spotted owls

[#8 posted by shavenwarthog, September 9, 2009 11:36 AM]

Plastic one unorderable, but I found a little pewter keychain coelacanth: http://taylorcustom.com/coelacanthkeychain.aspx

If you're in the LA area, the "Los Angeles Museum of Natural History has a coelacanth resting in a bath of preservatives. I have to go look at it and scream every time I visit."
http://www.metafilter.com/84840/The-tale-of-the-coelacanth

[#9 posted by RedShirt77, September 9, 2009 12:17 PM]

When do we get Swedish fish to make the candy version.

[#10 posted by jfrancis, September 9, 2009 1:23 PM]

Funny coincidence.

I was just looking at the site of a ZBrush and Mudbox competitor called 3D Coat. I think I recall the fish model from there.

http://www.3d-coat.com/v3_voxel_sculpting.html

[#11 posted by Amphigorey, September 9, 2009 4:48 PM]

Coelacanths are love.

[#12 posted by absimiliard, September 10, 2009 6:43 AM]

Mmmmmm, Swedish Fish. I love those things. I do wish they wouldn't stick to my teeth quite so much. But at least they're not quite as bad as Jujubees. (though they're damn close)

-abs loves the idea of a "Swedish Coelacanth", sounds tasty and sweet